What Happened to Newt's Parents Inside the Derelict? - Explained

While James Cameron's Aliens left it to the imagination, the 2014 novel, Alien: River of Pain, details events that occurred inside the mysterious vessel explored by Russ and Anne Jordan. This video explores excerpts from the novel and the possible reason for the eggs on board.
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[@jamesoblivion]

The biggest killer in the Alien franchise? Curiosity. No one ever runs when the eggs open.

[@chrisredfield6274]

Imagine if Chris Tucker was in an Alien movie. He would nope the fuck out of there as soon as the eggg moved.

[@patriciafarmer2991]

That's precisely because no one except Ellen Ripley has encountered the eggs before. Therefore they have no idea whether it's a good thing or bad thing.

[@jamesoblivion]

@@patriciafarmer2991 Yeah...big egg...on an alien planet...opens up...if I'm a miner, I don't get paid to take chances on that shit. 😆 I mean, if you'd be like "Ah, this is probably fine," in that situation, okay, but I'd be GONE.

[@luthermcgee432]

@@jamesoblivion , I'd be gone too! It's only instinct.

[@ScarScream]

Usain Bolt in his prime wouldn't have caught me if I saw one of those eggs hatch. Oh and I probably would have screamed like Chris Tucker while running away too!

[@Rubashow]

>Be a colonist on a god forsaken planet. >Drive outside on a dangerous mission through uncharted land >Take your kids with you. >Enter really strange alien craft. >It's frigthening, there are traces of a fight. >It's really dark. >Just enter the craft even further. >Find the remains of what looks like something really deadly. >Venture in even further. >What could go wrong.

[@TheNoodlyAppendage]

1. Explore alien ship. 2. Find dead aliens and evidence of a fight 3. Find evidence of insect behavior in said aliens 4. Find living alien eggs 5. ??? 6. PROFIT!!!!!!!!

[@tootsiedawn2016]

IKR?!!

[@Fandango541]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 You said it, bro!

[@stoops187]

WHILE UNARMED!

[@noteffected653]

And I quote" they'll be fine, there use to us abandoning them "

[@karenjulieattard4171]

River of pain needs to be made into a movie! The book is incredible, really frightening. Someone please take on this project!

[@Filthy_Larry]

Right.

[@BerryNiceToMeetYou]

If you like the book, try the audio drama. It's a full cast and is like a radio show.

[@minicle426]

It needs a game.

[@MrCostaC]

I’d heard it’s shit from loads of sources. Not only that but it assumes the engineers as canon. That’s a hard no from me. Engineers are a terrible plot development.

[@jadedandbitter]

@@MrCostaC yeah engineers are just Ridley Scott shitting all over Dan O'Bannon's universe.

[@jedi1967]

Newt, one of the best kid performances in history. Give that girl an Oscar

[@Ecotic]

Man, you always deliver. This video was like an 20-minute prequel audio book to Aliens.

[@Comintern1919]

Well, considering exactly that actually exists... ;)

[@constable117]

I love how much human greed fucks us over in these stories.

[@LanceyKersti]

Money pays the bills thats not greed its survival

[@playerone9824]

Capitalism kills.

[@ArmandoAlejandro2014]

😂

[@kylerstorm9260]

it’s not “human greed”, it’s late stage capitalism. everything that happens is because THE COMPANY keeps putting innocent people into the meat grinder. Newt’s family was just trying to grind out a living.

[@FrankNFurter1000]

Fucking us over for “a god damn percentage”

[@punchybandu]

Brilliant man, nobody can capture the mood of the Alien Universe "off camera" like you do dude..... Awesome

[@tiertroy]

Alien Theory Should be narrating the damn books on audible… your voice is FIIIIIRE…..😜💥🫶🏻👌

[@coreym162]

Poor Newt :/ She just kept being thrown shitty deals til it killed her.

[@blunthonesty8633]

I would see the xenomorph body and just say. "Nope! Nope! Nope! Someone else can have the money!" Then get out of there fast. Anyone else think they would react like that?

[@benjilee329]

Nor me either.

[@marvinbush9768]

Fuck yeah I would

[@WALDENSOFTWARE]

Everybody is probably trying to get out of that planet. If that is a way out, it is worth the risk than living the rest of your life slaving away on a tiny planet.

[@xenomorph-2017]

The problem is though that the only ones who knew how dangerous the xenomorphs are were Ripley and the WY Corporation, none of the colonists knew, so no one can really blame them.

[@marckrieger3277]

Nuke it from orbit

[@jerrysinclair3771]

Great bed time reading! Double thumbs up to the author and to you sir for the haunting voice.

