I get what you're saying, perhaps the queen overrode their individual thinking? The intelligence of the Alien was only hinted at in the movie, really. I guess it was the conceptual stuff, Alien pyramids, hieroglyphs, etc..., that really hit me as a kid, and I always wanted to see.
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Yeah you can speculate that the Queen has the ability to do that or that in a hive environment with a Queen present the warriors just innately know to perform for the collective but when they're on their own they have more individuality and could exhibit things like the sinister curiosity about prey that the Nostromo Alien had. So there are ways to rationalize the apparent difference in portrayal of the creature between Alien and Aliens. Even the life cycle thing - I know the Queen and hive concept might not have been what was originally intended and the extended cut of Alien had Brett and Dallas being turned into eggs and some people say that's in direct conflict with Cameron's Aliens - I say, ehhh...is it though? It's an alien lifeform. Who's to say the warriors couldn't do likewise in a situation where there is no Queen?
I understand what you guys are saying about the original film though - part of the fascination is that there were in fact 2 Aliens - the Spacejockey and ''Kane's son''. The title of the film refers to the latter but the Spacejockey and the Derelict ship were a deeper level of mystery. Cameron's film doesn't have this and it takes an entirely different focus, really making the film about Ripley. And he chose the most natural way of getting Ripley re-involved - i.e having the military component - there was no way Ripley would go back there without heavy weaponry. This of course produced a vastly different kind of film set in the same universe and that was, I think, the best move that could have been made for a sequel - again, if it had to have Ripley and if it had to based around the chestbursting Xenomorph (as opposed to delving into the Spacejockey's race).
Alien 3 then took the ballsy move of not continuing with the most recently popular guns & action format and returned to the single creature/no weapons scenario. It didn't work out for them at the time but it has gotten more appreciation over the years. What if Terminator had followed the same pattern and T3 hadn't just been a poor imitation of T2.
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