mother ship

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MemberOvomorphApril 16, 20125139 Views46 Replies

so I've been watching you guys debate about this movie since I read about it a few weeks ago. I have to bring attention to something common to Alien and Aliens (the only two movies scott will allow into the family) that I hadnt seen mentioned yet (very possible I missed it). There is certainly a "mother" ship in atmosphere of LV --- , dispatching the Prometheus, much like there was for the Sulaco and in the original Alien on LV426. The fact that it seems certain that the Prometheus kamakazi's the sj's ship and sends it back to this planet, suggests that its another ship that lands on LV426. I think that scotts suggestion that the link to "Alien" happens in the last minutes of this movie eludes to this movie playing out, the sj's ship crashing, and when it seems we've prevailed, another ship comes out of the ground and takes off, making all the heroes efforts irrelevant. I think its the mother ship of the Prometheus that somehow scuttles the derilict ship onto LV426

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April 16, 2012

@yhms I have read this with interest. Ultimately, I don't see the basis on which you maintain your disagreement. Nostromo and Prometheus, really are, quite apparently, of a broadly comparable size - and both are very substantially bigger than the "drop ship" used in Aliens. Yet, you have commented how relatively, "massive", the Nostromo was in comparison to Prometheus and you also mentioned something about it looking, "like a giant skyscraper floating through space"? It really does [i]not[/i] look like [i]that[/i]. I'm now wondering: is there some chance you are confusing the Nostromo with the [i]refinery[/i] it's hauling - and by that token, confusing, [i]a refinery[/i], with a "Mother-ship"?

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April 16, 2012

Thanks for clearing that up BigDave. I was about to have an episode of nerdrage if one more person referred to the refinery as the Nostromo.

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April 16, 2012

To get a sense of scale - all one has to do is compare the bridge area / windows on the Nostromo and Prometheus... the Prometheus seems a bit smaller - but it is obviously not a two seat drop ship with a single vehicle cargo area. There is no room on the Aliens drop ship for crew quarters, cargo bays, med facilities, escape vehicles etc... Yeah - and it seems like a lot of people mistake the Nostromo's cargo for the ship itself. I think some of us are simply more "detail oriented" than others ;-)

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April 16, 2012

For what it's worth, in the documentary on the boxed set DVD, the model makers/effects guys who worked on "Alien" state that the Nostromo itself is scaled to be 800 feet long. When you include the refinery section, it's supposed to be something like 2 and 1/2 miles long in total.