A Lifetime of Happiness: Movies, TV, and Video Games

Aliens (1986)

September 21, 2022 Steve Bennet-Martin, Stephen Martin-Bennet Season 1 Episode 138
A Lifetime of Happiness: Movies, TV, and Video Games
Aliens (1986)
Show Notes Transcript

The Steves discuss the 1986 sequel, Aliens, along with what's making them happy in pop culture today!

What's making us happy?

  • Lucifer (Netflix)
  • Barbarian (Theatres)


Movie Discussion?

  • Is the movie better than the first? Why or why not?
  • Why does it make us happy?
  • Metroid's clear inspiration of these films
  • Are all robots the same?
  • Thoughts on the cannon fodder... we mean... crew
  • In what world would the Corporation not still be evil?
  • And much more!

Ending- Any music or audio clips were borrowed from the original source material.

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Steve:

Hello, returning happys and new listeners. This is Steve Bennett Martin, and this

Stephen:

is Steven Martin Bennett. And welcome to a lifetime of,

Steve:

of happiness. The podcast, where we take you on our journey through some of the movies shows and other bits of pop culture that are helping to keep us happy will hopefully bring a smile to your face along the

Stephen:

way. And today we're continuing sequel September by covering some sequels that we love and how they might even be better than the original. And this week we are covering aliens because who needs a two next year name when you can just make the title plural.

Steve:

Exactly. But before we get into all of that, my love what's been making you happy.

Stephen:

so it is a movie that we just saw last night. Yes. And we went to the theater to see barbarian that

Steve:

doesn't sound like a happy movie.

Stephen:

But it was because it was. so out there. Yeah. Like, so this is two years in a row where a horror movie has been released, where they just decided to swing for the fences mm-hmm and see what happened last year. It was malignant mm-hmm That was a movie that you're watching and you're like, what the hell just happened? And then last night when we were watching barbarian and I was like, yes, they're doing it again. And it was well acted. It was bonkers. It was tense. It was really well done.

Steve:

Yeah. I loved it. Yeah. And I can tell similarly to malign, it's gonna be one of those. Love it. Or hate him movies. Exactly. But we fall on the side of love. Yes. It's certainly made us happy. And when we haven't been watching. mama stop. What else have we been watching? Lucifer? Yes. We become big followers of Lucifer, Morningstar

Stephen:

and that sounds very different than what people would think. So somehow we missed the show when it was on Fox. Yes. Lucifer. And now that everything is on Netflix, all six seasons of it, we are binging and catching up and it's lovely.

Steve:

Yeah. And I believe it's one of the shows that ended, like after it's third season on TV and then Netflix picked it up for a couple more. Yeah. Yeah. Cuz now it's considered a Netflix show, even though it originally was not. Right. But yeah, I've been really enjoying it. I watched it and benched it when you were on your way back from your meditation retreat and then I re-watched half of it with you as you got caught up. So we're. Now midway through season two, about three quarters of the way. Yeah. And we're loving it. So we are check it out on Netflix, if you haven't yet. And you love that type of show. Yeah.

Stephen:

So just so you know, it is a mixture of supernatural and crime, crime procedural.

Steve:

Yes. And it just is a joy to watch. Lucifer is just so charismatic. The detective gets better as the show goes on. Yep. The kid Trixie is just she's

Stephen:

awesome. Awesome. And we won't tell you any of the other characters because we don't wanna spoil anything for you, but check it out. Yes. Previously on alien.

