Tony Redgrave
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David is responsible for the xenomorphs. Yes, he used the Engineer's goo but they are his creation. If Shaw had left David behind at the end of Prometheus then the classic xenomorphs would not exist.
You're adding layers that aren't there. When the goo is combined with human DNA you get xeno-looking life forms, there's nothing more to it. David just kept experimenting until he arrived at the classic xenomorphs. Without him they wouldn't exist.
Yes, I agree with this, I'm not discussing whether he created the proto-Xenomorph (and possibly will create the biomechanical too) I'm arguing that creatures like the Deacon (and posibly the Neomorph) already existed as shown to us in Prometheus, he took that "design" and improved it until he got the Xenomorph as we know it, he didn't just conjure it out of the virus.
It makes a big difference (to me at least) because having such control over life and death is plausible for beings like the Engineers but it seems silly for David, no matter how much a super A.I. he might be, to create a whole new race of alien hybrid beings from scratch.
At this point we're just discussing details though, the fact that he's the designer of the Xenomorph is clear and I didn't deny it.
I fully understand what you're telling me, I'd argue that what was pretty much a giantic facehugger and clearly a proto-xenomorph do give an indication that there was a pattern there before David refined said pattern but as I said, details, so let's agree to disagree.Again, to use your analogy: If Beethoven wrote the fifth, why is there a symphony in C-Minor that has similar passages written previously?
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I'll sleep better thinking David brought Xenomorph 0.1 to 0.2 and I hope you will be pleased by me fully admitting that he did indeed create the Xenomorph as we know it (as those two facts aren't truly mutually exclusive).