Quote from: The Chibi Kiriyama on Sep 13, 2007, 06:14:59 AM
It's not surprising, considering how he releases sexual frustration in his attempt at killing Ripley.
Robots have "sexual frustration"? Really?
Ash's opinion is important, because it was basically a unit put there specifically to carry out an analysis of the thing. It's not difficult to imagine that he would have been uploaded with as much information about biological lifeforms as possible, so as to prepare a formal report. It might even have made it back to the network, for all that we know.
Compared to all other lifeforms they know about, the Alien is, in the objective opinion of that unit's CPU analysis, a "perfect organism". It's superbly adaptable, has an excellent defence mechanism ("You don't dare kill it") and grows to maturity at a fantastical rate. It's also incredibly intelligent, considerin it is only hours old.
We later discover that might be because of genetic memory, but that only makes them even more unique.
Ash's opinion is the result of a valid, scientific study of the thing, from facehugger and beyond. There was a lot of stuff the character never reported to the crew.
The sort of databases it would have been programmed with would make that character an even more respectable source of information than a human scientist would be.
