Quote from: Darkness on Jul 29, 2014, 06:28:27 PM
Out of curiosity, what was your thoughts on Prometheus? Haven't heard your opinion about it, particularly, as those creatures in there are the precursors to the xenomorph.
As it's own movie... it's OK. As a precursor to ALIEN... it feels forced and contrived.
The Engineers using one of their own to seed a planet with life? I'm not buying it. seeding a planet would need to be a global event - not an isolated even of an Engineer sacrificing himself to spread his genetic material. It also drastically limits the worlds that could be seeded. If the world is not compatible with the Engineers' physiology then it's not going to work. Terra forming a planet first would make more sense. this way you would have a larger number of worlds to seed. And that could have been happening, but that was never explained.We are left to guess or assume that they seed planets when they are at a specific point in their process of development. Which severely limits the Engineers' ability to seed the galaxy.
Terra forming, by its very nature, destroys an existing planet to allow for the cultivation of another. The aliens are perfectly suited for this which is why I had mentioned that on my site as one possibility for their existence. There was also a rumor circulating for a while about Prometheus and the Engineers terra forming that seemed to fit in very closely to my own ideas that I had put on the site years before. I was pretty excited about to possibility that the aliens may have actually been used as in the process of terra forming. But that turned out not to be true.
I also felt that the creatures in the film were fueled by wild jumps of logic. the aliens always were rooted in a viable and easily justifiable biological niche. They made sense. It's terrifying and gruesome, but it made sense and tied-in to what we see elsewhere in nature. ...the creatures in Prometheus don't do that. If the black slime is ingested or makes contact with a person it turns them into violent mutants... unless it is introduced into the system via DNA that has already been altered - in this case: sex. Then it creates life, but not life that in any way resembles the the host DNA - something completely different. Yet, when it comes into contact with some form of ground worm it creates really cool giant worms that are not in any way deformed. True - they are aggressive and much stronger, but they don't look like they just walked out of a fire like humans do. And Shaw's offspring basically turns out to be a giant facehugger... how does this happen? What is the basis for this - I mean other than it creates a visual connection with the other Alien movies? And the creature that results and bursts out of the Engineer conveniently looks like an alien... but not. It's size also doesn't make sense - It's huge compared to the Engineer's chest cavity!
So, in a nutshell: the black slime breaks down an engineer to it's base cellular material to help seed a planet, but it turns humans into exceptionally strong mutated monsters. ...Except when inserted into the human system via black slime infected DNA - then it creates what resembles a starfish mixed with an octopus whose sole purpose is to insert more genetic material into a host to create yet another creature. The whole thing feels convoluted and heavily contrived just to make a connection to the existing movies.
Quote from: Xenomorphine on Aug 02, 2014, 12:47:32 AM
Ah, memories... Can remember avidly reading through it on the computer network at college, while all the pre-release hype for 'Alien Resurrection' was hitting the Internet.
You made a grand contribution to the fandom, Sir. We salute you.
A fan from back in the day! Thank, sir. Much appreciated.