Google| Subject | Re: Back To The Egg ... |
| From | Adam Cameron |
| Date | 2002-04-10 14:42 (2002-04-11 00:42) |
| Message-ID | <j4c8bukec9pc21qo51ub591emh4bgop7ua@4ax.com> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.cult-movies.alien |
| Follows | Animal Hour |
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1) The eggs were a biological weapon carried by the Space Jockey (from his home base toward a target which "he" never reached) 2) The eggs were being carried by the SJ as scientific specimens (from the xenomorph homeworld to labs on the jockey's world)
I don't particularly like options (1) and (2). Wouldn't the SJ take some precautions? In (1) the jockey's knowledge of the alien would make him wary; in (2) his total *lack* of knowledge would make him wary.So kind of like the crew of Auriga, yes?
4) The SJ got infected on the Alien homeworld and returned while impregnated to his ship. His chestburster became a queen. She laid the eggs Kane found.5) Same thing happened to the SJ craft as happened to Nostromo. Except without the pyrotechnics at the end. I prefer this as it continues - rather than explains - the mystique.
The SJ was the pilot of a ship with a large crew. The pilot got infected. The chestburster grew, captured the rest of the crew, and cocooned them. The "eggs" are the remains of the boneship's crew.
A possibility eliminated by ALIENS:Why eliminated? There's nothing to refute the initial lifecycle, if you take the "bootstrap" approach to it. Indeed: a queen has to come from *somewhere*.
Kane only explored a small section of a *very* *big* cavern / hold. There could have been sound evidence of a previous queen-based environment not 50m from where he was. For that matter there could have been a completely *live* hive 50m from where he ran amuck. The aliens in Aliens didn't really make their presence known until they had reason to. Maybe they never had reason to during Kane's brief visit.
Anyone can wander around among the eggs and there doesn't seem to be anything to keep a facehugger from leaving the hold and running around the ship.
Perhaps there was some sort of barrier enclosing the eggs but there was a power failure or other malfunction.Or perhaps it was still there - as shown - but the idea wasn't to completely ignore it and go stumbling over the live cargo?
(scientific specimen) makes some sense then. Option 1 (weapon) still doesn't work well though.Why? In the course of developing Sarin and the ilk, has *no-one* accidentally met an untimely demise?
5a -- An egg is planted on some world for the SJ to stumble upon.Oh right... sorry didn't read this far before replying :-(
5b -- The SJ is abducted by the unknown aliens for impregnation with a queen. He is returned to his ship. He doesn't remember the implantation.It would be an "interesting" exercise if Kane didn't have someone to rescue him: he would have died as soon as the FH fell off. I guess the alien doesn't care, but we'd be left with a CB / alien sitting there thinking "great... I'm still here...".
Adam
2002-04-08-
