Egg on Sulaco

[SM]

No it means fifteen minutes till it explodes.

It gives a two minute warning in the elevator on the way up and about 2 minutes later, it explodes.

[Scorpio]

Granted, I'm watching it now and it does say 2 minutes.  That rules that out.

But it's still possible if Bishop could do it in 15 minutes.



It could've been placed up there in the rafters of the dropship, though.  It certainly looks like it.  A good place for Bishop to hide it.  Why didn't it open?  It didn't open until Kane was peering right down into it.  The rules for when it opens aren't clear.

[SM]

How could he have done it in fifteen minutes?

[SiL]

It takes more than 15 minutes to get from the Sulaco to the ground. That's one way of a two-way trip that also includes a detour to a derelict ship. Even assuming he had found the Jordan's log detailing where in the derelict they found the eggs, he still needs to fly out there, set down, get out, grab an egg, and stop it from impregnating Hicks on the way back up to the Sulaco.

[Scorpio]

He just needs to put it in the dropship.  No need to fly to the Sulaco.  Either grab an egg from the hive, or the derelict, it doesn't matter.  The egg in Alien 3 looks like it's in the dropship, not the Sulaco, anyway.

As for why the egg didn't open, I already addressed that. 

[SM]

How does he avoid his programming and put Hicks in harms way?
And when he has the egg on board why does he wait around to pick up Ripley and Newt and jeopardise his mission?



He asked rhetorically...

[SiL]

It's 7 minutes from the colony to the landing platform (They go from 26 minutes on the timer when they leave the colony to 19 minutes on the timer when they land), so there's nowhere near enough time to get to the derelict.

It's already been explained why him getting the egg from the egg chamber doesn't work either.

[Alien³]

If Cameron had intended Bishop to get the egg it would have been a little more explicit.

The film activity makes a point of making Bishop seem like he's going to be another Ash, but as it turns out he isn't.

[SM]

Quite.  He's the anti-Ash.

[Scorpio]

How does he avoid his programming and put Hicks in harms way?
And when he has the egg on board why does he wait around to pick up Ripley and Newt and jeopardise his mission?



He asked rhetorically...

You can get creative and come up with any kind of answers to those.

It's 7 minutes from the colony to the landing platform (They go from 26 minutes on the timer when they leave the colony to 19 minutes on the timer when they land), so there's nowhere near enough time to get to the derelict.

Well Bishop says 26 minutes left, then by the time Ripley reaches the elevator it's 15 minutes.

It's already been explained why him getting the egg from the egg chamber doesn't work either.

I don't know about that.  Surely there's plenty of eggs laying all around the place.  He just has to land the ship, pick one up, get back in the ship and meet Ripley in 15 minutes.  Easy.

[SM]

You can get creative and come up with any kind of answers to those.

Off you go then.

I don't know about that.  Surely there's plenty of eggs laying all around the place.  He just has to land the ship, pick one up, get back in the ship and meet Ripley in 15 minutes.  Easy.

The eggs are in the Queens chamber or they're taken to a new host.  They're not just "laying all around the place."

Where is he going to land that will keep Hicks out of harms way?  And why come back for Ripley and Newt?

[SiL]

Well Bishop says 26 minutes left, then by the time Ripley reaches the elevator it's 15 minutes.

Yes, and between those two points they land on the platform and Bishop says 19 minutes, meaning the flight time was seven minutes and it took Ripley four minutes to get her guns and get to the elevator.

[Vermillion]

Dropships can hover.
And be remotely piloted

He didn't need to land.
Jump out
Grab
Get back in

[SiL]

They can be remotely piloted via control panel. Now you're saying he ran in carrying the controls, palmed a three foot tall egg, held AND operated the remote control in his spare hand, and somehow managed to get back into a hovering dropship?

...could you try thinking about what you're saying before you say it?

[Vermillion]

He's an android.  He can multitask.