androids/ programmed or free will
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MemberOvomorphFebruary 03, 20121513 Views7 RepliesOn the commentary of alien the 2003 cast and crew, Ridley speaks of the attack on ripley as more than just an attempted murder. He says that ash's attack is also a sexual assault and the magazine forced into her mouth is a pseudo oral sex act except he does not have the equipment to carry it out .
I never made that connection originally but its an interesting theme .
Ridley also thinks the android is 3/4 human, and a quarter biomechanoid i'm wondering if any of those similar events are likely to appear in prometheus- and since the ash model is considered (as bishop described twitchy ) i'm guessing the david model is even older and possibly even more temperamental or it could have simply been a design fault in that model.
Then again if -as some of you have pointed out, the company's intention was set from the start then was ash programmed this way or was it a malfunction of some sort.
Are the androids programmed ? or do they believe in the causes the company's claim to have their interests in ?
After all both ash and bishop were science officers , do they posses free will etc. ?
February 03, 2012
Well first of all Bishop was an executive officer, not a science officer.
Also Bishop said that what Ash did could no longer happen because all Synthetics are now fitted with behavourial Inhibitors that do not allow them to harm humans (I'm sure someone knows the full quote).
i think they are probably bound by their programming, being property of WY, to follow company orders, but Bishop displayed a glimmer of free will quite a few times, whereas Ash was pretty much the companies lap dog.
I think the later models became more 'human' in their thinking and actions, so it will be interesting to see how David fits in too chronology!
