Quote from: The Cruentus on Jun 23, 2020, 08:07:38 AM
Regardless of the failings and incompetence of others, it was still cultists that caused an immense amount of damage simply because of their fanaticism and worship of the Aliens, whether they know what they are or thought it was Tulita or whatever doesn't diminish how dangerous they were and how interesting such a story could be in live action.
Don't know what you are trying to imply by saying "my rationale" but I am just going to assume good faith and ignore your misinterpretation. Nothing in my explanation is about Ripley or her behavior, nor does it paint her as villain.
Oh yeah, sorry for being muddy, I was kinda non-sequential there. I was specifically referring to your apparent rationale (which, as you say, I've obviously misinterpreted) that The Company was
not the ultimate antagonist of All three films, and therefore they could somehow be viewed as blameless in all the affairs depicted, as opposed to being directly and unambiguously culpable from the start.
If that
were what you were saying, then that would mean that the findings of Ripley's Board of Inquiry, in the second film, are
accurate and are presented in "good faith", these are your words, and that further, Ripley's continued actions in
defiance of Company interests can only be viewed, as Van Leuwen puts it, from their perspective, as the rogue actions of an
unstable employee, exhibiting truly villainous behaviour with complete disregard to Company property and in direct violation of clearly communicated company interests. That was my misinterpretation anyway. I'm curious what a more accurate interpretation of what you're saying is.
Quote from: The Cruentus on Jun 23, 2020, 08:07:38 AM
Regardless of the failings and incompetence of others, it was still cultists that caused an immense amount of damage simply because of their fanaticism and worship of the Aliens, whether they know what they are or thought it was Tulita or whatever doesn't diminish how dangerous they were and how interesting such a story could be in live action.
In the interest of clarity and the prevention of misinterpretation, the result of the Earth infestation was not due to "failings and incompetence", BioNational was fully aware of the actions they were committing and, in pursuit of profit gain and competitive advantage, and at the knowing risk to other people's lives, they intentionally circumvented all law and regulation in order to commit those actions, regulatory laws which were specifically put in place to prevent just such a foreseeable event of global biological contamination. How they botched it up is the least important aspect, of primary importance is that their profit motivated and fully informed actions directly lead to the situation in which things could have been botched so catastrophically in the first place. But i'm not trying to put words in your mouth, I'm only clarifying what I'm saying so that, hopefully, it's more difficult to misconstrue.
Wouldn't you agree that BN knowingly broke the law for their own profit, and were it not for those fully premeditated actions on their part, no cult would have been created through poisoning of the local environment, and therefore there would have been no available biological contamination to be breached?
Likewise, the Tulitu bois did not accidentally cause the deaths of the entire Mira Ceti 4 colony out of
blind observance of their religious practices. Rather, out of their own self-delusion of destined superiority, and, explicitly, the insult they felt at being compelled to perform labor they deemed menial and beneath them, they unilaterally decided that everyone had to die and they chose to tout religious practice as the motivation for their revenge. Just like Legate Muir did in Alchemy, just as Preacher Ramirus did in Phalanx. Spite and pursuit of power were the true motivation, religious practice was simply an excuse. "Honor the Carnea."
But of course, this is just my wacky interpretation. Other logics may produce different but perfectly valid perspectives.