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I'm 100% sure sunlight constantly rips our dna apart & greatly harms our surface tissues causing quicker aging. So staying in the dark is actually the better option to live longer.
casually dropping "humans are supposed to have six fingers" and being expected to go on with my day as if i didn't just receive lifechanging information, 10/10
[REDACTED] UPD: Correction, it takes few weeks for a new person to start smiling. UPD2: After more folks gently disagree with me, I looked closely at this and found that this is really nuanced! Certainly more than I remembered. Seems that there are no single instinct at work, but a whole complex system. The research topics I do managed to find, suggest that the older kid gets, the more conscious smile is (no wonder) but it doesn't look like it is 100% instinctive at any point. There is anticipatory smiling thing, but it is not what I had in mind. Realistically, it was just filmmakers making shit extra creepy, so.. In any case, thanks for pointing on this.
The movie itself aside, I do hope that the kid who played the Offspring continues this career path. Dude has a unique build and staggering height made for playing monsters.
as long as no O'Neill cylinder space station colony that was in one of Earth's lagrange Points isn't dropped on earth one day im definitely hard Humanity 1st until we have to fight ourselves again
I loved how so many people who considered themselves "Alien fans" were livid at the sight of one of the xenomorphs saving Rain from falling to her death, and then the OG Alien fans came in to give them the reality check that Rain's fate would have been SO much worse than falling to her death if Andy hadn't saved her from the xenomorph in time...
This! I was watching it and when the Xenomorph caught her, my heart sank because we all knew what he was going to use her for. Even my 12 year old knew how much worse Rain's fate was going to be
In the novel adaptation the Xeno doesn't actually "kill" anyone, they're simply taken and never seen again. It isn't until the end of the book you learn they were all taken to be hosts, they're all alive trapped in hive gunk and if I remember right the captain begs Ripley to kill them with the flamethrower. Being captured by a Xenomorph is a fate so horrific a man would rather be roasted alive than endure it, that Xenomorph saving her was an act of dread-inducing intent not an act of kindness.
it wasn't the intent of the alien that bothered me, but more the physics of the whole scenario. for one, her spine would of definitely snapped in half, and two, Xenomorphs do not have prehensile tails like that, they are too rigid which is why they always use their tail spike to impale their victims and then carry them off that way. the fact that she was caught like that while being completely unharmed is basically the definition of plot armor.
"Andy now has a British accent which can't be good" is hilarious because it functions as a joke, genuine commentary on the depiction of the British in cinema and history, AND is just flat out true -- because the sudden appearance of a previously unknown accent under any circumstances (playful, while acting, or psychologically) is not good. Roanoke with the Giga Chad level observation and linguistic flex!
the pregnancy was also alabamic in nature, so that might’ve affected the way the creature at the end looks, but the way it and the mouse mutated from the black goo, i’m beginning to think that’s just xenomorph juice, and the engineers also put a xenomorph in a juicer to obtain it, which would explain why the goo containers in prometheus was stored in a room with xenomorph imageries, they were labeling the juice
Just as a small counter to the "The coorporation didn't know on of their ships was overhead" It's a massive coorporation, they were probably too busy with meetings about how to go about securing the station, insted of actually going to the station, even if it'll crash in 40'some hours.
This would also be a super "need to know" sorta project, so when things got fucked ignoring it and letting it burn up on re-entry to the planet is a valid option to sanitize the situation. most of that planet was empty and even if it landed on the night side and not the rings or day side its too huge to survide the impact. a station like that should have been backing up any info offsite for security purposes or at least had a "black-box" sorta data store that automatically ejects under certain conditions. But in all honesty, this is assuming competance. The company's buerocracy would have prevented any of these failsafes from being implemented lol
would have been better if the protagonists found the remains of a vessel and an investigative team, in the same situation as the original researchers. to show that the corporation had noticed, but as usual underestimating the severity and hadn't got together their second expedition yet
I have a theory that perhaps the Offspring would have been much less aggressive had Kay not slapped at it, as though it were a hateful disgusting thing. Remember, the Black Goo can create monsters, but it’s also fully capable of creating full self-sustaining biomes of flora or fauna. It’s a tool of creation as well as destruction, and so my theory is that if she had instead embraced it, or showed it some modicum of affection, it would have become _extremely_ protective of her due to the inbuilt human desire to defend one’s family, alongside the Xenomorphic compulsion to “serve the Queen.” In short; had she not been scared shitless, she might have ended up with a massive half-human son who would kill anyone who even so much as _thought_ about looking at her wrong.
I was under the impression that had she not been killed by her child, Kay would have become some kind of queen lifeform. She was definitely still mutating and being repaired by the serum, as she was able to crawl out of the cryopod and make it a couple metres despite having her pelvic floor violently obliterated by an egg the size of a rugby ball.
@@ABonafideSkeleton Yeah just the amount of blood that poured out when the egg came out would have sent her into shock and death very quickly, so the fact that she was still doing better than i look on a friday means it was still working in her, and also it kept working in the rat test subject. I agree that if he had been allowed to do his "growing up" with Kay, instead of inside the ore chamber, he might have developed some emotional bond to her, maybe recognised her as his mother, or as his "queen" if his brain was more xenomorph.
@@auquitaine9201 I’m of the opinion that he was born with two full half’s of both a human brain and a Xenomorph brain: intelligent enough to know the context behind what it’s doing, but still alien enough to cling to its instincts in a crisis.
The company might be running the entire colony like a company town. Companies like FORD would do everything in their power to make it difficult to leave and thus quit their jobs. Hard to save up money when you're paying a massive chunk of your paycheck for food, utilities, TOO MANY DOCTORS visits.
Uh, Ford deliberately paid his employees more than average for the time so they could afford to buy one of the cars they built. While company towns were indeed a thing, Ford isn't a good example. Company towns were most frequently seen in the mining industry, rather than manufacturing.
@@Devin_Stromgren Not really. They're talking specifically about Fordlândia, which was in fact a real company town that Henry Ford created and had. Which, by the way, was a massive failure because of the issues that come kind of inherently when your boss owns your entire living situation. Especially given it was established in the Amazon Rain Forest. It was abandoned by the company, and still exists as a town, but it's no longer able to be called a Company Town.
@@theforgottenscribe "Especially given it was established in the Amazon Rain Forest." From a logistical standpoint this was doomed from the start. Even using river barges the cost of moving materials in and vehicles out would practically triple the price, which considering that the whole entire schtick of a Ford was keeping them cheap enough for the everyman (my how times have changed) would've made the factory non-viable from day one.
I have crohns, and if they told me there was a chill parasite that would do minimal damage to the rest of my meat suit and would cure me? Well, come on board, your names are now Greg and George, I hope you fix up the place and we get along well.
1:44 it’s actually 7 foot 7 inches tall, played by a basketball player named Robert Bobroczkyi and the only thing that’s CGI about the hybrid/mutant is its tail
Considering how messed up the Offspring's face was after getting sandblasted to the extreme by that rock particles that were in that cargo, I think necromorph was absolutely an intended usage of word in that moment.
Funny thing is Necromorphs are a thing in Alien. Theyre a specific breed of the xenomorph with a disease causing them to essentially be walking corpses full of sickness.
So yeah, the company isn't unaware that a space station is crashing. It is simply a manner of not having the ability to save the station from crashing and recovering what's inside. If they knew what was inside, they'd do it without hesitation but a remote mining colony doesnt get big corporate orders or has the resources to go after a random space mining station.
They could of assembled a team at the colony to grab to the goo and get out. They could of even sent an all synth team from the colony. Weyland Yutani has been shown communicating in the far off reaches of space in multiple Alien movies so this could of definitely been done. We wouldn't have a movie if that happened though.
@@candycommander I mean...Easily could still make a movie about the all synth team breaching the station and trying to complete their mission, and explore more of the "synthetics obviously presenting signs of developing self determination" plot points. I guess people could argue them being androids would take away stakes, but I really don't see how, as effectively if they develop sentience outside of their programming it's still intelligent life at stake....Could have even used the black goo plot point to make super variations of xenomorphs to scale with the fact that synthetics are much stronger than humans.
@rexesshadow8628 But a bunch of 16 year olds do? The company knew what was on the station and it had been weeks or more that the company received no signal. They could have sent someone.
@@theniceguy7824 trust me, many "company men" will ignore the problem if it's liable to add more work to their load with minimal reward. odds are that people knew, but were turning a blind eye, as there was no response, and any info that might have made it out would likely have been cut off shortly after things started going to hell on the station. personally, if i hear about a signal from a station, and any messages from said station start taking a turn for the worse (before cutting off entirely), i'm just gonna put it in a memo that i know nobody's gonna look at until later, and keep moving. yeah it's callous, but if something's likely on board murking everyone, i do not want to be the one responsible for bringing it back to my home.
