What if the Alien Never Got Aboard the Nostromo? - Theory

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6 жыл бұрын

In this "What If?" scenario, I look at the possible outcomes of Ripley successfully following quarantine procedure, and never letting the organism aboard the Nostromo.
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@coreydonaldson3303
@coreydonaldson3303 6 жыл бұрын
Alien should be mandatory viewing for all ship crews of future missions into the cosmos on what not to when encountering alien lifeforms
@Chasqui4021
@Chasqui4021 6 жыл бұрын
They'll somehow still find a way to screw it up
@HardCorePoration
@HardCorePoration 6 жыл бұрын
Alien Covenant should be mandatory viewing for recruitment teams so they don't hire mentally deficient people to go on potentially dangerous space expeditions.
@Ensign_Cthulhu
@Ensign_Cthulhu 6 жыл бұрын
That and Prometheus. Lesson - ALWAYS send a warship. (In fairness to the crew of Covenant, their decision to change destinations was not without justification; what happened after they got there, though, was one clusterfuck after another.)
@HardCorePoration
@HardCorePoration 6 жыл бұрын
But Paradise was an unsurveyed planet. They should have at least sent some kind of survey drone or Walter down to the planet first to run some tests. All of it could have been avoided if they had taken simple precautions.
@Ensign_Cthulhu
@Ensign_Cthulhu 6 жыл бұрын
Like I said, once they got there it was one clusterfuck after another. The novelisation explicitly states that they did run scans, and gives explanations afterwards as to why these erroneously showed no danger. But not waiting until the storm had cleared and then doing a proper surface survey (which would have revealed the Engineer city strewn with corpses and told everyone quite clearly that going down there was a huge fucking no-no) was an unforgivable mistake.
@km-my4un
@km-my4un 6 жыл бұрын
Ash is the most under appreciated villain in history. Completely overshadowed by the alien, but Ash was the real monster. The alien quite simply had no morality.
@clan741
@clan741 6 жыл бұрын
k m neither did Ash, since he was an android doing what he was programmed to do
@km-my4un
@km-my4un 6 жыл бұрын
Andrew Lowery yes and no. It’s clear that androids in that universe were built with emotions. Ash is a caricature of a psychopath who will use anyone to get his way.
@tigtrager6923
@tigtrager6923 6 жыл бұрын
He's underappreciated, but my vote still goes to Darth Maul in the historical category of villains.
@KaosNova2
@KaosNova2 5 жыл бұрын
STATEMENT : Ash was just following orders. The Xenomorph is just following its natural urges to survive and a crew with flamethrowers are a threat, so the xenomorph needed to terminate the meatbags.
@tomshore3788
@tomshore3788 5 жыл бұрын
Actually I think Ash was just as much a victim of the company as the rest of the crew. He was sent to ensure the delivery of the alien, at the cost of the crew if necessary. Consider this, Ash, like any robot and particularly one serving as the medical officer, was programmed with something akin to Asmiov's Three Laws to protect humans under his care, and it was this paradox brought on by his mission clashing with his programming that resulted in his freak out where he attacked Ripley. And it isn't until he can't deny the truth to Ripley that he breaks. That's why he admires the alien. Because, unlike him, it is "unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality."
@orlybabe
@orlybabe 5 жыл бұрын
I always felt so sad for Ripley, how the Xenomorph dominated her whole life, took her away from her daughter, she spent her adult life fighting it, still having massive psychological trauma from what she went through, and even after death she was cloned and brought back half alien.
@n.b.l.5709
@n.b.l.5709 2 жыл бұрын
word poor Ripley...
@richardstrachmesserschmiti4979
@richardstrachmesserschmiti4979 Жыл бұрын
That’s true I think the Android or David 8 had a thing for her and this is all about a real human consciousness in a robot body trying miscegenation on a real human in a human body. The merging between humans and machine. Suggestions that we are own creator is also a blasphemy. It’s many deep and profound concepts , as the monster alien is rejection. The rage of the machine, android slave Frankenstein monster And Greed of the weyland yutani Corp. It’s very well done Even the names Covenant Prometheus Ash Ellen Ripley is HOT , her interaction with other women is excellent. So coy and sarcastic with quasi sexual overtones. Poor Lambert never had a chance I’d like to see Ellen take on Vickers That would be epic
@rayunited2010foryou
@rayunited2010foryou Жыл бұрын
Blame Weyland for her fate not the Xenomorphs. They had nothing personal against her. Yes, if you think in a poetic manner, then yes, indirectly the Xenomorphs destroyed her life. She was never the same after the first Xenomorph burst out of Kane.
@orlybabe
@orlybabe Жыл бұрын
@@rayunited2010foryou that’s a great point, it was all because of Weyland Yutani!
@rayunited2010foryou
@rayunited2010foryou Жыл бұрын
@@orlybabe Weyland is like most companies now. They destroy everything.
@EmzZone42
@EmzZone42 5 жыл бұрын
If the Alien didn't get on board the film would've been a hell of alot shorter lol
@Maldoror2112
@Maldoror2112 3 жыл бұрын
@Qwfwq66 But Kane was still alive. If he was already dead, incinerating him would make more sense. Then again, according to Captain Dallas, Ash had the final say on what to do with the facehugger specimen because the Company gave him that authority.
@_Katzenberg
@_Katzenberg 3 жыл бұрын
The idea of Jonesy being a present to Amanda is sweet and my new headcanon.
@thewanderingfool4435
@thewanderingfool4435 Жыл бұрын
Maybe the Alien was going to be the gift given to Amanda? She would be the coolest kid in the world, being the only kid with a pet Xenomorph.🤣
@_Katzenberg
@_Katzenberg Жыл бұрын
@@thewanderingfool4435 that sounds ike a badass fanfic
@thewanderingfool4435
@thewanderingfool4435 Жыл бұрын
@@_Katzenberg Whenever a fight was about to break out, Amanda would say "Hisssss my Ass!" then the Xeno would kick the S%@t out of everyone 🤣or should i say tear everyone to pieces🤣I thought it could be called "Illegal Alien" if it was an interplanetary cop show.🤣
@DarkRavenProductions
@DarkRavenProductions 3 жыл бұрын
why does no one ever include Jonesy as a survivor
@paulhunter6742
@paulhunter6742 2 жыл бұрын
Doesn't Jonesy get infected by one of alien species? Or was that a dream sequence Ripley had?
@PARABOLA1966
@PARABOLA1966 2 жыл бұрын
Because he's just a cat, period.
@DarkRavenProductions
@DarkRavenProductions 2 жыл бұрын
Ripley had that dream where she got infected, the last we see of jones is when Ripley has decided to go with the marines 'and you, you little shit head are staying here' I just hope someone was around to feed him
@bigdaddytrips6197
@bigdaddytrips6197 Жыл бұрын
That cat got people killed . It's to bad that the alien didn't rip that cat apart. Would of been so satisfying to see 👍
@deathb1ossom
@deathb1ossom Жыл бұрын
@@bigdaddytrips6197 Biggest fail attempt at trolling. Better luck next time kid lol
@spellbinderart
@spellbinderart 4 жыл бұрын
One of the creepiest things about Weyland Yutani is the fact that they continue where they leave off no matter how long it’s been. How they dispassionately haunt people.
@richlisola1
@richlisola1 Жыл бұрын
The creepiest thing is, or rather the most ghastly thing, is no matter how many folks die, no matter how godawful Weyland-Yutani’s failed plans, lives lost in its tries to acquire and control the Xenomorph. It cannot help but try again
@BigBadJerryRogers
@BigBadJerryRogers Жыл бұрын
Exactly like Amazon. 😱
@broaddusmarines
@broaddusmarines 6 жыл бұрын
Seems like one of the only people on that ship with common sense was Parker. They should have froze Kane once they stupidly let him on the ship. Dallas was a lousy captain btw.
