When the trailer played before my showing of Avengers, I heard mostly gasps from the adults.........and whimpers from all of the little kids. I swear, an entire generation of children has been scarred by that trailer playing in front of Avengers. Ridley Scott, you're the man!
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Originally Posted by
fuzzy dunlop 
Page's designs seem to be based on biological realism.
Giger's designs seem to be based on the worst nightmares you've ever had.
I'll take nightmares over realism ANY day of the week. That aside, I'm not worried about what Page has designed for this film for one simple reason: Ridley Scott. Whether you've enjoyed his recent work or not, no one can deny the fact that the main seems 150% re-invigorated by this project and gushing with enthusiasm over it. I severely doubt he's going to allow his big return to science fiction (and the Alien universe) to be full of sub-par design work, be it creatures or anything else. The man obviously had such a blast making it that he seems to want all future "big" projects of his to be science fiction-oriented (Prometheus 2, the Blade Runner follow-up, Forever War, etc.), with smaller non-genre stuff scattered in between (The Counselor, Gertrude Bell, Gucci, etc.).
As far as spoilers go, I've been a good boy lately and avoided all new trailers (including the international one) and TV spots. I intend to keep it that way until release. Let's hope I can.
Also, as for the whole "why didn't the colony find the Derelict" in Aliens? Cameron himself offered an explanation. Seismic and volcanic activity in the area caused the ship to toss about a bit, smashing it up against the planet surface and damaging it greatly. He implied that the beacon was destroyed/disrupted in the process. This is never explained on film, but the volcanic activity is definitely obvious in the early scenes involving Newt's family at the start of the extended cut. Personal spitballing? Perhaps the company didn't know what planetoid the ship was on and only knew what signal to look for? A prized ship picks the signal up and reports it back to WY. Not wanting to waste valuable equipment, they chuck Ash onboard the next commercial freighter scheduled to come through that area and make them investigate it. It is entirely possible that they knew the signal was coming from somewhere in the area, but didn't know it was precisely coming from LV-426. That could explain why no investigative search was mounted after the Nostromo disappeared and nothing was really done until Ripley (and more importantly, the flight recorder) was found. Burke digs up info and sets everything in motion again, eventually gaining the attention of the current Mr. Weyland running the company (Henriksen at the end of Alien 3...and in the recent AVP game). A more simple explanation could be a regime change though. Whoever is running things around the time of Alien leaves the head position (either willfully or forcefully) and the new company head no longer sees pursuing this matter as being in the company's best interests. Around the time of Aliens, the current head revisits the project upon discovering the true fate of the Nostromo and begins a heated pursuit of obtaining the creature once more. Both seem viable and both could be true. We'll probably never know, which is half the fun!
