Quote from: The_Nostromo_Files on Mar 29, 2021, 06:08:10 PM
So, Perez as the "unreliable narrator" ?
Certainly. The wiggle-room conceit of Alien 3 was that the Queen squeezed out one (or two) final egg(s) aboard the dropship on their ride up from the planet, and/or depending on the version you watch, there was a special kind of unseen before facehugger that could impregnate more than one host. The wiggle-room conceit of Resurrection is that somehow there were genetic samples retrieved from Fury, presumably from some offscreen blood sampling that Clemens must have done on Ripley. Or maybe, there was some genetic material retrieved from the EEV like the conceit in Deep Black by Jonathan Maberry. Or even the conceit in the first place that the Atmo Processor detonation was strong enough to vaporize the distant Derelict craft and everything below all the way out past the Ilyium Range.
Quote from: Drukathi on Mar 29, 2021, 06:28:02 PM
Oh, be careful. It is not ground under your feet - it's a swamp.
The films are stories. Any story follows the contract between the storyteller and the viewer - what the characters say is an immutable fact, if the essence of the story is not in the deception of the viewer.
When Dallas in Alien says that the Space Jockey looks fossilized - well, Space Jockey fossilized. Ad Hominem - we can not doubt the words of Dallas. He is a proxy between story and us. A narrator, storyteller.
The same with our hero - General Perez is not an unreliable narrator. His words are facts. Until the AR will not be retconed.
Ha! Yeah man, no intention to start up David wars. I'm just illustrating the necessity of wiggle-room in continuing onward any kind of story like this and how it's been historically employed all over the franchise.
So from your example, any claim from subsequent media that the SJ wasn't non-figuratively fossilized
requires that Dallas now be made retroactively unreliable to the audience. So the practice, as a whole, has become a necessary evil to the continuation of the franchise.