@MrUndersolo
@MrUndersolo 5 жыл бұрын
Someone finally said it... I watched it again last night, and he really just makes screw up after screw up...
@maaaatt
@maaaatt 5 жыл бұрын
Anything to do with the science division, Ash has the final call. Dallas just flies the ship.
@CrniWuk
@CrniWuk 5 жыл бұрын
@@maaaatt Not to mention you probably don't have to be a fleet admiral to become captain of a cargo ship.
@TheSebiestor
@TheSebiestor 5 жыл бұрын
..right..
@Netlogic.
@Netlogic. 5 жыл бұрын
@@maaaatt The captain of any ship, whether sea or air has absolute say and responsibility over the lives of the people on said ship. In any universe, the science officer would bow to the orders of the ship captain.
@clarencebrowniii4750
@clarencebrowniii4750 6 жыл бұрын
Parker and Brett would have got off the Nostromo and got a beer at a local pub.
@mr.bullionnaire9748
@mr.bullionnaire9748 6 жыл бұрын
"right"
@Cybermat47
@Cybermat47 5 жыл бұрын
Actually, Parker would have thought that they should discuss the bonus situation.
@gb1701
@gb1701 4 жыл бұрын
Actually they would have just went back to the zero-g cathouse.
@NemeanLion-
@NemeanLion- 4 жыл бұрын
Parker would rather be “eating something else”.
@BigBadJerryRogers
@BigBadJerryRogers Жыл бұрын
​@@Cybermat47Discuss it? It would have been finally resolved! Equal shares for everyone! Had they made it, they would have been the working class heroes the future needed! 😭
@jamesbuckingham77
@jamesbuckingham77 6 жыл бұрын
Very enjoyable 👍. I'd like to see a 'what if Hicks went back for Vasquez instead of Gorman?' Hicks full pulse rifle, takes down multiple aliens and pulls Vasquez out. No Gorman grenade, they don't lost Newt and all escape in the lift to the surface and the drop ship with Bishop. No going back for Newt, no alien Queen fight, no egg on board, no malfunction, no ejected pods, no Alien 3 and no Alien Resurrection!
@seemlyca9065
@seemlyca9065 Жыл бұрын
That last bit would be awesome
@bracksampson1
@bracksampson1 Жыл бұрын
@@seemlyca9065 lmao
@donniecatalano
@donniecatalano Жыл бұрын
No alien 3, no alien resurrection. what a lovely idea! thanks
@jackavery7179
@jackavery7179 Жыл бұрын
It was I, I did it. I put the egg on the Suducco
@Strikernightfall
@Strikernightfall 6 жыл бұрын
ok as a former member of the US navy there are real world paralles to the quaritine that was in alien and they are in place for very good reasons and any captin or crewman that would break quaritine would find them selves in front of a court marshal board
@Fr0sTy327
@Fr0sTy327 6 жыл бұрын
In the military that would happen. But the Nostromo was private sector. WY considers the crew expendable when the need arises. Pretty shitty.
@Patricio4Christ
@Patricio4Christ 5 жыл бұрын
That would make sense, Strikernightfall. When you break a law, there are consequences. Yeah. People suffer at your hands when you break a law.
@courtneystrouse3173
@courtneystrouse3173 5 жыл бұрын
...better to be judged by 12 than carried by six.
@johnfrese4851
@johnfrese4851 5 жыл бұрын
I am suprised that there was no security detail on the ship. Because of the hazards that might come. But it is the same for cargo ships. Still suprised that there is no security detail on those ship's
@greezay
@greezay 5 жыл бұрын
I agree...that far into the future and they still have no need to carry a small security detail consisting of 1-2 personnel within the crew is absurd.
@caporegime8124
@caporegime8124 6 жыл бұрын
“Right”
@noelienoelie8425
@noelienoelie8425 4 жыл бұрын
You some kind of parrot?
@MixxedMonster
@MixxedMonster 6 жыл бұрын
What hellish abomination would be unleashed if a xenomorph boarded the Event Horizon? 😁
@c0t0d0s7
@c0t0d0s7 5 жыл бұрын
Roseanne?
@lieutenant_dan27lt.d45
@lieutenant_dan27lt.d45 5 жыл бұрын
@@c0t0d0s7 nah, you translated that wrong, its Rosie O'donnell
@roryscott2941
@roryscott2941 5 жыл бұрын
Poor Xenomorph has no eyes to claw out!
@Asertix357
@Asertix357 4 жыл бұрын
Frankly I'd like to believe that Hell, or whatever is on the other side, has accounted for everything, including xenomorphs, and has something specific in mind for whatever crosses into its territory. If the xenomorph wasn't driven insane and made even more dangerous by its experiences, the hellscape might actually prove capable of traumatizing it to a point of docility that would see it huddling in the corner of some isolated dark space and afraid of even an encounter with humans.
@Foldy435
@Foldy435 4 жыл бұрын
One human's hell is another xenomorph's heaven.
@drkinferno72
@drkinferno72 4 жыл бұрын
The real villain of the alien series is Weyland yutani
@maxmuller8633
@maxmuller8633 4 жыл бұрын
No, it is perspective
@WoodyStickman
@WoodyStickman 3 жыл бұрын
WY just wants to build better worlds!😂
@J4ME5_
@J4ME5_ 3 жыл бұрын
actually, its greed
@aegrajag
@aegrajag 3 жыл бұрын
No, it's Ridley cancelling Alien V to do his abominations
@aegrajag
@aegrajag 3 жыл бұрын
@Dawn of the Dad Yeah, it is an exaggeration, they are just pretentious movies, they're still fun to watch if you don't care about the Alien canon and can overlook the stupidity of the characters, especially in Covenant
@sarahpusey9052
@sarahpusey9052 6 жыл бұрын
Ash would have found a way to get it back on somehow since he was programmed to get an organism by the Special Order. He already proved he would kill the crew members to obtain it.
@jbcatz5
@jbcatz5 4 жыл бұрын
Sarah Pusey The novel Out of the Shadows shows he won’t even let lack of physical form deter him, as he manipulates events from within computer systems to suit his purposes.
@VredesStall
@VredesStall 3 жыл бұрын
Counter-question: What if they had left Cain confined & quarantined in the medical infirmary for 24-hours (especially after the facehugger came off) rather than having dinner with him??
@JohnnyDominion
@JohnnyDominion 2 жыл бұрын
That's exactly what I would have done. Dallas bone head decisions just highlights his poor competency as a leader.
@frankpinmtl
@frankpinmtl 2 жыл бұрын
Parker knew best: Let's freeze him
@paulhunter6742
@paulhunter6742 2 жыл бұрын
Don't think would have changed anything since eventually the Alien embryo would have escaped medical lab. And crew wouldn't have been aware until far too try destroy it.
@paulhunter6742
@paulhunter6742 2 жыл бұрын
@@frankpinmtl That would only have delayed process as embryo linked genetically with Cain. The Nostromo crew would return to Earth. Some years later Outbreak with humanity inflected by aliens.
@ArtificialDreamsAD
@ArtificialDreamsAD Ай бұрын
As great as Alien is, there’s many glaring potholes that should’ve been fleshed out. But they were manageable as a viewer. Aliens, despite its technical praise, had even worse plot holes that makes it infinitely not the greatest sci-fi horror. Alien is much tighter and better overall in my opinion. But the plot holes, such as you’ve identified, makes these two films much more inferior than they had to be.