@@candycommander From what I remember of the dialogue, the colony is not aware of what it in it. It takes six months for orders and personnel to get to the colony. As far as the colony is concerned. it's just space junk that is not worth the effort.
The lore behind xenomorphs in the comics is that they're more of like a cosmic force and Engineers created a derivative of what the primordial substance they're supposed to be from. This is why in Prometheus they have what appears to be like a worshiping idol of the xenomorph over the canisters on the Engineer ship.
ACTUALLY... Acid baby burnt a sizeable plot hole through the bottom of the ship such that when that ore container came off the ship should've blown out.
@jp9095 Yeah... I had think about that too. But a hole that big would not make the ship blow up, the only thing that would have happened is just an oxygen decompression. And I've noticed something after watching it again that, I see the cargo chamber where they put the Cryo pod had a door that close the path to the corridor, so the Cargo chamber is secure and sealed shut from the decompression that probably happen from that breach... So they would be safe as long as that door stay shut.
@@sgfredbear8114 My point is that all the oxygen should've been sucked out of the ship when the explosive blowout of the cargo container occurred. There'd be none left no matter what doors were closed afterwards.
@@jp9095 Yes, but there's no one left alive or active inside the ship, Rain is the only on left. so even if all the oxygen in the ship got sucked off (Which I doubt it was), she's not inside the ship, and it safe to assume that the ship itself has it's own oxygen generator... So what happened then would not matter afterwards.
I can personally guarantee how badly constant darkness can fuck up your circadian rhythms as I am totally blind. Many of us have a condition called non-24 and this condition is a direct result of blindness. It varies from person to person. For example, I don't have it as bad as some other people I know and a melatonin pill before bed can help me sleep the whole night through. Before I was introduced to melatonin by one of my doctors, it was an even chance if I would actually get any sleep that night. Anyway, thanks for breaking down Alien: Romulus; I have been an Alien fan for what feels like my whole life and cannot wait to see the new movie--hear, technically, as I listen to an audio-described version.
"I am totally blind" But... Would you see any of these responses? How'd you comment successfully in first place? *It must've taken a fair bit of effort?
He doesn't cover games on this channel. Nor does he cover animal mutations. You can ask a thousand times n he wouldn't do it. Its like asking s guntuber to cover a hello kitty purse. Idiot
Playing this game right now, it's so good. Unfortunately so are both of my kids, so I spend most of my time jumping between their games and filling cabinets with water and titanium, placing emergency bases with food, water, and scanners in strategic locations, and getting missing fragments in Leviathan zones. 😂😭
In retrospective, Ash always admired Xenomorphs for "their purity." I think he had a sense of respect for them that they were mere animals, yet were so intelligent and so capable. It was if they reminded him of humanity in of itself, in a sense, likely. "Unclouded by morality..." "... a survivor..." "How do we kill it?" _"You can't."_ *_"... I can't lie to you about your chances - but, you have my sympathies."_* At the same time, however, this abomination turns that idea on its head, imo. It's unmistakable psychological warfare at its finest.
The thought occurs to me that perhaps the theory that everything evolves into Crabs (Carcinisation) is wrong, and in actuality everything will evolve into a Xenomorph, hence why their DNA is so hyper dominant they are the final evolution of all life.
@@zeratul____1228 More likely, it could have even been Wayland-Yutani performing a... "test" for their weapons division. This was brought up in the first movie while Ash was being interrogated, after all. If Ripley's concerns held water, it's very possible that the Alien from Romulus was artificially made. In other words, it's not a normal Xenomorph... *_it's a BOW..._* That's the same rabbit hole that led to the downfall of the Umbrella Corp. in Resident Evil
@@zeratul____1228 Just so you know, the idea of everything evolving into crabs is false. It became a meme because some people took something that scientists once said completely out of context.
Not sure how groovy I feel about the notion that our ideal form of space human is "Giant True-Value Mark Zuckerberg with flatworm for a tail", but what do I know?
@@thatkidwiththehoodie Probably a literal Engineer. That's probably what the serum tried to upgrade the kid into, before the Xenomorph traits from the WiP compound forced their way to the top like they did with the mouse.
The real question is if the droid knew that the serum was still imperfect or not. The audience is explicitly shown that what the crew thinks was a success experiment was actually a failure.
After 3 movies with zero explanations, I'm making my own head canon that the black goo is just xenomorph amniotic fluid used to integrate host material into xenomorph offspring, and it works so well that the engineers tried to weaponize it but accidentally destroyed themselves.
the cost-benefit to bringing resperators to the colony is clear.. it is cheaper to allow the people to die than to bring basic equipment... because if they live long enough they will eventually need to leave the colony when that cargo-space and or cost incurred by the company could instead be used to just bring a new worker... gotta think about it man!!!
@@jimmyramirez7377it's a reference to Ridley from the Metroid series, he's official title is the Cunning God of Death because he has avoided certain death a number of times
23:15 the refusal to get reprogrammed because that would interfere with the directive to serve the company is an excellent example of an "AI Alignment problem" as covered in youtuber Robert Miles' video "AI safety remastered"
He’s a former basketball player but if you look at him it seems very realistic his parents were like “you’re tall, play basketball!” But he has a full on nerd body complete with negative points in agility
0:10 wrong I’m not here because I give a shit about any movies. Your breakdown, analysis, and energy are what get me interested in a movie in the first place. I’m a Roanoke fan not a movie fan.
@@RoanokeGaming things are mostly good now. I had never heard of that correlation before and it was a surprise. Mind you mutations made it pretty much inevitable but now I have to wonder if it was accelerated
Damn ring the alarm I was just diagnosed with lymphoma and I’ve never heard this also I worked nights for almost a decade! I’m not a gym rat but I eat right and workout so it’s kinda random and the only health anomaly for me
@@rookholgado sometimes there's more to it than living healthy. Like I said I was pretty much genetically guaranteed to get sick .I am sure the weird sleep patterns didn't help
We are so reliant on Earth. Really makes you wonder how much genetic modification will be required for us to traverse the cosmos without suffering all manner of awful effects.
Been having a blast watching these! One of the things that came to mind when I saw “The Offspring” was “I can’t wait to see how Roanoke explains this one!”😂 Seriously, been having a blast watching. Thank you for putting so much work into these 😃
"Cool frontal lobe," is something I'm gonna have to use for some field-testing. Gotta know how people react to that when they're getting abnormally salty.
That is the opposite of me at work. I walk around telling people I am getting a new peircing soon, then proceed to show them the illustration of a frontal lobotomy on my phone.
The reason there are craters on the moon is more so because it doesn't have an atmosphere. Plenty of space rocks do "hit" our planet, but most of the times they disintegrate on entry against the atmosphere, that's why they rarely leave a mark on the surface of the earth itself. The moon however barely has an atmosphere, so when a comet comes it's way, nothing stops it until it does touch down on the surface. That's why it has so many impacts.
Plus the ones that do hit are gradually eroded away by natural forces that the moon just doesn't have, ie tectonics, water, wind, et cetera. The footprints left by Apollo will stay there for a good few million years because of this.
Exactly, 25 million meteoroids enter and disintigrate in earths atmosphere daily of which about 17 are large enough to survive Earths atmosphere and hit ground. Without the atmosphere Earth would look A LOT different.
No dude. Please BE a movie review channel, you’re good at it and I find that part very useful for context. I love your content and watch it with my wife and students. Keep it up.
He does good commentary, but he's really not a reviewer. He misses tons of things that are explained in just this movie or have been made clear by how the company is characterized in past movies. He should stick to the witty summaries and the science. That's what he's good at.
I like how Ellen was the only crew member in Alien who cared about the *entire* crew's welfare(minus Kane with his hitchhiker)and Ash was all "here, hold WY's beer".
I liked this movie. It does have its problems but it's a MASSIVE improvement over Scott's emissions. The actor who plays Andy was really good. Someone made an interesting point. The males have English accents, the females have American ones (suggesting boys and girls are raised separately). Andy starts off with the softer American accent but when he is given the new chip, his accent changes to a British accent. When he is reset, he goes back to the female American accent. Paying attention rewards the viewer. So many of the 'plot holes and goofs' turn out to have in universe explanations.
