Quote from: BlueMarsalis79 on Dec 06, 2023, 06:15:38 PMIf it is "the perfect organism" that necessitates that on a genetic level it can not pass down the traits of hosts through the successive generations, otherwise you will get conflicting qualities. So it ought to have control over what it takes on board without the interference of an outside party if it is to endure.
That assumes it's "the perfect organism" (a claim made by a deranged android who never sees the adult creature).
Not to mention, if they're the perfect organism and can actively control what traits it can pass down, you'd think it would retain successive useful traits from generation to generation to make it more perfect (that's how biological evolution works). Actively purging the genetic template in the hopes that the next host provides something "useful" is counter-productive.
At a bare minimum, I've demonstrated that the interpretation of "perfect organism" is purely subjective since I can come up with ways that your "perfect" traits aren't perfect. Assuming it's in fact "perfect" at all.
Aliens do a ton of illogical and unexplainable stuff. They're Aliens.
You're trying to assign a (subjective) "logic" to a creature that, by design, is meant to be unknowable and unpredictable - it's right there in the title of the first movie, it's meant to be a creature unlike anything ever seen by human eyes, which cannot be understood.
If it can actively control what traits it takes (which is not how biology works - how would it know what is useful and what isn't until it's in a practical setting after it's born?) and every PredAlien has dreads, then it's a useful trait whether you personally think it looks dumb or not.
As pointed out, in AvPR we see that the dreadlocks are not passed down from Chet to its offspring.
Quote from: BlueMarsalis79 on Dec 06, 2023, 06:15:38 PMThis actually gets pretty well represented in Resurrection with the clones being genetically unstable, because of the mixture of traits leading to what we see being a destruction of the reproductive cycle, changing the fundamental nature of the Alien with the Newborn.
And despite the Queen being genetically unstable, she still produces a whole clutch of regular Alien offspring.
Quote from: BlueMarsalis79 on Dec 06, 2023, 06:15:38 PMAs for every PredAlien having dreadlocks means every PredAlien mistake dreadlocks... Or every official PredAlien design turns out pretty shit, except the rejected ones. f**k AVP and Requiem. I frankly refuse to discuss them or include their nonsense.
And that's your opinion and you're welcome to it.