[@wargriffin5]

That Engineer sounds pretty badass. He took on a queen Xenomorph in hand-to-hand combat and it was a draw. Not even the King Xenomorph could accomplish that...

[@reallyhappenings5597]

Since when is there a King Xenomorph?

[@wargriffin5]

@@reallyhappenings5597 It's in the comic series. I believe the name of the series was "Aliens: Rogue."

[@adambomb138]

@@reallyhappenings5597 Read a book once in a while.

[@Cyborg_Auto]

​@adambomb138 you consider reading a comic as reading a book ?😂😂

[@Howyaduing]

I refuse to believe that David was the one who created the Xenomorphs if anything the Engineers most likely created them before David. He must’ve discovered some old research on board the ship from Prometheus and tried his hand at creating the Aliens Xenomorphs

[@chris8669]

That's exactly what happened. He was just continuing their work. The mural in the temple in Prometheus shows the Engineers created the Xeno.

[@Howyaduing]

@@chris8669 thank you

[@Elayzee]

I don't believe the Engineers created the Xenomorphs either. I feel like they merely discovered them and that they've been around long before the engineers even existed.

[@Howyaduing]

@@Elayzee ingenious that is deepens the mystery behind the Xenomorphs gives them a Lovecraft feel to them.

[@joshuaromerogonzalez945]

​@@Elayzeewell, thanks to Alien Romulus, we can already guess the Engineers extracted the infamous black goo of Prometheus from the Xenomorph

[@ETX213]

*Good video dude! You have such a good story speaking voice. This woulda been great in the movie!*

[@NYKgjl10]

This would of been a perfect movie for the Alien series.

[@dr.zippymcscoots8725]

The terraforming facility is huge. Before construction large scale air and ground surveys would have been conducted. Topological scans from orbit. Kind of hard to believe that the construction crews never found this ship sooner before the facility was completed.

[@cascadianrangers728]

For all we know the ship is opaque to radar...youre right, nobody spends so much money and time on a fusion powered atmospheric processor just to set it up blind, and I don't think they would just plop it down randomly, it would be built on specially selected and prepared land; they would fer sure AT LEAST radar map AT LEAST whatever side of the planet it's on, but if radar mapping didn't find anything, why keep looking? Maybe they have a computer doing the mapping and geographic surveys, and the human or computer looking just doesn't recognize the ship as a ship, and thinks, hmm , more probable it's just a funky rock formation, there's no way it's a space ship, and mark and label it as such

[@DerDrecksack87]

​@@cascadianrangers728 in Alien Isolation it is indirectly explained why nobody picked up the ship, but i won't spoiler it in case you want to play it.

[@hivebrain]

Given its shape, the ship might just look like a crater to radar.

[@ArtofLunatik]

Oh it changed their lives alright.

[@melkor3496]

lunatiksAlterEgo Lmao

[@jessedale4287]

lunatiksAlterEgo and they never had to work again

[@ArtofLunatik]

lol ikr

[@jaketheberge1970]

Yeah dad has a new mouth to feed.

[@kellyweingart3692]

😂😂😂😂

[@TerryB751]

Never could understand how the face hugger knew enough to burn through Kane's helmet in the original movie, but stopped short of burning his face. I always thought it would have made more sense for Kane to have some kind of excuse to remove his helmet before looking into the egg.

[@eroldcroft3045]

?????? It was perfect the way it is. Hello??? The colonists need to terraform the planet to make it habitable for humans. Kane would have died before the egg explodes open. That scene was the hook that caught you.

[@spike1422]

....Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand then David showed up to tell them that what they thought was eons old only happened last week and he built the Xenos because Ridley Scott has lost his mind and has an inexplicable hard-on for evil A.I and Michael Fassbender. The End.

[@bernardstrauss1183]

Amen. Prometheus, Covenant and whatever Ridley ends up pulling of his ass next are the nails in the coffin of the Space jockey and the Alien.

[@inthezone666]

Oh the sad irony that the guy who brought us the first Alien movie has totally fucked the franchise.

[@bobbyharvill4225]

spike1422 I know of all the great and imaginative ways to go he went with a crazy robot. I could have cried when I saw the direction he went in. Still great movies, just not the way I would have went.

[@bodavidson2804]

Thanks Ridley Scott.....

[@Aphylyon]

Unpopular Opinion: New Xenomorph Origins > Old

[@Tsumami__]

Pretty depressing that they got facehugged pretty much only because they wanted an easier life for themselves and their kids. But then again I wouldn’t be comfortable leaving my kids outside a crashed alien ship on a partially “terraformed” planet that only had a small colony we had driven miles away from while I went and looked around inside. Especially considering they would have no idea how stable the ship would be, aside from the obvious threat that ended up getting them.

