Alan Dean Foster Interview at JamesCameronOnline

[wmmvrrvrrmm]

yes very unexplained! with that said im just gona blame writers its easier that way!

I'll blame Tarkovsky for making such unexplainable movies interesting

[deezelboy]

But the fully formed alien has an edge over the embryo! It is already to become a queen and then the one inside Ripley would become a drone or warrior.

The one inside Ripley was already gestating as a Queen (Ripley: I saw it on the CAT scan.  It's a Queen, an Egg-layer).  In Alien 3 Queens are born - hence Ripley's long gestation period - rather than being transformed.

You can't just divert from lore like that!

Erm... There was no lore at that point.  Aliens introduced the Queen, but never said where Queens came from.  Alien 3 answers this - Queens are Queens from the moment of conception.

[maledoro]

But the fully formed alien has an edge over the embryo! It is already to become a queen and then the one inside Ripley would become a drone or warrior. Can't remember the source but it just don't add up. You can't just divert from lore like that!

It depends on what your source is. If you go by the films, an adult alien does not change into a queen alien; hence, it changing from a regular adult to a queen "doesn't add up", and the changing is what's diverting from lore.

If you go by the comic books, well, uh, anything is possible. There is less control and restraint with the comic books which usually ends up with an "anything goes" way of doing things to the franchise; which is one of the reasons why I don't consult them or video games for info.

[Dr__Mario]

ooh get you! lol Well maybe but it makes sense if they can change. lol have you read any of the novels? if so which ones are your fav? i've read earth hive and am in the middle of nightmare asylum intruiging but pretty badly written!


 

[xeno_jon]

I'm making my way through Alan Dean Foster's Alien novelization. I found it by pleasant accident at a local used book store and have been unable to put it down.

Too bad about the "Space Jockey," though.