@mortalkombatfan786
@mortalkombatfan786 6 жыл бұрын
I don't think Ripley would just live normally without nightmares, I think having left the others to die would probably weigh very heavily on her, and she'd forever live with a sense of guilt.
@josephcontreras8930
@josephcontreras8930 2 жыл бұрын
She was dealing with some Uber ptsd
@joshuakanapkey6570
@joshuakanapkey6570 Жыл бұрын
I agree, but I think that would be preferred to the actual timeline.
@matchesburn
@matchesburn 6 жыл бұрын
Here's the thing I don't understand about Weyland-Yutani: in both the comics and in-universe, it's established that humanity is branching out light years from home and can even terraform planets within a generation or two... *_so why the hell would you bring such dangerous/unknown specimens directly onto Earth?!_* A space station, a hollowed-out asteroid, a hidden base on Mars or the Moon or where ever...That way, if anything goes wrong, *_no one finds out about it._* Doesn't that make more sense? Not only is it safer in case you lose containment, but it's safer from prying eyes as well. I never got the whole thing of absolutely NEEDING to take the xenomorphs back to Earth. You don't have to, and it's just too big of a risk to Weyland-Yutani... as the Earth War comic shows.
@rojaws1183
@rojaws1183 6 жыл бұрын
In this kind of story some bad guy have to make the Aliens a threat to humanity even if it meant that they take stupid risks. It's a common flaw with villains in fiction.
@Hartzilla2007
@Hartzilla2007 5 жыл бұрын
This is why I like that Alien 3 idea that has Weyland-Yutani getting an Alien sample and then experimenting with the thing on a prison space station. Thats was way more sensible than going to Earth.
@jkjklol1000
@jkjklol1000 5 жыл бұрын
Or they did all this to purposely destroy earth. So they could remake it in there own image. “Building better worlds”.
@markone6861
@markone6861 5 жыл бұрын
Because humans always think they are the shit.
@TheKyrix82
@TheKyrix82 4 жыл бұрын
Cost. It would require building highly advanced labs to house the specimen, plus the cost of shipping the materials there, the cost of construction, and the paperwork about what they were studying. Or, they could bring it to Earth, where such facilities already existed, and where no one would think twice about the company suddenly reinforcing its labs.
@DarkOmegaMK2
@DarkOmegaMK2 6 жыл бұрын
"Hey Ripley! You killed 3 crew members during your expedition!...Here's your bonus as well as your "Most efficient employee of the month" award!"
@TheKyrix82
@TheKyrix82 4 жыл бұрын
3? 1. And he would have died anyway. As soon as the baby popped the top, it would scurry off, likely away from the ship. I'm pretty sure it took longer than 24 hours to reach full size, so they would have been clear to board the ship by then, and left it in the dust. That being said, the book is vague about the timetable, but I think the gestation would have taken longer than 24 hours too...so it might not have made any difference in the end, and might have helped Ash keep his cover.
@TheKyrix82
@TheKyrix82 4 жыл бұрын
@Qwfwq66 Actually, they have incredibly short lifespans, so odds are it wouldn't delay laying. What it delayed on was detaching, staying on to act as an air filter into Kane was back in his own atmosphere. IT makes no sense biologically not to lay the egg immediately, because something can potentially be done to remove the hugger otherwise. Look at Resurrection, Ripley 8 was strong enough to rip the legs off and throw it off her face. 8 may have been a hybrid, but who's to say other species like that don't exist? No, it laid the egg in the bay.
@BigBadJerryRogers
@BigBadJerryRogers Жыл бұрын
The bonus situation has never been on an equitable level
@annebruecks7381
@annebruecks7381 6 жыл бұрын
Mother would probably have opened the door.
@TheKyrix82
@TheKyrix82 4 жыл бұрын
This isn't a Star Trek computer. Her ability to know, or do, things is extremely limited. Unless someone went into her room and typed it in, she would be powerless to even know what was going on.
@Deathmonkey7
@Deathmonkey7 4 жыл бұрын
@@TheKyrix82 You're right to a point, though I feel that it may have been possible for Ash to secretly interface with mother as we have seen other androids do with computer systems throughout the series and get the crew on board regardless.
@tripdjoint
@tripdjoint 4 жыл бұрын
She would have made them zoo animals.
@mstcrow5429
@mstcrow5429 4 жыл бұрын
AI in the Alien universe has been very schizophrenic, mainframes showing little to zero actual intelligence, with synthetics being arguably truly self-aware. I don't think MUTHR would have been able to do a thing, at the most temporarily delaying their departure by being fiddly with the engineering bits.
@lwilliams5732
@lwilliams5732 4 жыл бұрын
I don't know why no one other then Ash figured that the face hugger was putting something into Cain. Cain should have went straight to the freezer as soon as the face hugger came off his face, quarenteened. I know I wouldn't have wanted to be anywhere near Cain knowing he had that thing on his face.
@steel749
@steel749 3 жыл бұрын
"Oh man those are some weird eggs, let's get out of here. Yeah you're right Ripley let's go" *credits roll*
@clan741
@clan741 6 жыл бұрын
So ironically, if the company didn’t interfere with having Ash open the doors, they would of had the xenomorph long ago.
@LUCKO2022
@LUCKO2022 5 жыл бұрын
But they already knew the co-ordinates to begin with. It is made quite clear in the first film that they re-routed the Nostromo to make sure it picks up that beacon and have to explore. Ash knew the entire time what was going to be found and what was going to happen. That is my problem with Aliens, it blatantly ignores this. In Alien, Dallas says that the science officer they shipped out with was replaced with Ash just days before leaving Thedus. Plus special order 937 says "Nostromo re-routed to new co-ordinates". So the company already knew about the derelict as they decoded the beacon before the Nostromo set out back to Earth.
@eustacequinlank7418
@eustacequinlank7418 5 жыл бұрын
I'm guessing only a few people may be alive or know of the existence of the alien by the time of Alien. Probably information recorded from the Prometheus/Covenant expeditions. I think it's been telegraphed who the connection might be in those films (he also didn't create the alien from the first).
@terminalfrost2780
@terminalfrost2780 5 жыл бұрын
They would *have* had the xenomorph. Would *of* had the xenomorph is incorrect. It's a common error because of the contraction would've (would have).
@user-kf9cd2di2x
@user-kf9cd2di2x 4 жыл бұрын
If you consider the events of Alien: Isolation to be canon, then the beacon got turned off by Captain Marlow. And the company wouldn’t have known where exactly the ship was, so it all makes sense.
@SA80TAGE
@SA80TAGE 4 жыл бұрын
@Főfasírozó Both Prometheus and Covenant were made by the same person who made the original Alien film, so they ARE canon as far as anyone is concerned unless Ridley Scott himself says otherwise. Sorry dude but the guy who created the films has more say on what's canon than a nobody on a random youtube comment chain ;)
@jkjklol1000
@jkjklol1000 5 жыл бұрын
The acting in Alien is so organic. Its a true masterpiece.
@skylx0812
@skylx0812 6 жыл бұрын
Ripley's being a stickler for the rules indicates her naivety as to exactly how far the company would go to secure a sample for its bio weapons division. Part of the horror here is watching all that come crashing down as she begins to sob uncontrollably after confronting ash in that computer room and realizing that he's been protecting the creature under company orders. Seems this is the first time the company overtly sacrificed a human crew and gave an android full control of a mission. They called the computer Mother but its seems mommy's new roll was to cast away the people and nurture a monster. That's a horror that seemed to go missing in the other films. They were doomed from the very beginning because they were sent to get the creature.
@AmsterdamHeavy
@AmsterdamHeavy 4 жыл бұрын
@Fox Mulder what? I havent seen it in a while, but she was a second late..
