Quote from: The Old One on Apr 04, 2019, 04:50:46 AM
Incorrect, they aren't invincible. [The original Alien, The Matriarch, The Dragon, Stompy.] They just didn't have the means available to kill it.
By comparison, Calvin is literally invincible and it's uninteresting.
Hence, why I said "basically invincible" and "basically unstoppable". Look at the lead bath runner survived. Given the situations, there was no way to fight runner or big chap. The only way to have a chance at victory was to use intelligent planning, as the crew did with Calvin. I think that's a good thing.
They eventually surmised that it might be legitimately possible that Calvin "could" survive reentry, though he might not have if they had all gone down with the ship.
He was tough. Solid muscle. But that still likely wouldn't save him from rifle fire. Nor do I think it would have saved him from a detonation the size of the nostromo. It would've vaporized every cell of him. I also think big chap was no slouch, considering he survived in space, and that he apparently survived a face full of thruster.
So consequently, I think Calvan is more like the Alien than folks think. Against several lightly armed space folk, he ruled. Against a truckload of heavily armed marines, and in a gravitational environment, he might not have moved or done as well.
Life was just another version of alien. One with an ending where Ripley either didn't know the creature was there on the narcissus, or was unable to jettison it out into space.
