It is hard to blame Ripley for having chip on her shoulder after being rescued by the very same company that deemed her "expendable." To her, Androids are not to be trusted because they represent the very worst tendencies of the Weyland Corporation. Which is why, of course, the Weyland Corporation has to send another android with her on her return to LV 426. This android is Bishop, though he prefers the term "Artificial Person." The androids from Aliens all stand out for their own reasons, but Bishop finds himself the most memorable by far. While cold by nature, he is friendly and quite helpful at times. He insists upon meeting Ripley that "It is impossible for me to harm or by omission of action, allow to be harmed, a human being." Although not motivated by genuine emotion, this is a trait that grows to resemble compassion in this occasionally neurotic robot. Of all the characters in this harrowing film, it is his refusal to break down under stress that gives the group strength at times - and is dangerously unsettling at others.
Self-evidently a man who writes for the Internet, Robert also writes films, plays, teleplays, and short stories when he's not working on a movie set somewhere. He lives somewhere behind the Hollywood sign.
