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Originally Posted by Sculpt
We can tell you didn't read ImmortalSlasher & my last posts  . I basically wrote the same things you did, and then ImmortalSlasher revealed most of the answers to our like-reasonings.
The colonists didn't find the old horseshoe-shaped alien ship on accident by exploring.
In Aliens, Ripley told Burke she found Burke's directive to the colonist to go to the horseshoe-shaped alien ship, & that Burke didn't warn the colonists about the alien creature that wiped out Ripley's crew. If you remember, Ripley told Burke she was going to expose him, that's why he locked specifically Ripley in the room with the facehuggers. This Burke-directive was after he heard Ripley's story at Ripley's company hearing on the destruction of the Nostomo.
You reasoned Ripley in the Marine ship was too far away from the planet, or the Marine ship didn't have nukes. But in Aliens, after most of the marines get wiped out in the first alien encounter, Ripley says, "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure", they weren't talking about the station overload, cause that hadn't happened yet. I suggest we can assume she was talking about a military weapon aboard the Marine ship.
Plus, I think we can assume, based on Ripley's intelligence & resolve, that after they escaped the station blast, that Ripley would go back & destroy the alien ship. But it is true, the film didn't mention that. |
English isn't my first language so I probably missed or misread a couple of things.
I agree now on the discovery of the ship.
Still not sure on the nuking part.
-Who knows what condition the ship was in when they left with it. Did it have enough fuel to go there? And back? Sure Ripley wouldn't mind going on a suicide mission. But not now that she has a kid to take care off.
-After a nuclear blast is the atmosphere safe for the ship to get close enough especially with the crazy weather over there.
-If the alien ship wasn't that far from the site, maybe Ripley assumed it would get destroyed too. But it didn't because it's made out of Engineer steel or something
