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One thing I think we have to consider is the End Game of whomever gets your specimen.

David's agenda is to kill humanity because his father/creator made him pour the tea and was mean to him ;p  Very Bad

Gediman and co. are trying to weaponise the Xeno for military use. Could be bad, or beneficial to humanity depending on who holds the leash.

Weyland and co have questionable motives and operate in a very cloak and dagger, crew expendable way. But are truly evil, or are they working for the greater good?

Burke is W-Y crony but would likely sell you out to the highest bidder, potentially risking a massive outbreak by selling you to some backyard chop shop. Very bad.

My choice: Weyland, though I imagine I would likely either be killed or "disappeared". But perhaps not. and perhaps even in death you might have contributed to something greater... 

 @IRaptus Paradise starts in Hell.

@Ati

Thanks for sharing NASA stuff.  I love space.  I love NASA (because I live in America).

I would choose Walter because I want the advertised Teacher model of Walter.  I wouldn't want any other android.  That is the only android that I think I would actually pay the outrageous price those AI's would likely cost.

I don't remember David 8 being advertised for different job customization.  The Walter model is really the first model that is really trying to connect with people.  At least that is how it appears in the advertisements.  We didn't have these advertisements in the previous Alien movies either, but that is probably because there was no internet.

Advertisement aside, Walter seems very efficient and professional, unlike Bishop and unlike Ash.  This is also unlike David too.  David is the worst one out of all of them.  The Ash model is probably related to the David 8 model in some way.  Maybe with Ash, WT tried to put more David in the working Walter model since it would be nice to have some David 8 features.

My choice is Walter.  To refine that choice, I want the Teacher model.  That is the only choice.  If not, I would return that expensive machinery!

Thanks, I Moon Girl . It's the simple things in life you treasure. :)

Haha.  Good story!  Cool beans.

@Lawrence of Arabia

"he can at least be reasoned with as opposed to our other selections"

Quite right! And David most certainly can't be.

Good to see all it takes to improve your character judgement is for you to wake up in a shipping container infected with a chestburster lol

And Walter has a significant role in Alien Covenant... :D

No way guys.

Ridley Scott is the best in making "Alien" films. We had the possibility to see it by watching Alien, Prometheus and Alien Covenant. I do not want to see garbage like Resurrection or other "Run and Gun" film styles. 

Let's wait together for Alien: Awakening. Can't wait to see Engeneers back in action ;)

I'd like to say that no one has the same ability in making such a great atmosphere like R. Scott does.

Just to mention a soundtrack... one of the best I have ever heard:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzI3AdpA9e4

@IRaptus

"a Hive with a Queen is a very efficient and logical mode of colonisation for a species with large numbers"

Oh hell yes! The bees and ants which xeno social structure is modeled after are extremely intelligent!

There is something especially funny about this to me, because I once had a dream that Elon Musk showed up at David 8's birthday and called him "the next big visionary".

But, in real life, Musk is probably right about banning weaponized A.I.

This topic exemplifies the core purpose of Sci-Fi: to give humanity an "It's A Wonderful Life"-esque glimpse of possible futures before they come to fruition, so we can make informed decisions before it's too late.  

VivisectedEngineer agreed.

Im a fan of the Eggmorphing concept but it is what it is. Like it or not there is a Queen and/or hive in Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection. Its not my preference but I accept it. So apologises Walter but with all due respect, they are in the same universe.

I understand the reasoning that a queen and hive makes the xeno's more akin to insects. This effectively brings them down to our level of understanding, thus removing their fear and mystery. And I agree. 

But at the end of the day a Hive with a Queen is a very efficient and logical mode of colonisation for a species with large numbers.

Resources are centralised and can be monopolised by the holding species, the eggs and juvenile young are protected, defence is superbly strong and near impenetrable for an invading force, rapid propagation, rapid mobilisation. Strength in numbers and all that.

For a perfect organism, a hive sounds like a perfectly feasible trait for the xenomorphs - once they start building in numbers.

I wanna pick Gediman cause he's a creepy little man but he looks like he can at least be reasoned with as opposed to our other selections lol 

STARLOGGER - What an interesting situation. Mankind shall always be at war with itself, yet we desire to limit the loss of life which develops as a direct result of that warfare. Shall we continue to shed one-another's blood - or shall we have machines battle in our stead? For me, the answer is this: Man is an animal - a natural creation. War is simply the name we give to the natural drive to conquer and claim which exists throughout all advanced animal life. I say let us continue our battle without evolved machinery. Even so, this is simply my desire. I have, and always shall, respect the views of others on such matters. :)

Everywhere I've gone that sells it, it's been flying off shelves. Only 1 or 2 copies left at each store that I've been to. 

