TacosNSalsa
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Ah, okay. I see what you mean.
The thing is, Isolation was based on Alien alone. I know it's weird, but many people tend to see Alien and Aliens as two almost different movies, because of how they changed the xenomorph between the two. They were both really good movies, but for two very different reasons. That's why you can't really think of the xenomorph in Isolation in terms of anything that game after the first movie.
I don't know if you've ever seen the director's cut of Alien, but in it there's a scene that introduces the idea of eggmorphing- humans being turned into eggs rather than eggs being laid by a queen. I'm not sure if it was ever confirmed 100%, but before release it was strongly implied that that's how the Xenos reproduce in Isolation. They were very faithful to the first movie and the first movie alone.
As for the telepathic thing, I think I know which media you're talking about. I think it was called Earth Hive or something like that. Originally comic books that were about Newt and Hicks after the events in the second movie. I recall it used to be canon, but when the third movie was released they decided it wasn't canon anymore and made the creators change the character names. Or something to that effect, I might be misremembering some details.
I read the novelization a few years ago and they changed Newt and Hicks to Billie and Wilks respectively. They were a bit pulp-y by, but I really enjoyed reading them. Made me sleep uneasy a few nights too.
It's not weird at all . Alien and Aliens are in the same story arc but considered different genre of movies . SciFi Horror and Scifi Action. Arguably the best representation of those 2 genres he have to date . I understand what you're getting at , the have been changed in pretty much every movie made so it's hard to pin point what exactly they can do . My issue was I saw too much of it . So much so that it became less of an antagonist and more of a mechanic of the game to be avoided , kind of like a free roaming insta death bottomless pit .
As for the life cycle have you ever seen this video?
If you're okay with the goofiness of Kyle it gives some good info on how they reproduced especially when it came to the eggmorphing thing (that starts about 2:40 if you don't want to watch the whole thing)
Also a channel called Alien Theory goes into the extended universe (comics) of these things and they are even more terrifying than I could've ever imagined . There is one 3 parter he did that deals with Dr.Church and his studies on them it is really good watch.