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SciFi movies and pathetic misconceptions of tech failing for the story line.
coppercone2:
--- Quote from: mendip_discovery on April 10, 2023, 07:54:59 pm ---"Just another bug hunt"
They seemed to be at the whim of a private company so they would be very well kitted up and be used to quash the revolts etc that would possibly happen on the mining worlds.
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Oh yeah I forgot about that quote. I think Prometheus screwed up the canon, because there was like a huge amount of comic books and stuff that explained the universe quite well. Maybe they were used to fighting like prehistoric life forms (big mosquitos and shit) on newly colonized places. Not hard to imagine if you have a world that is semi-evolved and you start pumping O2 in there and stuff, maybe the wild life has a propensity for going crazy, combined with radioactive mutations, I don't think their planetary power sources were super clean..
And they were quite ready to adapt the xenomorph for I guess bio/ecological warfare, I guess that they already had some experience breeding 'pests' for warfare. Just this one was too much for them. Or just for colonization purposes, like that old simpsons episode, someone decided to breed flying snakes to kill off the gopher like creatures that were harming agriculturalr activity on nice planets, and that sometimes got out of hand. At the end, when you introduced the armored bears to deal with the 5 other things that were introduced, you need to send in the space marines to clean them out..
Before prometheus 're explained' everything, I had the feeling the eggs were designed kind of like landmines to prevent some places of space from being colonized. Maybe even like keeping away trespassers from minerals and stuff that were in someone 5000 year plan.
BrianHG:
Just started watching the series 'The Ark'.
Just in the first minutes, how the stop and go of the rotating section for the artificial gravity was completely off, impossible and on top of all that, also upsidedown. :palm:
I mean, should I continue watching the series and just F-it, or just F-it and stop before I get a headache?
I mean, everything upside-down is hard for my mind to ignore.
Why aren't these guys being flung upwards smashing their heads in this image.
It's even backwards in the next scene with an exterior view looking into the space ship.
Monkeh:
--- Quote from: BrianHG on April 11, 2023, 12:20:44 pm ---Just started watching the series 'The Ark'.
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The acting is worse than that mistake.
mwb1100:
--- Quote from: coppice on April 10, 2023, 07:40:41 pm ---
--- Quote from: David Hess on April 10, 2023, 11:49:00 am ---This discussion reminds me of something I wondered about in the movie Aliens. Why did the "Colonial Marines" exist and why were they armed the way they were, including nuclear weapons? What threat justified their existence? Were they regularly fighting other aliens or humans?
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The whole tone of the conversation between the marines in that movie makes it seem like they are quite experienced with encountering and fighting a variety of aliens. The conversations between everyone else makes it seem like encountering an alien is a huge novelty. Things never quite seemed to gel.
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My take away was that the Colonial Marines were often tasked with eliminating dangerous, but unintelligent alien beings: "What do you mean 'THEY cut the power'? How could they cut the power, man? They're animals!"
Ripley, Burke, and Newt knew otherwise.
coppercone2:
Ripley knew more about what the xeno does, if you consider the extended version, where it shows the xeno crafting eggs out of dead bodies in Alien. Newt got to study them for a few weeks (god knows what she saw) and Burke might be the only one that had non filtered information about them.
Based on Burke, I almost wonder if the company used like psychological profiles (or some kind of other means, like getting the marines really drunk before deployment) to try to put together a marine squad that was learning averse or something, IIRC they pretty much refused to listen to her personal report in the briefing and its unknown what was in or if they even bothered to listen to (I guess its a video?) of what Ripley had to say in her deposition. Alien 3 kind of tells us that the company might have been behind the attempt to capture them, and that it was not just a mad get rich plan Burke came up with on the spot. Every movie after that featured mr weyland seemed to show him pulling tons of strings and being deeply involved in conspiracies.
IIRC Burke kinda shushed her and told them to watch the video or something? I feel like behind the scenes he was telling them something along the lines of "she is some crazy woman that's under investigation don't let her put any crazy ideas in your head you don't want to be involved in the subsequent hearings, face court marital for being an accessory, etc"
But I also did not take too much weight in the dialog after the survival situation started, because they were sleep deprived, adrenaline filled, injured, and probobly had severe tinnitus. It made me feel that Burke had to have been coached on the possible situations by someone, because he still maintained a shit load of composure all things considered, most uh... c-level execs would be hiding under the table as soon a 1 bullet was fired. Or he had previous experience working for military intelligence or something, like a crooked military spy. Like, psychological training on dealing with trauma victims too, he convinced her to go again.. thats like a skill set a military interrogator has... so if you consider the whole universe and games and everything, I think Weyland hired some PMC to impersonate a corporate officer.
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