@TheKyrix82
@TheKyrix82 4 жыл бұрын
Well first off, no, it wasn't naive. At the time, they had absolutely no way of knowing that the signal was a warning, not a distress signal. They thought they had been directed to help someone in need, and merely figured they got there too late for the people who sent the 'distress' signal. Secondly, and this goes hand in hand with the first point, they had no idea WHAT the facehugger was, much less why anyone would want it for bioweapons, or anything else. Among the possible scenarios, it was considered that it might have some sort of virus, or that it might shed some sort of dangerous spores aboard the ship. The crew were, in fact, puzzled that the facehugger would put Kane in a coma and then work so hard to keep him alive. And finally, Mother was not trying to thwart Ripley in any way. In the scene in question, she had set the self destruct and found Jones and was going to put herself and the cat aboard the shuttle to flee. She discovered the alien was aboard, and tried to stop the self destruct, but she got there too late. It was stated that the timer, which I believe was something like ten minutes, had a five minute window to deactivate, after which NOTHING could stop it from going up when time ran out. Mother's 'failure' to stop the self destruct wouldn't have done anything to protect the creature, it just would have ensured that Ripley and Jones DIDN'T board the shuttle, or launch it, thereby ensuring that all of them, alien included, died when the Nostromo blew up. If anything, Mother was ensuring the destruction of the creature.
@spaceflight1019
@spaceflight1019 4 жыл бұрын
@@TheKyrix82 , didn't Dallas and Ash state that any signal of possibly intelligent origin had to be investigated? Full forfeiture of all shares was the penalty, IIRC.
@TheKyrix82
@TheKyrix82 4 жыл бұрын
@@spaceflight1019 They did. Because they thought it was a distress signal. Company policy said that when a ship was in distress, the nearest ship had to drop what they were doing and rescue them, and failure to do so resulted in full forfeiture of all shares. But I'm assuming my name was tagged because you hit my reply, because I never implied otherwise.
@spaceflight1019
@spaceflight1019 4 жыл бұрын
@@TheKyrix82 , I just wondered if I remembered Ash explaining it to Parker correctly.
@bradleykuiper8308
@bradleykuiper8308 6 жыл бұрын
I think a good video would be: "What if Burke succeeded in getting Ripley and Newt implanted with chestbursters?"
@eddieolshefski6467
@eddieolshefski6467 6 жыл бұрын
That is a good What If theory.
@lilshekel6036
@lilshekel6036 6 жыл бұрын
very good indeed
@MorliHolect
@MorliHolect 6 жыл бұрын
events similar to Alien Resurrection would have happened
@ThinkPIONEERing
@ThinkPIONEERing 5 жыл бұрын
That’s easy..... roll credits!
@weldonwin
@weldonwin 5 жыл бұрын
He gets immediately beaten to death by the marines when they question who let the facehuggers out of their tubes. They would shoot him, but they really need to save the bullets and frankly, Vasquez has some anger she needs to work out
@01Mary02
@01Mary02 5 жыл бұрын
One possible scenario that would have probably saved the lives of everyone except Cain, is to do what Parker suggested after Cain was brought back on board with the facehugger. He said "Why don't you guys freeze him?" That would have made the most sense. Freeze Cain and the facehugger until they got back to earth. While Cain would have still died, the rest of the crew would have been saved.
@fiazshah3838
@fiazshah3838 5 жыл бұрын
While that may have saved the crew, it would have doomed earth. By allowing the alien on to the ship and killing all apart from Ripley, earth was saved for a good 300 odd years from the alien menace. That's until the events of alien: sea of sorrows.
@frankpinmtl
@frankpinmtl 2 жыл бұрын
@@fiazshah3838 Only if the alien was a queen
@alldabsmatter2500
@alldabsmatter2500 6 жыл бұрын
Needed my Alien Theory fix 💙💙
@WrectumTerror
@WrectumTerror 6 жыл бұрын
I always wondered how the scans and tests showed no Embryo, was it Ash concealing the information?
@sargonsrobot2552
@sargonsrobot2552 5 жыл бұрын
there is a dark blob on the screen
@masterandservant8021
@masterandservant8021 5 жыл бұрын
Of course he was.!
@Asertix357
@Asertix357 4 жыл бұрын
Maybe the facehuggers provide a slurry of the compounds used to produce the embryo inside the host body, rather than just depositing the embryo directly. Or perhaps in its initial stage the embryo is no bigger than a marble.
@leerollins
@leerollins 4 жыл бұрын
If i recall correctly in the novelization they saw a blotch of the embryo on the scanner the auto-doc was using to peer inside Kane. Dallas asked Ash what it was and Ash stated he didn't know(he was lying), but it could be a spot on the actual scanner lens. He offered to take it apart to find out if it was indeed something wrong with the machine, but told Dallas he'd have to take the whole autodoc off line to do so and it was a long, arduous process. In the end Dallas ignored it.
@noelienoelie8425
@noelienoelie8425 4 жыл бұрын
@@leerollins This.
@Runie549
@Runie549 6 жыл бұрын
Great video. I always make arguments that Ripley was an actual smart protagonist and that the alien wouldn't have killed everyone had they freaking listened to her... but this is easily the best counter-argument I've ever seen to that. Sure, she would've saved everyone other than Kane (I don't think a baby chestburster would've been a match for Dallas and Lambert, deleted scenes and the novelization make it clear they have weapons, and there'd be no place for the alien to hide in such a small contained room), but eventually Weyland-Yutani would've gotten to LV426 and Earth would be screwed. Ash, ironically, saved the human race by letting them back on.
@Ensign_Cthulhu
@Ensign_Cthulhu 6 жыл бұрын
In the Dark Horse Comics timeline, which I regard as semi-canonical, the worst happened anyway. As for the baby chestburster, that thing can move pretty fast, and with Lambert screaming her head off as it emerges that's one gun out of the fight. Shoot it and it probably spills acid everywhere, burning both of them very badly. It doesn't end well, whatever happens. At the end of the day, they knew where that alien ship was or they'd never have rerouted the Nostromo there. Disaster was inevitable unless they had set the lab up on LV426 and written off the scientists, never allowing them to leave. That was the only way to be safe with this thing.
@hewdelfewijfe
@hewdelfewijfe 5 жыл бұрын
They would just open the outside door, and it would probably run away. IMO.
@davidthomas9190
@davidthomas9190 6 жыл бұрын
When Alien Theory uploads just when I sit down to chill after work 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆
@jordantucker9799
@jordantucker9799 6 жыл бұрын
Please more "What If" scenario. How about if ripley was never rescued in aliens.
@promnightdumpsterbaby9553
@promnightdumpsterbaby9553 6 жыл бұрын
Jordan Tucker well, her cryo chamber had already started to degrade,according to the novel. No human had ever been frozen that long. Any longer than a certain point and the body starts to fail. So she'd of died anyway real soon out there.
@heliosspecialistarrogant7031
@heliosspecialistarrogant7031 6 жыл бұрын
prom night Dumpster baby the result could be her " put your name here" could burst whit defect but still manage to survive as if her body stop function the queen could ave a natural reflexes to exit a dying body and prepared the ship whit her eggs, as it was probably the alien queen larva that ave keep her alive in the first place the story is mostly just be the same whitout plot explanation that was like all of the movie...
@heliosspecialistarrogant7031
@heliosspecialistarrogant7031 6 жыл бұрын
GazB85 soooo many alien how keep a track of what is what even marvel is at risk of the same fate, is it happen during wen or what and is it in the remake/ prequel or just a bad sci-fi ripoff, I though that even blunt-man and chronic was a dc movie because Ben Aflec and mat Damon are in the movie... Or I ave watch Jay and Bob contre attack drunk during a marvel Marathon or it was on tv and my Netflix was off, srl I am to only one to get lost about what I can remember I know more the name of a marvel movie cast that the name and age of my little brothers and I am the older one...
