Weyland told him to "try harder". It was one of the most obvious pieces in the film!
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Weyland told him to "try harder". It was one of the most obvious pieces in the film!
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Yes. Come on Vonhelmet, do keep up. It was quite clear why he was doing what he did.
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Clearly the Aliens saga ignores the whole Isaac Asimov line of robotic law. I didnt think it was obvious he would do that unless we suppose its never a big deal either way
I figure that would be the answer...
So... Try harder to do what? Find a solution to his aging? I fail to see how a stupendously intelligent android would leap from that problem to a solution of tricking a fellow crew member into ingesting an unknown chemical that could very well lead to more piles of dead bodies around the place. The instruction to try harder makes sense in the context of his finding the engineer in the cockpit and waking him up and asking for help. It doesn't make sense in terms of him poisoning other crew members.
I don't buy it, I'm afraid. It's stupid.
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But at least Ash in the original Alien had clear instructions and it was obvious why he was doing what he was doing.
Alien has already established that the androids do what the Company tells them to. As silversurfer says, no Asimov's First Law of Robotics here.
But why does the company want David to infect someone? And how do they even know what the black gunk is or what it does? It's just a wild stab in the dark.
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they need answer. the android needs a subject and takes his shot. i didn't see anything wrong with that part of the film really.
i agree - thats one of the least stupid things in the film - plenty more to chose from.
Believe me, I'm certainly not saying that's the only dumb bit in the film.
Why does David elect to test the effects of goo on one of the only two people the entire mission potentially depends on? There is a 10+ strong, completely disposable, crew just next door. It is so disposable, we don't even know what happened to some of them after their brief appearances. But David (or Wayland) picks one of the only two scientists that know anything about anything in this mission to save his master.
I get the impression that David is experiencing some kind of emotion or feeling, notice how he is smiling when he discovered the map room, there is no one else around to see it so he's smiling purely for his own benefit. Remember Holloway was quite rude to David, maybe the infection was revenge...an emotional response.
He seems self motivated for much of the movie, almost like an exploring child, just wants to experience everything and seems excited but all that is around him. Again, this points to some kind of emotion.
Perhaps he's one of the early "twitchy" models and they experimented with artificial emotion chips or the like.
He seems self motivated for much of the movie, almost like an exploring child, just wants to experience everything and seems excited but all that is around him. Again, this points to some kind of emotion.
Perhaps he's one of the early "twitchy" models and they experimented with artificial emotion chips or the like.
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I Think he done it to see the outcome it would have on two people having intercourse, which in this case was squidward
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Those sequels were never as good probably would be why