Steve:

Yes, because this is a sequel. We did wanna recap the first one quickly in alien, the crew of the Nastro Mo awakens from hypers sleep and is informed by the ship's computer mother. They have been rerouted to a tiny unexplored planetoid to investigate a signal of unknown origin. Despite this obviously being a horrible idea because the crew's contract states that not investigating means they forfeit their paychecks. They go for the money. Ah, they

Stephen:

find an alien that picks off the crew. One by one until Ripley is a last woman. Standing Ripley discovers the company actually sent them to ensure the aliens retrieval Ripley sets the self-destruct on the ship. Escapes in a shuttle, manages to escape from the alien, as it follows her, launching it into space. She then enters into. A log into the computer, relating the Fs of the Nostrom and the crew. And the final shot is Ripley and Joanie, her cat in hyper sleep as the shuttle drifts through space, or to put it simply alien is a movie where nobody listens to the smart woman and then they all die except for the smart woman and her cat

Steve:

four stars. Yes. Very good. Yes. And IMDB describes this one aliens as 57 years after surviving an apocalyptic attack aboard her space vessel by merciless space creatures, officer Ripley, awakens from hyper sleep and tries to warn anyone who will listen about the predators.

Stephen:

I agree that one's a, that one's a good summary, because you don't want to tell too much, I

Steve:

guess it was released on July 18th, 1986, a good year for making movies and humans. Cuz that's when I was born.

Stephen:

Yes. When I first was reading that in the script, I was like, What? And then I was like, oh yeah, your birthday.

Steve:

Yes. And with a budget of 18.5 million, it had a box office between 131 and 183 million.

Stephen:

That would be a huge

Steve:

success. Yes, certainly the movies directed. And co-written by James Cameron and produced by Gale and herd, the movie stores, Sigourney Weaver, a little girl and aliens. Most

Stephen:

importantly, Sigourney Weaver. Yes. And James Cameron took over the sequel. Because Scott Ridley, I believe was the director of the first one. And while these movies definitely go together, this definitely has a different feel and pacing and dialogue and things like that. So if you're a fan of James Cameron movies I highly recommend

Steve:

this. Yes, for sure. I mean, the movie starts off. after the opening credits with a spaceship drifting slowly through space Ripley, still in a peaceful cryogenic sleep with the cruise pet cat Jones lying on top of her. Approximately alert goes off the shuttles intercepted by a salvage vessel. The crew believing they're allowed to salvage and abandoned shuttle. Use a wielding torch to open the door and then enter and find our bomb. That Reley is alive. Yes

Stephen:

though. I'm not a cat person. I was glad to see that Joanie was okay.

Steve:

Yes. And would you travel through space like this if it required going to hyper sleep for X number of months or

Stephen:

years? Absolutely because until we get, you know, light speed travel where you can get across the galaxy, like in star wars and things super fast, this is obviously the only way to do it because you'd be like, oh, so we're headed there now if I leave when I'm 21 and I get there, when I'm 86, like. That's a lot of years just to be drifting through space and doing something. But with hyper sleep, you're like, oh, I'm 21. I'm going to sleep. And I'm still 21 when I woke

Steve:

up. I know. But then all of your loved ones that you left back on earth are, have already lived their lives and have moved on and are dead. Well, you did, it would be the worst work trip ever for you to go on.

Stephen:

you didn't say that. I had to leave everybody behind. You just said what? I traveled through space. If it required hyper sleep and I would do that with

Steve:

me. Yeah. Okay. I wouldn't do it without you.

Stephen:

Yeah. And we would take Remy cans. Of course,

Steve:

of course. And in gateway station,. A space facility, orbiting earth, Ripley regains consciousness in a hospital. A nurse tells her she's in the medical bay. She's visited by Carter Burke played by Paul reer, a representative Wayland Tani the company from the previous movie, which finally gets its name. Yes. Who brings the cat Jones along when Ripley states? She does not recognize the medical bay. Burke tells her that it's been 57 years of her in hyper sleep. Her hyperspace craft drifted through space until the salvage vessel discovered it by pure coincidence.