@reginafalange9962
@reginafalange9962 6 жыл бұрын
Yes what would have happened when the marines went to the colony if ripley wasn't there, I think they'd have all died after the first attack in the cooling towers because they saw Apone was still alive and wanted to rescue him it was ripley that told them not to because he's already all cocooned up. I think they'd have all gone back in and died.
@tigtrager6923
@tigtrager6923 6 жыл бұрын
I believe that it was both Diedrich and Apone that were still alive. I read the novel a very long time ago, but I think Hudson says it's both of them even in the movie.
@PotatoReviews
@PotatoReviews 6 жыл бұрын
Found this to be extremely fun and interesting to think about, love the idea. One "what if" scenario that interests me is what would have happened to Shaw if David had died at the hands of the engineer on the juggernaut and she was left marooned on LV223 along with the Deacon.
@johnryder1713
@johnryder1713 4 жыл бұрын
The scene from the directors cut where Lambert attacks Ripley features in the illustrated story
@robertholmes8917
@robertholmes8917 4 жыл бұрын
The Ripley character just keeps giving. Incredible. After all these years Weaver delivered something truly remarkable
@FascistPastry
@FascistPastry 6 жыл бұрын
I think Ash probably would have killed or hurt her in some way to fulfill the secret programming in Mother regarding the return of the specimens over the lives of the crew. Let's face it synthetics are crazy and homicidal in a bell curve that starts with David rises to Ash and then tapers off into Walter and Bishop. Keep up the good work as always AT! I'll keep watching from the off-world colonies.
@philipsalama8083
@philipsalama8083 2 жыл бұрын
I don't think Ash is defective like David. He's simply a company 'man' who puts the company's interests above the lives of the crew.
@alphacrusaders6535
@alphacrusaders6535 6 жыл бұрын
👌🏼 Informative as usual. And you should do a video on Alien 3, “What if Newt and Hicks survived the crash on Fury 161?”
@andrewcarpinella1217
@andrewcarpinella1217 6 жыл бұрын
Alpha Crusaders well technically alien 3 is not canon
@alphacrusaders6535
@alphacrusaders6535 6 жыл бұрын
Andrew Carpinella Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Alien: Resurrection, Prometheus, and now Covenant, are all Canon. Idk why you think Alien 3 isn’t canon dude
@6ixlxrd
@6ixlxrd 5 жыл бұрын
Everything after Aliens is trash, so it doesn't matter if they're cannon or not 🤦‍♂️.
@wesleywarsmith1113
@wesleywarsmith1113 5 жыл бұрын
Death in her sleep would have been much easier then what those prisoners( convicted rapists half of them) would have done to Newt, had she survived...
@6ixlxrd
@6ixlxrd 5 жыл бұрын
To each their own. Not gonna disrespect you or anything for finding Resurrection great, but to me, it just didn't hit home after Aliens. Alien 3 with that CGI disaster was just terrible, the characters lack luster, and plenty other things I'd prefer not going into. Resurrection felt more like a Predator movie; they tried adding in humor and "steamy" scenes, which just wasn't my cup of tea. Had the Xenomorphs, but it didn't feel like an Alien movie at all. More like some B-Grade action film. Not the "all-time horror classic" I know and love. Not to mention, it continued with the trope; "An Alien Movie Isn't an Alien Movie Without Ripley." Honestly, Aliens would've been a great conclusion. Maybe Alien 3 could've been about Amanda or something. Hell, even after Alien 3, they should've just been done with Ripley's character. Without a doubt, Alien 3 and Resurrection are the two worst films in the franchise.
@eddieolshefski6467
@eddieolshefski6467 6 жыл бұрын
Very interesting theory. Well done. I was thinking of another possibility if Ash didn't interfere like he did and if Dallas decided to go with the quarantine procedure. If the 24 hour quarantine went through without any interference and problems, the Facehugger would have implanted the Xeno in Kane and die. Then, if Ripley and the crew was quick, they would bring Kane inside the ship and freeze him before the ChestBurster was fully grown. Ash would be successful in carrying out his Special Order without any loss of life. Except Kane but that'll be when the Company does their 'studies' on him and the Xenomorph. Then again, Ash would still let Kane in to the ship to complete his Special Order breaking quarantine. Again, without having any of the crew killed. Just when the Facehugger finishes implanting the Xenomorph inside Kane, he would secretly scan Kane to see what the Facehugger did and find the developing ChestBurster inside him. He would recommend to freeze Kane immediately to 'prevent a spread of possible infection' throughout the ship. Then, the crew would go on their 10 month journey home. Ash would have himself wake up a little early and inform the Company that he has the organism and they are on route back and to be ready. The crew would possibly be debriefed and would go on about their lives while Ash and the Company would study Kane and the Xenomorph.
@NemeanLion-
@NemeanLion- 4 жыл бұрын
Keeping the crew alive is too much of a risk. Ash would find a way to kill the crew in hypersleep, then jettison the bodies.
@eddieolshefski6467
@eddieolshefski6467 4 жыл бұрын
@@NemeanLion- Then make up any story he liked. True.
@tangoplays2547
@tangoplays2547 6 жыл бұрын
If Ripley followed quarantine, the Alien would have been birthed, with nowhere to hide, the burster would have been vulnerable. After the initial shock, Dallas or Lambert would have opened the airlock, and it likely would have run to hide somewhere close, likely still on the ship. After quarantine, they would have been allowed back on the ship, and scanned for embryos, turning up negative. Once taken off, the beast would have went into hibernation somewhere on the ship. The crew returns to hyper sleep, and on to earth, after jettisoning Kane's body as it was in the movie. Somehow, MUTHR knows the creature is still attached to the ship, and sends an encrypted message back to WY. The ship is held at a WY checkpoint in the outer planets, the crew is debriefed and sent back to earth on a shuttle that can take all but 3 of the Nostromo crew, Ripley, Dallas, and Parker draw the short straws, and await another cargo transport expected within 3 days. WY reps find the hibernating beast, and capture it in a stasis pod for study. Shit goes wrong, and cue 'Alien' to happen anyway.
@ivorbiggun710
@ivorbiggun710 4 жыл бұрын
Couldn't they have secured themselves and opened the outer airlock and flushed the little bastard in to space?
@NemeanLion-
@NemeanLion- 4 жыл бұрын
Dallas steps on the chest burster, the blood corrodes a hole through the bulkhead and they become permanently marooned, dying after running out of resources.
@jaketheberge1970
@jaketheberge1970 6 жыл бұрын
What if Ripley agreed with Evil Bishop and tried to have the Xenomorph removed at the end of Alien 3 instead of killing herself?
@promnightdumpsterbaby9553
@promnightdumpsterbaby9553 6 жыл бұрын
Jake Theberge wouldnt have survived it. The organism is much like a cancer tumor that has metastasized. It can not ne removed without irreparably terminal damage to the host.
@MorliHolect
@MorliHolect 6 жыл бұрын
The answer is: Alien Resurrection
@jaketheberge1970
@jaketheberge1970 6 жыл бұрын
MorliHolect If this happened The Company would have access to a Xenomorph Queen (provided the queen doesn't pop out before the company can get the specimen contained), no need to research cloning Ripley. And just like this scenario the whole thing would probably end with another outbreak.
@LocalHeretic-ck1kd
@LocalHeretic-ck1kd 6 жыл бұрын
degree7 : Ripley in Alien Resurrection is not a simple human being. She has her DNA spliced with the aliens. She is stronger, more durable and has sort of acidic blood. She may be strong enough to survive the extraction. Anyway Alien Resurrection was filmed before Prometheus and back then to remove alien from its host was possible. Before Prometheus and all that black goo stuff.
