Quote from: DoomRulz on Nov 18, 2010, 10:27:09 PM
He was winning that fight until the very end. It's not fair to imply he's lacking in prowess because of one silly mistake.
He was also hightailing it like a wuss for about fifteen minutes beforehand.
I think saying that Kane's Son "failed to take out truck drivers" is a misrepresentation, too. He failed to take out
a truck driver because those pesky laws of physics got in his way. Before then, he was just taking them out in his own good time, including two ex-military armed with flamethrowers. Dallas was also a former goods smuggler (see: space pirate) and Ripley already had a hostage crisis aversion under her belt.
The crew of the Nostromo weren't just astronauts, they were all exceptionally experienced, many of them in dangerous tasks. And remember that the
Alien setting still sees space travel and dealing with it as a significant task.
Also, this one truck driver he failed to kill went on to lead a team of marines, fight an Alien queen in a mecha, sacrifice herself to prevent the Alien from being captured and then
came back from the dead to kick more ass.
It's kind of like me saying that Anytime failed to take out one soldier armed with sticks and stones -- technically accurate, but a misrepresentation of what actually happened.
As for Aliens against the marines, remember that the Aliens took out most of the marines without a single casualty.
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See, the mistake people
keep making is only seeing the possibility of Aliens being purely biological animals with a purely animal psyche. Perhaps
Alien didn't make it clear enough, but the resemblance Aliens have with the Jockey technology clearly tells us that they were either engineered lifeforms or, preferably, the conceptual (and perhaps literally biological) basis for Jockey technology, and that's not even tapping into the implicitly daemonic elements the Alien nods to.
It's not like I'm saying that Alien is absolutely invincible here -- just making observations with the benefit of some intertextual cross-pollination.
Alien implies the links to Lovecraft heavily enough that while the monster's status as something else entirely isn't concrete, it's conceptually supported enough to be a strong possibility.