Knightjar
Sr Member
re: Ridley Scott: Alien Prequel Details
I think maybe you're taking this discussion a little personally and it's affecting the clarity of your argument. I don't follow how the methods used to bring the Queen to the screen are relevant to the species' life cycle.
And yes, victims becoming eggs was the way we understood the life cycle in the years before we knew there would even be a sequel. Ron Cobb's and Giger's concept art gave us a glimpse of how it worked (and it was fascinating to see those cut scenes reinstated in the Director's Cut many years later). ALIENS rewrote that understanding and forced us to change the way we see the creature.
The Alien can only be considered to be killing for no reason if you ignore (or in the case of the Nostromo's unfortunate crew, were unaware of) its life cycle. You're right to say that the organism having a reproductive motivation is scary, but that idea in fact originated in the first film. For example, Dan O'Bannon described the facehugger sequence as being about "oral rape" and summarised the film as being about the creature's sexual life cycle.
I think maybe you're taking this discussion a little personally and it's affecting the clarity of your argument. I don't follow how the methods used to bring the Queen to the screen are relevant to the species' life cycle.
And yes, victims becoming eggs was the way we understood the life cycle in the years before we knew there would even be a sequel. Ron Cobb's and Giger's concept art gave us a glimpse of how it worked (and it was fascinating to see those cut scenes reinstated in the Director's Cut many years later). ALIENS rewrote that understanding and forced us to change the way we see the creature.
The Alien can only be considered to be killing for no reason if you ignore (or in the case of the Nostromo's unfortunate crew, were unaware of) its life cycle. You're right to say that the organism having a reproductive motivation is scary, but that idea in fact originated in the first film. For example, Dan O'Bannon described the facehugger sequence as being about "oral rape" and summarised the film as being about the creature's sexual life cycle.