@jaketheberge1970
@jaketheberge1970 6 жыл бұрын
prom night Dumpster baby I believe that evil Bishop was lying about having some miracle procedure for removing a Xenomorph embryo safely. How the hell could they have developed it? And it doesn't matter if it was possible to do for a what if to work, Ripley just needed to believe it long enough to get her away from that ledge.
@dr.zippymcscoots8725
@dr.zippymcscoots8725 4 жыл бұрын
If the alien never got onboard the Nostromo we would have never seen Ripley in her underwear.
@sebra1818
@sebra1818 6 жыл бұрын
One What Ifs that I've wondered about with the Alien series is what would happen if Hick, Newt and Bishop survived with Ripley on Fury 161, whether that'd be more of a disturbance to the prisoners
@briankriens5645
@briankriens5645 5 жыл бұрын
What if "The Thing" from John Carpenter made it to the main land?
@ManAslum
@ManAslum 3 жыл бұрын
Do you know "When Day Breaks"?
@deanbartlett9539
@deanbartlett9539 3 жыл бұрын
Total world infection in 72,000 hours?
@robertsteinberger5667
@robertsteinberger5667 2 жыл бұрын
What if the Norwegians were able to shoot?
@irina1296
@irina1296 6 жыл бұрын
Then we wouldn't have gotten such a great movie-masterpiece. I think Ash would attack Ripley no matter what. He's as scary as xenomorph itself. Thanks for another brilliant video dear
@SmartCookie2022
@SmartCookie2022 11 ай бұрын
The breaking of quarantine procedure is a brilliant scene and so well written that it throws up the "what if?" scenario.
@ddemlong
@ddemlong 6 жыл бұрын
Then we wouldnt have had a movie
@LorenHelgeson
@LorenHelgeson 6 жыл бұрын
Problem solved! Series over.
@GDeNofa
@GDeNofa 6 жыл бұрын
Sir Dave my exact thoughts
@alexcardosa8079
@alexcardosa8079 6 жыл бұрын
Sir Dave You would still have a movie it would just be different. Since capturing the creature would still be a thing. Also more interaction between the crew about where they stand.
@x.y.8581
@x.y.8581 5 жыл бұрын
Yes, Ash would release some other androids hidden inside the Nostromo who would attack the crew and take one of them back to the alien ship to be face hugged so they could get a specimen back thru quarantine. But since the Force was with Ripley, she would kill them all using a light saber!
@quinnzyker6521
@quinnzyker6521 5 жыл бұрын
Would make an interesting drama
@GodBroly
@GodBroly 6 жыл бұрын
Honestly I would love to see a movie series like this where they follow protocol and then the back half follows weyland/yutani going back and getting the specimens then leading into the earth war.
@Marcher1977
@Marcher1977 6 жыл бұрын
They probably already had the coordinates. Ash was a last minute addition to the crew, replacing the regular science officer which is highly unusual. Ripley even comments on this. This indicates Weyland-Yutani was already aware of the situation before the crew even left on their journey. Ash was also likely in semi-regular contact with WY.
@tereses1329
@tereses1329 5 жыл бұрын
I love watching these videos. The theories are great and thought-provoking. Also, your voice is soothing. I’m always relaxed watching these.
@42ndStreetMatthew
@42ndStreetMatthew 6 жыл бұрын
Fantastic as always. I'd like to see a what if regarding the Alien Queen/egg never getting on board the Sulaco.
@42ndStreetMatthew
@42ndStreetMatthew 6 жыл бұрын
Or how about if David doesn't become a crazy asshole after Prometheus and decides to change himself for the better in his journey with Shaw.
@calebhorton4701
@calebhorton4701 6 жыл бұрын
42ndStreetMatthew By the logic of Aliens, it shouldn’t have been there. Unfortunately , they had to break continuity to make the story of Alien 3.
@42ndStreetMatthew
@42ndStreetMatthew 6 жыл бұрын
The Assembly Cut of Alien 3 is actually my favorite out of the whole series so this What If scenario actually isn't some attempt to throw shade at the film. Don't forget I mentioned the queen in general, not just the egg.
@calebhorton4701
@calebhorton4701 6 жыл бұрын
42ndStreetMatthew I like Alien 3 as well (even though it’s a terribly dreary movie), I just hated how they manufactured an instigating event (how would the Queen manage to stow away an egg without either Bishop, Newt, or Ripley noticing?). That being said, I’m sure the “what if” scenario would have led to a happy ending for all, with absolutely no way to make a sequel, so I know why they put the egg on the Sulaco.
@42ndStreetMatthew
@42ndStreetMatthew 6 жыл бұрын
I wish they had just put the egg inside the landing gear where the queen hid. Would've been an easy fix.
@TheSuperhomosapien
@TheSuperhomosapien 3 жыл бұрын
The real question is, will Parker get a full share?
@Cuttersway
@Cuttersway 3 жыл бұрын
This is one of your best videos, IMO. An excellent and thought provoking what if exercise. Most interesting.
@rorydonaldson2794
@rorydonaldson2794 6 жыл бұрын
I LOVED this 'what if" video, please do more!! so interesting to see your perspective and to read comments of others perspectives
@lulub517
@lulub517 6 жыл бұрын
I like the “what if” scenarios. This was very interesting. What if the deacon found it’s way onto the ship with Shaw and David somehow?
@thelilblackduck
@thelilblackduck 6 жыл бұрын
truly enjoy your work, bro
@refurbishedtechpriest9076
@refurbishedtechpriest9076 6 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video dude, and I hope you do more of these "What If" scenarios.
@jaygee9725
@jaygee9725 6 жыл бұрын
Wow. THIS ONE, IS THE BEST ONE YET!! Keep it up!
@planbrent
@planbrent 6 жыл бұрын
"I thinks its safe to assume it's not a zombie" - Ash
@NemeanLion-
@NemeanLion- 4 жыл бұрын
“You have my sympathies”
@botondkalocsai5322
@botondkalocsai5322 6 жыл бұрын
The arguments are convincing about the outcome. However, at that outcome, the three victim is more than necessary. Dallas and Lambert must not be infected, because their suits were still intact, so no quarantine law would prohibit them to get into the ship. And also a chest burster never tries to combat if not necessary, it endeavours to hide until it grows adult. So after they witnessed the violent birth of the xenomorph, they could immediately go to the dropship, and leave the whole monstrosity behind, because the chest burster wouldn't attack them. It would have been a kind of "happier" and in the Alien franchise.
@TheKyrix82
@TheKyrix82 4 жыл бұрын
The book addresses that. There was concern that the creature could be shedding a virus or some sort of spores that could infect the ship. The fact that Kane was in direct contact with it made it more apparent, but even if they had caught the facehugger safely and walked up to the ship without it attacking anyone, quarantine still would have been enforced on all four of them
@demonbre
@demonbre 4 жыл бұрын
Please do a 'what would happen if Brett and Parker got their way concerning the bonus situation?' video.
@rmack9226
@rmack9226 4 жыл бұрын
DUDE where has this channel been hiding? I love the editing, the music, the writing, omg man I just smashed sub and the bell so fuckin hard my mouse is broken.
@ZacLowing
@ZacLowing 5 жыл бұрын
5:54 the face hugger had burned it's way through the helmet, if it falls off and dies outside the hatch, so would Kane with a huge hole in the helmet
@markluster1910
@markluster1910 6 жыл бұрын
It's morning here in the philippines and this is my breakfast... gonna be late for work but what the hell... Alien Theory baby!!! keep er goin!
