Here be Xenomorphs

If you couldn't tell, I like xenomorphs

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I honestly love Alien. The movie from 1979, I mean. I'm tempted to come with endless apologies for my ramblings and odd fixations, but this website is for me to enjoy. To whomever it may concern; please bear with me.

What fascinates me the most about the movie (and the rest of the franchise) are the aliens. The xenomorphs. Whatever you may call em'. Over the years they have been reduced to aggresive space bugs, but if you peel away the layers of rampant misinterpretation and retcons you are met with a highly intriguing look into something truly... well... alien.

There is a quote from Dan O' Bannon, the writer of Alien's screnplay, which fascinates me immensely;

In the original screenplay the Alien is not an implied bioweapon but rather a member of a long extinct race who copulate within pyramid structures. Since the planetoid's extinct alien inhabitants were capable of architecture and religion, the Alien, as initially conceived, was not to be an entirely hostile creature. As it ages, O'Bannon explained, the Alien "becomes more and more harmless. Finally, its blood-lust gone, the Alien becomes a mild, intelligent creature, capable of art and architecture, which lives a full, scholarly life of 200 years." To add to the concept of the Alien becoming more intelligent and emotionally content as it matures, O'Bannon excused the Alien's blood-thirst aboard the Nostromo as a sort of juvenile panic that, given the right environment, may have passed: "It's never been subject to its own culture, it's never been subject to anything except a few hours in the hold of the ship. Quite literally, it doesn't have an education. The Alien is not only savage, it is also ignorant."
What would have happened if they continued this concept? We've seen it done in the video game Alien: Isolation, where the creature's intelligence is as formidable a weapon as its sharp tail and jaws. The idea of this clash between instinct and intelligence is so very intriguing. Below is a list of things to turn into separate sites with their own rants: Please format into list!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ridley's awful retcons What I love about the different xenomorph designs what I love about the original alien movie (sound design, visuals, etc.)

Despite that, countless, if not all, of the sequels look completely past this. They couldn't see the mystery. They saw a simple movie monster. I understand as much. Ridley Scott is someone I have come to despise because of this. He introduced the "goo" as I like to call it. It is an one-size-fits-all solution to a nonexistant problem, a lazy tool of writing, a disgustingly insensitive change to the alien canon, an insult to the original movie's themes and intents and a tool that has barged its way into every new piece of alien media.

I am of course talking about Chemical A0-3959X.91 – 15, otherwise known as the "black goo". This was introduced in the movie Prometheus, directed by Ridley Scoot of course. "But why are you angry? Ridley was also the director on Alien!" I can already sense some of you may say. To that I say that in all his hubris Ridley figured that he did not need anyone but himself to replicate the glory of the original. He is a fool. Ridley is a very talented cinematographer, but he is not a good Alien writer.

Below I have provided a list of all the consequences Ridley's retcons have had for the franchise;