Stephen:

Thank goodness. This space seems very corporate and bureaucratic, and that is never a real good combination. And it definitely has a different feel already than the type of utopian future that like star Trek projects. Yeah, this is very much okay. So we have colonized space and you know, you're gonna get your salary, but also you have to stay in line with the politics of all of this. And I'm like, Ew. Yeah,

Steve:

definitely not a future. I wanna be a part of no. Now rep shows clear distress and discomfort. When Joan starts hissing at her, as she starts to convulse in bed, Burke calls for medical attention and the staff attempt to strain Ripley. She pleads with them to kill her before pulling up her shirt to something, pushing out of her chest and then she dies and the movie's over. Ugh, just kidding. Ripley suddenly wakes up bolt upright in the hospital bed, clutching her chest, revealing the scene to be a nightmare. A nurse on the monitor next to her bed, asked if she needs something to help her sleep, but she declines. So that

Stephen:

was a really good fake out. And as it was happening, I kept thinking this thing usually kills the host. How is the star of the movie gonna survive this? Like I know that they didn't kill officer Gorney Weaver, cuz there's a third movie. Like yeah. How is this happening? And then the whole dream. And I'm like, oh, you guys got me good. Yes.

Steve:

It was a good way to get some action in the front end of the movie and what otherwise is a lot of plot as well. So I think it was and exposition. Yeah. I feel like it was a good way to break up some of that exposition. Sometime later she's in a simulated environment waiting for Burke who wants to prepare her for a board hearing the company has started a formal investigation into what happened with the Nastro Omo and wants to question Ripley about her role in its destruction. Of course they do. Ripley's only interested in hearing news about her daughter, Amanda, who she finds out. Was dead or is dead. She was an older woman that passed away from cancer. While sh while Ripley was drifting through space, devastated was Ripley whispers that she promised her daughter. She would be back for her 11th birthday before going off on the noro. And that's why I don't want you going into hyper asleep is I don't wanna die while you're gone.

Stephen:

Yes. But I do love that whole technology that you don't age.

Steve:

I know if only you could do that without having to go into hyper asleep. I know

Stephen:

silly future they'll figure something

Steve:

out. Yeah. If we don't self-destruct as a world first.

Stephen:

Yeah. During the inquiry, Ripley desperately tries to convince the board of the dangerous nature of the alien and the potential threat of the derelict ship, which still contains hundreds of the eggs. She explains that company policies at the time gave them aro crew orders to obtain the creature, which. We now killed the crew and caused the destruction of the ship. However, the board is extremely skeptical of Ripley's testimony because she admits to having destroyed the Destro and evidence of the alien creature is lacking. Now they treat her as if she's mentally unstable.

Steve:

Doesn't help that she's a woman.

Stephen:

No, the board does not press criminal charges, but revokes her flight license and submits her to psych psychiatric supervision upon asking why no one will go to the planetoid to confirm our story. Ripley is shocked to learn that the planetoid now known as LV 4 26 has already been colonized by Terraform for four 30 years, who are creating an atmosphere to make the air breathable and the planetoid habitable.

Steve:

And it's interesting that it's LV 4 26. I mean, it just shows how much of this like space is lacking. Like a human feel. The fact that they wouldn't even give it like a name, like. Mars, Rocky, Rocky, the rock that well, all

Stephen:

gonna live on. So it's either going to be very you know, neutral and sterile with letters and numbers. Mm-hmm or you're going to have corporations sponsoring it, like they do baseball on football stadiums. So you'd have, ah, the planetoid eighteens at. Yeah. so it's either gonna be one or the other, unless you get somebody that's like, well, I discovered it. So I'm naming it after my daughter, Linda Sue, the Xena morphs are on planet. Linda Sue.

Steve:

Yes. What a bitch now would you believe her testimony?

Stephen:

I, so I see why they don't because they've had people terraforming the planet for that long mm-hmm I get that. But at the same time, like she has no reason to really lie. Mm-hmm like she didn't bring back any treasure, so it's not like she killed off the crew to keep something for herself. Mm-hmm like there, she has no good reason to lie.

