[Spoilers] More Alien: Romulus Leaks, Including More Connections To The Original Film!

[Kradan]

Gotta be honest - not too excited about either

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BC return or another android with Ian Holme's face

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Also, how did they f**king find it floating in the vast ocean of space?

That's gonna need one helluva explanation...

They'll skip that part

But do they really need to explain it though?

It's suposed to be the perfect organism, so surviving in outer space seems right up its alley.

Not to mention, that Isolation already showed us the Xenomorph surviving in outer space.

It's not so much the surving as finding it.

Space is vast, Big Chap is a slightly larger than man sized object.

Objects in space don't float stationary. They are simply in freefall towards the strongest gravity well.

To find Big Chap you would need to find out where and when the Narcissus ejected it, which direction and speed the Narcissus was traveling at, how much thrust Ripley applied to the ion engines, the effects of the nearest gravity wells etc. and even then you'd still need a mountain of luck and years of searching.

[Corporal Hicks]

Didn't I say something previously about there being some decades between Alien and my intel of when Romulus began?

[Mike’s Monsters]

Well that was while it lasted. Sorry the spoilers are out there now.

[Rankles75]

I thought BC was basically burned to a crisp personally. Good thing they didn't find the Queen floating out there instead, maybe they're saving that for the sequel? 

[TheBATMAN]

Didn't I say something previously about there being some decades between Alien and my intel of when Romulus began?

I assumed you meant they catch Big Chap relatively relatively soon after Alien as Wey-Yu would be searching that particular area of space for the Nostromo. Then the move skips ahead a few decades.

[Kradan]

Also, perfect organism is just a label. Such a thing like perfect organism doesn't exist. How could it survive floating in the vacuum of cosmos where nothing was around?

Its sci-fi, man. How can it grow so fast ? How can it have acid for blood ? Why does it have that trademark "biomech" look ? These are things that make it "Alien" for us i.e. non-explainable. Personally, I very much dig the idea of Alien being capable to survive indefinetly in the vacuum of space - either hibernating or chasing some poor soul in a space suit

[TheBATMAN]

I can imagine it curled up in a fetal position all iced up a bit like the image of the queen at the start of the very first Aliens dark horse comic.

[Kradan]

I thought BC was basically burned to a crisp personally

That's not how I remember it. Shuttle engines' firing up clearly hurt it to the point of it letting go of Narcissus but otherwise it looked very much intact

[Ingwar]

Also, perfect organism is just a label. Such a thing like perfect organism doesn't exist. How could it survive floating in the vacuum of cosmos where nothing was around?

Its sci-fi, man. How can it grow so fast ? How can it have acid for blood ? Why does it have that trademark "biomech" look ? These are things that make it "Alien" for us i.e. non-explainable. Personally, I very much dig the idea of Alien being capable to survive indefinetly in the vacuum of space - either hibernating or chasing some poor soul in a space suit

Growing fast, having acid for a blood is one thing, surviving indefinitely in the vacuum of space is another. Not to mention it was wounded and presumably in its last stage of life cycle. But I'm guessing it's not a case anymore.

[Slutty Badger]

Sooo...

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...because Big Chap has been tapped for pathogen and it's been dubbed the "Prometheus strain", does this mean that they're going with the whole "David created the Xenomorph" thing?

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[Kradan]

I can imagine it curled up in a fetal position all iced up a bit like the image of the queen at the start of the very first Aliens dark horse comic.

Or maybe like this ?

[Ingwar]

Yeah, I'm guessing they will go that road. Frozen in space.

[Kradan]

Growing fast, having acid for a blood is one thing, surviving indefinitely in the vacuum of space is another.

Not to mention it was wounded and presumably in its last stage of life cycle

Facehugger healed just fine after being cut - who's to say adult one can't do the same ?

The whole "Alien has a very short life span" thing isn't stated in the movie itself

[Ingwar]

Yes, that's why I used term presumably. But even if it does survive, it still doesn't change the fact that Ripley's final heroic act is discredited. I'm simply not buying it.