Quote from: Nostromo on May 02, 2019, 05:32:30 PMWhat if she took it off before going into hypersleep, without us knowing obviously lol.
Took what off?
When Ripley shoots the Alien at the end of the first film, the harpoon gun is pulled from her hands and gets caught underneath the shuttle hatch as it slams closed. You can just about see it there, still wedged under the door, before the salvage crew cut their way inside at the start of
Aliens. If the hatch had been opened at any time in the interim the gun would've fallen loose.
The book doesn't say she re-wedges it under the door when she leaves the Marion (why would she do that anyway?), and moreover she's actually unconscious at the time - it's Hoop who puts her back into cryo, and he couldn't possibly put the gun back (again, why?) because he has to shut the door from the
outside so he can manually launch the shuttle from the Marion.
The only way it could theoretically work is if the hatch shut on it
so hard at the end of
Alien it literally fused the metal with the hatchway, but I sincerely doubt that's even possible and it would still require us to believe it didn't get knocked loose by everyone to'ing and fro'ing throughout the novel.
Moreover
River of Pain specifically says the salvage team find the harpoon gun lying on a console inside when they come aboard - which doesn't correspond at all to the second film, but is clearly meant to tie into
Out of the Shadows.
Quote from: Nostromo on May 02, 2019, 05:32:30 PMOk, so that mine in Sea of Sorrows was the same as the one in Out of the Shadows, just set right before or?
Same mine, but many years later.
Which additionally introduces the goof of how the mine's still there at all, because in
Out of the Shadows the heroes set a fuel cell to blow up and collapse it to seal the Aliens inside; one of them (Hoop, I think) basically says the entire area for several kilometres around is going to be turned into a cloud of dust. Yet somehow in
Sea of Sorrows the mine is almost completely intact.
Quote from: Nostromo on May 02, 2019, 05:32:30 PMWhat if Gorman never knew about it or wasn't told anything?
He would've done though, because USCM command would have known there were Marines stationed there, and USCM command had no reason whatsoever to withhold that information from a follow-up mission.