[@marko-1987]

Felt like this too, humanity does seem doomed in this franchise. I did feel bad for these folks though as anyone would of done the same in that situation.

[@Comintern1919]

Only the Dad got Facehugged, the Mother dies later being impaled by an Alien.

[@DeadManSinging1]

@@Comintern1919 No, she gets taken down and facehugged with the other colonists

[@Axess-sv8nq]

Newt's father pulled a Kane/Oram move and stuck his face in an egg.

[@brbrbuckeye]

I don't understand Oram because he just heard David tell him what would happen.

[@Fandango541]

@Oppai Man facehugger scrotum 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Too much!

[@jamesfrank3213]

It's possible the laser field started failing and some eggs opened on their own. Wish we could have seen the alien takeover of the colony, that would be a whole movie in itself I'd pay to see.

[@slimdudeDJC]

I would have thought they'd use mirrors at that point, for viewing inside those vestibules. Surely would have saved funds on helmet replacements.

[@beckilovesmex]

You need to record Audio books, your voice is so perfect

[@GC0077]

The minute I saw the first dead xenomorph, I would've calmly stated, "screw this...I'm going back to the car.

[@ProstWithTheMostBabe]

Screw you guys, im going home...

[@pablodono7227]

And nuke everything from orbit 😂😂😂

[@GC0077]

@@pablodono7227 "Fkn A!"

[@tentpitchr]

You should write your own audiobook will all your knowledge.

[@patriciaspano8045]

Jerry Pitchford I second that

[@STriderFIN77]

I approves this o7

[@DjHardDriver]

What knowledge is something that whole world who watched aliens know what happend to them

[@My2Cents1]

There is a LOT exrapolation here too. Fan fiction. Otherwise he wouldn’t be able to keep this channel going. There isn’t this much official material.

[@doctorgonzo1983]

@@My2Cents1 ...You know he's literally reading a licensed published novel that's got an audiobook version and everything? There's literally DECADES worth of storytelling from this universe, dude. Comics have been running the entire time the movies have.

[@Sundaydish1]

It pisses me off that Ridley ruined the mystery of the Aliens by making them a human robot creation. I always imagined them as having a far off home planet.

[@Sundaydish1]

@S billings You miss the point that the mystique of the aliens has been removed. If you explain how they were made then the very word "alien" no longer applies. Giving the aliens a backstory is not a minor detail. And Prometheus is not a good movie.

[@Sundaydish1]

@S billings It's still an opinion and I have a right to have it. The original post is mine, you are the troll here. Emojis are for 12 year olds...... In my opinion.

[@ArcanePath360]

*THANK YOU* for breeding new life into Aliens for me. This was beautifully read with a great selection of imagery from the Alien universe and I really got an immersive sense of what happened. The fact that they found so much more than Dallas and his crew does seem a little unlikely but could be because they were more inquisitive and greedy for getting rich, but I'm happy that this ties in with the new Alien films with the bio-engineers and makes it all come together nicely.

[@Comintern1919]

I know your comment is at least 2 years old, I still feel the need to answer you ;) . They find out much more because the Nostromos was not a Science Ship and thus not equiped at all for studying Alien life and Ash was the only "Scientist". Meanwhile, Hadley's Hope was specifically built (in secret) by the Company to study whatever Alien Life in on the Moon, was thus equiped to handle it and had very capable (and of course extremely ruthless) COmpany Scientists ready and just waiting for the eventual Alien find. Also, Aliens is set somewhat 50 years after the first Movie and thus at least somewhat more technological advanced. It's also implied that by that point Humanity already did make contact with Alien Species, though it is never made clear with what Species and whether these were intelligent and not. Thus the Scientists had some form of theoretical Experience dealing with Alien Life.

[@RenKnight347]

​@@Comintern1919 One of the biggest questions that has always peaked my curiosity is that: If the Nostromo, which was a registered ""commercial towing vessel"", what was the need for a ""science officer"" to be onboard in the first place?

[@bigfatcarp93]

@@RenKnight347 Space travel. A spacecraft should never go anywhere without a science officer if it can afford it.

[@texasred2702]

I'm not a parent of young kids but I think the minute I came across the alien skeleton at the bottom of the stairs I'd have knew it was time to bounce.

[@andyl8055]

That was fantastic. I put it on casually then ended up sitting glued to my phone to watch the video. Love it

[@steveb4662]

I just finished all ten Alien books and LOVED "River of Pain." Once again a fantastic video, AT. LOVE this channel!

[@johnnysunday402]

I always wanted to know the story about John J Maricheck(?), from which one of the two 'Burke' facehuggers came. I know Hadleys medical personell killed Mericheck taking off the parasite, but I've always been curious as to who he was, ect.

