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?I always 100% read it as the Queen trying to sneakily hatch a facehugger and Ripley noticing, retaliating. I didn't know this was ever in doubt.
That's what I'm saying
It's just a wee bit sadistic.
So how can Ripley be shocked when the Queen gets so hellbent on trying to kill "her baby" after unattaching and chasing after them.
At very least, calling her a "bitch" was uncalled for Ripley. She was just being a momma.
Hey that was nothing personal. Babies gotta eat.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.
Hey that was nothing personal. Babies gotta eat.
Ripley made it personal.
She was going to leave without doing anything but then he egg hatched. Look at the face Ripley gives the queen after the egg opens - a look of "oh you dirty MFer"
I'm just calling it like I see itIt was personal before Aliens even began. But you're just being cheeky at this point lol
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.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?
Uhhhhh.That's what I'm saying
It's just a wee bit sadistic.
So how can Ripley be shocked when the Queen gets so hellbent on trying to kill "her baby" after unattaching and chasing after them.
At very least, calling her a "bitch" was uncalled for Ripley. She was just being a momma.
The egg hatched, so Ripley decided while she was down there, she was going to burn away all her nightmares.
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.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.
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.
God, the start of her strapping the guns together before hitting the elevator to the credits rolling is just so goddamn good.
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?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.
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?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?
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?
I sleep easy at night knowning Newt and Hicks never died and that Alien 3 and the following movies were just Ripley having a bad dream.
Hicks and Ripley getting married and adopting Newt was so sweet.
I sleep easy at night knowning Newt and Hicks never died and that Alien 3 and the following movies were just Ripley having a bad dream.
Hicks and Ripley getting married and adopting Newt was so sweet.
Yes.
Xenomorphs being cuddly and ineffectual was a later addition made to the franchise. They were originally intended to be scary,
I dont know what youre talking aboutYes.
Xenomorphs being cuddly and ineffectual was a later addition made to the franchise. They were originally intended to be scary,
Oh it was definitely smart, but Smokin Sexy Styling a ton of unborn alien babies seemed just a little too easy for her.
God, the start of her strapping the guns together before hitting the elevator to the credits rolling is just so goddamn good.
Eggs hatch man, you cant blame em for that. Let she who cast a wall of flame at unborn embryos catchIf I remember right the eggs were opening up as she was leaving and facehuggers were about to be chasing her, so she torched the eggs because that's the only way she could safely make her escape.
Don't worry, Burke got his if you watched the deleted scene with him and Ripley.Oh and screw Burke forever. What a snake, with every rewatch of this I get as pissed as I did the first time when he shuts the monitor off. Underappreciated villain in just how sleazy he is without being an overly dramatized mustache twirling misanthrope like most movie villains.
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.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
god I wish tbhEveryone I think something is gonna burst out of JaeCryo's chest soon