This channel is amazing! As a biologist lab tech that specializes in genetics, it’s so enjoyable to hear someone talk about what does through my head when I see these movies😅
Isn't it Bjorn, not Beorn? 🤔 Bjorn (or Björn) is a Scandinavian name, and I, a nordic person, though NOT Scandinavian (I'm Finnish) can very clearly hear the name as Bjorn not some "beorn"
My man I’ve been having heart palpitations like crazy lately, I never thought it would’ve been from the fish oil I started taking. I got into power lifting and a buddy of mine that’s been lifting for years told me to try it out. You might’ve saved me there because heart issues run on both sides of my family. These palpitations have had me stressed out for a couple months now thinking I’m developing some defect or something.
Couple quick “umm ackshully”s: 1) it was a probe with no crew that retrieved Big Chap 2) Big Chap did not lay any eggs, they extracted the black goo from him and essentially reversed engineered it to create the new face huggers (also why the incubation period is so damn short, likely tampered with it), and we’re continuing to try and refine it to avoid any negative effects 3) Ian Holm was Bilbo, no Monk. Monk was played by Tony Shalhoub 4) the cryopods were stored/moved to the EEV (like in Alien 3)
One of these days I would love a video from Roanoke discussing how he would go about engineering the perfect human. Would he give human 2 more arms, would he give humans night vision?
You'd cease to be human past a certain point in pursuit of perfection since human biology is just so limited outside of the brain. You'd have to change so much.
Oh man, I loved the book trilogy. I was so excited about the show but it had quite a few problems. Including the design of “The master”. It matched the description in the book but rather than being menacing it came off as goofy. They also recast Ephram’s son and it hurt the characters development as he gets turned against his dad and acts like a little 💩. Any empathy for the character developed in the first season really left the character when they replaced the actor. The story line also deviated quite a bit from the book and the ending was changed. I still enjoyed the show tho and the Dark Horse comics were entertaining as well. Plus I had a massive crush on Gus 😂 . I would still recommend a watch 🤷🏽♀️.
Seeing behind the scenes of the guy that played the new Xenomorph fully done up, just leaning on a set piece talking with a director is hilarious to me 😂 seems like a good dude, and he did a good job for someone who isn’t a full time actor.
Man imagine if some of these horror movie explained/scientific analysis channels teamed up to make a movie? Where the protagonists actually make smart choices and still experience great challenges. That would be DOPE
Doesn't work, that's the problem. If the character is only making right choices, you rely entirely on fait accompli (or what we perceive as "ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT") for the problems to happen. It's revolting, although less revolting than the universe Final Destination-ing your problems, to have moronic characters, but unfortunately it's better than the alternative.
I once worked in a three-shift system - one week day shift, next week late shift, last week night shift and so on, in a neon lit warehouse. Never felt this exhausted and emotionally volatile in all my life and in retrospect it might have contributed to my addiction issues I struggled with. It's an inhumane employment model.
Could I make a request? Not many like it because it uses the 10% brain power myth but I think that doesn’t discount it as an interesting movie and deserves a chance, it’s just a movie after all. Lucy (2014). The main character is used as a drug mule and the bag breaks and the drug enters her bloodstream and gives her ever growing psychic powers. It runs with the using only 10% of our brain power. At 100% her body disappears. She is “everywhere”, in the space time continuum. I’ve asked before but chickened out of continuing to ask. I love this movie and interested in the science behind the “drug” and all the side effects that come with it.
Roanoke there’s an anglerfish in your walls. Also I think the Smile movies would be good to make a video on. Exploring how the smiler (or whatever the very happy creatures name is) affects its hosts brain and takes control of their body, all while tricking the host into thinking they are somewhere they aren’t. Been watching since your first dead space video, and I definitely think that Smile would be cool to explore.
Smile is a godawful movie message wise (you can't escape depression suicide is the only way out, cool message bro), and the scares are insanely cheap and the movie overall is pretty dumb but an analysis by Roanoke would slap lol
@@leonidass3448I can understand why you say that, and I think the first movie did that bad at some moments. I always liked both the first and second movie (the second is better in every single way), and the 2 movies were a breath of fresh air for the horror movie genre. My only issue is like all horror movies now, the first movie basically has the same ending of: Protagonist gets trapped and takes on the “bad guy”, Protagonist thinks they won, Protagonist loses and dies, Protagonist friend becomes a witness and is now the next victim, the end. And also the protagonist in the first movie is an idiot most of the time when investigating about the entity.
@@leonidass3448To add on my long comment, the first movie did have a cheap budget but for a low budget it was a really good film. The 2nd movie like I said does everything better than the first (at-least in my opinion) and it definitely scared the crap out of me much more than the first.
i dont know why but when a person who really knows the in's and out's of biology and is buff it just makes them seem more credible like if they mastered living in the human body
This thing was absolutely the most disturbing creature in the entire franchise to me 😅 I'm oddly fascinated with it, it's just soooooo creepy! Love your videos as always 👍
I don't know how many others instantly caught the excellent and obscure movie reference around 21 minute mark but you made my day. One of my cousins and I favorite films to quote. "We intentionally trained him wrong. As a joke"
I don't know why people complained about this so much or how it's basically what happens in Ressurection like...so what?? Are you saying they should just never show human and Xenomorph DNA being blended together again just because they done it before because that's so fucking stupid and boring. Imagine they never had a chestburster again because they decided oh well we did that once so we can't do it again. The mad science won't stop, it's literally the whole thing. I was utterly dumbfounded when I found out that people are only JUST NOW realizing that the villain of Alien is the Weyland Yutani corporation, like it couldn't be more freaking obvious. Anyway yeah the Offspring was super freaking creepy and maybe it's because it's the first time I saw a horror movie in a theatre but it actually got me I was tense that whole sequence, it has such an appropriately uncanny look to it compared to the newborn in Ressurection which was honestly kinda cute.
@@mrcheesemunch Because it's stupid and unoriginal. Especially when the previous design in Resurrection is superior. It was literally nothing but cheap shock factor.
@@theniceguy7824 That's such a cop out criticism lol how is it "shock factor" to do something that's entirely consistent with the body horror of Alien? And like I said if that's unoriginal then so is repeating any of the other things that happen in the series, it was unoriginal to have Facehuggers and coccoons too I guess or is that criticism only used when it's convenient? Also...people say shock factor like it's automatically a bad thing like you're not supposed to be shocked at the events in a God damn horror movie let alone a series heavily based in freaking body horror. People said the same thing about the original it was dumb then and still is.
@mrcheesemunch Just because you don't like a criticism doesn't mean it's a cope out lol, that's a very childish mindset. No dude, eggs, and face huggers are part of the life cycle of the alien. That's established lore. The fact you don't understand that already proves anything you say is invalid. It is automatically a bad thing. Especially when it's been done before. There's already been a hybrid, using the goo on a pregnant woman a second time is unoriginal. I'm sorry that hurts your feelings. The movie is bad in general, it's not just the hybrid that makes it bad.
@@theniceguy7824 You know what else is established lore? That Xenomorphs take aspects of whatever they were hosted in when they're forming, that's been a thing the whole time, you don't know what you're talking about. Xenomorphs as we most commonly see them are literally already hybrids from the simple fact they're born from humans and any time they're not they're different, the things people call "hybrids" just have more human features than usual because they're created in different ways. "It's just bad in general" is another nonsensical criticism, you have nothing to say about it you just want to declare it's bad and will bend over backwards to say established lore we already know about suddenly came out of nowhere. Lol. Go watch Alien 3 because you surely haven't paid attention to any of these movies if you think this is a new concept. Also you've completely ignored the fact that it's an ENGINEER hybrid born from a human, no, that literally has not been done before actually.
@roanokegaming The black gu was an attempt to recreate the blood of the Deacon which is the Engeneers god. It looks like a xenomorph but more like the one from Prometheus. It was a wise and sentient being. Its blood was used to plant life on planets like earth which was seen in the beginning of Prometheus. And after Deacon died they tried to recreate the blood of their good which resulted in the black gu. And instead of giving life it destroys it.
It kinda seems that the colony not gettin any sunlight so deseases would come up is on purpose which makes sense if the compony wanted to use the black goo on them anyway first you create the issue then you present a potential cure
Roanoke, I think you have Weylan-Yutani confused with a company that is willing to spend money on the people it views as expendable. They are the spacefaring equivalent of the East India Company with even fewer moral qualms when it comes to money and the nearest form of regulatory oversight is 28 light years away.
She put Andy in cryo stasis so they could try and say he was human when they got to their destination. Because why would they put a robot in stasis when it can make sure nothing goes wrong over that 9 year journey, that's exactly why they should freeze him so he can touch ground without any questions
But wouldn't you think a colony that prohibits synths would, idk, have a foolproof way to detect them. It seems like a better bet to keep him awake during the transit and then have him get into stasis when they arrive. Because that's going to make the highest chance for success as whatever happens in the planet in terms of synth determination would presumably happen anyway. Or maybe that planet only uses cryogenic stasis data logs for proof of humanity, which doesn't make much sense to me, but who knows.
