It seems they could have used somebody else but I guess they wanted the plot armor for later.
zap said:Ol Jock 99 said:
Plus the xenos grown in the GI system, which super human robot scientists would have surely noticed when examining bodies on the ship.
Maybe xenos grow in the GI because that's where the face hugger implants them? Kirsh interrupted that process via dissection so little Nemo had a find another way.
GoAgs92 said:
Interesting to see a coffee pot in 2120.
LB12Diamond said:
Their eyes record everything and they also record sounds. When the older guy questioned him, he said the only thing he did not hear was what the cyborg whispered to him. So yes they are being inconsistent. They should hear the conversations between the cyborg and hybrid.
It seems they could have figured some way to handle it where they don't have this contradiction.
Faustus said:LB12Diamond said:
Their eyes record everything and they also record sounds. When the older guy questioned him, he said the only thing he did not hear was what the cyborg whispered to him. So yes they are being inconsistent. They should hear the conversations between the cyborg and hybrid.
It seems they could have figured some way to handle it where they don't have this contradiction.
They know the cyborg gripped him which Prodigy would have seen via their visuals, and he apparently slipped the hybrid an at least 65 year old technological implant that Prodigy didn't think to try to detect on their cutting edge children hybrids.
A verbal interrogation of a child doesn't seem like an adequate security response.
I know it's a silly thing to not suspend disbelief on since Yutani needed some way for plot reasons to infiltrate.
WeightedWhiskey said:
I just assumed they harvested the lung and will tell him and Wendy they "had to do what they had to do" and turn him into a cyborg in order to keep him alive.
Apache said:
*The Wutani hybrid cyborg "Morrow" trying to infiltrate & steal back stuff is a another cool subplot.
*Not sure where they are going with implanting the xeno in the removed lung. Surely they're going to put it back into him....otherwise why not just use an animal? Wouldn't they realize that Wendy is going to go apesh*t when that happens?
*Guessing this turns into "Xenomorph Park" when this is all done, with all sorts of aliens breaking out and running amok.
*Boy Kavalier is going to get whacked, not sure who it will be though. Curly, The Redhead, Wendy, an Alien?
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One thing that did confuse me - at the end of the episode. Wendy/Marcy collapses just feet from the 3 of them doing the Alien autopsy. Then immediately Kirsch is taking the alien semen over to Kavalier, and it cuts back to her again on the floor. Did they just not hear her, or step completely over her in that scene? Lol - found that almost humorously strange.
djmeen95 said:
I am loving this show, and agree that it does feel like Prodigy is heading for a self-inflicted disaster screwing around with these alien species.
aTmAg said:
To me, this show is meh.
The alien just isn't scary anymore. I'm only 3 episodes in, and I lost count of the number of times that the alien has gone flying into a room and you hear the sound of a bunch of people dying offscreen just to see carnage everywhere afterwards and the alien gone. I guess I never really thought about it, but I assumed throughout the movies, that the alien was gonna eat the victims. That THAT was the reason why it is hunting them down and killing them. But in this show, it seems that the goal is to kill as many people as quickly as possible and move on? And how many times are we going to see the alien is threatening people an inch from their face why they just sit there?
Also, I don't really care about the main character. Especially since she is almost unkillable. I did think they killed off the brother for a moment, and I was pleasantly surprised, but it looks like he's going to be fine. So never mind there.
And I find the kid brain in the adult body thing to be annoying. I wish they would kill all of them off (except the main character) as quickly as possible.
Cinco Ranch Aggie said:aTmAg said:
To me, this show is meh.
The alien just isn't scary anymore. I'm only 3 episodes in, and I lost count of the number of times that the alien has gone flying into a room and you hear the sound of a bunch of people dying offscreen just to see carnage everywhere afterwards and the alien gone. I guess I never really thought about it, but I assumed throughout the movies, that the alien was gonna eat the victims. That THAT was the reason why it is hunting them down and killing them. But in this show, it seems that the goal is to kill as many people as quickly as possible and move on? And how many times are we going to see the alien is threatening people an inch from their face why they just sit there?
Also, I don't really care about the main character. Especially since she is almost unkillable. I did think they killed off the brother for a moment, and I was pleasantly surprised, but it looks like he's going to be fine. So never mind there.
And I find the kid brain in the adult body thing to be annoying. I wish they would kill all of them off (except the main character) as quickly as possible.
On the first bolded point, this is not new. Alien is the scariest movie I ever saw. By the time of Aliens, a lot of that scare had disappeared, but it still had some holy crap moments. Same with Alien 3. But by the time of Alien: Resurrection, with two aliens swimming through water in full view, whatever scary factor they had was gone.
