QuoteRipley was making an informed deduction based on what she was told by Mother, Ash and Burke. That doesn't mean she was right.
By saying that, you don't take into account that she may have done some research about people who were involved with the special order while she was at Gateway.
QuoteBy then, she was so paranoid that she was certain that Bishop II was an android.
When you
first saw him, did you automatically think he was a human ? I didn't and I believe very few of the viewers did. Does that make us paranoid ? On a side note, 4 persons out of 10 on AvP galaxy voted Bishop II as droid despite the 'blood evidence'.
The scene with Bishop II is about Ripley being suspicious about his intentions, droid or not, and she was right. Her suspicions were justified.
QuoteNow, being paranoid doesn't automatically make a person wrong, but it's something that needs to be taken into account if you're going to cite Ripley's beliefs as conclusive evidence of anything.
In this case, I would rather say ''
being wrong doesn't automatically make a person paranoid.''
My point is that what is shown and said in the movies has priority over the filmmakers intentions, if there is any contradiction. I agree she may not be right, but you have to demonstrate her statement is only based on deduction and she didn't make any research to find out that some individuals of the company had already heard about the alien, before going back to LV-426.