Egg on Sulaco

[DerelictShip]

Lol had to edit it, but I imagine the sulaco would have dropped her off there cause she's got nowhere to go.

[HuDaFuK]

The beginning to Alien 5 will start with Ripley jumping into the fire at the end of Alien³. Then bam, she wakes up in a cold sweat, just a nightmare.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if they did go down that route, but I still think it's incredibly lame.

I don't want them to retcon the third film. But if they feel compelled to do it, they should just be up front with it and ignore it completely, like it never existed. None of this lame "It was all a dream!" crap.

[SM]

^ Yep.

[DerelictShip]

I would have to see how it played out, but I'm also not an Alien³ lover or hater.

[Axe]

Yet they failed to choose the lesser evil.

Partially at that point because the film lacked a Director.

The lesser evil to start Alien 3 would have been leaving the happy family alone and out of business and with the Queen ejected in outer space at the end of Aliens f**king aroundin space 'till she landed on Fury 161, cometing down in flames to the planet in a solid Iron Man style and then shitting eggs all around.

Hopefully then she would get a retarded alien with 85 iq as a main character going after all other prisoners and bam, new fresh story. Finally.

[Corporal Hicks]

The beginning to Alien 5 will start with Ripley jumping into the fire at the end of Alien³. Then bam, she wakes up in a cold sweat, just a nightmare.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if they did go down that route, but I still think it's incredibly lame.

I don't want them to retcon the third film. But if they feel compelled to do it, they should just be up front with it and ignore it completely, like it never existed. None of this lame "It was all a dream!" crap.

Yeah...I think I have to agree. As much as I also hate the idea of multiple timelines, I guess we already have it really with the AvPs so I think that would have been the best route.

[Russ]

It is lame. But its the only way to be sure. And, thanks too Prometheus (and I think the ADF novels too), these vivid dreams are canon.

Look it sucks - we all agree it sucks. It's a sucky way of fixing the "problem" if you want a seamless Alien 5.

Ignoring it... IDK... maybe. I'd be happier with an allusion to dreams ... I don't even think we need to SEE the Fury 161 dream... just know that she has had it.

But I've really given up on A5 (as envisaged by NB and others - I suspect by the time they got to it, wouldn't Sigourney Weaver be too old to do it? I mean, she was amazing in Daredevil, but this imaginary movie would be like five years down the road, wouldn't it).

[SM]

"It was all a dream" sucks balls.

Just ignore 3 and Resurrection like Superman Returns did.

[The Kurgan]

"It was all a dream" sucks balls.

Just ignore 3 and Resurrection like Superman Returns did.

This. If you want to ignore it, just do it. Many franchises did it, people will get it.

[whiterabbit]

The beginning to Alien 5 will start with Ripley jumping into the fire at the end of Alien³. Then bam, she wakes up in a cold sweat, just a nightmare.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if they did go down that route, but I still think it's incredibly lame.

I don't want them to retcon the third film. But if they feel compelled to do it, they should just be up front with it and ignore it completely, like it never existed. None of this lame "It was all a dream!" crap.

I'm all for saying Alien 3 was the ultimate cover up. Filmed on location. The upside down mutant egg on the Sulaco? A f**king prop error by some poor sap who was executed via an open airlock. No witnesses. Damn this isn't the plot of ACM is it... meh still better than a dream hand waving.

[Local Trouble]

Maybe we should revisit the royal jelly theory.

[Samhain13]

If there wasn't a shot of an egg on Alien 3 this wouldn't be much of an issue. Remove that shot and we would have just a facehugger instead. The royal facehugger could have taken a ride on the Queen and thus to the Sulaco. It would be easier to bring along than an egg.

[The Old One]

^
In one version there wasn't.

So the idea is that a facehugger leapt off the dropship and scurried away to find a safe hidey-hole so it could stalk its prey later?

You nailed it.

&

"I had a terrible dream in hypersleep." -The Opening

[Samhain13]

I suppose one could say then why didn't the facehugger attack someone right away, well in AVP2 a lone facehugger is smart enough to look for hosts that are isolated from others + the genetic memory thing, the aliens at LV-426 are aware that the humans can try to remove a facehugger from the host, having seen the colonists do it, so it wouldn't try to impregnate someone while the other humans were present.

[The Old One]

Wait in the vents until they're asleep, bingo- ship's certainly big enough to hide in.