@Sporkmaker5150
@Sporkmaker5150 3 жыл бұрын
Make sure that balut is thoroughly cooked or there is going to be some chestburster action.
@rdg5233
@rdg5233 6 жыл бұрын
A fascinating and entertaining analysis thanks for the upload!
@RazSux
@RazSux 6 жыл бұрын
A great thought provoking video, many thanks!
@nicholassas4201
@nicholassas4201 6 жыл бұрын
I love what if videos! Thank you
@DS6Prophet
@DS6Prophet 6 жыл бұрын
*Also,I
@mikekelley2877
@mikekelley2877 4 жыл бұрын
In a way, Ash is right in his reasoning; rule makers do draw up their rules and regulations in relative comfort and safety, in the field, sometimes you have to think on your feet, outside the box, it's how you get through it all...
@TheSfsdfds
@TheSfsdfds 3 жыл бұрын
These videos are consistently great
@azemthetraveler6154
@azemthetraveler6154 6 жыл бұрын
"Life finds a way"
@ivorbiggun710
@ivorbiggun710 4 жыл бұрын
Quite. Which is why I'm not interested in Prometheus and Covenant.
@voiceofreason1208
@voiceofreason1208 6 жыл бұрын
They would have kept their asses in quarantine. "The needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few." - Spock.
@jld1239
@jld1239 6 жыл бұрын
Hella interesting as always! Thanks again bro
@chrismc410
@chrismc410 Жыл бұрын
What if Jonesy killed the Xenomorph? His look and his meow conveyed the sense he could do it with ease?
@gunmetal2445
@gunmetal2445 6 жыл бұрын
My personal what if scenario, what is Lambert did not froze to death and made her escape when the alien attacked Parker?
@adamduffield7782
@adamduffield7782 6 жыл бұрын
gunmetal24 yeah. What if Lambert managed to get away from the Xenomorph quick enough for Parker to flame it????
@spottedslash4231
@spottedslash4231 6 жыл бұрын
I always thought parker should have lived. If lambert didn't freeze up like that.
@jackfisk2840
@jackfisk2840 5 жыл бұрын
Parker should of just fried Lambert with the xeno while she was being humped by it... dirty perve! :0
@x.y.8581
@x.y.8581 5 жыл бұрын
The cat should have tore the Alien's eyes out!
@Fandango541
@Fandango541 5 жыл бұрын
@@jackfisk2840 Right on Bro! I saw this during its original release date at the Egyptian Theatre on Hollyweird Blvd. I actually hollered out--just burn the bitch! Everyone turned around and looked at me and said "Fuck, Yeah"! Totally true story! Dude, we were all so stoned in that theatre! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@TioMegamanX
@TioMegamanX 6 жыл бұрын
That is... if the xenomorph didn't hide in the Nostromo's landing gear before it takes off and everything goes more or less as it did originally.
@ImAllergic2hate
@ImAllergic2hate 6 жыл бұрын
Excellent perspective, getting much insight into this universe I was familiar with on this channel
@frickpoo6644
@frickpoo6644 2 жыл бұрын
My first thought would be that you wouldn't have this cool channel on yt. Thx for all you do.
@BowserKoopa1
@BowserKoopa1 6 жыл бұрын
After the chestbuster comes out of Kane, there's no way it would attack Dallas and Lambert. Just like in the dinner scene, it was smart enough to make its escape because it knows its definitely way too small and vulnerable. It has to get away and allow itself to grow bigger and stronger. Dallas and Lambert might have killed it, but even if they missed, it would have escaped. Then it might have come back later after it grows bigger, although its not sure how much time that takes, probably several hours. Meanwhile with Kane dead, Ripley would still force the others to stay outside for the 24 hour quarantine. During that time, its anyone's guess whether or not the alien would come back to attack. If Dallas and Lambert are in the inner lock hatch, the alien would probably not be able to get to them, and they could wait out the 24 hours. But if they are on the outside, and if the alien comes back, they may very well wind up getting killed. I think that only Kane would die, and its not sure whether or not Ash reveals his true colors. But either way, the Nostromo goes back to Earth, and Weyland-Yutani has the ships data, coordinates, etc., everything he needs to send an investigation crew to LV426. Ash would know that this information is just as important as obtaining a specimen and bringing it back. I'm absolutely positive that if Ash couldn't bring one back, all this other info would be just as valuable to The Company. From there, humans getting involved with the aliens, it'd be game over for our species.
@Gustav_Kuriga
@Gustav_Kuriga 5 жыл бұрын
Except that completely ignores the fact that The Company ALREADY KNOWS where the planet is. Furthermore, this ignores the fact that Weyland manages to get specimens anyway at a later date. Whether or not the alien gets on the Nostromo changes nothing except crew survival.
@Cyanwasserstoff
@Cyanwasserstoff 5 жыл бұрын
@@Gustav_Kuriga Except that Wayland Yutani did not know the exact coordinates of the planetoid with the Xeno. They know that it has to be somewhere in that sector (likely because they received the signal and did encode it), but there was a small problem. The lost ship nostromo and crew had shattered the image of Wayland Yutani and also did cost billions of dollars. The signal also got deactivated, so there it was getting very hard to locate the excat location of the planetoid. That is why WY started to terraform in that sector. They could sell it as "building better worlds" to the public and where secretly searching for the location of the Xeno infected ship. Alien Isolation does pick up some parts of it "the black history part of WY about the loss of the nostromo and it's crew" and that it also caused a strong financial damage. The company also did not like to talk about this incident
@starfuxer
@starfuxer 6 жыл бұрын
I do have something gnawing my mind for so many many years... were WYC aware of the Xenomorph lifeform BEFORE the events of Alien 1979 ? I mean, I may answer my own question here with the proofs of Ash presence and purpose to gather intel and the specimen at all cost but how did WYC got to know about that alien signal? Was this planned to be shown after the evens of Covenant? Why did they simply sent them space truckers to investigate? To evaluate the deadliness of the xenomorph specimen? Wouldn't they had been more efficient in dispatching a pure scientific vessel instead? Even if I disliked Covenant a lot, I do hope we'll get to see how post Covenant and Alien 1979 bridge together!
@nobbynoris
@nobbynoris 5 жыл бұрын
I thought that the company's prime directive was a secret order issued to all flight androids on all their craft in case any of them ever encountered EBEs. It doesn't imply that Wetland Corps knew in advance of the organism on LV426.
@ryansta
@ryansta Жыл бұрын
You get a very short film : ) seriously though, been binge watching your channel on an Alien vibe, great stuff
@wedge_one
@wedge_one 6 жыл бұрын
AMAZING. Never thought in any of this! Great video!
@Neb30925
@Neb30925 6 жыл бұрын
What if... Sir Ridley Scott had directed Alien 2. That would also be an interesting "what if" to think about. If alien hadn't fallen into the hands of Cameron, it wouldn't have been called "xenomorph", its life cycles including a queen wouldn't have been contrived, and it wouldn't have been portrayed as mindless insects/bugs, and the alien franchise as we know it would be totally different.
@nelsinki5177
@nelsinki5177 6 жыл бұрын
Nice video, what if hicks ane newt survived and went with the xenomorph con Alíen 3?
@shdwfx40001
@shdwfx40001 6 жыл бұрын
Umm...not sure i wanna go in depth on a pre-teen girl around 30ish rapists. Might not be such a big change.
@shdwfx40001
@shdwfx40001 6 жыл бұрын
But besides that i have to say...Hicks isn't going to change much. He was fairly wounded to start, maybe providing more tactical acumen.... Not great shakes. Newt might survive better on Fury 161 ironically with smaller size and knowing how to hide. Aaaand then they die anyway when Weyland Yutani show up and...silence...the witnesses. Morse his a convicted felon, not really a danger if he talks. Hicks is a marine, if he talks to the wrong people WY is finished.