[@topdj18]

alienanthology.fandom.com/wiki/John_Marachuk

[@quintonphelan7542]

If I was them as soon as I seen the eggs I would have left so fast!

[@Thedrummersalmanac]

Quinton Phelan Hindsight is 20/20

[@luciusavenus8715]

I would have buggered off long before seeing that!!

[@tootsiedawn2016]

I wouldn't have went that far in. They were letting their greed overtake their brains. Stupid asses.

[@jasonwhite7905]

This is why you're not in a horror movie. We need a body count, not good sense. Now pretend you're an up coming starlet, and the egg is Harvy Weinstein...

[@MakayevR29]

@Quinton Phelan Maybe they thought they`d found the home of the easter bunny.

[@ChillDealGames]

This is one of my favorites you've done. Fills a gap that I always wondered about.

[@AlphaKnight-hg2jq]

Should of stopped after they found the first alien and then went to face hugging The idea of a lone xenomorph trying to create a hive but having nothing to grow it with and dying alone curled up in a ball was such a tragic idea

[@Tsumami__]

That single image of the giant chamber full of eggs, and how it looks like it goes on for hundreds of feet, if not miles of tunnels. That has always stuck in my head. Way more than the image of the space jockey. It always implied to me that the whole ship was full of massive cavernous chambers full of thousands of eggs. And I do think that’s what happens to the 2 or 20,000 colonists from the Covenant.

[@TeganX7]

I really remain convinced that David is RE-creating the species. I believe that the Acheron crash really did happen sometime long ago, and that the aliens that were on board were created by the Engineers (I know that some fans are disturbed by David as being the creator of the Aliens ... and then having an ancient crash site on Acheron ... but I as of yet don't see a conflict here). My speculation is that the final chapter will show David either trying to recreate the queen, or being successful and then stopped by either humans or engineers or perhaps both. Great reading! I am definitely finding this somewhere.

[@dede9806]

This is xeno poopoo.. david, engineers, the artificial xenos and the black goo all contributed to Alien & Aliens' s downfall. Next someone will try to convince us that predators plays a role in xenomorphs's universe..

[@Maples01]

@@tootsiedawn2016 Did you pay no attention to Prometheus, the planet was NOT LC426

[@leegsy]

@@tootsiedawn2016 " the ship that brought Shaw and Weyland in the first place" The ship is called Prometheus.

[@probot6515]

@@dede9806 Yautja do play a role in the Alien universe.

[@xenomorph-2017]

I think that's what happened, it would also allow AVP and AVPR to be made canon.

[@BB-nm6oz]

I love your videos man. I thought I knew allot about alien lore until I saw your channel. Truly inspiring!!!

[@garlandremingtoniii1338]

B B Yes. It is. Truly inspiring!!!

[@inblackestnight9256]

All of your videos are great, but this one is downright incredible! You really add a great deal to the Alien universe. Thank you for that.

[@edwardmileti1206]

Like your video too but “chitin” is pronounced with the ‘k’ sound.

[@Frenchylikeshikes]

One of the biggest question I ever had since watching Aliens: what the hell happened inside ?

[@nyhcbd]

i guess that, by accident, some facehugger(s) came out of the egg(s), grab an engineer(s), a xenomorph(s) came alive and all hell broke loose... thats what is suggested from what we know and from the dead engineer on the space jockey's chamber...

[@iidirectxii7545]

Aliens, still my favourite movie after all these year's. And no doubt will be all my life, what a great movie. And Alien 3, I still rate it the most underrated movie ever.

[@henriccarlsson9052]

II DIRECTx II So agreed! The strenght of the Aliens "franchise" is the total difference in the films. Fincher is one of my favorites and did a great job creating something new.

[@necron99.aka-sammyboy92]

II DIRECTx II It is a pretty decent movie; not jut an opinion, but is a an above avg film. Ppl r butt-hurt that newt n hicks were killed off. Which was a huge mistake on ALL accounts! It was a dark n melancholy film as well- not most pls cup of tea. When I mean dark; I don’t mean violence n blood n action...I mean the race and the schizophrenic weirdos and the rest. It is not stiff that’s mainstream in any movie. Just too bad some critics & word of mouth, dampened a b+ movie, down to a C-

[@crakatoot5480]

Had the studios released Alien 3 the assembly cut into theaters instead of the hacked up theatrical cut and had the series ended there, I think the Alien trilogy would be regarded as one of the best trilogies ever. Oh well.

[@roostaraver]

Agreed alien 3 is a brilliant film so much better than anything made after it and deserves allot more recognition

[@DS6Prophet]

I still love Ridley Scott's Prometheus & Covenant movies!People just hated them,because they're too brain dead to use the clues the films provide to understand the chain of evolution.

