Quote from: SiL on Sep 26, 2021, 08:27:48 PM
Quote from: SpreadEagleBeagle on Sep 26, 2021, 04:11:04 PM
"" 1. He volunteers to remote pilot the dropship from the Sulaco. In doing so he provides an exaggerated timeline as to how long it will take to crawl down the pipe to the uplink tower, how long it will take to align the dish (come on... it takes an hour to align the dish!?), and the flight time of the dropship itself. This gives him the time he needs.
You'd think someone like Hudson, the highly panicky commtech, would jump on Bishop if he thought his numbers were whack.
Not necessarily at that point. He had lost most of his composure by then and was clearly spinning. He gladly cheered for Bishop to go down that shaft tunnel, no questions asked. So no, at that point I don't think Hudson gave a single damn about numbers. He just wanted to get the hell out of there ASAP.
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Like every "Bishop did it" scenario, it requires a lot of facts not in evidence and ignoring what's established. You might as well claim the egg teleported.
Well, Cameron did that with the inclusion of the Hive and the Queen. Ripley saw eggs being morphed on the Nostromo and the organic structure was clearly similar to what she witnessed on Acheron, yet in ALIENS she all of a sudden had no idea how Alien eggs are made or what the hive structure was and what it was that secreted it...
I'm mentioning this as the Bishop/Egg explanation might at some point be verified (highly unlikely though), and then all of a sudden those 20 to 60+ minutes will be the time frame where he managed to get at least one egg on board via the second dropship before he came to pick up Ripley & Co.
The problem right now is that we don't have an actual explanation. It's insinuated that the Queen somehow brought the egg on board, but the location and angle suggest otherwise - the only explanation (other than walking/crawling eggs) is that someone/something placed the egg there off camera. But when? The only one who could have done that is Bishop and the only time he could've done it is off-camera during that time period he was away from the rest of the team... Yeah, it's circular as hell, yet it doesn't go anywhere.
Anyways, it's not a popular explanation (I don't like it either as it ruins the Bishop character for me), hence why I simply don't worry about it every time I watch A3. The opening scene is somewhat fast-paced and semi-dreamlike to begin with, with some fever dream shots and flickering details... The upside-down egg could easily be a part of some dream-state montage swiftly leading into the actual events.