David the creator

[Local Trouble]

And?

That shot of her tube only shows the upper portion, not the hole.  It could still be partially submerged at that point.  Besides, the water had to get in somehow.

[The Old One]

Cracked.

[Local Trouble]

Which is funny since the cracks don't show up later.

[Huggs]

Like the egg, I think the movie just had a bad case of "the studio's".

[The Old One]

Which is funny since the cracks don't show up later.

If you're watching the inferior version. 

[Local Trouble]

Circling back around to before the nitpicking really started, the only real obstacle standing in the way of Newt being hugged was the previously established minimum duration of embryo implantation.  We had to bend over backwards to explain why it couldn't be her and had to be Hicks, why the facehugger inexplicably gave up on her, etc., etc.

Covenant changed that rule.  Yay for Covenant.  Ridley Scott just inadvertently fixed a plot hole in Alien 3.  Yay for Ridley.

[SM]

I missed the part how it got in to her tube.

[Local Trouble]

Her tube doesn't allow a hugger access.

In the actual film, the canopy of Newt's tube was cracked, but not shattered.  Then we saw a massive hole in the side of the cryotube surrounded by acid burns.



My guess is that the facehugger burned its way into her tube the same way the original one burned its way into Kane's helmet.  Subsequently, the acid spillage from this is what caused the fire, not the death of some unseen second facehugger.

IMO, of course.

[SM]

I'm not seeing a massive hole.

Additionally say she did get impregnated - she had an autopsy with no creature.

[Local Trouble]

About as "massive" as the one on Kane's helmet, which seemed to be enough for the original hugger.

The script explains the rest.

[The Old One]

May I ask...

What's the point?
Why does it matter if it infected Newt and then scrawled into Ripley?

[Huggs]

I'm not seeing a massive hole.

I saw one of those at work today. It spoke in a mixture of single syllables and rude hand gestures.

Before I was able to analyze and respond in its native language, I was asked to do something else.

I waved goodbye to it, in my mind.

[Local Trouble]

May I ask...

What's the point?
Why does it matter if it infected Newt and then scrawled into Ripley?

It matters because it was previously regarded as impossible.  Before Covenant came along and changed the rules, that is.

[Huggs]

With the studio, all things are possible.

What's the point?

I read that in Ash's voice.

[Local Trouble]

Mostly.

Can you say that without sounding like Newt in my head?

I could try but - it won't make any difference.