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Oh I loooove this take.
Generally speaking, xenomorphs do represent the monsters humans created, and while it wasn't that great, Alien: Covenant confirmed that. The Vietnam reference jumps out at you when you watch Aliens, so why the heck not, comparing the xenomorphs to unexploded ordinance makes plenty of sense to me.
The only issue I see, really, is that the xenomorphs can move once hatched. I was thinking about the scene in the first movie
Spoiler?
When they send Dallas into the ventilation system to find the chestburster and he's instead killed by a fully grown xenomorph. Going with the ordinance idea, I was thinking: Is the chestburster what's "fired" and the alien the explosion?Anyway, I've been analyzing the alien movies for a while now and get easily excited over new theories, thank you so much for sharing yours!
Yeah, they don't map 100%, but I suppose if they did, they wouldn't be a metaphor, they'd just be literal UXO.
I'm glad you found value in my post, though! Thanks for taking the time to respond.
Indeed they would.
And thank you too!