On the second bolded point, the alien has never been depicted as eating its victims. Its victims were there to be incubators for more aliens. Mostly they are shown grabbing their victim and hauling them away, from Brett being taken into the airshaft to the superintendent of the prison being pulled into the ceiling. Yes, they've killed their victims, but they have not been depicted as these killing machines as they are in A:E. For me, this aspect of the show is the most flabbergasting.
Cinco Ranch Aggie said:
I was the right age for Alien to scare the crap out of me. 12. By the time of Aliens, I was 18 and was just not as susceptible to scary stuff. Having said that, I thought the sequence with the queen chasing Ripley/Newt to the elevator was pretty frightening.
Signs is a good example. My house at the time had a big window in the master bathroom that looked out at my back yard, and the house behind mine. I went in one night to do some business and happened to glance out the window. What I could see of the neighbor's house was a high pitched roof like the barn in the movie. I half expected to see a reptilian critter perched on that roof.
Back to Alien, Ridley Scott put on a master class on how to present a monster, much like Spielberg had done with Jaws 4 years before. The alien gets roughly 4 minutes of screen time with most coming in the last 20 minutes. You never see it clearly defined until it is 1-1 with Ripley on the escape shuttle. You really don't know what it looks like.
By the time that Aliens came out, audiences knew what it looked like. Cameron was still able to make use of lighting and camera angles to give it a scary appearance - like it running at full speed through the air ducts.
aTmAg said:Cinco Ranch Aggie said:
I was the right age for Alien to scare the crap out of me. 12. By the time of Aliens, I was 18 and was just not as susceptible to scary stuff. Having said that, I thought the sequence with the queen chasing Ripley/Newt to the elevator was pretty frightening.
Signs is a good example. My house at the time had a big window in the master bathroom that looked out at my back yard, and the house behind mine. I went in one night to do some business and happened to glance out the window. What I could see of the neighbor's house was a high pitched roof like the barn in the movie. I half expected to see a reptilian critter perched on that roof.
Back to Alien, Ridley Scott put on a master class on how to present a monster, much like Spielberg had done with Jaws 4 years before. The alien gets roughly 4 minutes of screen time with most coming in the last 20 minutes. You never see it clearly defined until it is 1-1 with Ripley on the escape shuttle. You really don't know what it looks like.
By the time that Aliens came out, audiences knew what it looked like. Cameron was still able to make use of lighting and camera angles to give it a scary appearance - like it running at full speed through the air ducts.
I saw both as a kid. To me, The Thing is the best at it. Throughout the whole movie, you have no idea who is or who isn't a thing.
Another thing I didn't mention before is that the world A:E is basically irredeemable. It's gloomy and whatnot. That makes me sorta root for the aliens.
YouBet said:aTmAg said:Cinco Ranch Aggie said:
I was the right age for Alien to scare the crap out of me. 12. By the time of Aliens, I was 18 and was just not as susceptible to scary stuff. Having said that, I thought the sequence with the queen chasing Ripley/Newt to the elevator was pretty frightening.
Signs is a good example. My house at the time had a big window in the master bathroom that looked out at my back yard, and the house behind mine. I went in one night to do some business and happened to glance out the window. What I could see of the neighbor's house was a high pitched roof like the barn in the movie. I half expected to see a reptilian critter perched on that roof.
Back to Alien, Ridley Scott put on a master class on how to present a monster, much like Spielberg had done with Jaws 4 years before. The alien gets roughly 4 minutes of screen time with most coming in the last 20 minutes. You never see it clearly defined until it is 1-1 with Ripley on the escape shuttle. You really don't know what it looks like.
By the time that Aliens came out, audiences knew what it looked like. Cameron was still able to make use of lighting and camera angles to give it a scary appearance - like it running at full speed through the air ducts.
I saw both as a kid. To me, The Thing is the best at it. Throughout the whole movie, you have no idea who is or who isn't a thing.
Another thing I didn't mention before is that the world A:E is basically irredeemable. It's gloomy and whatnot. That makes me sorta root for the aliens.
Still the best horror movie ever made - Carpenters version that is.
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'Curly' #2 wants the adoration of her 'father', Kavalier. While they're extremely intelligent and powerful, these synths are still just KIDS - and Kavalier fed into that by giving her a challenge.
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'Curly' #2 wants the adoration of her 'father', Kavalier. While they're extremely intelligent and powerful, these synths are still just KIDS - and Kavalier fed into that by giving her a challenge.
To this point I was like "why use kids?" but his explanation of prodigies was the perfect exposition. Children have unlimited potential, and he's also hoping to eventually encounter someone who's close to his intellectual equal.
That said it's beyond dumb that Prodigy would send billions of dollar of untrained tech into this situation, but the world of Alien has never been known for its good decisions.
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