Quote from: Darth Vile on Apr 07, 2014, 02:38:52 PM
Quote from: SM on Apr 07, 2014, 12:29:28 PM
Ripley was senior officer, and she chose to abide by them.
And your point being?
Dallas' seniority didn't count for jack while he was in the lock. The person whose seniority
did matter followed protocol. What Dallas ordered was irrelevant because he wasn't in charge.
QuoteAgain it's an assumption on your part. The door was closed. Who knows what the alien would have done without an immediate point of escape. Perhaps it would have died of fright; perhaps it would have ripped their throats out. Who knows??? I'm simply stating that we can only guess at what would have happened if the alien burst out of Kane in the airlock ... whereas you seem to think it's a given...
Uh, you're the one who was saying it was such a certainty that the thing would attack and kill them that it rendered the quarantine procedure moot.
QuoteJust paraphrasing dialogue ad infinitum doesn't make it any more believable that space truckers would be contractually obliged to check out alien transmissions...especially when they are shown to be clearly working outside of their capabilities. That dialogue doesn't really provide the 'context' of which you speak. Context still has to reflect internal logic (the internal logic of a lifeboat that doesn't even accommodate 50% of the crew???). Context is, for example, the scenes showing Lambert as an emotionally wrung out person prior to her death scene. The 'context' explains her irrational behaviour of looking like a rabbit caught in headlights when confronted by the alien...
How about we look back at the point you made that I was actually responding to. You said Dallas was stupid/incompetent because:
Quote1) He accepts a mission to a hostile environment not even questioning why they should be taking part in it or asking himself if they are capable.
He doesn't have a choice. The end. If he doesn't go, the Company withholds all of their money, and everyone likely loses their job for breaching their contract. He'd be stupid to
ignore the order.
QuoteNo... I think most people would recognise that if there's something outside that could jeopardise the entire ship and crew... you'd leave it outside until you believed it safe.
Horseshit. If your friend had a face-sucking alien strapped to his face you wouldn't stand outside a hospital saying "Yeah, no, it's cool, we'll just let him rape you until your procedures say you can try to save his life". If someone you were responsible for was in a car accident and you were told you couldn't call for an ambulance for at least a day afterwards, would you listen? Not unless you're a completely heartless arsehole. Which Dallas wasn't.
QuoteCan't ships be piloted by a single android in the future
By
Aliens, yes. By
Alien, no, they're still being run by full crews.