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Thank you so much Leto.

I noticed some of the mobile COMNET entries' formatting is off (it looks fine in the mobile editor)...so thank you again for your patience while I fix this and finish the image descriptions.

One thing I was reminded of (during production of the website) is that Joss Whedon wrote Alien Resurrection and I was then excited to imagine that he might be involved in an Alien Resurrection sequel or anything else Alien.  

It is reasonable to think Disney might task him or have him consult on anything Alien now that 20th Century Fox is "in-house".

"A sequel to Resurrection was planned as Joss Whedon had written an Earth-set script for Alien 5, though Sigourney Weaver was not interested in this setting, but has remained open to reprise her role as Ellen Ripley for a fifth installment on the condition that she likes the story. Although more sequels were planned to follow Resurrection, they were ultimately abandoned as the crossover series arrived with the 2004 film Alien vs. Predator." (source)

"Working off a design from Swiss artist H.R. Giger (who designed the full-grown Xenomorph as well), Christian’s team achieved the egg’s organic look by stuffing the shell with sheep intestines, which were then covered in a casing of cow stomach lining. Despite creating the world’s biggest, most terrible ballpark frank, the crew struggled to give their monster life. Eventually, Scott quite literally rolled up his sleeves and did it himself, putting on some rubber gloves and reaching up into the egg to give the shot the movement it needed.

“People around him were going, ‘Oh my God,’ but he was so focused,” Christian says. “He just put his hand in there and pushed up, and there it was. It looked gross, but it looked real. [The eggs] looked beautiful, really. And Ridley added smoke to soften the atmosphere.” (source)

He dug deep for us 40 years ago. 

Thank you Ridley Scott.

I believe this is the book mentioned by Dane Hallett in his post:

Available October 10, 2019.

Great job!

The Alien is pushed out of its hiding only by the release of NITROSYL CHLORIDE (NOCL).

It does not react at IODINE PENTAFLUORIDE (IF5), or METHYL CHLORIDE (CH3CL).

Awaiting.

The first chapter is very good. I like this drawing.

French translation for scuttle procedure on the Emergency Destruction System is incomplete :)

Thank you for your work sir. We all enjoyed the benefit of your refinements.

R.I.P Mr. Rawlings.

One person's "surely suck" is another person's Alien: Covenant (treasure). 

This is amazing and unexpected. There are so many items in development now enriching the Alien story...I can't wait to listen to this.

Happy Alien Day everyone!

I hope to catch up and watch the IGN short films, finally play Alien: Blackout, and watch Alien Resurrection.

Have a wonderful Alien holiday weekend.

Wow!

I never noticed a reference to Yutani in Alien. These pics are so great. Thank you daliens.

 WEYLAN YUTANI NOSTROMO

Encrypted keyboard from Mother computer

A picture of Jonesy as a kitten:

They shared another one:

Yes. A fair number of the keys are actually blank, but some have a few red or black dots on them. I'm not sure how you'd type "What's the story, Mother?" on something like that!

Did you notice that the keyboard from Mother computer does not have letters, but signs similar somehow to the Engineers alphabet?

No worries dk, another movie would surely suck enough to satisfy our complaining tendencies! ;)

There's also an intriguing note scribbled on tape at the bottom of the console (sorry, I don't have a snap). It says something like 'TELL PARKER / 1K DEG MALFUNCTION'. Such attention to detail is marvellous.

I got it on iTunes yesterday. Very crisp. I was intrigued to see that David Giler managed to wangle his name (D Giler) into the Nostromo navigation console display! Sorry about the poor quality of this screenshot - I used my phone to take a snap of my TV.

Happy ALIEN Day to everyone!

Hope it's a good one, with an exciting announcement!

Needless to say, later on I'm going to watch my favourite movie, by my favourite director, with my favourite Morb & my favourite celluloid kitty! :D

Love the poster, thanks daliens!

I agree with most of what you say, BigDave, but I have some thoughts:

• Even if the conclusion is that a queen lays the eggs (Aliens), it doesn’t mean that the xenomorph wasn’t created. A queen could be the thing they created after much experimentation (probably involving hominid sacrifice). A queen might be what we see in the mural (which is also what David wants).
• In Prometheus, David says that the virus isn’t airborne (although this is contradicted in AC). He knows how Holloway was infected. So, they weren’t running from the black goo itself, they were running from something chasing them. We have the cry which is heard in the hologram and the running engineers. Isn’t the thing which makes that cry what causes the engineers to run?
• If the conclusion is that the Derelict and the eggs are thousands of years old, then so is the beacon. It would then make sense that W-Y did intercept the signal even before the Prometheus mission. “Mother” would, therefore, know about the signal even on Nostromo’s way to Thedus (where the science officer is replaced by Ash). However, if the signal wasn’t there on Nostromo’s way to Thedus, then the Derelict can only have been on LV-426 for about a year or so. Would the Space Jockey look fossilized after a year?

Ridley fans prefer not to talk about Aliens.

I could make a list of faux, but that would mean to watch the film again :)

It's Alien Day today. Maybe I will watch it on Aliens Day :)

Happy Alien Day! :)

I will later post an alien graphic I created. 

Maybe I will watch an Alien making of documentary, some of the short films, ... 

