Quote from: stephen on Jul 09, 2013, 10:16:15 PM
Quote from: Vermillion on Jul 09, 2013, 10:56:32 AM
Except the Dropship came up from below as Ripley exclaimed "Damn you Bishop!".
Who is this in response to?
Assuming anything Vermillion said was even remotely relevant - it's predictably not accurate. There's over a minute between Ripley cursing out Bishop and the dropship rising into view.
QuoteSM mentioned that Bishop has no motiviation which was defused with the comment that orders is motivation enough.
Burke's order are countermanded by Ripley's orders. Burke doesn't have any greater authority than Ripley. He'd be at a stalemate and someone else would need carry the order to save or destroy the specimens.
If Bishop has any personal motivation in the matter, he makes no protest to Ripley the same way Ash did.
QuoteSecondly someone (I think Sil) argued that Bishop couldn't have had those kinds of orders because of "it is impossible for to harm or by an ommission of action allow to be harmed a human being" - I'd also argue that programming could get around that easily enough. Humans lie, I'm sure a human in control of a sophisticated piece of machinery like an Andriod could make it lie as well.
Pretty huge assumption that it's 'easy' to violate core programming.
QuoteI'd also like to point out that that, despite Ripley's instructions and protests, Bishop never did kill those live facehuggers. They were still safely contained in stasis tubes when he left for the uplink tower, which also means he had no reason to covertly obtain an egg. Burke already had his specimens.
Putting aside Bishop's lack of opportunity to kill the huggers, the argument against this would be that since Burke didn't show up at the dropship and nor did the huggers, Bishop landed after dropping off Ripley and got an egg from the hive.
Which is of course bullshit, but there you go.
