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[quote author=Biomechanoid link=msg=2347055 date=1547501790]
[quote author=Xenomrph link=topic=61204.msg2341587#msg2341587 date=1546157127]
I think the answer to a lot of the hypothetical questions you offered as examples is "who cares"? 
No, seriously. The origin of the Alien was an off-limits topic within the fiction for like 30 years and fans and audiences were completely okay with that - heck, I'd argue that a not-insignificant percentage (of not a majority) preferred not knowing where the Alien came from. The problem with Prometheus/Covenant (and with many prequels) is it answered questions nobody asked, or nobody wanted answered.
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Not the pattern I've seen over the years. Countless people have asked those hypothetical questions countless times. There were page after page of threads regarding those questions on the old imdb forum to name one example. I'm not going to dig into this very forum's archive going back several years, but it wouldn't surprise me to find these questions the topic of multiple threads.

I don't know how far AVPG archive on display goes back, but for a quick AVPG example.....let's see..... how about revisiting this very thread where 21 pages are peppered with members debating the origin of the egg......not to mention the original post asks, "where do the eggs come from?"

So to answer your question who cares, I would bet quite a few.

[quote author=Samhain13 link=topic=61204.msg2346978#msg2346978 date=1547475661]
Wasn't that blue light on top of them working as some kind of stasis field for them? Thus preveting them from dying? 
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The blue lazer was a Ridley Scott add on. According to what I've read, The Who were rehearsing in a stage next to Scott's Alien project. The crew had taken a break and stepped over to watch The Who, it was a dress rehearsal, meaning stage lights activated including their lazers. Sometime later, Scott had borrowed The Who's lazers for the egg chamber scene. He thought it would be a cool visual effect. As for its in-story function.....hey, it's Ridley "don't bother me with story" Scott.
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Posted by Samhain13

- Feb 02, 2019, 10:12:58 PM

Quote from: Xenomrph on Feb 02, 2019, 09:16:50 PM
Quote from: Local Trouble on Feb 02, 2019, 09:00:08 PM
What if he releases a remastered edition of ACM that meets or exceeds the quality of the demo and then gives it away to everyone who bought the original version?
So what you're saying is Randy is TemplarGFX?

Beat me to it.

Posted by The Old One

- Feb 02, 2019, 09:41:20 PM

Quote from: Local Trouble on Jan 24, 2019, 02:40:44 AM
It is impossible!

Posted by Xenomrph

- Feb 02, 2019, 09:33:11 PM

Hey if Randy did all that stuff then yeah I'd forgive him.

If he just took credit for TemplarGFX's work and said "hay guyz the game is fixed, we're cool now right??" then that's kind of a different matter.

Posted by Local Trouble

- Feb 02, 2019, 09:18:57 PM

The evidence is overwhelming.

Posted by The Old One

- Feb 02, 2019, 09:18:38 PM

That's an insult to TemplarGFX if so.

Posted by Xenomrph

- Feb 02, 2019, 09:16:50 PM

Quote from: Local Trouble on Feb 02, 2019, 09:00:08 PM
What if he releases a remastered edition of ACM that meets or exceeds the quality of the demo and then gives it away to everyone who bought the original version?

So what you're saying is Randy is TemplarGFX?

Posted by TheSailingRabbit

- Feb 02, 2019, 09:02:38 PM

Quote from: Local Trouble on Feb 02, 2019, 09:00:08 PM
What if he releases a remastered edition of ACM that meets or exceeds the quality of the demo and then gives it away to everyone who bought the original version?

Rabbits will fly.

Posted by Local Trouble

- Feb 02, 2019, 09:00:08 PM

What if he releases a remastered edition of ACM that meets or exceeds the quality of the demo and then gives it away to everyone who bought the original version?

Posted by Huggs

- Feb 02, 2019, 05:52:11 PM

Quote from: Local Trouble on Feb 02, 2019, 04:37:46 AM
Quote from: Biomechanoid on Feb 02, 2019, 03:32:46 AM
"Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will, we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."

Does that include redemption for Randy?

If he drives to everybody's house and refunds their A:CM money, apologizes profusely to us all, admits his filthy sins on national television, leaves the gaming industry and serves a rather lengthy prison sentence for fraud and whatever else it may turn out he's guilty of. Then, if released, he goes and lives on some little known island far away from everyone he royally screwed over, climbs to the top of the volcano everyday just to slap himself as punishment, and lives in a coconut, it's....no it's still not possible.

Posted by Biomechanoid

- Feb 02, 2019, 05:48:57 AM

Yes, Randy, and also redemption for Bodean, Obediah, Cletus, Daisy, Jethro, Eustice, Floyd, Huck, Otis, Maynard, Pervis, Roscoe, Tiberius, and Wilbur.

Posted by Local Trouble

- Feb 02, 2019, 04:37:46 AM

Quote from: Biomechanoid on Feb 02, 2019, 03:32:46 AM
"Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will, we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."

Does that include redemption for Randy?

Posted by Huggs

- Feb 02, 2019, 04:22:43 AM

Quote from: The Old One on Feb 01, 2019, 07:33:10 AM
Woman inherits the Earth?

Facehugger gets woman. Mortally wounded man laughs, then dies.

Posted by Biomechanoid

- Feb 02, 2019, 03:32:46 AM

"Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will, we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible."

Posted by Local Trouble

- Feb 02, 2019, 02:24:53 AM

Quote from: Local Trouble on Jan 24, 2019, 02:40:44 AM
It is impossible!

Posted by Biomechanoid

- Feb 01, 2019, 08:16:48 PM

Quote from: Samhain13 on Feb 01, 2019, 11:18:28 AM
"Android destroy Engineer."
Are we expected to be believe the engineer wannabes on Covenant were all of them? That felt like some random colony planet.

It should be perceived in the same frame as Dr. Malcom's quote, "Man destroy God." Not to be taken literally, more to be taken for its relevance to the good doctor's message.

Venturing towards literal definition is missing the impact of his message since for some people, God is still alive and well. For some people, Man did destroy God. Similarly, Android did destroy some Engineers, some possibly still alive and well.

I suppose Malcom could have quoted that more detailed point, but then that is defeating his minimalist theme. But I have a hunch you already knew all of that. . .