[@wizzydoesdallas3408]

It always bugged me that we are supposed to believe that the wife dragged a lifeless husband out of the ship and back to the crawler. Maybe that's why it was cut from the original release.

[@ronjon7942]

Yeah, true.

[@reignmack]

Everything that happened on the colony prior to the marines arriving was cut out to build up the suspense more, they wanted the aftermath to be more of a mystery for audience, we were still at the point where the company was gaslighting ripley and didn’t know the level of the outbreak. We didnt know how untrustworthy and dangerous Burke was until it was revealed he sent the signal to investigate and that step further locking them in the lab with face huggers loose

[@glennmiller9768]

This would make a nice bedtime story for children who don't behave.

[@actionfigurescollectionssu7854]

Hahahahaha that be so cruel

[@CurlyFries120]

😂😂😂😂

[@acheroncolonist6872]

Great video as always Derek! It would be awesome if you would be interested in doing a audiobook for Alien and Aliens or other books from the Alien universe. Keep up the fantastic work. 👍👌👊😎 - Josh

[@acheroncolonist6872]

Maybe an audiobook in chapters like 1 a day or something.

[@AlienTheory]

I wouldn't want to do that since I wouldn't really have permission to. Even though with this video I read lengthy excerpts, it's edited and condensed quite a bit, and some sections were re-edited to give it a better flow and omit certain details that didn't fit with the video. And my own commentary and summaries are included. I'd still consider this fair use and above all, practically a free advertisement for the book and/or audio drama and not an infringement....reading chapters word-for-word wouldn't be cool of me. If Fox wanted me to, hell yes though. :)

[@acheroncolonist6872]

Alien Theory Ahh I see, ok. Well maybe a commentary to the Alien movies and you can have a timer on screen to let us now what parts you’re on.

[@PereiraLabs]

Hands down, this is my favorite reading you’ve done so far. Bravo sir. I need to go pick up that book!!!

[@Biostasis5x7]

This video is better than all of Ridley Scott's new movies.

[@Intellect_123]

no... no its not.... its very well read agreed.. but this is no Alien or Aliens.... ijs

[@Michael-m2b3k]

I seen this many times over and I still get the major creeps out of it !!! I would like to thank you for your portraying just what could of happened when newt's parents gone in that derelict space craft, just the findings alone would have had me racing for that cracked opening in the side of that ship !!! When they came upon the queen and the engineer had me frozen in place !!! What a great short look at what the parents found, and of course the sad part of the husband getting face hugged by that alien. Thanks again.

[@weldonwin]

There's a problem here. There were not eggs in the Space Jockey's chamber. The eggs were contained in a seperate chamber, far below the Space Jockey's chamber, which the Nostromo crew had to use a winch to access and there was never any sign of hive structures in the SJ Chamber either. The rest of this is fine up till that point, since the Nostromo crew entered the Boneship at a different point and could easily have passed through sections that bypassed the stuff the Jordans encountered, but as a cinaphile and anal-retentive continuity fan, this part rustles my jimmies something terrible.

[@nathanfagan9881]

I agree, but there are a lot of inconsistencies between various Alien sources, be they film, novel or comic. It's a good filler, and we'll narrated as ever.

[@magnuskallas]

I remember feeling the same about this part. Had this really nagging feeling deep inside, thinking, is this a different vessel, have I missed something?

[@mkyriacopolous]

I think it was meant to imply that the ship was actually that huge.

[@CallumBradbury]

Second space jockey chamber, problem solved

[@darthvadersmom3147]

They see all the eggs containing the face-huggers and break out into joyous song and dance before inviting the Aliens to a picnic.

[@princessmonokae]

Riveting as alway! Actually, I sometimes read the comics and novels, but you add something really special and unique to the experience. Keep up the good work!

[@iancroft1447]

AT is Proving itself to Be Very Possibly THE BEST of the Alien-Related Channels. Always Excellent-Thanx !

[@straingedays]

Thanks, this scene in the extended movie always left questions. You answered all but one and raised another question. .. .. Q1. How did Russ get back to the vehicle - Did Anne drag him back ?? .. .. Q2. IF Anne was within the chamber with Russ : Why didn't multiple eggs open in their presence ?? (As eggs do in Alien Resurrection's "ambush" scene)

[@kennythecomiccollector]

If you like to listen to audio books, I highly recommend "Alien: River of Pain: An Audible Original Drama". I think it's the perfect sequel to Alien and sets up Aliens perfectly. I think the cast does a phenomenal job of telling the story. It even answers your first question in it.

