I find the "Radical" Alien Fanboy argument dangerous

[Jarac]

Originally Posted by M41Aconner

What? why would Ridly do that?
your absolutly right though! Aliens did bring the seires to a new era of Scifi, why on Earth would he regard such a thing? I seriously hope thats not what hes planing to do.

He's not planning on doing it. He may return to the "original style/theme" of Alien, but he won't retcon lore from Aliens, because it hasn't really "happened" yet. We've had enough retcons with AVP and AVP:R.

[N-Shifter]

Originally Posted by Van Leuwen

the scene of Dallas being plastered to the inside of the Nostromo, with an alien (presumably) in his chest. (From what egg?)

Just a little something I picked up, I cannot remember where or when I read this but apparently if a single alien is left alone, stranded without a queen it can produce a single egg which would contain an Queen alien facehugger in order to start the ball rolling again.
This also (maybe) helps with the idea that the Queen alien was somehow able to produce a single egg or had a single egg already inside it whilst on board the Sulaco in "Aliens" which in turn explains how Ripley ended up with a Queen inside her in "Alien 3".

[Van Leuwen]

Originally Posted by N-Shifter

Just a little something I picked up, I cannot remember where or when I read this but apparently if a single alien is left alone, stranded without a queen it can produce a single egg which would contain an Queen alien facehugger in order to start the ball rolling again.
This also (maybe) helps with the idea that the Queen alien was somehow able to produce a single egg or had a single egg already inside it whilst on board the Sulaco in "Aliens" which in turn explains how Ripley ended up with a Queen inside her in "Alien 3".

One idea they had was to have Dallas "cocoon" and shrivel smaller and smaller and eventually become a facehugger egg. This info is from the old Book of Alien. A scene never used but storyboarded was Ripley finding Dallas cocooned, and Brett, as well. The older cocoon was smaller and more egg-like (Brett), but the Dallas cocoon still had Dallas in his right mind begging for a mercy killing. That concept really changes everything.

But it was never used.

[Guirec]

They filmed it, though, and Cameron heavily borrowed from it when making the "Kill me!" scene in Aliens.

[Maphisto86]

Originally Posted by Guirec

They filmed it, though, and Cameron heavily borrowed from it when making the "Kill me!" scene in Aliens.

The scene is in the directors cut in the Anthology sets for DVD and more recently Blu-ray. I loved the idea of the xenomorph having the ability to do this when a Queen is not available. Basically Brett was going to morph into an "egg" in time and Dallas would be the unlucky host. It is not a streamlined or efficient way of producing more xenos then the Queen though but serves it's purpose and makes the species all the more dangerous as one lone creature can potentially lead to a large scale epidemic.

[Mustafuck]

Removing that scene from the theatrical version was perhaps one of the best decisions Scott took. The egg morphing thingy is a very weird theory at the very least. I even preferred the introduction of the queen by Cameron instead. Imo the Giger-alien, being that remember would live only a few days, was just playing around and doing the things It was supposed to do, I mean finishing everything It came across with.

However, the removal of the scene when the crew can hear the very Jockey's voice in the "warning" signal was not a good decision imo. It was fucking cool, creepy and interesting. Btw, I have watched the scene "remastered" in the new version that is in that pack called "quadrology", and what they have done in that scene is an epic screw up; they have changed jockey's old style voice (btw similar to giger-aliens's voice in the narcissus scene after being fried in the pipes, when he is rising behind Ripley I mean) with some "roaaaaars" that make the engineer sound like a monster. Fail. Check It:

Alien deleted scene: Alien Transmission - good quality - YouTube

Another great scene that I can't understand why he removed It. When Parker goes to refuel the flamethrower, he finds the alien lurking around an airlock, and he tries the following: (this scene isn't in the director's cut): Part1:

Alien deleted scene 8 - YouTube

part2:

Alien deleted scene: Airlock Sequence part 2 - good quality - YouTube