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I missed something at the end


What did David bring into the ship inside of him? Those little egg things. Was he going to continue he's freaky experiments with those colonists?

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facehugger embryos it looked like. So yes, more experiments.

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Alright, thanks!

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Oddly enough after rewatching the film I noticed that the cryo trey David places the face hugger in is the same one walter removed the bad embryo from at the beggining of the film. I even suspect david placed the face hugger more or less in the slot that was occupied by the bad deformed embryo.


http://162.209.73.6/deformed_embryo_removed.png
early in the film Notice how the embryo is all messed up compared to the others
that walter then places it in a Biohazard container.

At the end of the film is the shot of the face hugger embryo incase you actually missed it.
http://162.209.73.6/face_hugger_embryo.png

It actually makes the face hugger look cute. Like a plush toy I once saw
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjCi9fGhu7UAhUJyoMKHSDbBwYQjRwIBw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Fexplore%2Ffacehugger-plush%2F&psig=AFQjCNE_oEHWQLpglu5LdmAkoF-OuTdoSg&ust=1499203538914630

here the face hugger was placed in the cryo trey. Which I suspect was the same one the bad human embryo was in.
http://162.209.73.6/facehugger_replacement.png


David and Walter are manipulating the same cryo try. Its located in Cryobay 22 and the tray is the 2nd from the bottom.
http://162.209.73.6/cryobay_22.png

Unless this is a bad example of using the same props for what are supposed to be different locations in the ship my suspicion is in the original script David is supposed to remove remove the bad embro before switching it with the face hugger embryo but in editing the scenes were split and reshot with Walter removing the bad embryo in order to show the audience there was an embryo chamber so as to provide a chekovs gun early in the plot otherwise the audience would be all "Where did those embryos come from".

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChekhovsGun

What do you guys think?

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Those pics were helpful. Interesting, you might right about the editing and reshots of those scenes involving Walter and David dealing with the embryos. I don't remember the scene from the beginning where Walter removes the bad embryo. I really need to watch this again once the bluray is out.

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Walter removes the bad embryo after he checks on danials and the captains cryo pod. He literally just walks about 30 feet and opens the cryobay doors with a security code. You can see the crew cryopods in the shot where he approaches the emcryo chamber behind door 22. you can see one of the crew cryobeds at the lower right of the cryo_22.png as the door 22 is opening. At the end David does the same thing after pulling his "Don't let the bed bugs bight" implying he's going to infect her in her sleep he even reports on the radio that she died during the nutrino burst. he walks 30 feed just like david then opens cryobay door 22 and places 2 eggs. in the freezer. The same freezer from the begining. Its like how did he know to open as if it was pure chance. How did he get another security code that gave him access. Did he probe walters circuits?

Come to think of it how do nutrinos cause that much damage. Nutrinos are so small they varely interact with matter at all and were nearly undetectable. As a matter of fact its so hard to be hit by these nearly massless particles. They are more harmless then photons and electrons which can do a lot of damage due to their electrical charge where as just about every nutrino to strike the earth passes right through it with out interacting with any of earths mass. This is why they are so hard to detect (they don't disturb anything) and scientist had a hard time proving they exists. They originally only suspected there existence when their equations coudln't account for the infintesimal mass loss when they observed some particles colliding with each other. We only first saw evidence of one in the 1970s indirectly when on tapped a photon

Maby a gamma burst or actual Neutron radiation showed have been scripted to cause the damage to the solar sails. Nutrinos interact so infrequently with anything no wonder people debated their their existence. They nearly impossible to obsertve let alone destry solar sails and starships.

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The bad embryo is just some foreshadowing.

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Pretty sure David is trying to create his own life and so those eggs will grow to be the xenos in the next film or so.

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Wow another thing I observed. In the chinese edit david spits up one egg replaces it then leaves. But in the American edit he spits up two and places the second one directly under the first one. Why would this be changed in the chinese version?

In the american version the sequence numbers are A-312 and A-315 the tray that is down and right by one from the bad embryo try. :/
http://162.209.73.6/american_2_egg_cut.png


I'm wondering why the chinese version was cut to only one egg. Like wtf.

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That's why I'll never go see a movie in China. I want to see all the original sends in a movie, not some lame edited/censored version.

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I'm pretty sure your not intending to go to china either. Still I just am curious as to why it was cut down to one egg.

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If I were to believe what you say because now I have doubts, my answer would be that it's different because its in their power to make the change. Why else would they do something so lame? Like what difference does it make if David swallowed two eggs rather than one?

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Just download the china edit and see for your self how mangled the movie is. Not sure why you would all of a sudden "have doubts".

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No that's okay. I'm really not interested in doing that. I don't trust whatever you're talking about.

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yes its a part of your phobias no doubt.

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Lol that's funny. Just go back to illegally downloading lame Chinese versions of movies, posting the screenshots of scenes and then analysing them to death. If that's your quirk. We all have to contribute to the site in one way or another I guess. Lol

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Lol. Says the troll looking to justify his existence by minimize all conversations people have that are interested in these films and how they were produced and shot, while he sits back thinking he's superior due to his histronic personality which drives him to troll films he doesn't like.

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Wrong. You got the wrong person. I discuss all movies that I have seen. I even discuss movies that I'm interested in seeing. That's the difference between me and the rest of the posters here. Now if you had bothered reading the comments from other posters on the board, you'd see that lots of other people discuss movies that they didn't like. This board is full of nasty comments about Ridley Scott and this movie. Is that trolling according to you? One of the posters admitted to being a narcissist. Btw, I'm not his sock account in case you were going to accuse me.

Also, there is no rule that says a person cannot discuss their opinion about a movie. There is nothing that implies a person is a troll because they wrote something negative about a movie either. I think that you ought to educate yourself on what a troll is.
Just because I don't want to go to a country who's government thinks that it is okay to edit or censor certain parts of a movie for whatever dumb reasons, doesn't make me a troll. You brought up the discussion about the changes made to the movie. I didn't.

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Who the hell ever thought you wanted to go to china. Its obvious not to many people would go there. I responded to your inept post cause you were implying I was being untruthful about the sever cuts the chinese did and asked what the motivation was to trim two egg embryos down to one. I find that interesting but you were like "I don't believe you I have my doubts". I'm like why would I fu*ing make that up What would be the point of that. Just use some rational judgement already rather then assuming every thought your brain farts out as truth. Your skeptical of every one elses assertions but your own and that makes you a troll as you judge people by standards far greater then your own.

I'm not aware of a poster admitting they are a narcissist not sure why you brought it up. I don't see an echo chamber around your posts so I would have no reason to believe your using sock account. Its weird that you even mention it. Did some one accuse you or something?

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You don't anything about me so shut the hell up. And we wouldn't be having this argument were you not such an uptight douchebag.

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Why don't you shut up? I know enough about you already troll.
Did you forget put the word "know" in your your 10 words there. Did your emotions prevent you from following your own grammar nazi standard style of writing. Hurry up and edit your post before anyone else notices this time.

Opps too late your editing your post just like I am now to comment on it.

Go ahead take the bait already. Look at this post with grammitical errors.

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You got your nerve labeling me a troll when you're trolling China's movies. I almost fell for it too but you gave yourself away a long time ago. As if anyone were to believe that you have an interest in the editing process.
I'm not even close to being a grammar nazi. I pointed out your spelling and grammar mistakes because it proves how much of a hypocrite you are after you called me ignorant.
At least I try to edit my spelling and grammar mistakes. You just leave yours in like an ignoramous.

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