Timeline for How did Burke get the Facehuggers into the room where Ripley and Newt were sleeping in the movie Aliens?
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| Jun 5, 2013 at 12:28 | comment | added | Stefan | He is not stupid as such, he is just greedy. He says to Ripley that these creatures would be worth millions to the bio weapons division. That blinded him to any of the danger. | |
| Oct 23, 2012 at 13:28 | comment | added | Beta | @JohnO: Well, yeah, okay, he had plenty of evidence of how dangerous they were. So trying to smuggle them out was stupid^3. But as for using them to silence Ripley, maybe he just felt that avoiding ruin/prison was worth, say, a 90% chance of death (and the certainty of killing some more people, if he gave that more than a millisecond of thought). | |
| Oct 23, 2012 at 11:57 | vote | accept | SPIRiT_1984 | ||
| Oct 23, 2012 at 9:59 | comment | added | Stefan | He was not so much stupid IMHO as he was blinded by greed. He saw a way to make millions with bio weapons etc. He was also quite keen to get rid of Ripley as she was going to reveal that the colonist massacre was basically his fault. | |
| Oct 23, 2012 at 5:27 | comment | added | John O | Ok. So he just ignores everything Ripley says. Hey, maybe she's hysterical and exaggerates. But then the marines roll in. Get their asses kicked. People cocooned up in the walls only to have parasitic aliens burst out of their chests. They hole up in a building where it's obvious the previous inhabitants knew more about the aliens and still couldn't put up an effective defense. He reads the medical reports on the facehuggers too. And yet he decides to mess with them? To release them, after all that? If they had decided to attack him, there's nothing he could have done. He's stupid. | |
| Oct 23, 2012 at 5:19 | comment | added | Beta | I wouldn't say he was stupid, exactly. He didn't realize just how dangerous they were, but then who would? And if I remember right, his back was to the wall; Ripley had discovered his secret and was going to expose him, so he had to do something, and fast. (And he was a psychopath, but you don't climb that high in Weyland-Yutani if you're a Boy Scout.) | |
| Oct 23, 2012 at 5:03 | comment | added | John O | @Beta I agree that these facehuggers might have been past their expiration dates. It certainly seems reasonable, after all these were removed at the very beginning, when there was still enough semblance of civilization for them to be removed. That was what, several weeks prior? Even so, you wouldn't catch me taking risks with them. I wouldn't go near the damned things until they were burnt down to ash. Burke was not only a piece of $#&#*$ but stupid beyond belief. | |
| Oct 23, 2012 at 5:00 | comment | added | Beta | Remember that they had already attacked colonists before they were captured, so they may have expended much of their limited reserves of energy/acid/whatever. | |
| Oct 22, 2012 at 12:45 | history | answered | John O | CC BY-SA 3.0 |