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When I first saw Alien in the theater as a kid I was bothered by all the dark scenes, where you could barely make out what was being shown or what was going on. Looking back on it now, I find it brilliant. It added to the fear the protagonist and the audience was experiencing. One scene that got by me as a kid was that of the Space Jockey. It was so visually stunning that I never caught Dallas commenting on the burst open chest wound.
I think I've only seen it one more time since it came out when I was 12. I recently started getting interested in it again after the release of the Sideshow Space Jockey Maquette. I started doing some research and (throwing out all the nonsense presented in Prometheus), I still have questions. There doesn't seem to be a clear explanation on what the derelict was planning to do with the eggs in its cargo area; whether the Pilot's race was going to experiment on them or if they created them to use as weapons by dropping them on enemy planets. The Pilot himself was described by Dallas as appearing to be fossilized to the chair, insinuating he was dead for quite some time, but another take on it is that the Pilot and Chair were one entity; it grew into that chair and was never meant to leave it. If the latter were the case, how could the Pilot have ended up with a facehugger all up in its business? And I don't think it was ever made clear if that large thing it is/was looking into is some type of telescopic directional system or a weapon. Or both. One crazy scenario I came up with is that the derelict ship was on a mission to bomb an enemy planet with Xenomorph eggs; the crew was not down with the idea resulting in mutiny, with the Pilot taking a facehugger pie to the face. The remaining crew hits the warning signal and evacuates through the airlocks, which created an entrance for the 3 person crew from the Nostromo. Of course, that's assuming there was a crew besides the Pilot. I clearly need to see Alien again. I'd like to hear the thoughts from you Alien fans out there.
I think I've only seen it one more time since it came out when I was 12. I recently started getting interested in it again after the release of the Sideshow Space Jockey Maquette. I started doing some research and (throwing out all the nonsense presented in Prometheus), I still have questions. There doesn't seem to be a clear explanation on what the derelict was planning to do with the eggs in its cargo area; whether the Pilot's race was going to experiment on them or if they created them to use as weapons by dropping them on enemy planets. The Pilot himself was described by Dallas as appearing to be fossilized to the chair, insinuating he was dead for quite some time, but another take on it is that the Pilot and Chair were one entity; it grew into that chair and was never meant to leave it. If the latter were the case, how could the Pilot have ended up with a facehugger all up in its business? And I don't think it was ever made clear if that large thing it is/was looking into is some type of telescopic directional system or a weapon. Or both. One crazy scenario I came up with is that the derelict ship was on a mission to bomb an enemy planet with Xenomorph eggs; the crew was not down with the idea resulting in mutiny, with the Pilot taking a facehugger pie to the face. The remaining crew hits the warning signal and evacuates through the airlocks, which created an entrance for the 3 person crew from the Nostromo. Of course, that's assuming there was a crew besides the Pilot. I clearly need to see Alien again. I'd like to hear the thoughts from you Alien fans out there.
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