Reproduction Method Official

[Major Alan Schaefer]

It defantly takes longer this way
Predalien probably still isen't a queen at the end...and they have no queen facehugger to work with (the ALiens don')

[Aeus]

I swear, it's the ghost of Kenner come back to haunt us.

So true. So awfully true.

[gameoverman]

If Queens can just be molted into, why bother having natural born queens? Their gestation period is longer making them more vulnerable. If they can molt, it would make sense for Queens to never be born naturally.

Maybe natural born queens are the best, but when there is no queen they need an alternative - by making the best alien drone molt into a queen.

[SiL]

But we have egg morphing if there's no Queen

[Ballzanya]

Well, unless Colin specifically stated that this thing molts into a Queen, I'm going to assume it was born a Queen.

But if it wasn't:

Freak of nature
Freak of nature
Not-quite radioactive
Freak of nature ...

colin had stated " how do we know that the queen in aliens didn't start out as a warrior and molt into a young queen" or something to that effect. Implying a defense of the predalien not starting off as a queen but molting into one.

[FACEBOX]

I swear, it's the ghost of Kenner come back to haunt us.

I agree. 

[Major Alan Schaefer]

But we have egg morphing if there's no Queen

what if they can't get a host without revealing themselves?

[Ballzanya]

But we have egg morphing if there's no Queen

Not according to the directors of this film, we don't.

[Noir-Gojira]

Woohoo!  Kenner!  What is a 'perfect organism' if it doesn't have more than two ways to multiply? :p

[gameoverman]

#2 The Queen can defend herself just fine. Just look at her sheer size compared to the other aliens. There is a good reason for this. She's stronger. And the theory that a Queen can't defend herself is void because Queens can detach from the egg-sack just fine. We have seen this TWICE! The Queens in ALIENS and AVP chased after their "pray" just fine.

Why then in Aliens did she summon her guards?  Why not just take out Ripley herself?

#3 The Predalien looks way too Predator-ish. Why all that Predator crap? We don't see the Dog/OX alien in ALIEN-3 born with dog hair/ OX horns right? Also, if you look at ALL prior Alien movies, none of the Xenomorphs have PECKS. Why should this one be any different? it should simply have been a BIGGER/STRONGER ALIEN. Not a fusion of the two species.

The alien just takes the best traits - maybe the dreadlocks and mandibles are useful somehow.  The chest - maybe it is because of extra strength/defence.

#4 The new regurgitation method is totally absurd. If aliens has this ability, then the Alien in ALIEN would have done so. Aliens simply CAN NOT DO THIS. If they could, then there would be no need for facehuggers. Adult aliens would be far more efficient at this task.

Alien was meant to work on it's own without the idea of queens.  If the alien wanted to produce a queen - why was it morphing Dallas as well?  Shouldn't Dallas have been used as a host for the queen-hugger?

[Kriszilla]

But we have egg morphing if there's no Queen

That's debatable. As it's not technically canon, is it? It didn't even exist until people saw the deleted scenes with it included.

[Anomaly]

Woohoo!  Kenner!  What is a 'perfect organism' if it doesn't have more than two ways to multiply? :p

Who's Kenner? 

[DB]

#2 The Queen can defend herself just fine. Just look at her sheer size compared to the other aliens. There is a good reason for this. She's stronger. And the theory that a Queen can't defend herself is void because Queens can detach from the egg-sack just fine. We have seen this TWICE! The Queens in ALIENS and AVP chased after their "pray" just fine.

The regular Queen can defend herself. That's not the point.

If they could, then there would be no need for facehuggers.

Now we're talking...

But we have egg morphing if there's no Queen

That's debatable. As it's not technically canon, is it? It didn't even exist until people saw the deleted scenes with it included.

I think the point is that they could have used that instead of pulling another reproductive method out of their asses.

[Aeus]

But we have egg morphing if there's no Queen

what if they can't get a host without revealing themselves?

Would coming out and the open and raping someone be more obvious and noisey (Lambert), then killing someone taking them away and turning them into an egg.

The only reason I can see for the whole regurgitation thing is that the Aliens need new Aliens fast, and noone can lay eggs, and egg morphing takes too long, so they do the regurgitation thing the impregnate people fast without the need for eggs. More dangerous yes, because they could get killed in the whole raping process but more efficient than egg morphing.

[Noir-Gojira]

Who's Kenner?  Huh

Company that made the AVP toys way back before the movies.  But I loved them for their Jurassic Park and Lost World collection ^_^