Quote from: Xenomrph on Jul 28, 2021, 01:33:19 AM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Jul 27, 2021, 09:56:08 PM
Quote from: Xenomrph on Jul 27, 2021, 08:16:48 PM
Get this, I'm on another forum where that isn't just a controversial idea, it's downright inconceivable!
What do they say about David creating the alien?
They don't.
So here's some of the pedantry evidence tossed around that the Company didn't send the Nostromo:
1. The Nostromo must have been re-routed by Mother after departure - we know this because the opening text says the destination is Earth, and that destination must have changed after the moment we see that text.
2. Mother must have written SO937, because it says "Nostromo re-routed" (past tense) while the rest of the Special Order isn't in past-tense. Apparently the verb tense matters.
Mother doesn't give orders, though, she's just the ship's computer. Orders, including special orders, come from whomever is controlling the mission.
Now, SO937 might have been pre-programmed, or it might not. Given the extra content and context that we have now, it's implied that the company deliberately sent the ship there, in which case it was likely pre-programmed.
Taking the film on its own, however, it could be a new order that was given to Ash by the company (via Mother) after the first encounter with the creature. Ash being a new member could be a plant, or could just have been coincidence. Hell, maybe the company was putting androids on board so that they would comply with orders where humans might be morally compromised.