Was there another “Big Chap” in ALIENS that we didn’t see?

[SM]

Covenant is notable for the crew of the ship not knowing what US states are despite being on a ship with United States in the prefix.

[Local Trouble]

And a crew member that shares a name with a US state.

[SM]

Also that.

[426Buddy]

Dumbass colonists...

[Kimarhi]

Caste vs Cowl version 1000.0.

[Slutty Badger]

Covenant is notable for the crew of the ship not knowing what US states are despite being on a ship with United States in the prefix.

Only in the novelization.

[SiL]

Yes, that's what he's talking about.

[Slutty Badger]

Yes, that's what he's talking about.

Urgh, the world-building in that novel is shit. My problem with Foster's Alien writing is that he tries to make everything too futuristic. Yes, I get that it's set in the future, but he loses the realism in the process. The whole "what was the USA" thing is the worst example, and is totally invalidated by Bishop mentioning Nebraska in Aliens.

He also shows a real lack of creativity sometimes and just shoves words together: "overcola" in AC - Origins and "mobile crawler" in the Covenant novel itself. If a vehicle is called a "crawler", then it being "mobile" is a given!

[SiL]

Him compressing the entire last half an hour of Alien into a single chapter still gets me.

[SM]

The opening to Alien 3 where he talks about Jones being dead due to relativity (but forgot that Newt didn't in Aliens) and kills the facehugger before it impregnates anyone while giving Hicks cryotube an acid bath.

[SiL]

Why would Newt have died in Aliens if Jones died?

[SM]

If relativity killed Jones while Ripley was away, Newt would have died of old age while the marines travelled to LV-426.

[SiL]

If relativity killed Jones while Ripley was away, Newt would have died of old age while the marines travelled to LV-426.

I thought it had to do with the long hypersleep catching up to him.

Read the first few pates of the novel trying to find it and saw Foster says it'll take two years to get back to Earth.

I know he liked to make his own adjustments but come on dude.

[SM]

I can't even find the reference to Jones now.  Thought it was in chapter 1 somewhere, but a quick glance has yielded nought.

He also mentions people having no choice but to use hypersleep or you'll be a gibbering mess after sacrificing decades of "useless consciousness".

[SiL]

I remember what you're talking about. I think maybe Ripley thinks about him when she wakes up?