Quote from: Naginata on Oct 21, 2018, 07:10:41 PM
Yeah, but you need a bit more distance between the audience and the Jockeys for them to be properly Lovecraftian, and giving them a species name undermines that a little. Makes them a little too familiar, you know? Besides, if those things are as advanced as they'd have to be to do the stuff they're portrayed as doing, then concepts like biological taxonomy might not even apply anymore...
They could always retcon "Mala'Kak" to be what they're called by other species; maybe it's a Predator word meaning "those guys we stole the xenomorphs from"
Aye, If you put too much hard science on the Space Jockey, you are distancing such a concept from the Lovecraftian corners. Also, Mala'Kak sounds like a Star Wars name.
On the other hand (and if we want the cosmic horror back) why not explore the bizarre architecture of the original Derelict. I mean, the spaceship seems to be a Tardis-like-device: it's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
Ok, maybe it's just a movie mistake; or an artistic contradiction like the Space Jockey size. But I'm going to scrap the technical and rational explanations, cos...
a) I'm a nerd.
b) Of the two fanon explanations: 1) The thing is bigger on the inside, 2) It is an underground facility;
my favorite is the first one. So, maybe there is some kind of crazy five-dimensional architecture playing around, with nanotechnology that is constantly expanding things from the inside...or like a timeless structure similar to a space portal, creating links between two or more worlds.
It can be like a sci-fi equivalent of the haunted house concept. However, there is something similar in modern literature. A psychological horror novel (
House of Leaves), written in a very peculiar format (
Ergodic literature), about a creepy house that is bigger on the inside...and people slowly descending into madness:
But overall, I believe that if you give to the science fiction an otherworldly shape, you are successfully entering in the Lovecraft zone. Sadly, is the other way with the prequels.