Aliens: things they didn't ought to have done

1/ The marines might well have taken fewer casualties had Ripley not been
there. It's Ripley who points out that they shouldn't fire their weapons
under the main cooling system. Had she not done so, the marines would have
used their weapons, effected some sort of a retreat in better order, and
withdrawn to the colony in the APC.

Bishop attributes the explosion not to the small arms fire, but to the
dropship crash. They'd possibly have caused more pulse rifle / smartgun
damage than they did, but probably not sufficient to trash the processor as
quickly. They also would probably have been able to retreat to the main
colony complex in the APC. This means the dropship needn't have come to get
them and would not have crashed - at least, not where and when it did...No?
Of course, had they taken off it in without finding the alien stowaway that
kills Ferro and Spunkmeyer, they'd all die anyway, but how likely was that?

2/ When Bishop flies the other dropship to safety at the end, he takes off
at far too steep an angle, so there is a constant line of sight from the
dropship to the nuclear explosion behind them. Given that we are talking a
planetoid here, his best course would have been to leg it close to the
ground, and get over LV426's horizon. This could not be far away. They'd
then be shielded from the blast more securely. As he did so, we could be
treated to a view of the dropship banking over the derelict, which is
visibly entirely intact, being several days' journey away arond the
curvature...

"John Redman" <johnphilipredman.TakeThisOut@hotmailREMOVETHEBLEEDINOBVIOUS.com> wrote in
message news:col8vi$2mm$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...
> 1/ The marines might well have taken fewer casualties had Ripley not been
> there. It's Ripley who points out that they shouldn't fire their weapons
> under the main cooling system. Had she not done so, the marines would have
> used their weapons, effected some sort of a retreat in better order, and
> withdrawn to the colony in the APC.
>
> Bishop attributes the explosion not to the small arms fire, but to the
> dropship crash. They'd possibly have caused more pulse rifle / smartgun
> damage than they did, but probably not sufficient to trash the processor
as
> quickly. They also would probably have been able to retreat to the main
> colony complex in the APC. This means the dropship needn't have come to
get
> them and would not have crashed - at least, not where and when it
did...No?
> Of course, had they taken off it in without finding the alien stowaway
that
> kills Ferro and Spunkmeyer, they'd all die anyway, but how likely was
that?
>
> 2/ When Bishop flies the other dropship to safety at the end, he takes off
> at far too steep an angle, so there is a constant line of sight from the
> dropship to the nuclear explosion behind them. Given that we are talking a
> planetoid here, his best course would have been to leg it close to the
> ground, and get over LV426's horizon. This could not be far away. They'd
> then be shielded from the blast more securely. As he did so, we could be
> treated to a view of the dropship banking over the derelict, which is
> visibly entirely intact, being several days' journey away arond the
> curvature...





Very good points!

They *also* shouldn;t have had the aliens be like Jimmy's Ants, but thats
more of a production problem than a.. "If this was real" one.

;' )


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