Aliens Plothole

At the end of James Cameron's Aliens (1986), after the Queen is sucked out of the airlock, the movie cuts straight to Ripley going into cryosleep. Why isn't there a scene of her "nuking the site from orbit"? Didn't they set this up for some reason?

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Wasn't there already going to be a nuclear level explosion because of some reason to do with the colony's terraforming reactors (or some shit)?

the site itself nuked itself. one or several of the marines shot up the site which caused it rupture one of the cooling towers, which lead it to a meltdown (reactor blowout).

That's stupid. Clearly if the Queen could survive, surely some of the others could have crawled back to the eggs.

Bingo. They ruptured the cooling system during the firefight in the nest. That's why everything was melting down during the rescue of Newt.

I'm not sure what you're talking about. The queen survived because she stowed away in the ship's landing gear. All the eggs on the ground will be destroyed by the nuclear explosion.

I'm assuming that the nukes from orbit would just destroy the planet Star Wars-style, which a LOW IQ pleb like myself would want to see.

I don't think it's like Star Wars it seems that although the ship is big enough the marines are still very conservative with the nukes and don't really carry enough nuke to clear the surface on one ship

You've figured it all out, you perspicacious little zoomer, you. Now back to capeshit with you

That mere fact that a platoon on a fully automated ship, commanded by an inexperience 2nd LT had access to nuclear weaponry troubling. I suspect this was a just a throwaway remark and they where referring to when the relieve turned up and saved them .
I know in the extended cut Hudson makes a remark during his bravado speech that they have nukes but again this could just be generalities and shittalking he also mentions other fancy weapons which dont't make an apperance.

I speculate that the marines did not have nukes on board nostromo , There is no hard evidence they did

Just realise in all the 3 Alien films, all the main aliens get killed the same way

I love aliens but I reckon if it was released today it would be turn apart.

>I speculate that the marines did not have nukes
Read some Heinlein, scrub.

A film with a proper plothole mentioned. I'm extremely impressed, user.

Why?

The site nuked itself

This. The fusion reactor went critical. That’s a thermonuclear explosion. The blast wave damn near wrecked their dropship.

Human life becomes kind of meaningless when it's trillions of people spread across many planets.

The drop ship screwed up the reactor when it crashed into it.

I thought in 3 the xeno took a dip in hot lead then got cooled off.
Guess I gotta watch that movie again.

Did you fall asleep?

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Then there's the whole bullshit of the Queen laying an egg of the ceiling, in a part of the ship that she was never in, before the battle with Ripley on the Sulaco, the egg not being noticed prior to hypersleep and then the fucking egg hatching with no-one around to trigger it. Then it's a' super-facehugger' that could impregnate Ripley with a queen AND the dog/ox with a drone.

>here's the whole bullshit of the Queen laying an egg of the ceiling, in a part of the ship that she was never in, before the battle with Ripley on the Sulaco, the egg not being noticed prior to hypersleep and then the fucking egg hatching with no-one around to trigger it. Then it's a' super-facehugger' that could impregnate Ripley with a queen AND the dog/ox with a drone.
it's not implied it was the same facehugger