Quote from: Xenomrph on Nov 15, 2020, 03:34:01 PM
He's saying that the premise of the Alien movies is that they cannot be contained and letting even one of them get to earth would be a doomsday scenario.
The AvP movies show them getting contained, a contradiction to what Ripley says.
(I think) that's all he's saying.
One could argue that she's not saying the Aliens are the problem so much as the humans are, that it would be human actions that allow the Aliens to spread and devastate the earth. Predators might know how to keep the situation under control, but even in 'Alien3's Assembly Cut' when they literally honest to god genuinely contain the Alien, all it takes is one idiot to let it back out and it's game over. Or in Resurrection when they genuinely had the Aliens locked up in cages, but the humans were dumb enough to put more than one Alien in a cage.
I realize that's what he's saying, but it doesn't make any sense. They're no more "contained" (and he doesn't specify an extent) in
AVP or
AVPR than they are in any of the other films or any other works, and in fact they're much less "contained" than they are shown in the four
Alien films.
Ripley doesn't argue that they definitively can't be "contained" (to whatever extent) and she doesn't argue that a Xenomorph reaching Earth definitively means doomsday, but she's clearly arguing from a realistic perspective where we consider Xenomorphs extremely dangerous and capable of causing a doomsday scenario, but not that there definitively will be a global doomsday if they reach Earth.
In other words, there COULD be a doomsday scenario, as there is a high risk for that due to the nature of Xenomorphs, but it's not definitively true that a doomsday scenario will arise once a Xenomorph reaches Earth and starts reproducing itself. Again, the argument Sil makes here doesn't make any sense.