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Ripley surviving to the queen ejection...

posted 3 years ago by Indig0Mist (84)
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The alien queen was huge and looked really heavy, and then you have all the pressure from the air flushing out from the ship, an alien that large hanging onto Ripley's foot would have ripped it clean off her leg, her arm, or both with that much weight and the air sucking it out, not to mention she also survives the deppresurization of the ship with that big airlock opened for that long and still has enough force and energy to climb up and close the airlock, completely unrealistic.

[–] Tommy (185) 3 years ago

Yeah, that spaceship would have COMPLETELY depressurized in a second or two. Super ridiculous, but made for an exciting scene, I suppose.

[–] pjl69 (2647) 3 years ago

Maybe there was zero gravity in the airlock, so weight of the alien queen wouldn't matter. And obviously, the ship didn't depressurize totally, because there was air left to breath. I'm not a huge fan of this film, but I never found this particular scene problematic.

[–] Indig0Mist (84) 3 years ago

Maybe there was zero gravity in the airlock, so weight of the alien queen wouldn't matter.

That's not how it works, if that was the case, then the alien couldn't be blew off the ship at all, it would be able to climb back easily to the ship, the scene itself makes that clear and it's accurate.

And obviously, the ship didn't depressurize totally, because there was air left to breath.

Yeah but that's the issue, the airlock looked big enough to decompress the ship within seconds, the levels of oxygen would drop and Ripley would suffer the consequences as she was in the airlock without any protection (like the suit she wore at the end of the first movie to eject the alien). For the movie obviously everything was ok, but I'm talking about logic here.

[–] moviechatterer (15697) 3 years ago

"if that was the case, then the alien couldn't be blew off the ship at all,"
yeah the escaping air would push it out

"airlock looked big enough to decompress the ship within seconds,"

not really , we dont really have any idea of the scale of the ship.
but it looked like an aircraft carrier or cruise ship size to me .

[–] degray9 (1126) 3 years ago

It was more realistic in the first movie when the Alien gets ejected out the airlock, Ripley actually put on a compression suit and strapped herself in. But I’ll be damned if the one in Aliens wasn’t a cool and iconic scene all the same.

[–] MikeCable (1853) 3 years ago

I'm no expert and have never really thought about the scene until you mentioned it, but your ideas make sense.

A little human ankle joint against a massive hand like that with all its twisting force, it surely would have left her with a severe injury at the least.

[–] Todgey (7) 3 years ago

To be fair, nothing about that scene was accurate.

once the airlock started to open, the air moving from the ship to the vacuum of space would have been explosive, there's no way in hell that either would have been able to hang on, nor have the time to do so.