WHY DOESNT RIPLEY GET KILLED IN ESCAPE SHUTTLE IMMEDIATELY

The Alien was not hiding in the script. It was just going to jump out at her. As I recall reading, they were trying to find a way to make it hidden so that Ripley and the audience would not see it and it would be a surprise. They tried hiding it in the storage locker and other places, but nothing worked. Someone suggested they hide it in the set dressing and make part of the set look like the alien head, so they did that and it blended right in.

Ridley said Ripley “killed it, but it would have died soon anyway” due to the limited life span, so I always assumed that was simply his explanation as to why it was hidden in the duct work. It was going there to go dormant or die.

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I think the Xeno was possibly not that hungry at the moment, having just eaten Lambert.

Also, I think it's more intelligent than people give it credit for. It wanted Riley to start the escape shuttle up, so it had a chance of getting to somewhere else populated before killing her.

Wow! I really like the short life cycle angle.

Wonder if the body decays and then releases the acid? Have to make sure you clear out any dead aliens before you take off.

Maybe the acid blood has a fossilizing agent, after a week or so it turns hard as stone?

I think they can surely change things as they go along.. especially of RS kind of makes more movies that De-Canonize Aliens... which i hope they dont do.

But my point being that what if the Xenomorph when its Life-cycle completes... it dies and its Acid Blood then breaks down its Genetic Material to allow for some other Stage so the Organism can Procreate.

Its maybe hard to visualise, but what if a Egg Grows from its remains?

I think its easier to consider what if the Neomorph had a limited Span, or even after being killed too... the Body then breaks down and from its remains Spouts more Spores.

This would indeed in affect make the Organism a Living Walking Killing Deadly Virus.

"Maybe the acid blood has a fossilizing agent, after a week or so it turns hard as stone?"

Interesting idea... that would be interesting to see... maybe similar explains those Engineers bodies in Alien Covenant?

"Interesting idea... that would be interesting to see... maybe similar explains those Engineers bodies in Alien Covenant?"

Or the Space Jockey exit wound. If it's a recent event?

Indeed could explain the reason why it was Petrified looking, well ossified maybe as it never looked Fossilized, the Space Jockey to me did not look like a Skeleton... if it was then its a bit of a strange and crappy one... the Rips looks like Bone, and the Helmet looked like a Skeleton.. but the other parts seemed to be connected to the Chair... maybe it could be connections that connected beneath the Skin and then the Space Jockey became a Fossil... but i never thought so.

To me it was like a Exoskeleton and so i was drawn to this... but also i wondered if it was a Suit too... but certainly back in the day i thought it was a Exoskeleton and was connected to the Xenomorph and Ship as the 3 was connected.

So i would assume a Dead Xenomorph after thousands of years would also turn out looking similar.

But when Prometheus came out, i had speculated from clues given that the Suits was somehow Part Organic..  And so i consider the Suits where Organic to a degree...

so i had the following analogy how how those Engineer Suits in Prometheus would eventually become like the Space Jockey.   And i used these to get the point across.