Quote from: Blacklabel on Jun 02, 2012, 06:26:54 PM
Even if Ripley is conviced she is saying the truth.. that doesnt automatically make it true.
She got sent for psychological evaluation after all.. they think she's lost it.
But like I said, it now screws with the general scepticism of her moral character. That's the whole point of that subtle threat of not laying criminal charges against her "for now".
Ripley's inquest is now a lot stranger to view.
Quote from: nendo on Jun 02, 2012, 06:30:31 PM
Because its a film made for the modern audience. and not the audience that original saw Aliens back in 1986.
I hate it when people take this type of thing too far. If i watch Alien and Aliens now i think the technology in that film is very dated to today's standards. AKA the map used in Aliens was using a remote control. If that was todays tect then it would be an interactive table. So even by todays standards, The tect is out of date.
Nothing wrong with a joystick. It's a valid method of control. We've got no idea how many other uses the table was for.
And I'm perfectly fine with reconciling different types of technology and why this was done, but in this case, it puts a whole new spin on a
vital scene in the series. One which there was no real need to do.
QuoteThats why. Its because its a modern movie. Nothing more. Nothign less. You can't honestly think Ridley was going to make a movie and design everything so it fits in a world that was created 20 years ago?
You'd come across better if you weren't patronising me.
I'm well aware of what you describe, but many of us hope he'd at least try to make thigns fit, considering his newest project is a part of an
existing continuity. If he wanted to do new technology for the hell of it (which he seems to have), then he should've made '
Prometheus' a sequel, not a prequel.
In many ways, I'm not even sure why it
is a prequel... It wouldn't have taken very much to alter it to sequel status.
QuoteStyle and tecnology changes. Movie has to follow suit to appeal to the modern audience. And not just people who say it 30 year ago.
If a prequel film to promethues was ever made in the next 30 year do you honestly believe they would come up with tectnology that doesn't fit the technology we would have 30 years from now? Get over it
I'm not the one who went to pains to impress upon everyone how this
needed to be a prequel. That was all down to RS. I'm simply pointing out that prequel status now makes an existing sequel very different to before.
Quote from: SpeedyMaxx on Jun 02, 2012, 06:35:59 PM
It seems like a rather plush, scientific perk for a top of the line vessel. Gateway Medical wouldn't really have any immediate use for it when dealing with a castaway on a shuttle. And I'm sure she had her share of psych evals, but as others have said, even if they did subject Ripley to that, there's no reason Weyland-Yutani did not write it off as schizoid delusion - or shove it under the rug to avoid scandal.
Weyland-Yutani weren't the only body with an interest, though. And none of that changes how many clearly seemed to think she might have had an ulterior motive. That's part of what she's up against.
Technology which can view dreams might be outlawed for general use, but I don't see why it would be banned for psychological purposes. It's a valid tool.
1: She was clearly undergoing traumatic dreams.
2: A
lot of money (and, presumably, families of expired work colleagues) was riding on her testimony. A lot of vested interests were involved. Powerful ones. Even if Weyland-Yutani would have preferred it brushed under the carpet, the other representatives, ICC, insurance, etcetera, would have been very interested in the validity of whether she was lying.
3: Ripley would've been even more of a candidate for the best psycho-analytical tools available, because of her exceptional status as someone who'd been in stasis for 57 years.
These factors put a really strange spin on trying to reconcile this new technology with an existing scene...
I'm not saying I can't excuse it as 'one of those things', but applying logic to the saga just became more problematic.