[@Ryan-pz4dh]

I never liked the explanation of the derelict’s origin from Prometheus. I always thought of the derelict ship as being a biomechanical “living ship”, much like Moya from Farscape. And the dead pilot inside with the ruptured chest I always thought of as a symbiotic creature that grows inside the ship (much like what Dallas pointed out) and operates the living ship. Sort of like Moya’s pilot in Farscape. It’s more consistent with what H.R. Giger’s designs were supposed to suggest.

[@adambomb138]

Go watch Farscape then.

[@alexjaybrady]

these readings and thoughts are legit terrifying. thankyou!

[@damiencrespan5003]

Probably the most entertaining video yet. I look forward to your next one. I'd love to hear anything else you can find yet unexplored to do with Hadley's Hope...

[@benbarrera512]

Dallas, Kane, and Lambert entered a different opening in the derelict vessel than the one the Jordans used. That could explain why the Nostromo team didn’t come across the other bodies.

[@Xenosaurian]

Noting that if the Derelict is indeed still ancient and "aeons old" then there is obviously no connection between the Derelict and David: Covenant.

[@Michael-m2b3k]

I thought that this was very good and helped me in following just how everything happened . I enjoyed how the derelict was explained, I still get shivers down my back seeing just what happened to newt's parents . very well done .

[@brianevans6423]

This is my favorite video i think.. this is an amazing narration. Thank you!!

[@PuLSeLV426]

Never thought about a queen in the derelict on LV426, but it fits. Prometheus gave us a good look at the immense size of these ships and their separated chambers. Loved the mix of what appear to be video game clips with other vid and pics, the whole presentation is superb. Haven't read that book, makes me wonder how a queen and hive can die out like that... I haven't spent any time online looking at Alien stuff like this since the 90's when the Alien Ring connecting multiple Alien related websites, was a thing. We were happy to get some pics and maybe download some short video and audio clips on a 14.4 modem (I still have them all). Times have changed. Brilliant! I think your channel is larger then the Alien Ring, this might take me a while...

[@davidmcleod5133]

The success of movies like Rogue One has left me wanting an entire movie devoted to what happened on LV-428 between Newt’s parents finding the spacecraft and the Colonial Marines arriving.

[@w1llystyles]

Stop calling them engineers, they've been Space Jockeys up until these latter movies have come out.

[@jerryonlychild7003]

Right, but is the term “engineer” implied as in, they engineered the human genome? Or is it just being used as a descriptor instead of space jockey?

[@ArtofLunatik]

Space jockey isnt even a term used in Alien.

[@mrsiddy]

From the dark horse graphic novel or comics, Space Jockeys all the way.

[@tarantulagirl]

This actually gave me the spooks, even though I knew what happened to the Jordan’s, I couldn’t help willing them to get out! Amazing video, as always. Well done. x

[@levantreven9659]

for future reference, chitin uses the greek 'chi' which is pronounced with a hard K like 'kai' so chitin is pronounced kai-tin

[@randallpetroelje3913]

Most excellent!! As usual a badass job of filling in the blanks in the “Aliens” film. Kudos! Thanks 🙏🏼👍😃

[@sdm7372]

"Bones are bent outward...like it exploded from the inside", said Dallas. I always wondered what happened to whatever burst out of the 'space jockey; and was it still at large somewhere on the ship or planet...?Very creepy. Even the newborn version would have been huge. Also wondered what the rest of the derelict might look like or contain. Even in the first film, it was disorientating and kind of paradoxical. I like/interpret and enjoyed Prometheus and Alien Covenant as independent sci-fi horror films--with 'cameos' from the xenomorph--taking place on a different timeline/history where the Nostromo and her crew never existed. If there ever is another movie it would be a mistake imo to try and connect it to the classic 1979 Alien. There is no need--the original alien and the derelict in the 1979 movie should always be kept as a separate horror mystery, where the Lovecraftian thing in the chair (16.30) is NOT a giant guy in a suit.

[@LeahCatherine-z8h]

@ROB112 that wasn't the same ship. That was on a different planet.

[@Duckylitner]

What happened to newts bro I was always curious

[@AlienTheory]

He shot an alien and got burned to death by the acid :/

[@LorenHelgeson]

Alien Theory talks about it in a video titled Hadley’s Hope’s Last Stand. Worth a watch.

[@ArcanePath360]

Is that true? How do you know that?

[@geralddiete-spiffjr.4900]

Newt's brother's death is described in the book.

[@scrimshaw7470]

"He's dead, alright! Can I go now?"