When i was stationed at Fort Lewis (Tacoma WA), we were told when we got there, it was a REQUIREMENT to get UV lights and have them in each room. Since Its grey and we got like 4 weeks of sunny days a year, those lights saved us. It cracks me up (as you have mentioned) that we already do this but this story, hundreds of years in the future magically forgot we needed sunlight to be normal haha.
Nothing forgotten W-Y is a cheap Nazi like company concerning employees. Note they still use living minors and birds to test the atmosphere instead of technology. Asshole free enterprise company.
Yeah, seasonal affective disorder is a thing up here in WA, and I would assume other Northern states. You also sometimes need to take extra D³. I'm from Tacoma/Lakewood, WA. We get like, 3+ MONTHS of sun & heat a year, plus plenty of cold dry sun in the spring and winter. Summers have been getting longer and hotter every year. I hate summer. Can't deal with heat. My sleep schedule is ass backwards, as in, I go to bed around 6 am and wake up between 4-6 pm. I've never used UV lamps or lights, but I do take vitamins.
Fun fact, face huggers need to echange gass. They cannot breath water. Nor can a human host. In the comics they dont attack people if it would lead to the host drowning mid impregnation. The entire flooded hallway scene was garbage.
The comics canon is often at odds with the movies, just because they don't align doesn't mean it's garbage. Most of my theatre thought that scene was great.
I use a light clock/alarm which simulates daylight to wake up in the morning. It works perfectly and is much better than the harshness of a regular alarm clock in the morning. I have battled severe depression for over two decades now and lack of light is one major episode trigger. The light clock is specifically designed to sinulate the spectrum of sunlight
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Roanoke Gaming Could you please do a video on The Devil Gene From Tekken
Can't wait for you to make a 2 hour video on why anglerfish are awesome😊
What should I do if my Roanoke Gaming Sweater is to small
I'm 100% sure sunlight constantly rips our dna apart & greatly harms our surface tissues causing quicker aging. So staying in the dark is actually the better option to live longer.
A Science Review Channel,
Posing As A Film Review Channel,
Posing As A Gaming Channel🗿
absolute chad
Never let anglerfish know your next move
Truly a channel of all time
He's pulling all the bases 😂
All wrapped in a case of migraines and tinnitus lol
The Zuckermorph
😂
The xenomorph that steals your information 👨💻
THE WHAT
My exact thoughts when I saw that movie.
Ahh so that's why it looked familiar
casually dropping "humans are supposed to have six fingers" and being expected to go on with my day as if i didn't just receive lifechanging information, 10/10
Long story short, six fingees is the dominant allele but it is so rare to a point that it hasn't taken hold
@@icycrusader1947 So you mean I could have given that jerk who cut me off this morning 2 middle fingers instead of 1?
Whales still have fully formed hand bones inside their flippers
"The gene for polydactyly is dominant. I think we'd be farther along technologically if we had six fingers on each hand."
Same, like how, I need to know the whole story of how
Anyone else notice that the Offspring smiled during the fight, like it was enjoying the hunt like it had human emotions.
[REDACTED]
UPD: Correction, it takes few weeks for a new person to start smiling.
UPD2: After more folks gently disagree with me, I looked closely at this and found that this is really nuanced! Certainly more than I remembered.
Seems that there are no single instinct at work, but a whole complex system. The research topics I do managed to find, suggest that the older kid gets, the more conscious smile is (no wonder) but it doesn't look like it is 100% instinctive at any point. There is anticipatory smiling thing, but it is not what I had in mind.
Realistically, it was just filmmakers making shit extra creepy, so.. In any case, thanks for pointing on this.
@@SciFiMangaGamesAnimefrom experience, I can assure you babies are not programmed to smile when seeing faces… 😅😢
@@SciFiMangaGamesAnime That is literally not the case at all and you even proved yourself wrong with that update bit, but okay.
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 do you have any sources that would support your claim?
@@SciFiMangaGamesAnimeJust out of curiosity, has anyone ever told you that you're pretentious?
The movie itself aside, I do hope that the kid who played the Offspring continues this career path. Dude has a unique build and staggering height made for playing monsters.
For real
If im not mistaken, the guy who plays the offspring is a basketball player
Okay okay... What happens if we put the black goo... Into an angler fish?
Then we have to nuke the oceans
@@RoanokeGaming lmao
Oh hey@@RoanokeGaming the half human half xenomorph thing, that isn't mostly cgi. That's a 7 foot man.
Freaky
@RoanokeGaming It's the only way to be sure.
@@JustAnAstronautPerson Oh shit that's cool. Didn't they also cast a tall dude as the alien in the first movie?
"I dont wanna double dip"
Talks about parasites calming the immune system for the 45th time on the channel ;)
Prime Parasite Propaganda 🪱
😃😃😃
"Humanity isn't meant to be out in the stars" sounds like someone with their soul weighed down by Gravity, humanity number one baby
as long as no O'Neill cylinder space station colony that was in one of Earth's lagrange Points isn't dropped on earth one day im definitely hard Humanity 1st until we have to fight ourselves again
Did you come here to laugh at him?
I smell some UC gundam fans😎
@@aaronrichardsoong4110 😎
It also doesn’t make sense.
I loved how so many people who considered themselves "Alien fans" were livid at the sight of one of the xenomorphs saving Rain from falling to her death, and then the OG Alien fans came in to give them the reality check that Rain's fate would have been SO much worse than falling to her death if Andy hadn't saved her from the xenomorph in time...
This! I was watching it and when the Xenomorph caught her, my heart sank because we all knew what he was going to use her for. Even my 12 year old knew how much worse Rain's fate was going to be
I hope you get the help you need furry inside your walls
It didn’t save her because it wanted to, it did to let the facehugger get her to create more xenos
In the novel adaptation the Xeno doesn't actually "kill" anyone, they're simply taken and never seen again. It isn't until the end of the book you learn they were all taken to be hosts, they're all alive trapped in hive gunk and if I remember right the captain begs Ripley to kill them with the flamethrower. Being captured by a Xenomorph is a fate so horrific a man would rather be roasted alive than endure it, that Xenomorph saving her was an act of dread-inducing intent not an act of kindness.
it wasn't the intent of the alien that bothered me, but more the physics of the whole scenario. for one, her spine would of definitely snapped in half, and two, Xenomorphs do not have prehensile tails like that, they are too rigid which is why they always use their tail spike to impale their victims and then carry them off that way. the fact that she was caught like that while being completely unharmed is basically the definition of plot armor.
"Andy now has a British accent which can't be good" is hilarious because it functions as a joke, genuine commentary on the depiction of the British in cinema and history, AND is just flat out true -- because the sudden appearance of a previously unknown accent under any circumstances (playful, while acting, or psychologically) is not good. Roanoke with the Giga Chad level observation and linguistic flex!
Taken from Rook so of course elements of his person is reproduced in Andy when the chip was implanted.
Xenomorph level linguistic flex?
The Offspring is some of the best practical effect work the scifi/horror genres have produced in years. Solid 10/10 imo.
Having an almost 8 foot tall ACTUAL GUY to fill in the suit helped, too. :-)
@@TonyBMan Oh 100%, didn't directly mention that but I knew when I commented. Excellent casting decision
It was freaky as F.
Good band too.
When Dora the Explorer met her hybrid son.
the pregnancy was also alabamic in nature, so that might’ve affected the way the creature at the end looks, but the way it and the mouse mutated from the black goo, i’m beginning to think that’s just xenomorph juice, and the engineers also put a xenomorph in a juicer to obtain it, which would explain why the goo containers in prometheus was stored in a room with xenomorph imageries, they were labeling the juice
"Labeling the juice" LMAOOOOO
"alabamic" I'm stealing this
@@Moonlight_Tidethis
Alabamic? More Appalachic😂
@@SkinnyEatWorld95 same diff
Just as a small counter to the "The coorporation didn't know on of their ships was overhead"
It's a massive coorporation, they were probably too busy with meetings about how to go about securing the station, insted of actually going to the station, even if it'll crash in 40'some hours.
yknow I'd believe it more if it wasn't containing what basically amounts to a virulent biological weapon near a colony
This makes so much sense.
