tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979663737404474935.post1627125514954872178..comments2024-03-22T15:19:36.418+00:00Comments on The World According To Me: 2012 - 35Phil Hallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12680058800847509275noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5979663737404474935.post-85125929885722222722012-06-03T15:02:58.825+01:002012-06-03T15:02:58.825+01:00It did, however offer up the question of whether o...<i>It did, however offer up the question of whether or not the alien that burst from John Hurt's chest was a queen, or, as I pointed out to the wife, it might have just been storing them for food.</i><br /><br />In the novelisation, it's turning them into aliens in some unspecified manner. Similarly, in the sequel's novelisation, Gorman gets hurt not by a falling piece of equipment, but by an alien's tail "sting"; later on he realises that it has planted a chestburster within him, which is why he goes out with a grenade. In the final film, he's only got a bump on his head, so suicide seems a bit excessive.<br /><br /><i>the baby alien looks like a penis with teeth</i><br /><br />I think that's deliberate. Giger's original designs for the creature that became the alien had a todger where the second mouth is in the final film, for example.thekelvingreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01928260185408072124noreply@blogger.com