Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="D+1" data-source="post: 1707788" data-attributes="member: 13654">LV-426 was the planets only designation in the first movie.  In the second movie it had been colonized and named Acheron (taken from the Greek name of a river in Hades).  Between those two movies it obviously doesn't get a name because Ripley was the sole initial survivor and then it was just "some unknown lifeform" and referred to as a xenomorph as a simple alternative to alien.  They mean largely the same thing except that xenomorph is more specifically referring to an animal or insect of some kind.I believe it's scientific tradition that the discoverer is allowed to name a new species - but who's the actual discoverer?  Kane, the initial victim?  Ripley, the sole survivor?  The unknown individual(s) who first translated the warning being transmitted from LV-426 - which led to Ash the science robot being placed aboard the Nostromo and it's return journey being diverted to the location?  Was it Mr. Weyland who deserves the credit?  <S>[SPOILER]After seeing AVP yesterday it's clear that his company - which would eventually become the Weyland-Yulani company from the Alien movies - knows about the aliens existence only because of the incident in Antartica but it apparantly is unable to do anything with this knowledge until many decades later when the LV-426 warning is recieved.[/SPOILER]<S>In Alien3 [one of the movies that I refuse to acknowledge actually exists] it's still just a lone hitchhiker on Ripleys escape pod that nobody knows about until it's loose inside a penal colony.  Nobody yet really ready to claim credit for its discovery except, IIRC, those unknown individuals/forces inside the company who show up at the end to finally take the sucker away for analysis and exploitation.In Alien: Resurrection [another movie I refuse to acknowledge the acutal existence of] they've gotten one from SOMEwhere - I rather assume by going back to Acheron/LV-426 and finding eggs or something that was outside the blast zone of the atmosphere processing station from the second movie.  What is truly mystifying is why they should cross-breed it with Ripley of whom nothing but ashes should have remained.I'd have to say that Ripley most deserves the naming rights for THREE times being the sole survivor of incidents involved in actually capturing one [survived the Nostromo explosion, the destruction of the Sulaco, and then the incident on the penal colony immediately after which she committed suicide], but she obliterated herself.  And that leaves only the scheming quack from the last movie (Dr. Gediman) who also subesquently dies taking whatever pet name he gave them with him.Maybe you should name them Gigers.  It kinda sounds right, but it doesn't fit into the movie canon in anyway, it's a real-world reference.It's really just that nobody PUBLIC has ever survived long enough to even think about taking credit for their discovery and claiming the right to name them, or bothering to do so.</blockquote>

Verification