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By the sometimes acid blood I mean why doesn’t it melt thru a paper cutter or a meat hook? Forget weight and strength and pressure points, that hook shouldn’t have lasted even a couple seconds impaled thru the alien before melting.

There I’m assuming it missed any major blood vessels and that.

Presumably, that jaw is predominantly muscle and cartilage. Perhaps it only has tiny capillaries, as it’s not intended for much more than whipping out to brain someone, and not any kind of sustained physical activity which might require a greater blood supply?

Not saying the scene isn’t silly for it. But again, I think there are fairly reasonable explanations.

In the early Aliens movie it’s mentioned that the Xenomorph’s blood oxides into acid. So maybe the combination of being under tension and the tongue’s material created an air tight seal?

The Xenomorph could have lunged forward to attack her with its tail, surely? Maybe it’s super sensitive in that spot so couldn’t be it’s usual cunning self?

My explanation for the Xenomorph’s erratic combat effectiveness?



I am wondering if their cyber brains have additional skills programmed in that they aren’t aware of, such as fighting, driving, etc.

When BK is talking with the girl she mentions their brains being super computers so they are very quick to assimilate new information. They also have adult motor control skills so they have possibly had some ‘skill’ programmed in.

Also possible that we didn’t see any of the ‘learning to walk’ stuff because of time and/or it being waved away because they are in adult bodies.

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-Also, why was it trying to pull away from her? It could have just as easily jumped onto her, pinned her down and then went stabby stabby with its tail.
-On that note, what happened to its tail? It suddenly too short to reach past its head? Pah.

I think Ahtman figured out the rules of the show a while ago:

 Ahtman wrote:
I imagine Boy Kavalier will be learning why Intelligence and Wisdom are two different stats in D&D.

 Snrub wrote:

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Why did they go thru the whole process of removing the embryo from the egg to implant into a single lung rather than just tossing one egg into a room with a sheep and seeing what happens? Like, how did they even know specifically to look for the embryo, that it could survive submerged in liquid, etc. I liked the android’s “Don’t stick your face next to the egg” speech and their “no humans allowed in this room” protocol they then enacted, but everything after that felt like Too much knowledge on the subject.

-I agree with MDG, Kirsh had read all the files the previous crew had collated on the various alien species. He was working from an informed position and either knew exactly what he was looking for, or otherwise correctly extrapolated what he had to do.
I did like the way he took charge with BK and pushed him out of the lab. Shows he's not prepared to fool around with things he doesn't yet fully understand. And I think actually shows that BK has at least a modicum of trust in those he delegates too. Or at least a level of trust in Kirsh. He allows himself to be ejected from the lab without throwing a tantrum and doing the the usual billionaire thing of "you can't tell me what to do!" when they're separated from their new toys. While he might not like it, he accepts Kirsh's judgement on the matter and is instantly prepared to roll with it.

I do like that he didn't go for Dumbest Genius Ever Award right away. That's kind of refreshing. Happy news, Riri. You still reign supreme!

Noah likes his third act twists. What could he be planning?

I'm hoping for someone to make the transference into a xenomorph body.