I am looking forward to the animated episode ... and some official announcements regarding the sequels

This is why I said "unless I'm mistaken"...

Seem's I was mistaken.

As for Lamberts/Bretts feet... if Cameron had done such a faux pas, would Ridley fans be so forgiving?

Medical potential? Like for euthanizing, right?

Happy Alien Day!

And what? Alien have a great medical potential.

"Yeah, only Ripley speaks of alien as a bioweapon. Paranoia."

Maybe. But it's also proof that W-Y had a weapon division and what better purpose the alien would serve, knowing that they deliberately sent Ash on Nostromo and rerouted the ship towards LV426?

Or do you prefer spoon feeding?

Like this one?

Gavin regarding Brett's feet in Lambert's death scene, the editing is so good that I don't know how many viewers realized it. I found out about it from an interview with Veronica Cartwright and she said she wore boots all the time during filming. I could see that in the scene when the crew fights the out of control Ash, but in that scene the last thing one cares about is Lambert's footwear.

Lambert's way of dying was decided in the last moment, out of many previous versions, so they used what they had during editing, I don't think it's an oversight.

Yeah, only Ripley speaks of alien as a bioweapon. Paranoia.

"It's interesting you bring up the mention that Weyland-Yutani wanted the Xenomorph for their Bio-Weapons division, Because as I recall unless I am mistaken no-one actually states this in the movies..."

Just watched Alien.

It's in the film, Gavin, after Ash was beheaded and Ripley tries to resuscitate him to find out how to kill the alien:

"How come the company sent us a goddamn robot? 

They must have wanted the alien for the weapons division.

He's been protecting it all along.

Will you plug it in?

I don't know. 

Because he may know how to kill it."

Then the dialogue between Ripley/crew and Ash:

"What was your special order?

You read it. I thought it was clear.

What was it?

Bring back life form. Priority one. All other priorities rescinded.

The damn company. What about our lives, you son of a bitch?

I repeat, all other priorities are rescinded.

How do we kill it. There's gotta be a way of killing it. How do we do it?

You can't. You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? The perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by his hostility.

You admire it.

I admire its purity. A survivor, unclouded by conscience, remorse or delusions of morality."

@ daliens,

This may surprise some but to a degree, but I agree with you. IMO, in terms of execution Cameron did a better job than Scott, as in there are no jarring moments (Space Jockey difference in scale, Bretts feet in Lamberts scene) in Aliens, and despite the introduction of the Queen Cameron did show the Xenomorph has a degree of intelligence, which was missing from Alien. But...

One issue with Cameron is an oversight when it comes to time. Take Terminator 2 as an example, there are multiple scenes that dictate the present day scenes are set in 1994, but despite having co-written and directed the movie he made an error with the LAPD laptop screen (John Connor would have been 9 not 10 years old).

For Aliens some of Cameron's time oversights are...

# The 57 years hiatus, Why?

# Hadley's hope has been there 20 years, yet never discovered the Derelict or its signal (has been explained since, but not at the time).

# 20-year-old colony's firstborn was Newt, even though her brother is older?

# absolutely no time frame between events.

However, I will say this. Despite the grief that Cameron's movie gets, considering what came before his movie is the next logical step narratively, while rightfully not repeating the tone of what came before serves both his and Scott's movies justice. Alien is one Alien in space, Aliens is lots of Aliens on a planet/moon. Alien was best suited as a survival horror, Aliens was best suited as an action movie. The movies after this simply recycled what came before (Alien 3 - one alien on a planet, Alien: Resurrection - lots of Aliens in space).

@ BigDave,

It's interesting you bring up the mention that Weyland-Yutani wanted the Xenomorph for their Bio-Weapons division, Because as I recall unless I am mistaken no-one actually states this in the movies...

# Ash loved its purity

# Burke saw the Alien as a way of getting rich

# Michael Bishop/Bishop II believed there was so much to learn from the creature.

Happy 4/26 Day!!

A Working/Hazmat Joe can be worse than a Xeno imo.

"I would conclude the Company wanted the Organism for the Bio-Weapons Division (this is Spoon Fed) i would have had to WONDER why they left it so long from the Special Order 937, until Ripley had informed Burke about the Xenomorph which i would conclude has to me that ONLY a few were aware of the Xenomorph and for some reason they maybe never bothered to return, or maybe did-not know that the Derelict had so many Eggs and thought going back as not of interest."

Aliens has the laziest script in the Quadrilogy, starting with the meeting between Ripley and the suits from W-Y, so full of cliches. I mean there was special order 937 in Alien, but in Aliens W-Y established a colony on LV426, still they never bothered to search for the derelict until Burke told them to do it? Did they need to interview Ripley? What happened with the exchange of messages between Nostromo and W-Y, when the Company was informed about the Alien and they decided that crew is expendable,  just get the Alien?

Aliens is such a superficial spoon feeding popcorn flick and I still don't understand why there are still people who praised it. For the queen? Forgive me.

Happy 40th Alien Day. I like to watch Gameplays of:

Alien isolation

Aliens: colonial marines

Alien vs Predator (alien campaign)

Alien blackout.

I'm going to watch alien Alone and alien harvest (Two shorts).

That's it!

Don't get killed by a xenomorph. If you get killed by an Android, that's ok.  :)