Strange Shapes

[Elmazalman]

It would still be a needless hassle.

[SM]

So maybe it knocked him out.  We don't really know.

[Elmazalman]

So maybe it knocked him out.  We don't really know.

A possibility.

[Local Trouble]

Or simply that egg morphing isn't dependent on whether the flesh is living or not.

I've always found it strange how the novels of Aliens and Alien 3 follow on from the film version of Alien (as opposed to its novelisation) and yet both mention the egg morphing scene.

ADF trying to tie everything together.  I don't remember Aliens mentioning egg morphing but Ripley does mention she's seen something similar to the hive.

I've never been able to reconcile that with Ripley asking "so who's laying these eggs?"  If she saw Brett and Dallas turning into eggs, she should already know the answer.

[Elmazalman]

Or simply that egg morphing isn't dependent on whether the flesh is living or not.

I've always found it strange how the novels of Aliens and Alien 3 follow on from the film version of Alien (as opposed to its novelisation) and yet both mention the egg morphing scene.

ADF trying to tie everything together.  I don't remember Aliens mentioning egg morphing but Ripley does mention she's seen something similar to the hive.

I've never been able to reconcile that with Ripley asking "so who's laying these eggs?"  If she saw Brett and Dallas turning into eggs, she should already know the answer.

Depends on whether you consider Alien:The Directors Cut canon or a curio.

[SM]

Ripley's line made perfect sense in 1986.

[Local Trouble]

It did before I got online and every Alien fan in the world browbeat the notion into me that James Cameron was the Antichrist for ignoring a deleted scene from the previous movie.

[Elmazalman]

I'm sure there were plenty of casual viewers in the audience who didn't know about an obscure deleted scene from Alien so the reference would have passed them buy.Cameron wanted to make the sequel accessible to all viewers not just fans,so detailed knowledge of the original wasn't required to enjoy the film as a stand-alone piece of entertainment.

[Local Trouble]

Tell that to the purists.

[Elmazalman]

Let Cameron tell it to the purists, it was his idea to f$$k with the Alien's life cycle and invent the Queen.

[SM]

Militant Alien purists are few.

And sad.

[Local Trouble]

How was Cameron f**king with the lifecycle if the scene he ignored was deleted?

[Elmazalman]

Militant Alien purists are few.

And sad.

Not militant,I don't mind the sequels,I just have a healthy respect for the original.

How was Cameron f**king with the lifecycle if the scene he ignored was deleted?

A purist would have noticed.

[SM]

You're not a purist.

[Elmazalman]

No more or less than you or any other poster on this forum.