@KaitainCPS
@KaitainCPS 5 жыл бұрын
Alien 3 is just fan fiction anyway.
@badgerden7080
@badgerden7080 3 жыл бұрын
I remember, they tried to rape Ripley until Dillon (Charles Dutton) beat the shit out of them. They feared Dillon.
@coreydonaldson3303
@coreydonaldson3303 6 жыл бұрын
Pretty interesting and cool Alien What If Scenerio video Alien Theory !
@Danlovar
@Danlovar 6 жыл бұрын
What if this KZfaq channel did not exist? Answer: we would still had unresolved questions because of the magic of this saga.
@originalbrandx
@originalbrandx 6 жыл бұрын
great. i would like more "what if?" videos.
@tarantulagirl
@tarantulagirl 6 жыл бұрын
I would have x rayed Kane after he woke up instead of assuming that a creature that stuck to his face, kept him alive and then just left him and died for no obvious reason. Ripley was smart and thinking outside the box but this was a rookie and and highly unlikely chain of events upon Kane waking. I know it was necessary to move the plot on, but this is the only stupid part in Alien for me. Still one of the scariest and brilliant films ever, the whole film is a rollercoaster ride of anxiety and fear. Not many films can achieve this for the full movie, we only catch a break the moment Kane wakes and after the Alien is ejected from the airlock.
@another15
@another15 6 жыл бұрын
As always this is a very elaborated video, really glad to watch this one. You should do this case scenario often!!! And since you asked, I'm pretty sure this one was already asked several times but: "What if humans actually tamed/controlled Xenomorphs and used they like bioweapons?" Thank you for your ever hard work!
@gate-1378
@gate-1378 6 жыл бұрын
Great Job ! loved it.
@terminatorx8285
@terminatorx8285 6 жыл бұрын
Ash is the newest Android to appear in the series. He was built just before the Nostromo ships off, just long enough to have his program installed, but not long enough for much of anything else. He Knows Jack s**t about human behavior and emotions. Instead of picking up on these behaviors, he replaces it with his own bizarre, cynical, sticks-out-like-a sore -thumb behavior. So when he is confronted with strong emotions (his own mortal fear) and strong behaviors (Ripley's outburst of anger & fear at him), it 'does not compute'. Weyland-Yutani must not want the alien that badly. They sent an unproven, underdeveloped Android with no combat programming & an inability to blend in well, to retrieve the ultimate weapon in a dangerous mission where combat programming and blending in are necessary...??? And that's not the only reason I say that about the company: He's an OUTSOURCED Android...!!! Made by Hyperdyne Systems... Meanwhile, Weyland-Yutani, the biggest company there is, makes better androids, and they could have done it in-house without a paper trail 😯🤔😶
@_Muzolf
@_Muzolf 6 жыл бұрын
Pretty sure it was not the entire company that knew about the whole deal but some department who had to work with what they could get their hands on, fearing for someone else taking the credit for any major developments if they told the higher-ups, and those higher-ups assign someone more competent with proper resources to collect the xenos.
@terminatorx8285
@terminatorx8285 6 жыл бұрын
Z Zs and that is why I make comments on topics of discussion, because sometimes I get brilliant responses like yours. Makes total sense. Low level execs found out about the Xenomorph somehow(just like Burke in 'Aliens'), and scrambled to put together a low budget retrieval plan... Before someone with more money higher on the corporate food chain finds out, takes over, sends A Weyland-Yutani Walter or Bishop Android with an actual plan on the Nostromo, and captures the Alien. Or, the top brass could find out and just send in waves of mercenaries a-la-JP lost world and bring back pretty much everything.
@_Muzolf
@_Muzolf 6 жыл бұрын
What can i say, i work in a multinational corporation myself, i see this shit in real life far too many times. Luckily, IT support is not something that can get up and kill the customers/other employees. But if it could, after all the stupidity, ineptitude and sheer incompetence i have seen, god help us all.
@terminatorx8285
@terminatorx8285 6 жыл бұрын
Z Zs yeah, I understand. I once worked for an American car company, which starts with 'F' & ends with 'D'... The hierarchy, and cutthroat nature of the company made me sick. BTW yeah, Androids- bad idea. Let's see, through the series there's: Ash (Glitchy, Incompetent, prone to murder-ee/rape-ee outbursts), Bishop (Shining example of what an Android should be), Call (Defective Android with no program, serves an imaginary purpose), Walter (Excellent Android, but unfortunately MAY have been built with certain software that will sabotage his CPU if certain other Androids happen to need to steal his body), and finally... David, who might as well be Skynet. 5 of them. 2 could kill a person intentionally, 1 accidentally, 1 unintentionally if his program was overridden, 1 you are safe around. Yeah with todays incompetent workforce, it would probably be a higher number than 4 out of 5 that will or may kill.
@_Muzolf
@_Muzolf 6 жыл бұрын
Hah, yeah. Or maybe the only reason they would not murder people is because they would screw that up too. :)
@tristanbackup2536
@tristanbackup2536 4 жыл бұрын
If Ash didn't do what he did, we wouldn't get Alien: Isolation game. 😂
@T-1001
@T-1001 4 жыл бұрын
I've just dipped into your content today while very hungover. I'm not gonna lie, your stuff is brilliant.
@nacsit
@nacsit 6 жыл бұрын
Good work as usuall. Always glad when new vid arrives. By the way your voice would be great for narrating audiobooks. Very pleasant listen. Peace
@lightningslim
@lightningslim 4 жыл бұрын
What if Ripley had been the "Company man?"
@dendrous6907
@dendrous6907 5 жыл бұрын
I get quite annoyed with things like not doing quarantines and stuff when I watch these horror type movies. Aliens is at least realistic about quarantines and how people are torn during a real situation, though I never fully understood Ash's whole thing as the android and how he acts. But besides Aliens the only other movie that I thought was done right was Life, where the scientist have take all the precautions that should be taken in that case.
@GDeNofa
@GDeNofa 6 жыл бұрын
An awesome theory by none other than Alien Theory.
@HotaruZoku
@HotaruZoku 5 жыл бұрын
Fantastic editing.
@roberttaffoya6935
@roberttaffoya6935 6 жыл бұрын
Do what if the newborn didn’t kill the queen alien
@residentflamingo115
@residentflamingo115 6 жыл бұрын
I would have thrown kane into space and said NOPE NOPE NOPE SO MUCH NOPE
@fuhrersavior9575
@fuhrersavior9575 4 жыл бұрын
We'll throw you into space and say NOPE NOPE NOPE SO MUCH NOPE
@residentflamingo115
@residentflamingo115 4 жыл бұрын
@@fuhrersavior9575 i didnt do nuthin
@wardstyle9184
@wardstyle9184 6 жыл бұрын
Love this. Keep them going!
@robertkreutzer4107
@robertkreutzer4107 4 жыл бұрын
It's probably safe to say, that if the quarantine had been enforced and the Alien had exited Kane's body, it would not have escaped the airlock, or the Dallas would have opened the exterior door and it would have left the Nostromo. The nature of the airlock means that it could not have escaped on to the ship itself. If it had been injured enough to bleed and create an hole, it would probably have been a fatal wound to a creature of its size (upon hatching). It looks far too small to seriously harm Dallas and Lambert. Without something to feed upon (and we can only assume that there were organic substances it could consume on the Nostromo), it seems unlikely that the Alien could have grown to a large enough size to be a threat. For growth to occur, it must ingest something. The mass has to come from somewhere. If Ripley had been obeyed, the body count on the Nostromo could have been just ONE.
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