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[Ulysses 31]

Presumably there was also a lot of work put in to the consciousness transfer and synthtic tech has also been around for decades at this point in the show - the twitchy A2s being well in the past.

The show takes place a few years before Alien so the twitchy A2's are still a current thing there. The show points out Wendy and a couple of others are the first to have this type of consciousness transfer(could be a lie but that's the info we have atm).

They were sent to help with a rescue mission in a friendly city, it was obviously reckless, although the expected risk would be from unstable structures or one of the kid/synth hybrids going psychotic and murdering a bunch of people. The worth of the hybrids is stated as billions - a drop in the ocean for a guy with his own personal fortune being in the trillions - and presumably most of the important valuable tech is that which allows the consciousness transfer not the actual hybrid synths. Plus he states his main reason for the whole project is just to have someone interesting to talk to.

It's hardly a friendly city, it's run by a competitor. Maybe billions is just pocket change to the guy but it's comically absurd risking billions so easily for flimsy reason when he has the resources to send more experiences people to make retrievals and the guy could have controlled testing environment for his new toys.

In pure dollar value Musk probably made a bigger reckless decision to buy twitter and then again when he rebranded it to X.

He probably did that out for ideological reason seeing how twitter was run like an echo chamber. Twitter/X started becoming profitable not so long ago so I'm not really seeing it as a reckless move by him.

It just seems strange to get hooked up upon - a trillionaire making an impulsive decision just for the fuck of it seems perfectly normal and in character.

Fit and normal for the character remains to be seen. It's doubtful he got that wealthy by being that way and megacorps don't stay that by wasting billions on whimsical decisions.

 

[poppabk]

It's hardly a friendly city, it's run by a competitor.

Its a Prodigy city unless I am completely misunderstanding.

 

[Ulysses 31]

Its a Prodigy city unless I am completely misunderstanding.

You're right, for a moment I thought it was WY that sent the synths.

 

[Alex11]

Nerd

Just enjoy it

Ok

 

[Trilobit]

There is no real reason why xenos need to be homogeneous. Have some create eggs via a queen, others dissolve a host into a cocoon, etc. Even a variant using the black goo just to keep Ridley Scott happy.

I hope there's a future movie where we get to see a xeno bred by David which instead of killing anyone, traps and monologues endlessly about its basic knowledge of philosophy. So that the victim has no other option than to kill themselves to get out of it.

 

[poppabk]

Also is Wendy's actual back magnetic or is it her clothing?

 

[kpopSuperstar]

Seeing as they are going the science route, I'm intrigued to find out if they answer the biggest question - how does a 6 inch tall alien become an 8 foot tall Alien with no food source? Either it is somehow packing all the energy and material in that tiny body - or it uses something completely different for food - rock, metal etc?

Wasn't that answered in Promotheus? they spawn from the black goo, and have insane properties, they can suck up nutrients from anything and grow big in the matter of minutes.

 

[poppabk]

Wasn't that answered in Promotheus? they spawn from the black goo, and have insane properties, they can suck up nutrients from anything and grow big in the matter of minutes.

I was assuming (hoping) we were going to back away from full on black goo AI nano particle DNA altering biological weapon explanations. Think someone may have hit on it earlier in the thread and they will have the black goo being part of the explanation but ignore some of the full on craziness.

 

[kpopSuperstar]

I was assuming (hoping) we were going to back away from full on black goo AI nano particle DNA altering biological weapon explanations. Think someone may have hit on it earlier in the thread and they will have the black goo being part of the explanation but ignore some of the full on craziness.

I always thought that Yutani knew of the goo and it's reason why they want the alien, that Ridley built this into the story from the start.

 

[FinalBossWithTheMostPower]

I always thought that Yutani knew of the goo and it's reason why they want the alien, that Ridley built this into the story from the start.

No, that'd be the retcon they are preparing us for with this show.

 

[RCX]

Also is Wendy's actual back magnetic or is it her clothing?

Someone making the show thought it looked cool and they forgot to explain it in any plausible way.