This would also be a super "need to know" sorta project, so when things got fucked ignoring it and letting it burn up on re-entry to the planet is a valid option to sanitize the situation.
most of that planet was empty and even if it landed on the night side and not the rings or day side its too huge to survide the impact. a station like that should have been backing up any info offsite for security purposes or at least had a "black-box" sorta data store that automatically ejects under certain conditions.
But in all honesty, this is assuming competance. The company's buerocracy would have prevented any of these failsafes from being implemented lol
And I would imagine a bloated number of workers and massive bureaucracy making things slower than it should be.
would have been better if the protagonists found the remains of a vessel and an investigative team, in the same situation as the original researchers.
to show that the corporation had noticed, but as usual underestimating the severity and hadn't got together their second expedition yet
Why does The Offspring look like it wants to sell my personal data to every company on Earth?
Because it does
Maybe that was Wayland-Yutani's intended idea of humanity's evolution... the acceptance of selling our personal data for "research" purposes.
It looks more human than Zuckerberg...
WHY DOES THE OFFSPRING LOOKS LIKE mark zuckerberg
because it knows all the rule 34 data you looked at and wants to show every company on Earth the beauty of what you found.
I have a theory that perhaps the Offspring would have been much less aggressive had Kay not slapped at it, as though it were a hateful disgusting thing. Remember, the Black Goo can create monsters, but it’s also fully capable of creating full self-sustaining biomes of flora or fauna. It’s a tool of creation as well as destruction, and so my theory is that if she had instead embraced it, or showed it some modicum of affection, it would have become _extremely_ protective of her due to the inbuilt human desire to defend one’s family, alongside the Xenomorphic compulsion to “serve the Queen.”
In short; had she not been scared shitless, she might have ended up with a massive half-human son who would kill anyone who even so much as _thought_ about looking at her wrong.
I was under the impression that had she not been killed by her child, Kay would have become some kind of queen lifeform.
She was definitely still mutating and being repaired by the serum, as she was able to crawl out of the cryopod and make it a couple metres despite having her pelvic floor violently obliterated by an egg the size of a rugby ball.
@@ABonafideSkeleton Yeah just the amount of blood that poured out when the egg came out would have sent her into shock and death very quickly, so the fact that she was still doing better than i look on a friday means it was still working in her, and also it kept working in the rat test subject.
I agree that if he had been allowed to do his "growing up" with Kay, instead of inside the ore chamber, he might have developed some emotional bond to her, maybe recognised her as his mother, or as his "queen" if his brain was more xenomorph.
@@auquitaine9201 I’m of the opinion that he was born with two full half’s of both a human brain and a Xenomorph brain: intelligent enough to know the context behind what it’s doing, but still alien enough to cling to its instincts in a crisis.
Alien: Resurrection even set the precedent of hybrids being loyal to their human parent
And even at 35:51 it showed one other way for the Offspring to bond with her, as she wasn't leaking black goo, she was _lactating_ it.
Maybe black goo would help the angler fish to grow legs and finally live with humanity? 🥰
Heresy.
ANGLERMORPH
That would be his worst nightmare.
Like a really skinny pair of legs with flippers still the same size
Don’t give him ideas, he might just spontaneously combust.
The company might be running the entire colony like a company town. Companies like FORD would do everything in their power to make it difficult to leave and thus quit their jobs. Hard to save up money when you're paying a massive chunk of your paycheck for food, utilities, TOO MANY DOCTORS visits.
Isn't that EVERY company? With the current world's governments at least....
Uh, Ford deliberately paid his employees more than average for the time so they could afford to buy one of the cars they built. While company towns were indeed a thing, Ford isn't a good example. Company towns were most frequently seen in the mining industry, rather than manufacturing.
@@Devin_Stromgren Not really. They're talking specifically about Fordlândia, which was in fact a real company town that Henry Ford created and had. Which, by the way, was a massive failure because of the issues that come kind of inherently when your boss owns your entire living situation. Especially given it was established in the Amazon Rain Forest.
It was abandoned by the company, and still exists as a town, but it's no longer able to be called a Company Town.
Wage slave is what we call it today. They only pay you enough so you don't leave. It's a new age form of slavery we live in today.
@@theforgottenscribe "Especially given it was established in the Amazon Rain Forest."
From a logistical standpoint this was doomed from the start. Even using river barges the cost of moving materials in and vehicles out would practically triple the price, which considering that the whole entire schtick of a Ford was keeping them cheap enough for the everyman (my how times have changed) would've made the factory non-viable from day one.
I have crohns, and if they told me there was a chill parasite that would do minimal damage to the rest of my meat suit and would cure me? Well, come on board, your names are now Greg and George, I hope you fix up the place and we get along well.
SAME!!! Honestly couldn’t agree more!!
Look into the Japanese research using pork tapeworm to sedate the immune system.
I think they had two worms for minimal presence. Just would require monitoring so you A) don't become contagious or B) create a cycle and the little f
The ability of this man to go off on a tangent is purely spectacular
1:44 it’s actually 7 foot 7 inches tall, played by a basketball player named Robert Bobroczkyi and the only thing that’s CGI about the hybrid/mutant is its tail
Robert apparently stopped playing basketball because he knew it was gonna mess his body up. He became an actor instead which is great
Dudes literally a baller
Roanoke and xenomorphs, the perfect combination.
One might say
The Perfect Organism
Roanmorph
Xenomorphs are more machine than organisms.
40:00 you just said "necromorph" instead of "xenonorph". Now i need to rewatch Deadspace videos.
Considering how messed up the Offspring's face was after getting sandblasted to the extreme by that rock particles that were in that cargo, I think necromorph was absolutely an intended usage of word in that moment.
Funny thing is Necromorphs are a thing in Alien. Theyre a specific breed of the xenomorph with a disease causing them to essentially be walking corpses full of sickness.
Y’know what, maybe I’ll also go back n watch those again
So yeah, the company isn't unaware that a space station is crashing. It is simply a manner of not having the ability to save the station from crashing and recovering what's inside. If they knew what was inside, they'd do it without hesitation but a remote mining colony doesnt get big corporate orders or has the resources to go after a random space mining station.
They could of assembled a team at the colony to grab to the goo and get out. They could of even sent an all synth team from the colony. Weyland Yutani has been shown communicating in the far off reaches of space in multiple Alien movies so this could of definitely been done. We wouldn't have a movie if that happened though.
@@candycommander I mean...Easily could still make a movie about the all synth team breaching the station and trying to complete their mission, and explore more of the "synthetics obviously presenting signs of developing self determination" plot points. I guess people could argue them being androids would take away stakes, but I really don't see how, as effectively if they develop sentience outside of their programming it's still intelligent life at stake....Could have even used the black goo plot point to make super variations of xenomorphs to scale with the fact that synthetics are much stronger than humans.
@rexesshadow8628 But a bunch of 16 year olds do? The company knew what was on the station and it had been weeks or more that the company received no signal. They could have sent someone.
@@theniceguy7824 trust me, many "company men" will ignore the problem if it's liable to add more work to their load with minimal reward. odds are that people knew, but were turning a blind eye, as there was no response, and any info that might have made it out would likely have been cut off shortly after things started going to hell on the station.
personally, if i hear about a signal from a station, and any messages from said station start taking a turn for the worse (before cutting off entirely), i'm just gonna put it in a memo that i know nobody's gonna look at until later, and keep moving. yeah it's callous, but if something's likely on board murking everyone, i do not want to be the one responsible for bringing it back to my home.
@@candycommander From what I remember of the dialogue, the colony is not aware of what it in it. It takes six months for orders and personnel to get to the colony. As far as the colony is concerned. it's just space junk that is not worth the effort.
The lore behind xenomorphs in the comics is that they're more of like a cosmic force and Engineers created a derivative of what the primordial substance they're supposed to be from. This is why in Prometheus they have what appears to be like a worshiping idol of the xenomorph over the canisters on the Engineer ship.
I thought the structure they were worshiping was a deacon?
Roanoke : Stomp it!!!
Me : Sure. But don't blame me if you have a burnt feet and a gaping hole in your ship.
ACTUALLY...
Acid baby burnt a sizeable plot hole through the bottom of the ship such that when that ore container came off the ship should've blown out.
@jp9095 Yeah... I had think about that too. But a hole that big would not make the ship blow up, the only thing that would have happened is just an oxygen decompression. And I've noticed something after watching it again that, I see the cargo chamber where they put the Cryo pod had a door that close the path to the corridor, so the Cargo chamber is secure and sealed shut from the decompression that probably happen from that breach... So they would be safe as long as that door stay shut.
@@sgfredbear8114 My point is that all the oxygen should've been sucked out of the ship when the explosive blowout of the cargo container occurred. There'd be none left no matter what doors were closed afterwards.