[@kennythecomiccollector]

This is great stuff! I highly recommend the audiobook of this one. Colin Salmon is Captain Brackett, plus a lot of other great actors and actresses! It’s very entertaining! 👍🏾😀

[@user-MidwayDisc]

Hey, Alien Theory can you do a video on Damon Eddington the crazy guy who planed to use xenomorph sounds as music in the Alien comic/book Aliens : Music of the Spears.

[@AlienTheory]

I would love to

[@user-MidwayDisc]

Alien Theory Thanks man your channel rules.

[@kingthunderstar3302]

Now I know how Newt's father got the Facehugger on his face. Thank you so much Alien Theory!

[@Wolf_Huntsman]

Thank you for the great video. I just ordered Alien: Out of the Shadows. Thanks for the book reference as well as I was not aware of their existence. Liked and subscribed.

[@ianallardyce4222]

Cameron's original treatment for Aliens also included a larger team from Hadley's Hope, heading back to explore the Derelict. And thus bringing enough chestbursters back to start the infestation that Ripley and the Marines would later find.

[@majerstud]

Brother, you just told an incredibly scary story!

[@ronjon7942]

Yup. Imagine bein’ a kid, around the campfire…

[@elshaitan1057]

"They'd never work again..." truer words spoken...

[@joelellis7035]

What I find inconsistent about this story is how the wife is the one initially pushing for them to get back as soon as possible and trying to keep the husband from taking any unnecessary risks, but then she suddenly becomes the ambitious one leading to their eventual ruin.

[@rachelar]

That be women

[@justamangoddamn]

Bro, you just answered a question i always wanted to know. Good stuff! Ty!

[@jamesmcfarland2378]

This was amazing. thanks so much for explaining what had happened to them. I loved it. I would love to hear more.

[@therockthehardplace1094]

Here we are on the advent of romulous and revisiting these makes me Hooe the lore expands respectively

[@danbanks7930]

guess it was take your kids to work day🤔

[@luthermcgee432]

I think that the alien which busted out of the space jockey's chest was a queen- remember Kane discovering the melted aperture in the floor, and further investigation disclosed the thousands of eggs in the cargo hold...

[@soscobra]

I find this a bit confusing, actually. Because the narration in this video doesn't have Newt's parents go down a hole to the egg chamber... it almost sounded like the eggs were in the same chamber as the pilot seat

[@luthermcgee432]

@@soscobra , I know. It's as if he jumped 2 paragraphs ahead.

[@Markus_Andrew]

"It was a bad call, Ripley! It was a bad call..."

[@joshshin6819]

Glad to see James Cameron did come back to film the scenes he wanted for this

[@uscotty]

Newt's mom wants to get out of there almost immediately, but then an hour later she wants to stick her head in an egg. Great chan, happy to sub!

[@RapideWombaticus]

The Original cut of 'Aliens' I saw had these scenes (and others) removed I suppose to fasten the pace for the Cinema.? Damn I love this stuff. Nice work 👾

[@garlandremingtoniii1338]

Faster Than You Your right it does. I have it on my DVD.

[@shafrizamuri1218]

Kenny Wayne & Darlinda Remington III which dvd version? i had watch the whole scene before in vhs. but now all remove. i still remember this scene newt father had touch the caccoon. and chest bust after arrived at colonies.

[@leegsy]

@@shafrizamuri1218 A VHS version was released in the 90s that included the extra scenes and it was called Aliens Special Edition. The Alien Quadrilogy boxset has both the SE and theatrical versions. Most people prefer the extended cut. You can still get the theatrical version on DVD individually as well as both cuts on the boxset release.

[@shafrizamuri1218]

leegsy I didnt have it in my boxset. can u share with me which boxset i should get? really appreciate.

[@leegsy]

@@shafrizamuri1218 Which boxsets do you have? The Alien Quadrilogy? Is it DVD or BluRay? I don't recall those scenes you mention with Newt's parents and them touching an egg. The SE only has them finding the ship and then the father has the FH attached to him. Where did you see those scenes with them touching an egg? I would love to see that.

[@jtfrancis5432]

Brilliantly voiced and explained, I look forward to your videos.

[@ronjon7942]

You know, if you were telling this tale around a campfire, I’d ‘a’ been up all night jumping at every sound in the woods.

[@TheLittleGrimmy]

Your narration as always is absolutely wonderful, and breathtaking. I found myself at the edge of my seat listening to your description of this narrative. One immediate question I had while listening was, if in fact these Xenomorphs did Spawn from the engineers wouldn't they be larger than them? Also, I'm still a bit too reluctannt to accept David's creation or evolution of the Xenomorphs. I have a hard time accepting the fact that a good portion of this franchise stems from some sociopathic synthetic person gone wrong. But I still do enjoy the idea from Prometheus that this ship was intended to go to Earth. I also would love if you would go deeper if you haven't already, into what happened to Newts Family Once the infection or outbreak started at Hadley's hope.

