Twitchy Droids
Rick
MemberXenomorphJanuary 10, 20122094 Views26 RepliesI've been analyzing the original on Blu-Ray. Did anyone else notice that Ash was drinking white fluid in the movie? I thought it was milk but then I got to thinking why would an android need to drink milk? First thing that to came to mind was he was faulting or developing a fault thats why he had to "rev up" prior to sitting at the console when they disembarked for the derelict. I mean could he have sprung a leak during hypersleep? Then that begs the question did he even sleep the entire time they were in hypersleep? What about when Ripley was interfacing with MU-THUR then her and Ash got into it a little bit. I think he biffed his head on the wall and knocked what ever was loose completely off causing his mental reasoning faculties to deteriorate.
So here's some side food for thought if this is 30 years prior and there's a droid or 2 in Prometheus, does anyone think a twitchy droid is going to have a huge impact on the movie? Also there has to be different droid manufacturers. Any opinions or ideas on what I mentioned above about Ash.
January 10, 2012
Hey Frantz,
I kind of agree but then again I need to detract a little bit. Ash seemed to me to be indecisive about almost everything throughout the movie when I analyzed his actions throughout. The onyl main exception I can make of this is when Kane first started having issues and coughed. Ash stopped everything almost expecting the Alien to burst out.
Then him telling Parker to not touch it was kind of twofold reasoning. Stabbing it would have imploded the ship causing Ash to go with it and then specimen. Is there any info from the novel about Ash's where abouts throughout the ordeal?
Rick
January 10, 2012
You know that is an excellent point. I so want to know what the hidden workings are that goes on behind the scenes in Alien and Prometheus regarding the company. You know there has to be a lot of underhanded dealings in it.
January 10, 2012
I did see the old Alien Trailer but it has been a long long time. I'll have to rewatch it. But Ridley did make both movies so it would kind of go hand in hand with his technique per say.
January 11, 2012
To answer your question. The androids are not biological. They are strictly mechanical meant to look organic and that is about the extent of it. I do love the use of fiberoptics in Ash used for data transfer or signals in the movie to and from his brain. This was merely hypothetical use of data transfer until the eary-mid 80's with the advent of second generation fiber that was able to carry any real bandwidth across it.
The xeno's are strictly organic meant to look mechanical. The difference falls on the ability of organic to have clean crisp mechanical 100% symetrical lines or corners is impossible. Example: the octopus. The octopus tries hard really hard to imitate sold hard lines but can't. It comes close but is unable to. Incase most of you didn't know. Octopus can change color. This is the only example that I can think of in nature at the moment.
January 12, 2012
I would actually argue that the synthetics in the Alien franchise are bio-mechanical - 90% mechanical and 10% biological, similar in respect to the Terminator. Yeah, okay inside they are made of circuits, wires, memory nodes (Pasta, Caviar and Marbles) ect. but externally they must have some form of grown human skin for Ash and Call to pass as human. Of course with Bishop this suggests his skin was cloned.
