Corrected entry: This mistake is slightly different from how the eggs actually got onto the Sulaco (that mistake was already addressed in another post). In all other movies, the eggs were 'hatched' by some sort of movement or trigger. Since what was left of the crew was in stasis, they were completely motionless and would not have triggered the egg to open up.
12o
11th Feb 2013
Alien 3 (1992)
11th Feb 2013
Alien (1979)
Corrected entry: In the scene where Ripley is leaving in the escape ship, she's looking out the front window looking back at the ship as she's leaving. When she was prepping the escape ship moments before, the cockpit window is facing outward. If the ship took off nose-forward, she could not see the mother ship moving away through the front window as then she'd be going backwards. There is a small window in the back of the ship through the rear door, but it's far too small to be the same window she was looking out while leaving. Also, the front window has diagonal support struts to hold the windows in place, providing further evidence that the window she is looking through is actually the front of the ship.
Correction: Ripley boards the Narcissus and starts the launch procedure. We see the shuttle being lowered from the belly of the Nostromo, then we see the forward braking thrusters fire [they visibly light up]. This was the effect of slowing the Narcissus relative to the Nostromo, shedding the velocity inherited from the parent vessel. As the Nostromo, which is still under full power, moves on ahead of the Narcissus, Ripley's able to watch it through the shuttle's forward windows. As you say, she could only watch the Nostromo's progress through the forward windows if she was flying backwards. Compared to the Nostromo, that's exactly what she IS doing.
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Correction: And yet there are also a number of instances throughout the movies where nearby movement doesn't trigger an egg to open. When Kane first finds the crashed ship on LV-426, only one egg responds to his presence. When Ripley encounters the Alien Queen in Aliens, surrounded by a large number of eggs, none of the eggs initially open, with only one opening after some considerable time. In the first AVP movie, at least two facehuggers are shown to be loose in the complex, apparently released from their eggs without the stimulus of nearby movement. Clearly the triggering mechanism on the eggs is rather more complicated than "movement nearby. While obviously you are correct in that there would be no movement in the vicinity, due to the crew being in stasis, it cannot be stated definitively that the eggs could therefore not hatch.
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