Also, I wouldn't doubt it if the scene was cut for that very reason Ati. Great reference.

An attempt by Ridley Scott (explained in 2012) to not be on the "nose" as far as the Christian reference.

Scott says that was the direction they were taking with the story — at least at first. “We definitely did, and then we thought it was a little too on the nose.” he admits.

That is a great gif Ati. Yes, the Engineers have that design across their architecture. Thank you so much for the example.

We need Alien 5 after the prequels, make it Force Awakens-esque and give the franchise to a new lead. Include Ripley, Bishop, and Hicks. 

That would mark the the end of the true trilogy

@Starlogger

Yes, but that doesn't exactly solve your chestburster problem, now does it?

Now you're still doomed, but at least David isn't around to fawn over the baby xeno once you get chestburst, so you've got that going for your which is nice. ...I guess.

@IRaptus

"David's apathy and total indifference towards life and suffering scare the shit out of me to be honest lol."

Lol! Whole-heartedly agreed! That's what makes him such a great villain! He's truly the stuff of nightmares!

GladOS used to be my favorite villain, but David has supplanted her.

Give me David...I would definitely deactivate the SOB ASAP in some manner. Cannot believe Shaw trusted him. Disappointed in her decision making skills...

@ Sothoth - I think our eyes are definitely seeing something different, unless your screen is just too small to see the details. I am watching the Blu Ray on a 55' HD lcd and I can see everything I describe easily.

@BigDave - Not just a creation tool. In order to create one must first destroy, as a mad synthetic once said.

@Cosmonaut-Copper

"Bishop seems very smart too."

Yes! David is just more of a show-off about it.

To all you folks taking offense at Xenomorphs being compared to insects and/or cockroaches, F.Y.I., cockroaches are extremely intelligent.

@Leeta, Ingeniero and Cosmonaut-Copper

Good luck with that!

(But Cosmonaut-Copper, yes, Samuels from Isolation is an option - any synth in the series is. Do you change your answer?)

@Ingeniero

Don't you remember what happened to Walter when he corrected David's Ozymandias attribution? I have a feeling that if you beat David 8 at darts you'd have a good ten seconds to enjoy your win before getting stabbed with a flute!

@Cerulean Blue & Walter

Seems like a sound choice, Walter is helpful and loyal.

VivisectedEngineer ty :)

Gediman, nice choice and reasoning! Good point about him having the best ( and only) track record for successful surgical extraction.

David's apathy and total indifference towards life and suffering scare the shit out of me to be honest lol.

Great topic IRaptus !

Wow, these are our options!? We're so S.O.L.! lol.

First off, definitely NOT Bishop's evil father because... he looks like Bishop but is evil. And that would just creep me out and give me sort of...uncanny valley vibes (ironically).

Definitely can't trust that insufferable, smarmy back-stabber Burke, either.

David is a tempting option just because...he's sort of like a cat that play's with it's prey before killing it. ...There's some slim chance he might actually keep me alive in the short-term, buying me some time to plan an escape. ...But most likely I'd just wind up like Oram...

Gediman is...creepy as hell...but he's the only one with a proven history of surgically extracting the Xeno and taking an interest in keeping the host alive. I'll take my chances with Gediman.

Well in the original 1979 movie, the extremely potent acid blood was from the Facehugger.

Ati thanks hahaha. The choice is pick the lesser evil really.

Xenotaris fair choice, definitely. Hard to tell if he'd keep his word but he's a safer bet than some of the others :)

...LV-138 :)

I would rather it be an OVA either animated by the South Koreans or the Japanese.

I would probably trust Micheal Weyland if he offered me a job in exchange for removing the chestburster.

The protomorph is different, but precisely because genesis has just begun. By the term Proto: It indicates a simpler structure of an organism, its first stage of development, this is easy, the difficult one must be the creation of the Queen and it begins to dance.                                          "Breakfast from Tiffany?"

Forethought about potential contagions on an alien planet!?

Get out of here lol.

We just blindly stroll on in with no care in the world. What could go wrong....

nek minnit

Tennessee knows how to fly.

Good catch hox.

Even though it is believed that there is a difference in the mutagens' eventual affects due to differing solution (Paradise Engineers fried, Sacrificial Engineer broken down), you are able to see how the swarm interacts with the body.

AC heads in the Hall of Heads have lines as well:

The horizontal lines resemble the Engineer aesthetic we saw in Prometheus on the sculpture drucea.

Cerulean Blue, I believe the large Engineer ship is on the ground.

IRaptus - Water has a significant role in every Alien movie if we look at them carefully.