starhawk60 wrote:
Throughout the movie we see Ellen, Frank, George, Dr. Snell and the others subjected to being kidnapped and replaced by the Xenomorphs. Yet at no point in the film is John Putnam attacked and replaced. How was he replicated without the Xenomorphs physically coming in contact with him?
There's never a statement that physical contact is required for duplication, although I admit it sort of looks like it does. Still, since Putnam is copied without such contact, then apparently it isn't necessary. That did indeed bother me when I was a kid.
I saw the movie twice the year it was released (unusual for me back then), once in San Francisco when we were there on vacation, then again in Reedsport later on. In both cases, the audiences screamed every time a Xenomorph appeared. I think that was partly because it looked very alien, very non-human, but also partly because that's how audiences full of kids usually reacted to similar scenes.



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