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Alien Inspiration

I think - though I am not certain - that Blue Planet's claim about this creature inspiring the alien films was not about the appearance, but rather the behaviour: the 'crawling inside another creature to develop.' Of course there are distinct differences (the alien doesn't kill the host first, but only at the end; the alien 'mother' does not get in with the developing egg/larva, among other things), I think that is what they meant. Does anyone have any further information on this? As I am only guessing, I don't want to put this in the article. Mad2Physicist (talk) 10:41, 14 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

on IMDB it says that the creators of the alien have come out against this claim. It seems the creators of blue planet may have been using a little bit of creative license. those who came up with the concept before the giger design have also come out and said they were inspired by wasps and not this creature. "The alien's habit of laying eggs in the chest (which later burst out) was inspired by spider wasps, which are said to lay their eggs "in the abdomen of spiders." This image gave Dan O'Bannon nightmares, which he used to create the story. But spider wasps (pompilidae) lay eggs on their prey, not inside them, after which the wasp maggots simply snack on the sting-paralyzed spiders. O'Bannon may instead have been thinking of either ichneumon wasps or braconid wasps. The ichneumon drills a single egg into a wood-boring beetle larva, whereas braconids inject eggs inside certain caterpillars. Both result in fatal hatch-outs more alike to O'Bannon's alien." Killemall22 (talk) 00:51, 14 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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 ==Alien Inspiration==
 I think - though I am not certain - that Blue Planet's claim about this creature inspiring the alien films was not about the appearance, but rather the behaviour: the 'crawling inside another creature to develop.' Of course there are distinct differences (the alien doesn't kill the host first, but only at the end; the alien 'mother' does not get in with the developing egg/larva, among other things), I think that is what they meant. Does anyone have any further information on this? As I am only guessing, I don't want to put this in the article. [[User:Mad2Physicist|Mad2Physicist]] ([[User talk:Mad2Physicist|talk]]) 10:41, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
+on IMDB it says that the creators of the alien have come out against this claim.  It seems the creators of blue planet may have been using a little bit of creative license.  those who came up with the concept before the giger design have also come out and said they were inspired by wasps and not this creature. "The alien's habit of laying eggs in the chest (which later burst out) was inspired by spider wasps, which are said to lay their eggs "in the abdomen of spiders." This image gave Dan O'Bannon nightmares, which he used to create the story. But spider wasps (pompilidae) lay eggs on their prey, not inside them, after which the wasp maggots simply snack on the sting-paralyzed spiders. O'Bannon may instead have been thinking of either ichneumon wasps or braconid wasps. The ichneumon drills a single egg into a wood-boring beetle larva, whereas braconids inject eggs inside certain caterpillars. Both result in fatal hatch-outs more alike to O'Bannon's alien." [[User:Killemall22|Killemall22]] ([[User talk:Killemall22|talk]]) 00:51, 14 June 2011 (UTC)