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Originally Posted by Mass_nerder
There were two scenes in the Alien where they had the closeup of the mouth thing, but you couldn't notice any form of human-like features.
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Yeah, that's what I thought, I was responding to the 'they purposely didn't do any close shots' comment. Cause I thought there were a couple in the first movie or two.
And yeah, they went slightly away from Giger's original design. Cameron went even further in Aliens. Then they changed it completely in Alien 3 by saying that the Alien takes on properties of it's host when it gestates. The aliens in that one ran primarily on four legs because the first one gestated in a dog. They were faster though and they could climb better. In fact I think it was the first one where they started scrambling on the walls and ceiling. Which became popular in the comics and games.
As far as the skull design, I think it's cool too, but not because it makes me think of absorbing it's victims. More because it could show that there is an ancient evolutionary heritage with humans or other similar biped humanoids.
The absorbing thing seems kinda silly for me unless it's some sort of jelly or we already know that the various members of the species look different from each other.