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Orbert:
Not necessarily.  If the idea is to give us the background of the Alien species, obviously they're going to be in the movie a lot. 

If the idea is to show us the background of the Space Jockey and the eggs on his derelict ship, there seem to be at least two possibilities.  (1) The Space Jockey was piloting a ship transporting Alien eggs somewhere.  This is supported by the fact that the eggs are all in a chamber below decks, still protected by a force field of some kind.  (2) The Chestburster which killed the Space Jockey was a queen, who laid all those eggs, and later died.  Her body was never found by the away team from the Nostromo because once Kane got Face-hugged, they had other things to worry about.  There are probably other somewhat plausible stories, but I'm leaning toward (1) above.  (2) doesn't make as much sense.  Mainly, if the eggs were laid by a queen, they wouldn't have that nice force field over them, and the chamber didn't show the same kind of "modifications" as the one in Aliens.

I think the biggest problem, and IMO the biggest failing of both AVP movies, was that the creators seemed to think that humans were necessary to the story at all.  Why are humans required?  To make it "more interesting" for the audience?  Give them someone to related to?  I didn't see why that was necessary.  But if they do choose to include the AVP movies as canon as well, they did introduce the idea that "we knew" about the Alien species prior to the events of the first movie.  They could take that idea and run with it.  Weyland-Yutani (or its parent companies) has known about them since the events of AVP and AVPR, and The Nostromo stumbled across something horrible, but which was not previously unknown to us.  Okay, that could be interesting, actually.

0bsessions:
In AvP's defense, a human perspective generally is a requirement for a mass marketable movie. If not human, at least something resembling human. A two hour action flick with subtitles to explain the motivation of the aliens and predators probably would've been even more of a disaster than the actual product.

Tom:
But "resembling human" can lead to prblems with the uncanny valley.

Scandanavian War Machine:
i think he was referring more to human-like nonhumans (Hobbits, etc.) and anthropomorphization (Finding Nemo, for example) whereas the uncanny valley refers to things made to look exactly like humans, to the point where it becomes very creepy because, despite the accuracy of the human imitation, it still doesn't "look quite right."

Orbert:
Yeah, now that I think about it, it wouldn't have worked without "the human element".

Can I complain instead that it was stupid that they were set on Earth present-day?  Basically it reduced two of the most fearsome creatures ever created in the sci-fi world into cheesy monsters in a cheesy monster movie.  It also created many potential problems resolving continuity with existing canon, though as I mentioned, resolving them could be quite interesting (but I'm not exactly optimistic).

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