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Originally Posted by Guirec
I totally forgot about those lasers. Why didn't they try to use those in the ship? I think I'd risk depressurization if a xeno was about to give me the ol' double bite.
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Always looked like tiny personal defense lasers to me, useful to kill humans or any other animals, but no way they could have hurt the alien, so in the end I guess we could conclude they had no actual weapons heheh. Of course, a hull breach would have been impossible as well If you missed one shot. Just not enough output power coming from those weapons, I'm sure.
The flamethrower always looked like the ideal way to fight the Giger-alien imo; you may not kill the thing, but It was very clear that It hated and specially feared fire, and though flames couldn't also destroy It, they clearly made the alien suffer from pain (remember when Ripley fries It while in the pipes in the Narcissus scene?, It screamed in pain like crazy while being toasted) and also made It to pull back anytime, making the flamethrower the ideal weapon against the unstoppable boggieman. You at least can contain and keep It on a distance.
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Originally Posted by Guirec
I don't have any understanding of the physics of superheated plasma in space, but I always got the impression that it was gettin' pretty screwed up by those engines.
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I very much doubt It was damaging It when It was even trying to re-enter the ship through an already engaged engine.
The proof of the immensurable strength displayed by the creature in this scene always makes me think about how should be a true alien vs predator movie If we followed the "Alien" canon..., a predator would not stand a chance in melee because It is still an animal, an organism, while the giger-alien may not be that exactly. In short, something made of flesh and bones can not fight in melee against a machine-like thing.
08-23-2011, 07:50 AM
