Alien: Specimen - 40th Anniversary Short

[irn]

That was really good. Was glued to the screen watching this one.

[SM]

Are there another health hazardous materials/organisms for the (robo)dog to defend people from?

It's a guard dog.

Do actual contemporary guard dogs guard us from Aliens?

[Nightmare Asylum]

Are there another health hazardous materials/organisms for the (robo)dog to defend people from?

It's a guard dog.

Do actual contemporary guard dogs guard us from Aliens?

And to further that point, the film explicitly spells out that there was a previous contagion let loose in the facility before the Alien egg ever arrived.

[Master]

Liked it allot.  Much, much better then the first one.

[Perfect-Organism]

Are there another health hazardous materials/organisms for the (robo)dog to defend people from?

It's a guard dog.

Do actual contemporary guard dogs guard us from Aliens?

There are plenty of reasons to have a synthetic dog doing all sorts of duties.  I have no issue with that being a synthetic dog.

We know what happens when a facehugger attacks an aggressive real dog.

Ha!  Alien 3 totally skipped my mind.  You're right.

But it underscores another fact that Alien 3 was Removed from the likelihood of reality.  It is way more likely that a dog would bite a face hugger, unless it somehow puts the dog to sleep very quickly.  (Which it might). If I remember correctly, that dog's mouth did have some minimal acid damage.

The truth is that the face-hugger is anthropomorphic.  It is designed to match a human face and head.  There are many animals that it will be incompatible with.  Sometimes on account of their physical attributes, and sometimes on account of their behaviours.

[Nightmare Asylum]

It isn't a dog in the better cut of Alien 3 anyways.

[Nukiemorph]

Check out their awesome poster too.  I haven't seen this anywhere on social media.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10135070/

[Perfect-Organism]

Coooool!

It's like a poppy plant.

[The Old One]

The poster's fantastic and the fact the Facehugger puts people to sleep by dispersing a chemical agent
when it attaches to the face makes infection of humanoids and non-humanoids a non-issue.

[Nightmare Asylum]

I feel like I've seen that artwork before and I can't place it...

[Stitch]

I liked this one more than containment. It felt less llike a low budget showreel and more like an actual alien short.

[Perfect-Organism]

Yes, I didn't feel anything in this film pulling me out of the illusion.  It was well crafted.

[Xenomrph]

the fact the Facehugger puts people to sleep by dispersing a chemical agent

This got brought up in another thread, but there are sources where this doesn't happen (whether you accept them as "canon" is up to you).

[Voodoo Magic]

Will go against the grain here. Poorly made short. I'd take Containment over this easily.

[Huggs]

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMDM1MmU1OGMtOWZlMi00ZTY5LWIxMjMtYjMyNjhjYmZiZWMzXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTMzMDQ3MzE@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,674,1000_AL_.jpg

The poster's fantastic and the fact the Facehugger puts people to sleep by dispersing a chemical agent
when it attaches to the face makes infection of humanoids and non-humanoids a non-issue.

It's definitely the one to beat. If it gets better than this, these shorts will be a resounding success. My faith that an alien series is doable has been rekindled.

Will go against the grain here. Poorly made short. I'd take Containment over this easily.

I think they're both just right for their individual purposes, and I like them both.

But it's a hard argument to make that this was poorly made.