[@griffynshu]

This was extremely well read and I was filled with dread listening to you. Well done and thank you.

[@Eternalamon]

and I was wondering "what am I gonna watch tonight"... well now I know haha,big thnx and yup entertaining

[@alanlee1355]

I could listen to these for hours every night in bed. Great stuff. 👍😆

[@Elitesolider1023]

I wonder why Dallas and the others didn't come arcoss the Dead xenomorps and engineers?

[@Allan_aka_RocKITEman]

FWIW: I presume it is because they entered the derelict alien spaceship by a different route.

[@Elitesolider1023]

@@Allan_aka_RocKITEman even marlow and his crew in alien isolation didn't come across the dead remins the only thing marlow found other then the cockpit and the egg chamber was the beacon.

[@dbabbitt25]

Bro your videos are so badass, I hope you keep your channel and videos comin!

[@jacobgordon7998]

Thank you, AT. Your work is excellent and you are a great ambassador for the Alien franchise. I'm glad I found your channel. These videos rekindled my interest in the Alien universe. Having grown up in the 80s and 90s, and like other horror film franchises, these films (Alien, Aliens, and Alien 3) terrified me as a kid. Unlike those other franchises, the Alien universe is still terrifying as an adult. Perhaps not exactly like the Xenomorphs in the Alien universe, there could still be some kinds of parasitic species out there. Seems like something we could plausibly expect to find somewhere out there as we explore the universe. That is a scary thought.

[@gabrielsutton4578]

12:29 NEWT NOOOO!

[@Geralt21]

Awesome video, as always. The visuals match the narrative perfectly. Great work. Thank you :)

[@SteveHewittMusic]

‘Somethings moving and it ain’t us’

[@darthboogaloo4263]

Just so yall are aware, Jay Benedict (Russ Jorden in the special edition) died this year.

[@jeremiahakerman7333]

I believe it's possible the engineers or David used a queen xenomorph to have all the eggs laid inside the Derelict. From this story it sounds like the queen ended up getting loose and there was a battle between the engineers and the xenos before the crash occurred. I'm not a big fan of Ridley Scotts prequel films, but I am interested to see if some of the xenos in this story were spawned from the crew of Covenant. It's hard to say how things will play out in Scotts last film, but I know I'll probably end up watching it.

[@naturazpolski9213]

For fucks sake. SHUT UP WITH THOSE STUPID PROMETHEUS AND ALIEN CONVENANT SHIT! This was never and never will be part of the alien franchise, no matter how hard you, bunch of idiots, want to pretend it.

[@jeremiahakerman7333]

@@naturazpolski9213 I said clearly, I was NOT a big fan Ridley Scott's prequel films. In all honesty I really don't consider them to be a part of the Alien franchise. I'm just interested to see how he decides to play things out with the story even though things aren't looking that great for Scott's future with the Alien movie franchise currently. If he's unable to proceed with another one of those lame films, I'd be perfectly fine with that as well.

[@AbirTarafdar]

“Are they pulsing?” Let’s take one back!

[@TheZXKUQYB]

Imagine Newt's mom having to drag her husband out of the ship. Have your girlfriend or wife try to lug you from your garage, through the home and up a flight of stairs, especially if she is 110lbs and you are double her weight.

[@Defender78]

TheZXKUQYB I was wondering that too, unless newts dad was partially conscious and was able to stumble back with help, but it looks like the parasite crawler incapacitates its victim thoroughly. So it is kind of a pothole how the mom was able to drag the dead through Corridor‘s, upstairs and ramps, around corners and over dirt and terrain.

[@soscobra]

​@@Defender78Add to this the fact that it took them about an hour to get down to the egg chamber, and dragging him back should have taken more than that by herself. I'm also wondering how it took them so long to get to the egg chamber while in Alien Kane and group found it pretty fast. Did both groups enter from the same hole in the hull but go in different directions (one closer to the chamber)?

[@stuartwesthall]

I guess panic, desperation, and raw terror can give you extra strength in such extreme circumstances. And even so, the only hint as to how long they were gone is from Newt saying "they've gone a long time". Could've been hours.

[@lsporter88]

Excellent Narration.

[@Tripp393]

They’re mostly dead, mostly.

[@guilhermehank4938]

So they can be brought back to life? Hey, you are the one that accidentally did a Princess Bride reference

[@robertpatter5509]

Certainly dead on the inside. That's for sure.

[@Yuyu-ox3xl]

All they had to do was take photos of the pilot then leave but "Oh honey look ...Flowers!"