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Okay did Ripley really need to burn all the eggs on the way out?
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But why risk it if there is a standoff in the first place? She clearly doesnt want the eggs to be hurt and could just kill Ripley after they leave with a sneaky full grown Xenomorph. Why risk the baby facehugger when the flamethrower is right there?
Where exactly is the sympathy here coming from? The Queen abducted Ripley's adopted child so a facehugger could implant the kid with a chestburster. Ripley was pretty fucking reasonable, all things considered.
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Hey that was nothing personal. Babies gotta eat.
Ripley made it personal.
It was personal before Aliens even began. But you're just being cheeky at this point lol
Yeah, it's all the Aliens fault for not honoring the "nod" treaty.
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Why risk it? Because the Queen was trying to get one over on Ripley by cheating. Why not? Might've worked if Ripley wasn't totally on her game. And I don't think it'd care if it lost a few spawn in the effort, so long as it was successful.
(Replying to a few other comments, I do think it could control the hatchings. Why not?)
What I previously considered the universal interpretation of this scene is by far the most thematically satisfying one, playing up the tense rivalry of the asymmetric (but for that brief moment, seemingly evenly matched) standoff.
Uhhhhh.
The queens 'baby' would have needed to kill Ripley or Newt.
Ripley is defending herself. She hoped the Queen would let her through, but that didn't happen. It's not 'revenge' or anything like that. One egg could kill either of them in that moment. They all have to go.
Ending of Aliens is her sleeping like a baby. With a new metaphorical child.
You know, till Alien 3 shits all over that. Honestly the worst part of Alien 3 was simply that it followed on from Aliens. I think had it not been Ripley but Fincher directing a totally new set of characters I might have loved it.
I would have almost accepted her dropping into the lava and waking up in her pod with Hicks and Newt standing over her and it was all a dream levels of bullshit to get a real Aliens sequel.
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I just never have read the xeno's having that level of sinister intent in their actions. It's better to me that theyre simply unstoppable lifeforms which are terrifying because theyre just that, lifeforms, not evil or conniving, which contrasts so well with their extreme appearance.
To this day Alien 3 is still a giant fustercluck to me. I wish Cameron had stayed on board, he would've been one of the only people with the clout to maintain Alien as a comprehensible series.
God, the start of her strapping the guns together before hitting the elevator to the credits rolling is just so goddamn good.
At that point the movie goes all fucking in. One of my favorite acts of any movie ever.
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If youre a momma dog and your puppy jumped on somebody's kid (because that's what puppy's do) so she lit your puppy on fire, wouldnt you be upset?
And then the parent has the audacity of calling you a bitch when you got mad even though that term might be taxonomically appropriate in this instance.
Like I said, uncalled for.
It's not a puppy. It is a face hugger. It will try to kill Ripley or Newt. It stands a good chance of succeeding. A puppy won't. How is that hard to understand?
dude you're toasting in a roll bread, pull out while you still can or you'll be a full baguette
holy shit I just realized how unfortunate that second half sounds if you apply cockney rhyming slang, so just for clarity's sake I mean absolutely nothing secret about it except for toasty bread memes masquerading as a warning about getting trolled
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And then the xenos invaded Earth and a Weyland-Yutani board room meeting got shanked to hell by shiny black Fruedian monsters... ah, good times.
Yes.
Xenomorphs being cuddly and ineffectual was a later addition made to the franchise. They were originally intended to be scary,
Xenomorphs being cuddly and ineffectual was a later addition made to the franchise. They were originally intended to be scary,
The ending track to Alien 6 being Yub Nub ft. Alien Queen was an interesting choice.
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Dude, a single piece of art from Giger depicting a hive as a My Little Pony-esque dreamland does not mean that was the original intent! That was scraped with extreme prejudice by both Giger and Scott early in production.
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Eggs hatch man, you cant blame em for that. Let she who cast a wall of flame at unborn embryos catch
I want to make an Alien Theme wedding. Have an alien egg in middle of guest tables (as vases) with flowers coming out of kt
Don't worry, Burke got his if you watched the deleted scene with him and Ripley.
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And then my fiancees mom who hates me arrives in a loader bot, says "get away from her you bitch" and then throws me into the cold vacuum of space.
Just like I've always dreamed.
Yes, she was completely justified in lighting that shit up. They were going to kill her and the kid. Even if not they're murderous aliens.
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They're too stupid to live anyway. There were so many times where they could have ripped that team apart with no survivors.