Quote from: The Eighth Passenger on May 27, 2016, 04:20:32 PM
Quote from: CainsSon on May 27, 2016, 03:15:55 PM
Makes you think though. With 3 Ridley Scott Alien films, before ALIENS, already and the details of more to follow, aren't they backing themselves in a corner?
It already seems kinda silly for the Company to claim they have no idea what's going on after the events in Prometheus and Alien, but now there is a colony ship - the Covenant. If these people are never heard from again, I mean... Don't they sorta have to explain some sort of cover-up now? Or aren't they, at least, risking all of this messing with the validity of later sequels?
If the ship and crew goes missing without trace then why would there need to be some sort of cover-up? It's on the far side of the galaxy. I doubt they would be in constant contact with the Company. Same goes for the Prometheus.
If we can have airliners that disappear without trace then the same is even more likely for spaceships in deepspace.
We don't though. I mean,
Disappear? Yes. Ship's disappear. But not often and not without people wanting answers and lots and lots of publicized searching and a public demand for research into it. These people, in this film especially, are on a Colony ship. The Nostromo was a bunch of truck drivers. The Sulaco - marines and another colony. The Prison colony - Ok maybe no one would care... But the Prometheus - while a secretive, scientific mission, would absolutely demand answers, from some very important people, since it carried scientists and the heads of the very same Company that sent it out there to begin with. That's not too mention WHAT the mission was all about. Secretive yes. But think it through...people knew about the ideas behind the mission. Shaw and Holloway devoted their lives to it. To assume that Prometheus was a dead end... It doesn't make sense. Someone would follow that shit up. Worse, people would likely come up with all kinds of conspiracy theories, no matter what cover up story the Company chose. Tex Marrs has several videos devoted to Conspiracy Theories about the
FILM PROMETHEUS. Could you imagine if it was real? Maybe some of its covert objectives, would still be a secret to the general public but nonetheless... Those people have relatives and an answer would have to be generated. That's a given cover up. If a bunch of Scientists and the father/daughter team of the worlds largest corporation, go on a mission to a planet that sustains life, to meet our makers with a team of respected scientists who HAVE WRITTEN THESIS' about the subject... If all that went down and no one hears from them again, I'm supposed to believe that was the END of all that? I mean, except for sending that tow-ship to check out a signal from a nearby planetoid 30 years later? Man, that's not happening. Come on. If an airplane disappears full of schmucks on vacation from the Phillipines, its all over every news report and news source and satellite scanners across the world. Even friggin' Cortney Love was looking for that missing plane using Google Earth a few years ago, remember?
Then we're saying a second crew ALSO goes missing and NO ONE looks into it further? No family members are or relatives are asking questions? Sorry. I don't by that.
Now a Colony ship was sent elsewhere to establish a COLONY... I mean, in Aliens, when they lost contact with the colony they send marines because of Ripley's report. Marines and when they were gone...
Ships don't just disappear, we search, we try to leave no stone un-turned. We are glued to our TVs. At the very LEAST there would have to be a cover up. In the case of this franchise, we have TOW-SHIPS and Prison colonies and Terraforming colonies all over Deep space... So yeah, people would look and people would certainly want answers.
I think it made sense to some extent from ALIEN (we already know the Company knew what it was doing in Alien) to ALIENS, but even after that, we have to assume the Colony on LV426 and then marines... There would be a serious involved investigation again. But now we are being asked to look at the series from a different side, and the more they stack on the pile before Alien, the less any of that can fly. It's a problem if they don't address it.