Comment by portaouflop
Comment by portaouflop 2 days ago
Queen in the Alien universe is very similar to ants - she creates the eggs from which the facehuggers hatch. She is maybe much more dangerous than the ant queen but so are the “ants”
Comment by portaouflop 2 days ago
Queen in the Alien universe is very similar to ants - she creates the eggs from which the facehuggers hatch. She is maybe much more dangerous than the ant queen but so are the “ants”
> They don’t operate like ants in a direct sense, etymology or logic, they operate like ants when it’s convenient for the world of Alien.
Sure, but this movie is aimed at a general audience, who don't have an exact understanding about ant society.
It's more important for the movie to conform to what the audience thinks ants are like than to conform to what ants actually are like.
> Okay sorry. Aliens operate exactly like ants for anyone too dumb to grasp that they’re not but need an EILI5 description and may have stumbled upon this comment section. Thank you for helping me clarify that.
You think that people who don't know precisely how ant colonies work are dumb?
I meant in the context of the OP’s ask about the Alien’s dying off once the Queen is dead. They don’t operate like ants in a direct sense, etymology or logic, they operate like ants when it’s convenient for the world of Alien.