What kind of Alien is in the original?

[Les Walker]

Everytime I read a post catagorizing the first Alien as a "drone", I really hate Cameron for what he made the Aliens. It was never meant to be a "bug" and the original lifecycle (cocooning) is what I wish they'd stuck with.

LOVE "Aliens" as a movie, but hate the whole "drone", "worker", "warrior" crap.

In a certain way, I totally agree with you Sabres. But as a person who has worked at a Zoo for a few years, and has learned from animal and insect specialists, who happened to be movie fans, some of which liked the Alien series, I had some pretty interesting conversations with those "experts" and several of them said that there are patterns in nature as to what kind of animal a critter could be classified as, or compared to. Even an alien lifeform, in order to be understood by our reckoning, can be classified in the closest order that best explains and categorizes it.

Therefore, ALIENS are more Insect than any other known form to our Earth life strains. That does not say however, that they are indeed, Insects.

Therefore, I agree with your take on them. To me, especially the first movie, they are just that, ALIEN, and are in many ways, unclassifiable to Terran standards.

That any better?

 

[shockwave]

The point I was trying to make is that I can't stand the "hive insect" concept that has erupted since the "Aliens" film. It wasn't meant to be a "hive" type creature. So yeah, Cameron did make them just big "bugs" by adding the hive and the Queen. Now all I see is "Is it a drone or a worker or blah blah blah?" Totally taking away from what Scott, O'Bannon and Giger were trying to do with the creature.

Unforutnately I am still a novice no matter how many times I see ALIEN/ALIENS. But I agree w/u Sabres21768.

 

[Jamal]

The point I was trying to make is that I can't stand the "hive insect" concept that has erupted since the "Aliens" film. It wasn't meant to be a "hive" type creature. So yeah, Cameron did make them just big "bugs" by adding the hive and the Queen. Now all I see is "Is it a drone or a worker or blah blah blah?" Totally taking away from what Scott, O'Bannon and Giger were trying to do with the creature.

Pretty good point man, what was the cocooning for anyways in the deleted scene in Alien when Ripley finds Dallas, also how does the Alien procreate without huggers as was the case with the first Alien is this what cocooning was? changing Dallas into an Alien?

 

[Sabres21768]

Pretty good point man, what was the cocooning for anyways in the deleted scene in Alien when Ripley finds Dallas, also how does the Alien procreate without huggers as was the case with the first Alien is this what cocooning was? changing Dallas into an Alien?

The Alien was changing Brett into an egg and had put Dallas there to be a host for the facehugger.

 

[Blackhole]

I'm just calling it a drone, because that's what it's called in the Aliens vs Predator: Extinction game...

 

[Jamal]

The Alien was changing Brett into an egg and had put Dallas there to be a host for the facehugger.

So Brett would turn into a Face Hugger egg? thats awesome man, but i admit i liked the Hive concept also

 

[Sabres21768]

I like the Hive concept as well. Please don't get me wrong people, I LOVE the movie ALIENS. I love Cameron's designs for the creatures, including the Queen. But it really did take a HUGE step the left of what the original creature was supposed to be.

I just hate trying to label these things based on a VIDEO GAME!

 

[Jamal]

How interesting would it have been if they stuck to the Alien canon and had the Aliens gathering the marines to egg morph them. Is there anything on the special features of the Quadrilogy for Alien mentioning the egg morphing sabres?

 

[danfaz]

I'm just calling it a drone, because that's what it's called in the Aliens vs Predator: Extinction game...

I just hate trying to label these things based on a VIDEO GAME!

Me, too! The movie came first, folks, so why would one be inclined to label things based on the video game???

 

[Blackhole]

Because they're all called Xenomorphs in every movie!!!

Either that, or I'm not getting the point of the quetion...

How about, it's the kind of alien that's in Alien...

That's the only other answer I can give...