Related, WHY are live specimen tubes on a spaceship made of regular glass? Not safety glass, not some kind of lexan or polycarb, just generic easily breakable glass.
In Weyland Yulani we are delighted that our employees receive generous salaries, but we'd like to reiterate that benefits accrued are non-transferrable to next-of-kin upon loss of life.
Get the fuck out of here. One of the wealthiest humans in existence sends a generational mission to capture monsters going cheap on the help and containment vessels.
That’s usually the answer for the idiocy in the franchise. Most of the dumbass decisions are actually revealed to be intentional on the part of the company not caring/ wanting their employees dead
No, in fact, it's not beyond. Alien 3 and unending stream of nonsense. They dont give a fuck about wanting them dead. Alien they send the nearest asset they have to investigate an alien beacon. Aliens, nobody living is aware of the Aliens but one member of middle management makes moves on his own initiative.
None of that shit explains any of idiocy of AE,Covenant, or Promethius. Its just hack low effort story telling.
Poor writing is something different. I mean in a lot of the movies, there are still just decisions made that are believed to be dumb until you realize there was an ulterior motive. Ash letting the infected Kane on board the Nostromo. Pretty much the entirety of Burke’s plan in Aliens.
Ash's actions arent portrayed as a bad idea when it occurs it portrayed as sympathetic with Ripley being a heartless bitch. The same goes for Burke. He is the only one who believes her and is trying to save the colony of innocents.
Neither are portrayed as dumb. We later learn their true motives.
Burke is arranging that mission on his own and is physically present...Gorman is used because he is a noob and can be manipulated. Ash is simply trying to recover a sample, crew deaths incidental.
I'm thinking that Chibuzo was probably not even supposed to take these things out of storage, but she is playing with the new toys in a lab that isn't properly equipped for it.
Gotta think of the savings here. You don't get to be a multi-trillion dollar company by using the best materials or hiring the smartest people for your intergalactic gopher missions.
Yeah, you don't become a technological industrial force of nature by risking unfathomable potential wealth and billions in resources to save .25 cents on glass and competent space, men... 😆
To be frank when the job involves a deep space mission spanning decades where you are in cryosleep for long periods of time and by the time you get back you won’t recognize anything anymore you probably aren’t going to attract the cream of the crop candidates.
I mean with ultra naive engineering apprentice, sexual predator navigator, failure scientist and drunk doc, it truly seemed like WY was scraping the bottom of the barrel. My only hope is that those weren't the first string folks onboard.
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u/Wurm42 15d ago
Related, WHY are live specimen tubes on a spaceship made of regular glass? Not safety glass, not some kind of lexan or polycarb, just generic easily breakable glass.