Quote from: OpenMaw on Feb 27, 2015, 03:06:59 AM
Quote from: Born Of Cold Light on Feb 27, 2015, 03:05:05 AM
Who was a Company official and may well have been acting on at least some kind of tacit support from his superiors. While we don't know that for sure, given the Company's willingness to kill people to get an alien and the fact that what Burke did goes way and above just basic corporate corruption, I just don't think it makes logical sense to pin the whole thing on him. He was working within a corporate culture that encouraged that kind of behavior.
There is nothing that indicates anything but Burke acting on his own in Aliens. Nothing. There is absolutely nothing anywhere in the film that indicates WY purposely infected the colonists. Which is a blatantly stupid idea. If they had any idea of an Alien life form at the time still being on LV-426, they would have sent a special team to capture it.
A special team would have drawn attention and everything points to the Company wanting to keep the alien a secret. Indeed, why not send a team 57 years earlier? There is nothing that points to the Company directly ordering the destruction of the colony, but the fact that the caseworker assigned to Ripley also just happened to be the kind of person who would do such a thing hints at more than a coincidence. Everybody agrees that Burke's nice guy act was just a charade, but the fact that he had the authority to order colony officials to check out a part of the planet with no questions asked is a major clue that he was more than just some greedy low rung pencil pusher. The fact that he was willing to take Ripley's story on face value even though there was no evidence to support it (unless the evidence was hidden, which again points to a larger conspiracy) points to either the fact that Ripley had the extreme bad luck to be saddled with an utterly amoral, greedy sociopath (which he probably was) who orchestrated the destruction of a colony all on his own on the basis of a woman whom the authorities thought was a little disturbed, or that he was part of a larger corporate culture that encouraged this kind of behavior. WY would not have just forgotten about the xenomorphs after Alien and probably had some top secret orders in place to be executed if they were every discovered again, orders that Burke carried out.