@@jp9095 Yes, but there's no one left alive or active inside the ship, Rain is the only on left. so even if all the oxygen in the ship got sucked off (Which I doubt it was), she's not inside the ship, and it safe to assume that the ship itself has it's own oxygen generator... So what happened then would not matter afterwards.
I can personally guarantee how badly constant darkness can fuck up your circadian rhythms as I am totally blind. Many of us have a condition called non-24 and this condition is a direct result of blindness. It varies from person to person. For example, I don't have it as bad as some other people I know and a melatonin pill before bed can help me sleep the whole night through. Before I was introduced to melatonin by one of my doctors, it was an even chance if I would actually get any sleep that night.
Anyway, thanks for breaking down Alien: Romulus; I have been an Alien fan for what feels like my whole life and cannot wait to see the new movie--hear, technically, as I listen to an audio-described version.
That is fascinating. Thanks. Yep, I felt it was worth going to see it. Hope you enjoy!
Never even considered that as a potential complication, thank you for sharing
Can I genuinely ask how you typed this out if you're totally blind? Honest curiosity.
"I am totally blind"
But... Would you see any of these responses? How'd you comment successfully in first place? *It must've taken a fair bit of effort?
@@aeureus I assume they used speech-to-text and other related technology. They're really advanced, these days
Day 19 of asking Roanoke to face his fears and cover subnautica.
He doesn't cover games on this channel. Nor does he cover animal mutations. You can ask a thousand times n he wouldn't do it. Its like asking s guntuber to cover a hello kitty purse. Idiot
Day 2 of asking why your day counter is inconsistent af
Do it coward
@@The_Ragequit_Cannon Day 1 of asking why I live rent free in your head
Playing this game right now, it's so good. Unfortunately so are both of my kids, so I spend most of my time jumping between their games and filling cabinets with water and titanium, placing emergency bases with food, water, and scanners in strategic locations, and getting missing fragments in Leviathan zones. 😂😭
In retrospective, Ash always admired Xenomorphs for "their purity."
I think he had a sense of respect for them that they were mere animals, yet were so intelligent and so capable. It was if they reminded him of humanity in of itself, in a sense, likely.
"Unclouded by morality..."
"... a survivor..."
"How do we kill it?"
_"You can't."_
*_"... I can't lie to you about your chances - but, you have my sympathies."_*
At the same time, however, this abomination turns that idea on its head, imo.
It's unmistakable psychological warfare at its finest.
The thought occurs to me that perhaps the theory that everything evolves into Crabs (Carcinisation) is wrong, and in actuality everything will evolve into a Xenomorph, hence why their DNA is so hyper dominant they are the final evolution of all life.
@@zeratul____1228
More likely, it could have even been Wayland-Yutani performing a... "test" for their weapons division.
This was brought up in the first movie while Ash was being interrogated, after all.
If Ripley's concerns held water, it's very possible that the Alien from Romulus was artificially made. In other words, it's not a normal Xenomorph... *_it's a BOW..._*
That's the same rabbit hole that led to the downfall of the Umbrella Corp. in Resident Evil
@@zeratul____1228 Just so you know, the idea of everything evolving into crabs is false. It became a meme because some people took something that scientists once said completely out of context.
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 Oh I am aware I just find it funny to bring it up lol
I like how the Offspring is pretty much the Anti-Xenomorph, equally as horrifying, but for the completely opposite reasons.
"Cool frontal lobe bro, definitely someone you want on your team" love this
6:51 I've worked nightshift for 2 years now and did not know that. New fear unlocked ... thanks.
27:38 when the solution to space inhabitation is literally rgb lights
The gamers had it right
Not sure how groovy I feel about the notion that our ideal form of space human is "Giant True-Value Mark Zuckerberg with flatworm for a tail", but what do I know?
In fairness, it was established that the serum still needs development. We don’t know what the outcome would be if/when it’s perfected.
@@thatkidwiththehoodie Probably a literal Engineer.
That's probably what the serum tried to upgrade the kid into, before the Xenomorph traits from the WiP compound forced their way to the top like they did with the mouse.
reject practically, embrace the beauty of the human body
The real question is if the droid knew that the serum was still imperfect or not. The audience is explicitly shown that what the crew thinks was a success experiment was actually a failure.
@ he didn’t know. He literally said “it worked on the rat”, which… no, Andy, it REALLY didn’t 😅
the offspring was genuinely one of the first times i ever was speechless in a horror movie
I’m so glad other people were as shocked by it as I was. lil homie fucked me uuuuup, it was great xD
One of the few modern horror monsters that left an impression on me.
It's just a rip off newborn
@@RatKingDeltatakes one to know one
@@thatkidwiththehoodieIn my theatre I yelled out WTF and u can tell the laughter that came was the uncomfortable kind. We were all just😢😰😭
After 3 movies with zero explanations, I'm making my own head canon that the black goo is just xenomorph amniotic fluid used to integrate host material into xenomorph offspring, and it works so well that the engineers tried to weaponize it but accidentally destroyed themselves.
No Roanoke, do NOT stomp the Chestburster. If the Blood can melt through a ship's hull in seconds, your shoe isn't gonna fare much better.
the cost-benefit to bringing resperators to the colony is clear.. it is cheaper to allow the people to die than to bring basic equipment... because if they live long enough they will eventually need to leave the colony when that cargo-space and or cost incurred by the company could instead be used to just bring a new worker... gotta think about it man!!!
This is legit it. Real world companies do cost benefit analysis of recalls. What's cheaper, recalls or finest and legal fees.
Yep. It's not even the clerk who doubles her time, you see it double while they are talking.
14:40 I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite reference on the Citadel
Imagine what the Offspring would look like if it had fully grown. there was concept art of it becoming something like a xenomorph dragon with wings
Like a certain violet _Cunning God of Death_ ??
@@YMunesanzunwhat
@@jimmyramirez7377it's a reference to Ridley from the Metroid series, he's official title is the Cunning God of Death because he has avoided certain death a number of times
23:15 the refusal to get reprogrammed because that would interfere with the directive to serve the company is an excellent example of an "AI Alignment problem" as covered in youtuber Robert Miles' video "AI safety remastered"
35:52 "The site is experiencing multiple Keter and Euclid level containment breaches. Full site lock down initiated."
36:14
Apparently, it's just a really tall, skinny actor in a prosthetic suit 🤯 Look it up.
He’s a former basketball player but if you look at him it seems very realistic his parents were like “you’re tall, play basketball!” But he has a full on nerd body complete with negative points in agility
0:10 wrong I’m not here because I give a shit about any movies. Your breakdown, analysis, and energy are what get me interested in a movie in the first place. I’m a Roanoke fan not a movie fan.
We need a Roanoke movie
Im only here to hear him say "force multiplier" and call people "Amy"
@@rogercardosodecampos7325And for anti anglerfish propaganda
I'm both lol
Professional glazer
Well shit, I was diagnosed with leukemia after working a night shift for about a year and a half.
I'm sorry to hear that brother, I hope you are doing well
@@RoanokeGaming things are mostly good now. I had never heard of that correlation before and it was a surprise. Mind you mutations made it pretty much inevitable but now I have to wonder if it was accelerated
Damn ring the alarm I was just diagnosed with lymphoma and I’ve never heard this also I worked nights for almost a decade! I’m not a gym rat but I eat right and workout so it’s kinda random and the only health anomaly for me
@@rookholgado sometimes there's more to it than living healthy. Like I said I was pretty much genetically guaranteed to get sick .I am sure the weird sleep patterns didn't help
We are so reliant on Earth. Really makes you wonder how much genetic modification will be required for us to traverse the cosmos without suffering all manner of awful effects.
The android was my favorite character. I think he was the best android out of the whole series
Yep
Andy and David are the best androids in the franchise
Where’s the love for Bishop? He’s a total bro
“Ohhh I was just joking Bruvv”!!! 😂 freaking loved it
Digging the reference to Kung Pow and the Iron Claw of the Evil Betty.
Love a Kung Pow reference~
21:30 loved the Kung Pow reference
Should have gone with A!
Took "Enter the Fist" too literally 😂
LMAO was gonna post that 😂
Swinging the chain, swinging the chain.....
I highly appreciated the Kung Pow reference as well
Been having a blast watching these! One of the things that came to mind when I saw “The Offspring” was “I can’t wait to see how Roanoke explains this one!”😂 Seriously, been having a blast watching. Thank you for putting so much work into these 😃
My mind was blown seeing you here. Big fan of the channel!
"Cool frontal lobe," is something I'm gonna have to use for some field-testing. Gotta know how people react to that when they're getting abnormally salty.
