QuoteCat getting into a closed locker with a latch is pretty convenient imo. What it do open the locker and a strong breeze aboard the Nostromo shut the thing? Does the Nostromo have a hurricane setting on its AC?
I can personally attest that my cat has done dumber shit, and I'm pretty sure I don't have an 8-foot-tall rape monster stalking my house.
Or at least... I hope I don't.
QuoteThe Alien could have placed itself in any manner of ways jumping Parker and Lambert but placed itself in such a way that Parker couldn't use the flamethrower.
Ehhhh the Alien being at point-blank with Lambert pretty much eliminated Parker's use of the flamethrower. I kinda see what you're getting at, but I definitely don't agree with your conclusion.
QuoteThe Narcissus probably makes the most sense as there were no alarms blaring all over the place. But only if you take the first movie as a kind of standalone film. We know the Aliens can last longer than 24 hours because of the second film.
Well sure, the "short lifespan" thing got retconned out by the later movies. But even if we drop that, the Alien was still being really passive in the shuttle until Ripley literally forced it out of hiding. There were numerous moments where Ripley had her pants down (literally!) and it could have mugged the shit out of her, and instead it just kinda hung out. I always chalked the Alien being in the shuttle to being a really bad coincidence.
I mean, I don't really think the Alien grasped that that particular part of the ship could detach from the rest of the Nostromo and would be the only way it could survive the self destruct. That sort of precludes that the Alien understands what a self-destruct is, what the shuttle is and what it can do, and that Ripley was headed there.