WARNING - LONG POST AHEAD
Yes, Highland, it DOES break canon... Things need to have some credibility and coherence, not make things up out of thin air... It has to be, at the very least, a coherent and credible evolution of both creatures Reproductory Cycles (RC)...Biologically speaking, there is no biological reason for the radical change in theRC...Queens don't acquire so many features from the host (watch the Aliens Queen, hosted by a human, and the AVP Queen, hosted by something else... ) as Chet did, nor do they change their RC radically like that... Even if the Predator DNA was 'stronger', I don't think Predators would reproduce like that, 'vomiting' the embryos...So there's no biological connection between 'laying eggs' and 'regurgitating embryos through the mouth'...
Also, the Hybrid Queen from AR demonstrates that any genetic mixing, even though she was a DNA-manipulated Queen in laboratory, would provide dual reproductory cycles, one xenomorphic, the other human, and none look anything like this... So it is safe to assume that in any REGULAR crossbreeding, the Queen would still reproduce in xenomorphic fashion, a.k.a. egg-laying, not 'inventing' a new way out of the blue...
This whole Predalien RC is purely motivated by economy of means, not creativity... And unless the Predator would reproduce that way, this is and always will be a made-up concept without any root to canon... people say the Predalien can be hors-canon, but it cannot be out of plausibility...
Queens have a specific RC, and this is not even remotely similar...hell, the ends don't even match... Also, I don't like pseudo sci-fi movies that invent things without a link to 'reality', namely' Alien franchise reality...or at least build on what the first movies began...
Unless the PQ is a Hybrid like the AR Queen was, with a first stage Alien RC and second one Predator RC, this is just creative vomit that has no FOUNDATION in any of the Alien movies...therefore totally made up and continuity-disruptive... This Predalien is not like the AR Queen, so it should reproduce as an Alien Queen would normally reproduce...
The money constraints will never be an acceptable excuse, because if they don't have the money, they should NEVER make a movie like this...Period...not invent money-saving plot ploys that disrupt immensily the Alien RC without any logic attached to it other than the money-saving one... People may just like things because they look 'cool' or 'hey, never thought about that before', but there are people like myself who don't like people making things up out of thin air without logic attached to it... And as ridiculous-looking as this...
Movie logic, franchise logic, continuity, coherence, credibility, all those are required to make a movie stand out as good, memorable and not offending the viewer's intelligence... The Alien movies didn't, Predator movies didn't, so why make excuses for this
AVPR one...?
Or can't we have a popcorn movie with brains...?
Batman Begins had them, and it was awesome... So will probably
The Dark Knight... It is all a matter of the script (Shane Salerno) and the directing (The Strauses) conveying it...
At least, the Alien movies, until the second half of
Alien Resurrection, all had some credibility and coherence regarding where the Aliens came from and how they reproduce...
You will say I am nitpicking...Well, most aren't and they still think this is a bad Predalien design and terrible RC concept...
And no matter what you say, this design has no foundation whatsoever other than financial...
Combining two in one (Queen and Predalien) and eliminating the EM with a direct-to-embryo 'coughed up' MO is not the way to go in my mind...I know the EM has time issues, but this is just ridiculing the Aliens by eliminating RC stages to cut to the chase...
As I said before, a very LAZY IDEA...
And this is all I have to say about that...So, highland, sorry to keep you waiting...
Fire away...