I don’t see much of a resemblance with “Black Destroyer”, but I see a strong resemblance with “Discord in Scarlet”. In the latter story, FWIW, the critter didn’t seem too constrained by the laws of physics, so the unusual abilities of the aliens in the films are if anything more pedestrian than in the original story.
Giger, O’Bannon, and Moebius, who also did some design work for Alien (I know the space suits were based on his work, I’m not sure what, if anything else). ISTR that Dune is also how they met Ridley Scott, but it’s been a long time since I saw the information, so I may be misremembering.
I don’t have a cite handy, but IIRC a penis does not typically burst out of a vagina. :dubious:
what, sand?
In one of the extras in the boxed set, they explain that yes, they were going for that idea of the creature incorporating characteristics from the host. As mentioned above, they most certainly went for it in Alien3 where the creature is very canine, not only in form but in behavior.
Alien has been described as one great horror film that happens in space. I take that to be a fine compliment. The fact that there is some trivial science factoid that is impossible is not what makes it horror. It is the whole feel of it and how it interacts with you that makes it horror. Impossible science is present in every SciFi movie, from Star Wars to ET. Nobody would rate those as horror.
As a distinction it does seem to recategorise the vast majority of film, tv and literature in one fell swoop.
So much of the “science” in the film seems to be “magical”, travel between solar systems, hibernation, atmospheric reprocessing etc.
It is fantasy, of course, but, what is the life cycle of the aliens? The first movie showed the alien ship full of musroom-like mounts. the human bends too close, and ths scorpion-like thing attaches itself. later, it drops off, and the embryo starts growing inside the guy. It bursts out, and grows to the horrible monster. Does it then reproduce or make more of those musroom things?
Regarding those mud wasps-they exist in New England! I noticed a mud ball on a door frame-and broke it open.Inside was a anethestized spider!
I thought those wasps were only in the SW deserts.
Just for the sake of asking: how likely is it that an alien species would find humans to be good eating? Is it possible that mars harbors bacteria, viruses, that might be harmful to humans?
They’re eggs:
Yeah, but what’s laying them?
It must be something we haven’t seen yet.
Errr, is that a woosh ? Or did neither **ralph124 **nor you watch Alien 2 or 4 ?
You talking to me? I’ve seen Aliens about thirty million times and Alien Resurretion about twenty and I don’t remember any mushrooms.
Oh I see, it’s dialouge from Aliens, so I guess that’s a woosh of some sort.
Yeah, whooshed.
The life cycle question that hasn’t been answered though - how do you get from a normal adult xenomorph (like in the first movie), to a queen? In the 3rd movie, they find that Ripley’s got a queen larva inside her, so we know facehuggers can implant them, but what’s the point of facehuggers NOT implanting queens? Once the Nostromo left the planet, there was no way for that particular xenomorph to reproduce.
It is never stated that adult creatures become queens. It is implied, that some facehuggers carry queen embryos inside them (such as Ripley’s in Alien 3 & 4 and the Predator’s in AvP:R).
What’s the point of queen bees and ants NOT creating nothing but more queens? They need drones and such to create colonies.
Please see the linky in post 48.
Yup, I did read that before posting, and I couldn’t find anything about how they get from a non-queen adult, like the first movie had, to a queen. Maybe you don’t - maybe it’s just the luck of the draw whether a victim gets implanted with a queen larva or not.
I thought that there was an implication somewhere that an adult can become a Queen, if necessary, somehow (it might be an ability similar to some frogs that can change genders).
Maybe that came out of one of the line of novels I read…
As I recall from the novelization of Alien (and that it was based on a scene deleted from the film), Ripley finds Dallas immobilized by alien webbing and Dallas points her to a burst cocoon that had been Brett (the first crew member to be taken by the alien after it burst out of Kane). The implication was that Brett had been “implanted” and there was now a second alien aboard and Dallas himself had been similarly implanted and was immobilized pending gestation.
Ripley kills him with her flamethrower, at his request, and continues skedaddling for the emergency shuttle.
The stomach acid of a turkey vulture has a pH of 0 and can dissolve most metals, so theoretically, acidic blood is not that farfetched. The xenomorph’s veins must be coated with mucus for protection like our stomachs are.
What IS farfetched is that an exoskeletal creature of the xenomorph’s size would be able to survive in the same gravity conditions as humans. It would collapse under its own weight during moulting.
I just want to throw this in here.
If you’ll scroll down this link to #4, you’ll see some images and a short gif of a xenomorph whippet looking goddam adorable.