Yeah, but the place would smell really bad after 70 something years!
What the heck is the Xenomorph doing at the end of "Alien?"
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Natural instinct? She doesn't know when a Predator
looking for a trophy would show up.
Actually, it's rather ironic because the whole thing from that point on was Ripley's fault. If she'd left it alone she'd have been safe.
Yeah we saw at the beginning of Alien 3 that they could easily break into those capsules.
I had never heard the notion before from Ridley Scott that it was dying. It seemed perfectly happy in the corridor bashing Jones around beforehand.
I think it was simply following it's instincts. It liked to hide in the vent shafts, and before that the landing gear. When it found the shuttle it had a new place to hide. Ripley left the door open so once the Alien spotted it it just ran for the opening and found a nice cosy place to hide.
The intelligence of the Alien is questionable; whether it knew the ship was doomed and tried to escape like a rat desrting a sinking ship is unknown - then again the damn things managed to find a way to cut the power in Aliens, so...
I think it was simply following it's instincts. It liked to hide in the vent shafts, and before that the landing gear. When it found the shuttle it had a new place to hide. Ripley left the door open so once the Alien spotted it it just ran for the opening and found a nice cosy place to hide.
The intelligence of the Alien is questionable; whether it knew the ship was doomed and tried to escape like a rat desrting a sinking ship is unknown - then again the damn things managed to find a way to cut the power in Aliens, so...
That part doesn't bother me. The part that bothers me is that Ripley finds it hiding in the bulkhead, looks right at it, runs around the room, makes a ton of noise...and the alien doesn't even move!
Well it probably figured all Ripley could really do was annoy it with fire, and that she would be smart enough not to try.
Kind of like a lion who lays out in the open, secure in the knowledge that most other animals aren't going to be stupid enough to mess with him.
Plus he'd just had 12 hours of lots of physical activity. Poor guy was probably tired. 
I always thought that the Alien was aware of Ripley in that confined space and didn't see her as a threat, so it took it's own sweet time in moving in for the kill. Sort of how a cat plays with a mouse. It had grown overconfident in dealing so easily with the other humans, this overconfidence leading directly to it's undoing.
^ Overconfidence aside, if you'd been woken up my a cold jet of CO2 in your face you'd be pretty pissed off!
Why do a lot of animals do the same thing? If they're hurt or dying, a lot of animals will find themselves a nice, cozy spot to curl up in to safely wait for the end. Another thing to be written off as the alien's "animal instincts" perhaps?
Ripley wouldn't have necesarily had to know that it was dying, which would make her response pretty reasonable.
Yeah, Scott said that it was dying. He didn't say that it posed no threat or that Ripley should have known that it posed no threat.
The thing's job was to grow up, breed and die. Common life cycle.
The thing's job was to grow up, breed and die. Common life cycle.
1. Enjoying watching Ripley strip-off like the rest of us?
2. Frankly given the situation I think Lambert's barely concealed hysteria was perfectly sensible, Veronica Cartwright does a great job in the role
But there was no Alien 3 it went straight to Alien Ressurection?
Damn, I'm getting those weird emails from Lacuna Inc again!
I didn't particularly enjoy that. Sigourney Weaver is funny-looking in those movies.1. Enjoying watching Ripley strip-off like the rest of us?
I think I just wish she did other things, too. All she does the entire movie is cry. She could have easily not even been in the movie, and I wouldn't have missed her.
Why would it be?