That is the opposite of me at work. I walk around telling people I am getting a new peircing soon, then proceed to show them the illustration of a frontal lobotomy on my phone.
The reason there are craters on the moon is more so because it doesn't have an atmosphere. Plenty of space rocks do "hit" our planet, but most of the times they disintegrate on entry against the atmosphere, that's why they rarely leave a mark on the surface of the earth itself. The moon however barely has an atmosphere, so when a comet comes it's way, nothing stops it until it does touch down on the surface. That's why it has so many impacts.
Nonsense, the moon just has no erosion, we have not observed any new moon craters forming, because they are all billions of years old.
Plus the ones that do hit are gradually eroded away by natural forces that the moon just doesn't have, ie tectonics, water, wind, et cetera. The footprints left by Apollo will stay there for a good few million years because of this.
Exactly, 25 million meteoroids enter and disintigrate in earths atmosphere daily of which about 17 are large enough to survive Earths atmosphere and hit ground. Without the atmosphere Earth would look A LOT different.
No dude. Please BE a movie review channel, you’re good at it and I find that part very useful for context.
I love your content and watch it with my wife and students.
Keep it up.
He does good commentary, but he's really not a reviewer. He misses tons of things that are explained in just this movie or have been made clear by how the company is characterized in past movies.
He should stick to the witty summaries and the science. That's what he's good at.
@@cody1o3 I like it. its got his own charm at this point
He should call it roanoke movies!!
I like how Ellen was the only crew member in Alien who cared about the *entire* crew's welfare(minus Kane with his hitchhiker)and Ash was all "here, hold WY's beer".
I liked this movie. It does have its problems but it's a MASSIVE improvement over Scott's emissions. The actor who plays Andy was really good.
Someone made an interesting point. The males have English accents, the females have American ones (suggesting boys and girls are raised separately). Andy starts off with the softer American accent but when he is given the new chip, his accent changes to a British accent. When he is reset, he goes back to the female American accent.
Paying attention rewards the viewer. So many of the 'plot holes and goofs' turn out to have in universe explanations.
I absolutely agree
you just KNOW putting Alien in the title is about to do some crazy numbers
That hell creature at the end of the movie scared the shit outta me. Uncanny valley vibes af.
The reaction of the Hybrid in the theaters was great. Seeing Alien Romulus in 4dx was amazing!! So much fun.
I agree it was a great movie the director wasn't lying when he spoke about that one scene the birth scene made me squirm and legit spooked me
It really was. Everyone in my theater was saying wtf is that and going eww lmao
@@eric-pn7eg I thought the movie was terrible, and the hybrid reveal was hilarious
@@theniceguy7824 cool story 👍
@@theniceguy7824 I thought the movie was great. I could see the hybrid reveal being silly. I thought the hybrid was terrifying overall.
This channel is amazing! As a biologist lab tech that specializes in genetics, it’s so enjoyable to hear someone talk about what does through my head when I see these movies😅
*14:00** The cut back to Beorn made me spit out my coffee* 😆
Ikr! Loved it, I cackled!!!
Isn't it Bjorn, not Beorn? 🤔 Bjorn (or Björn) is a Scandinavian name, and I, a nordic person, though NOT Scandinavian (I'm Finnish) can very clearly hear the name as Bjorn not some "beorn"
My man I’ve been having heart palpitations like crazy lately, I never thought it would’ve been from the fish oil I started taking. I got into power lifting and a buddy of mine that’s been lifting for years told me to try it out. You might’ve saved me there because heart issues run on both sides of my family. These palpitations have had me stressed out for a couple months now thinking I’m developing some defect or something.
The take on that seizure is hilarious, stop, move your head and eyes to look right at it to kick the joystick then start fidgeting around again.
Yes! Been waiting for this!
Couple quick “umm ackshully”s:
1) it was a probe with no crew that retrieved Big Chap
2) Big Chap did not lay any eggs, they extracted the black goo from him and essentially reversed engineered it to create the new face huggers (also why the incubation period is so damn short, likely tampered with it), and we’re continuing to try and refine it to avoid any negative effects
3) Ian Holm was Bilbo, no Monk. Monk was played by Tony Shalhoub
4) the cryopods were stored/moved to the EEV (like in Alien 3)
Regards to 3, Roanoke said that the reason he's calling Rook Monk is because the actors look alike to him.
@@alchemysaga3745ah, I missed that. I thought he mixed them up because they look alike.
To be fair, I apparently typed over where I said that he said it in the comments. My bad! @@ElijahNMitchell
@ElijahNMitchell To be fair, I missed that too, but thought he was calling him Monk because he's the monk in The Fifth Element. 😅😅
Roanoke making a Kung Pao: Enter the Fist reference, was a surprise to be sure but a welcome one 😂
One of these days I would love a video from Roanoke discussing how he would go about engineering the perfect human. Would he give human 2 more arms, would he give humans night vision?
You'd cease to be human past a certain point in pursuit of perfection since human biology is just so limited outside of the brain. You'd have to change so much.
@@ezhno7137 being imperfect any idea of perfection is itself imperfect.
Have you given up on THE STRAIN Roanoke?
I didn't know he had episodes on that.
Whatever happened to that show, I stopped watching after season 1 because I got distracted by other shows.
Yeah it went totally crazy.. too bad, it was actually pretty good the first couple of seasons.
@@TheShedHuntingDogs Well shit....thanks for telling me I guess.
Oh man, I loved the book trilogy. I was so excited about the show but it had quite a few problems. Including the design of “The master”. It matched the description in the book but rather than being menacing it came off as goofy. They also recast Ephram’s son and it hurt the characters development as he gets turned against his dad and acts like a little 💩. Any empathy for the character developed in the first season really left the character when they replaced the actor. The story line also deviated quite a bit from the book and the ending was changed. I still enjoyed the show tho and the Dark Horse comics were entertaining as well. Plus I had a massive crush on Gus 😂 . I would still recommend a watch 🤷🏽♀️.
Seeing behind the scenes of the guy that played the new Xenomorph fully done up, just leaning on a set piece talking with a director is hilarious to me 😂 seems like a good dude, and he did a good job for someone who isn’t a full time actor.
Bjorn has a sense of humor only a cousin could love
lol according to the director that is more right than it should be lol.
You're either Bjorn with it or you're not.
Lol according to the director: He was the one that got Kay prego
@@Kraigor1701 i mean my brother in christ, i love my cousins, ive never caressed them the way kay did in front of that xenomorph pod
Man imagine if some of these horror movie explained/scientific analysis channels teamed up to make a movie? Where the protagonists actually make smart choices and still experience great challenges. That would be DOPE
Doesn't work, that's the problem. If the character is only making right choices, you rely entirely on fait accompli (or what we perceive as "ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT") for the problems to happen. It's revolting, although less revolting than the universe Final Destination-ing your problems, to have moronic characters, but unfortunately it's better than the alternative.
It can work with the right circumstances and proper writing.
I once worked in a three-shift system - one week day shift, next week late shift, last week night shift and so on, in a neon lit warehouse. Never felt this exhausted and emotionally volatile in all my life and in retrospect it might have contributed to my addiction issues I struggled with.
It's an inhumane employment model.
Could I make a request? Not many like it because it uses the 10% brain power myth but I think that doesn’t discount it as an interesting movie and deserves a chance, it’s just a movie after all.
Lucy (2014). The main character is used as a drug mule and the bag breaks and the drug enters her bloodstream and gives her ever growing psychic powers. It runs with the using only 10% of our brain power. At 100% her body disappears. She is “everywhere”, in the space time continuum.
I’ve asked before but chickened out of continuing to ask. I love this movie and interested in the science behind the “drug” and all the side effects that come with it.
Ask in the discord. I doubt he's reading every comment.
Luc Besson
The fact is the makeup of our brains 10% of function is know.
Roanoke there’s an anglerfish in your walls.
Also I think the Smile movies would be good to make a video on. Exploring how the smiler (or whatever the very happy creatures name is) affects its hosts brain and takes control of their body, all while tricking the host into thinking they are somewhere they aren’t. Been watching since your first dead space video, and I definitely think that Smile would be cool to explore.
Smile is a godawful movie message wise (you can't escape depression suicide is the only way out, cool message bro), and the scares are insanely cheap and the movie overall is pretty dumb
but an analysis by Roanoke would slap lol
@@leonidass3448I can understand why you say that, and I think the first movie did that bad at some moments. I always liked both the first and second movie (the second is better in every single way), and the 2 movies were a breath of fresh air for the horror movie genre. My only issue is like all horror movies now, the first movie basically has the same ending of: Protagonist gets trapped and takes on the “bad guy”, Protagonist thinks they won, Protagonist loses and dies, Protagonist friend becomes a witness and is now the next victim, the end. And also the protagonist in the first movie is an idiot most of the time when investigating about the entity.
