Hello everyone, I haven't written an article about Alien for a long time, some time ago I saw a more interesting topic in the comment area, and I feel the need to take it out and talk to you Alien fans: What happened to the plot gap between Alien 2 and Alien 3?
We know that at the end of Alien 2, Ripley successfully threw the Alien Queen out of the airlock of the military spacecraft Sulaco, and then settled several survivors into the hibernation module to prepare for return to Earth.
However, at the beginning of Alien 3, a face-hugging worm appears in the hibernation area of the Sorako, which corrode Ripley's hibernation chamber with acid and implants the embryo of the Alien Queen into her body. At this time, the ship's AI detected the smoke caused by the corrosive hatch, so it activated the emergency procedure to automatically transfer the hibernation cabin where everyone was located to the lifeboat and launch it urgently, falling on the "Rage" -161 prison planet, which led to the next story. But it also leaves the audience with a huge question, what exactly caused the fire on the Solaco, and where did the face-hugging worms on board and later in prison come from?
The most common explanation for this is that the Alien Queen, after boarding the Soraco in a transport boat, secretly laid an Alien egg in a corner of the landing craft (although the Queen did not have an egg layer at the time, many believe that the last egg was hidden in its body).
When Ripley rescued Newt, he dropped a litter of alien eggs, and the queen didn't even want her own egg layer after being provoked, so she ripped it off and chased it.
It was the face-hugging worm born from this egg that destroyed Ripley's hibernation pod after waiting for everyone to hibernate, injecting the queen embryo into her. But there are some irrationalities in this explanation, because from the time the Queen boarded the Solaco to the time ripley pushed out the airlock, her range of motion has been in the hangar of the spacecraft, and the opening credits of Alien 3 show that the Alien egg is located near the hibernation capsule in the core area of the spacecraft.
Therefore, the author feels that there should be a more reasonable explanation for this part of the plot.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="23" > cyborgs - "bishops"</h1>
The Bishop is not a villain like the "Ash" of the generation, but instead he pilots the landing craft to pick up Ripley and Newt from the platform in a critical moment, and is finally torn in two by the Queen in a decisive battle aboard the Soraco. Although these acts of the "bishop" left a relatively positive impression on the audience, this can only show that he is a qualified cyborg on the ship, and it is his job to rescue the lives of the crew in a critical moment.
When Ripley and his party are trapped in the colonial building of LV-426, the "Bishop" is elected to go to the console alone to remotely control another landing craft on the Solaco to come down and pick up the survivors, and he has every chance to sneak an alien egg into the landing craft and bring it back to the Solaco. This could explain why, when they first returned to the Soraco, the AI did not inform the ship of the presence of an unknown organism (the Alien Queen), as the "Bishop" had closed it beforehand to avoid the detection of the Alien Egg.
It is important to know that the identity of the "Bishop" has not changed, and he is still a cyborg produced and controlled by the Wieland-Yutani Company. For the "Bishop", the interests of the company are always the primary goal, and when the two are not in conflict, he can behave like a loyal crew; but when the interests of the company conflict with the interests of the crew, he will still not hesitate to sacrifice the crew (as does David in Prometheus and Alien: The Covenant).
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="26" > about the face-hugging bugs on "Rage"-161</h1>
In the deleted clip of Alien 3, there was a special face-hugging worm called the "royal facehugger". They are larger than the average face-hugger and are able to inject multiple embryos (which also include queen embryos) into different host bodies. The face-hugging worm that suggests that it infected Ripley is actually the same as the face-hugging worm that infected the prison animal on "Rage"-161.
Of course, if we take into account the plot of the game work, there is another possibility. In the 2013 shooter alien: Colonial Army, carter Burke had sent information about the presence of aliens on lv-426 back to Wieland-Yutani headquarters long before Ripley's Marines were out of order. So shortly after Alien 2 ended, another Wielander scientific research vessel, the USS Legato, arrived to intercept the Soraco. However, legato later killed himself, provoking a large number of aliens on LV-426 to cause the regiment to be destroyed, and further dragging the Solaco into the water.
However, there are also some loopholes in this explanation, such as since the Wieland Company has sent the Legato and knows the specific location of the Soraco, then they must also know that Ripley's lifeboat has fallen on the nearby "Rage" -161 prison planet (the plot of the game implies that Wieland Company guided the lifeboat to launch the lifeboat in the direction of Rage -161), but in the movie they are not prepared at all, until the prison staff return the physiological information of Ripley. It is clearly not in line with their style.
In addition, because "Alien 3" was not ideal at the box office, Fox sold the adaptation rights to the film to Dark Horse Comics, and the comics launched by the latter were basically similar in plot to the movie, but with a lot of action scenes and descriptions of some details. In the comics, the embryo of the Alien Queen was first parasitic in the body of the little girl Newt (suggesting that she was infected immediately after being captured on the ground).
However, during hibernation, the embryo voluntarily left Newt's body (crawling out of her mouth, probably feeling that the child's constitution could not provide enough nourishment), and then crawled through Ripley's mouth to re-parasitize her.
There are more slots in this episode (dark horse production, you know), first of all, the alien embryo has no ability to detach itself from the host during the developmental stage, let alone destroy the cover of the hibernation pod to find other hosts; and it can't explain the origin of the other face-hugging worm in the prison, so it's good to see.
Of course, there is one last possibility, that is, "Alien 3" and "Alien 4" are just Ripley's nightmares in deep sleep, and in reality she and Newt are still alive and successfully return to Earth..... This is also the ending that I have been hoping for.
Which of these possibilities do you think is more in line with your desired plot? Welcome to express your opinion, thanks for reading!
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