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Because the black goo contains genetic code from Engineers, and humans were originally created from the genetic code of of Engineers. The appearance off the Offspring suggests that there was a genetic throwback of the portion of the Engineer's genetic code.
Ok, so I saw Alien: Romulus not too long ago and, final verdict, it was pretty good. I was a little skeptic going in since the past few Alien movies and their spin-offs have been rather disappointing, and Disney making one just seemed like a bad choice. I was pleased to see that my expectations were surpassed. However, there are a few issues I have with it that, if corrected, would have really made it even better.
Issue 1: Ret-conning.
This may be just a minor nitpick, but it bothers me. The movie retcons things or even contradicts other movies. Like how that team explored the remains of the Nostromo. What remains? The thing had 3 nuclear blasts go off (yes, they were definitely nuclear level with how massive they were), there should have been nothing left, everything should have been completely incinerated. Or how the team found the still living remains of the original Xenomorph that were somehow still alive and in that fossilized cocoon state. I mean, come on, Ripley blew it out of the airlock and then blasted it with the ship's jets, how is it still alive a year later? Why not just have it be the corpse, it was cloned either way? Like I said, small nitpicks, but they bother me.
Issue 2: Callback lines
OMG, I hate these things. Taking famous quotes and just having new characters say them just to say them for blatant attempts to feed of audience nostalgia. They feel lame and out of place. Like with Andy say Bishop's line of "I prefer the term artificial person myself" or "Get away from her you b****". These are show-horned lines that are forcibly inserted that make me roll my eyes. They're not nostalgic or something I want to see/hear, they're stupid and cringey, and they don't feel natural since it's obvious what they're doing. This isn't exclusive to this movie either, I hate when movies do this in general(note, this is different from characters having a specific catchphrase that they regularly say).
Issue 3: Xenomorph development speed
This is the biggest issue I have that I just can't get over, and that's the speed in which Xenomorphs now develop. In Alien 1-4 and AvP, it was clearly established that impregnation from a Facehugger takes a minimum of a few hours to a few days, and then development of a Chestburster takes a minimum of another few hours to a few days, with the newly hatched Chestbursting taking a couple hours to grow to full size. But ever since AvP:R, it's only taking a few minutes for the whole process. In this movie, Facehugger impregnation and then Chestburster development and hatching took like 5-10 minutes. It's so outlandishly fast and unrealistic that it's ridiculous, even beyond the suspension of disbelief. Now, I've heard that the black goo sped up the process, and while I still think it's too fast, that at least offers some explanation, but speed was happening in other movies too, case and point, in AvP:R, someone was face-hugged and impregnated before they even lost consciousness because the Facehugger was pulled off them in time, yet a few minutes later, a Chestburster came out of them, so it wasn't the black goo. It's all so rushed that I can't take it seriously. Yeah, I get the point of needing to move the plot along, but come on, having a process that's supposed to take a minimum of a few hours to a few days now happening in less than 5-10 minutes, 5-10 MINUTES.
Like I said, these were small nitpicks and issues, but I feel like they were simple fixes that could have and would have made the movie so much better. Anyone else agree?
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Found this awesome crossover story of Alien(s) and Species. Not only is it very well written, the writer really did their homework on everything to get all the info right and really blend these two franchises together to create a crossover on par with Alien vs Predator. Check it out.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14098734/1/Alien-Species
Yes, crashing was an option, as was done in Resurrection, but self-destruct is easier, more logical, and more practical.
Depends what kinds of weapons the Yaujta are packing. Also the numbers on each side. And the kind of Xenomorhs the Yaujta are fighting.
It's possible that the Company could track the ship's location. Actually, I'd even say it was likely.
Even if he did hate the AvP films, there were still crossovers of them long before the movies, in games, comics, novels, even the Xenomorph cameo in Predator 2. But discarding the AvP, the what happens in Prometheus and Convent still don't match up with the first Alien movie.
In Prometheus and Alien: Covenant show that it was David who took the engineer's goo and did a bunch of experiments on Elizabeth to eventually create the Xenomorph race, but this makes absolutely no sense continuity-wise. Xenomorphs have been around for thousands, if not millions of years. You just have to look at the other movies to see this.
In Alien, Ripley's crew discover the engineer's ship where they find the Xenomorph eggs, one in which attaches to Kane and sets the events of the movie in motion. Supposedly, these could be the descendants of the Deacon that appeared at the end of Prometheus (that or David returned to the planet with his perfected Xenomorph design). Alien takes place about 30 years after Prometheus. However, we saw the fossilized corpse of an engineer that had been a victim of a Chestburster that was so old it had grown onto the chair. The engineer's corpse wouldn't be in such a state after just 30 something years. Plus, the Xenomorphs that appear in the Alien franchise are supposed to be the final results from all the experiments that David did to perfect the Xenomorph design.
In Predator 2, we saw the skull trophy the Yautja had of a Xenomorph, and that movie takes place in 1997, about a 100 years before Prometheus happens. So Xenomorph's were already around long before when David created them in 2100+.
Alien vs. Predator, plus the novels, comics, and games, show that the Yautja have been hunting/been at war with Xenomorphs for thousands, if not millions of years, at least since ancient times.
So now matter how you slice it, David being the designer/creator of the Xenomorphs makes no sense and doesn't fit in with the timeline/continuity.
Anyone want to see a crossover with Alien and Species? I think it would be pretty interesting. The Facehugger could even impregnate the Species in it for a Species-Xenomorph hybrid that has the same regenerative ability and is even more deadly. It can be kind of like Alien vs. Predator: Requiem (only good). The Species lore can even tie into the Alien/Prometheus lore, like the alien DNA that was obtained to create Sil came from the Engineers. They could even have a battle between the Species and the Species-Xenomorph hybrid. Does this sound interesting to anyone?
Yes, opinion is subjective, but this Wiki is only a small percentage of fans of the series, and more often than not, people didn't care for The Predator while far more favor Predators.
I know Akira Toriyama (Dragon Ball Z) said that Alien is his favorite Sci-Fi movie and even designed Frieza's 3rd form based off the Xenomorph design as a tribute to it.
The Predator sucked and had so much stupidity in it. Predators was awesome.
I'm going to say the Antartic queen. She seemed much more aggressive.