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Originally Posted by rubecube
Am I going to be the first one to point out that the alien burst out of space jockey's chest in the escape pod, but in Alien it showed him sitting in his chair with the chest ripped open?
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Maybe he crawls over there, or something drags him over to the chair. I am sure that ill be explained.
As for why David dosed the drink there could be many explanations for it,
Maybe he was jealous of Charlie's relationship with Shaw, as it appeared he was a tad obsessed with her at the beginning of the film.
Maybe the "try harder" order from Weyland forced him to do something. When the head yielded no results he had to try and do something, and seeing what the oil would do to Charlie did this.
Also just from the conversation David had with Charlie you could pick up many reasons why David would do such a thing. Charlie seemed to denigrate the fact that David was an android and would never be human; Charlie also said he would do anything to find out answers to many of the questions he had, and drinking the oil is "anything".
It even could have been simply an experiment to see what happened to Charlie if he drank the oil. David seemed to be a very inquisitive android, and moved to the beat of his own drum (opening doors at random, then taking the container of goo without the team's knowledge). This was just a further expansion of his nature.
Why not question some of the actions Ash takes in the first movie? Why did he let Kane back aboard the ship knowing that he had the facehugger attached to his face? Then even after the facehugger "removes" itself why does Ash let Kane go free without containing him or anything along those lines?
Perhaps people's expectations were too high going in. It's not Alien or Aliens level of quality, but it is still very good and I hope gets sequels down the road.