@@leonidass3448To add on my long comment, the first movie did have a cheap budget but for a low budget it was a really good film. The 2nd movie like I said does everything better than the first (at-least in my opinion) and it definitely scared the crap out of me much more than the first.
i dont know why but when a person who really knows the in's and out's of biology and is buff it just makes them seem more credible like if they mastered living in the human body
This thing was absolutely the most disturbing creature in the entire franchise to me 😅 I'm oddly fascinated with it, it's just soooooo creepy! Love your videos as always 👍
I don't know how many others instantly caught the excellent and obscure movie reference around 21 minute mark but you made my day. One of my cousins and I favorite films to quote.
"We intentionally trained him wrong. As a joke"
Saturday morning cartoon replacement let's go!
I would recommend the Alien Romulus tie in comic it brings in more info as to how the outpost got there
@@markr4827 doesn't save the movie from being terrible
I don't know why people complained about this so much or how it's basically what happens in Ressurection like...so what?? Are you saying they should just never show human and Xenomorph DNA being blended together again just because they done it before because that's so fucking stupid and boring. Imagine they never had a chestburster again because they decided oh well we did that once so we can't do it again.
The mad science won't stop, it's literally the whole thing. I was utterly dumbfounded when I found out that people are only JUST NOW realizing that the villain of Alien is the Weyland Yutani corporation, like it couldn't be more freaking obvious.
Anyway yeah the Offspring was super freaking creepy and maybe it's because it's the first time I saw a horror movie in a theatre but it actually got me I was tense that whole sequence, it has such an appropriately uncanny look to it compared to the newborn in Ressurection which was honestly kinda cute.
@@mrcheesemunch Because it's stupid and unoriginal. Especially when the previous design in Resurrection is superior. It was literally nothing but cheap shock factor.
He's just a little baby.
@@theniceguy7824 That's such a cop out criticism lol how is it "shock factor" to do something that's entirely consistent with the body horror of Alien?
And like I said if that's unoriginal then so is repeating any of the other things that happen in the series, it was unoriginal to have Facehuggers and coccoons too I guess or is that criticism only used when it's convenient?
Also...people say shock factor like it's automatically a bad thing like you're not supposed to be shocked at the events in a God damn horror movie let alone a series heavily based in freaking body horror. People said the same thing about the original it was dumb then and still is.
@mrcheesemunch Just because you don't like a criticism doesn't mean it's a cope out lol, that's a very childish mindset.
No dude, eggs, and face huggers are part of the life cycle of the alien. That's established lore. The fact you don't understand that already proves anything you say is invalid.
It is automatically a bad thing. Especially when it's been done before. There's already been a hybrid, using the goo on a pregnant woman a second time is unoriginal. I'm sorry that hurts your feelings. The movie is bad in general, it's not just the hybrid that makes it bad.
@@theniceguy7824 You know what else is established lore? That Xenomorphs take aspects of whatever they were hosted in when they're forming, that's been a thing the whole time, you don't know what you're talking about.
Xenomorphs as we most commonly see them are literally already hybrids from the simple fact they're born from humans and any time they're not they're different, the things people call "hybrids" just have more human features than usual because they're created in different ways.
"It's just bad in general" is another nonsensical criticism, you have nothing to say about it you just want to declare it's bad and will bend over backwards to say established lore we already know about suddenly came out of nowhere. Lol. Go watch Alien 3 because you surely haven't paid attention to any of these movies if you think this is a new concept.
Also you've completely ignored the fact that it's an ENGINEER hybrid born from a human, no, that literally has not been done before actually.
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The Kung Pow reference has me DYING.
Masterclass writing my friend. Please, never stop.
Had this saved to my "watch later" since I came out. Finally watched the film, now I can watch this episode finally.
@roanokegaming
The black gu was an attempt to recreate the blood of the Deacon which is the Engeneers god. It looks like a xenomorph but more like the one from Prometheus. It was a wise and sentient being.
Its blood was used to plant life on planets like earth which was seen in the beginning of Prometheus.
And after Deacon died they tried to recreate the blood of their good which resulted in the black gu.
And instead of giving life it destroys it.
The black genosis material needs to be programmed first.
Credit where credit is due. It's been a long, long time since a movie monster tickled the fight or flight part of my brain.
It kinda seems that the colony not gettin any sunlight so deseases would come up is on purpose
which makes sense if the compony wanted to use the black goo on them anyway first you create the issue then you present a potential cure
That info on the fish oil was useful man, thank you! Great vid as always! 🤘
Naming a space station Romulus and Remus is some next level plot development
Dude, The Substance would be TH-cam gold. Cover it bro!
Roanoke, I think you have Weylan-Yutani confused with a company that is willing to spend money on the people it views as expendable. They are the spacefaring equivalent of the East India Company with even fewer moral qualms when it comes to money and the nearest form of regulatory oversight is 28 light years away.
in the latter 21st-22nd century there is a surplus of humanity to use up.
She put Andy in cryo stasis so they could try and say he was human when they got to their destination.
Because why would they put a robot in stasis when it can make sure nothing goes wrong over that 9 year journey, that's exactly why they should freeze him so he can touch ground without any questions
But wouldn't you think a colony that prohibits synths would, idk, have a foolproof way to detect them. It seems like a better bet to keep him awake during the transit and then have him get into stasis when they arrive. Because that's going to make the highest chance for success as whatever happens in the planet in terms of synth determination would presumably happen anyway. Or maybe that planet only uses cryogenic stasis data logs for proof of humanity, which doesn't make much sense to me, but who knows.
the creature at the end is so fucking unsettling. everyone should watch this flick as HiFi as possible cuz its some serious uncanny valley shit
Hollywood trying to tell me that humanity shouldn't go into space is so inherently antihuman that I'm not surprised it came from film makers.
Orphan of Kos
I would point out the flares aren’t actually incendiary, they’re literally just a light.
And before I forget, apparently they were 3D printing the facehuggers in some kind of bio scaffolding
Hey look, my favorite Alien movie getting covered. No, that’s not because it was the only one I saw in theaters.
When i was stationed at Fort Lewis (Tacoma WA), we were told when we got there, it was a REQUIREMENT to get UV lights and have them in each room. Since Its grey and we got like 4 weeks of sunny days a year, those lights saved us. It cracks me up (as you have mentioned) that we already do this but this story, hundreds of years in the future magically forgot we needed sunlight to be normal haha.
Nothing forgotten W-Y is a cheap Nazi like company concerning employees. Note they still use living minors and birds to test the atmosphere instead of technology. Asshole free enterprise company.
Yeah, seasonal affective disorder is a thing up here in WA, and I would assume other Northern states. You also sometimes need to take extra D³. I'm from Tacoma/Lakewood, WA. We get like, 3+ MONTHS of sun & heat a year, plus plenty of cold dry sun in the spring and winter. Summers have been getting longer and hotter every year. I hate summer. Can't deal with heat.
My sleep schedule is ass backwards, as in, I go to bed around 6 am and wake up between 4-6 pm. I've never used UV lamps or lights, but I do take vitamins.
We call them “happy lights” in Alaska. Cabin fever is a very real thing. Seeing little to no sunlight for a good chunk of the year can mess with ya.
Fun fact, face huggers need to echange gass. They cannot breath water. Nor can a human host.
In the comics they dont attack people if it would lead to the host drowning mid impregnation.
The entire flooded hallway scene was garbage.
@@shanekratzert it's there
Comics' canon doesn't overwrite the movies. Unless a movie has stated the whole "gass" thing it isn't canon to Romulus
The comics canon is often at odds with the movies, just because they don't align doesn't mean it's garbage. Most of my theatre thought that scene was great.
Roanoke me boi you say the offspring is horrifically deformed but to me he's the perfect organism.
He's just a baby
His mom is one of those moms that count the baby's age in months. "This is my 12,438th month old child."
Romulus was *AMAZIN'~*
Agreed.
amazingly shit.
Agreed.
@@Mate397 stop trolling fucko
Some scenes triggered my arachnophobia and I enjoyed *even* that. Fantastic. 😂
I use a light clock/alarm which simulates daylight to wake up in the morning. It works perfectly and is much better than the harshness of a regular alarm clock in the morning. I have battled severe depression for over two decades now and lack of light is one major episode trigger. The light clock is specifically designed to sinulate the spectrum of sunlight