Why was Ash on board? There's no way WeylonYutani could've known theyd encounter an Alien
He was a crew mate first and foremost before a alien smuggler
>>70309264
But why not tell them he was an android?
They sent them to the planet. Presumably the company knew the nostromo's flight path and since it was closest put ash on board. Dallas even says that ash replaced his previous science officer for the trip so it was obviously a setup. Plus they'd save on bonuses for ash as he's an android.
>>70309304
>bonuses
3..2..
>>70309327
So can we finally discuss the bonus situation?
>>70309441
Right...
>>70309288
they were turing testing that specific model?
>>70309304
>>70309470
These sound good. Thanks
>>70309160
This is part of why, for all its flaws, I ultimately couldn't hate Prometheus for what it did for the Alien universe.
Re-watching the original, it's abundantly apparent that Weyland-Yutani knew exactly what was going to happen on the planet, and Ash steered the Most room there on purpose in order to secure a Xenomorph or other alien tech.
The exposition in Prometheus sucked, but it absolutely nailed the "Weyland knows a hell of a lot more than he lets on, and the android is tasked with making the secret mission happen" aspect of the original film, and that part of it dovetailed beautifully with Alien.
As in, you can totally see the fallout from the mission in Prometheus leading to the Weyland-Yutani board continuing David's programmed mission, and sending out survey probes to scan everywhere for more signs of engineer ships, in order to attempt another contact and specimen retrieval.
Decades later, a probe finds a derelict Engineer vessel that seemingly crashed, and Weyland-Yutani steers one of their freighters, under the secret command of one of another or their androids, to attempt to repeat the "failed" Prometheus mission.
I just assumed that all their ships A: Had an android and B: That android was programmed to do exactly what Ash did.
That is to say, they were a deep-space mining company, and up to that point no significant alien life had ever been discovered. Like, maybe there were molds and fungus they'd known about and discovered since humanity became a space-faring society, but nobody had ever even found an insect or vertebrate or anything complex. That there were contingencies set up for these long-haul ships, should one ever encounter an alien lifeform of significance. Not that their ship was specifically set up with Ash because they specifically knew it would go by an alien distress beacon, just that every ship had that built-in.
Then you've got Prometheus to mentally edit out.
>>70309561
>Nostromo
Fucking auto-correct
>>70309567
>nobody had ever even found an insect or vertebrate or anything complex
Arcturians
>>70309561
Why did Engineer killed humans? They were harmless
>>70309638
It's gonna turn out to be some shit like humans are so bad they had to invent something even worse to kill us.
>>70309638
David said, in Alienese: "Rip my head off and kill these people."
>>70309638
Just as the gods hated Prometheus for stealing fire, they hated man for creating life (David) as it should only be they who do so and they know what a mistake it was
>>70309683
What was the real David mission? Was he working for unknown character this whole time or it was his own curiosity?
WY knew about the derelict ship and that they had some kind of alien tech/weapon.
They send the ship near the planet so they picked up a distress signal. Ash was the only one who really cared so he made everyone to land there as he had the authority.
>>70309760
This is a meme but the David part actually sounds plausible
>>70309638
Weyland presenting himself as an equal to them for creating a uncanny valley robot pissed him off.
>Humans were a mistake
Well you're not going to find one leaving him at home are you?
why didn't they wear any sort of protection when doing the autopsy when they knew the parasite was acidic?
When they found the body without a parasite why did they still go in without any protection so the parasite could fall onto Ripley's face?
How did the huge alien sneak past Ripley onto the tiny shuttle which was isolated from the rest of the ship?
>>70309846
Prometheus 2
When?
>>70309689
This, it was pretty clear to me that despite the shitty writing, it was supposed to be something along the lines of
>The engineers, masters of the art of bio-engineering, see that their creation, the humans have built mechanical puppet facsimiles of themselves in their own image, and have imbued them with superhuman machine intelligence.
>This is obviously supposed to be some sort of abomination to the engineers, something akin to the disgust that a human parent might feel if their child decided to make the "perfect little brother" for themselves by wrapping their robo-sapien™ toy in the skin of a recently exhumed child's corpse.
>The Engineer feels that humanity is beyond hope, and decides to proverbially take us out back and shoot us.
>>70309846
i dont understand, the fuck is the bonus?
>>70310014
but it looked like they were ready to bomb us way before they knew about us making androids
>>70309846
..So the entire Alien franchise is actually about a mega corporation trying to avoid paying bonuses and the whole alien thing is just a sideplot?
Sounds better than the basic premise of Prometheus already. Fund it.
>>70310072
Yutani promised Waylon that if the mission was a success then Waylon could have control over Yutani. Yutani sabotaged the mission to avoid this
>>70309760
his real mission was to touch things.
