>I fucking hated this turn into deifying the Alien and putting it on a pedestal as some perfect species. They're just an extremely well-adapted obligate parasite. Which is all they need to be because they're just a species of space monster that eats people.

>The idea that the Engineers, who are an actual highly advanced race, would come across what is essentially a species of giant insect and decide to worship it is absurd. The aliens are highly intelligent for being bugs. They have no written language, no technology, no art, no science...again, they're obligate parasites whose whole life is a quest for more meat.


>Agreed that they don't need to be god beings, but they also are not literal bugs. They were just using that analogy to something familiar. They should remain alien creatures with all that entails. They shouldn't just be feral animals wanting to kill and eat animals then go into hibernation when it's done. That's stupid and boring. The idea that they create biological structures, statues, and transform the worlds into giger-esque nightmares was far better. They don't need to create art that we enjoy for it still to be art to them.


Consider the following: Aliens are the equivalent of macro virus bacteriophages. That's why Ridley, Ash, Weyland have such a hard-on for it.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/01/microbe-puppets-judith-hope/