Steve:

True. So there's a little bit that believes aliens could be out there and possibly deadly.

Stephen:

I'm not dumb enough to believe that we are the only intelligent life form in the universe out there. Like that just seems ego silly statistical yeah. Egotistical and whether they are peaceful, you know, have they moved beyond war and all that? Or do they just live to kill and eat? I Don. I

Steve:

don't know either, but we'll find out what happens here sometime thereafter at the colony headquarters on LV 4 26, 2 company employees discuss recently retrieved company orders to investigate a certain UN surveyed part of the surface of the planetoid. Hmm. A surveyor is currently doing their job. Wondering if he can make a claim to anything he finds the higher ranking man complains how they never got an answer to the question why those particular coordinates were so interesting that assures him, that anything found can be claimed if you survive. Yeah.

Stephen:

Outside on the Baron and stormy planet surface, the aforementioned surveyor together with his wife's son, Timmy and daughter, Rebecca, who is called Newt discover the same derelict ship previously found by Ripley's crew. He and his wife go in to investigate. And then after a very long while. the wife comes back and calls for help on the radio. Her husband is lying on the ground with a creature attached to its face. That's a face hugger for those in the know, like the one that attacked Kae in the previous movie,

Steve:

and this makes it the worst. Bring your family to work day

Stephen:

100%.

Steve:

Now I am only just realizing in this very moment that the reason why they find the aliens after like right after Ripley wakes up is because the guy sent them to discover the space.

Stephen:

Oh yeah. Because they, in on the, whether they actually did believe her or the off chance that she was correct, they sent them out there to find it. Yeah. But I mean, cuz it was far away from the colony. So you think

Steve:

it is just pure chance they haven't discovered it yet.

Stephen:

I do, because if you let's say LV 4 26 mm-hmm is the size of earth. in

Steve:

30 years, wouldn't that be a full planet then? I thought planetoids were baby planets. Who knows what

Stephen:

their definition of planetoid is. This is the future. Okay. But I mean, that's a, that's a lot of miles to cover. And especially if the weather is so rough that they can't really fly it and they have to go in those all terrain vehicle things, you're not gonna make a lot of progress. So you'd really have to make an effort to get out that far.

Steve:

Gotcha. And why, I mean, the aliens left the ship or gone after them. So

Stephen:

that's a whole other thing. Maybe they need more hosts. And it didn't make sense for them to go looking, you know, save energy and resources and all that. Maybe the aliens didn't realize

Steve:

that it had been terraformed that it

Stephen:

had been terraformed cuz it's so far away. And so they're doing the whole dormancy yeah. Thing as well. And maybe the surveyors just set all this in motion and reawakened, an ancient, evil that had been put to sleep kind of like Dracula in between movies.

Steve:

Yeah. Now release of her own recognizance. Ripley gets an apartment at gateway station sometime later she's, which

Stephen:

is the most popular thing in this movie, because we don't know how much time is actually passing.

Steve:

Yes. Sometime later she's visited by Burke who is accompanied by Lieutenant Gorman of the Colonel Marines. Burke tells Ripley that contact with colony LV 4 26 has suddenly been lost fearing that Xenomorph aliens are responsible. The company intends to send a squadron of Marines. They would like her to serve as an advisor, as she has personal experience with the species. Burke will come along as the company. Co-finance the colony. They

Stephen:

went really fast from no one believes you to Ripley. You're our only hope typical men. Yes. Now Burke is aware that Ripley has taken a job on the gateway station, running loaders and forklifts, and it's work that is clearly beneath her skill level mm-hmm And as a further incentive Wayland Utana has agreed to reinstate Ripley as a warrant officer. If she goes Ripley refuses as she dreads going back to the place where she first encountered the alien species. And because she still frustrated that nobody at the company believed her earlier story. but as her nightmares continue, she feels that if she doesn't go on the mission, she's never gonna find any piece. So she calls Burke. And when he assures her that the mission to LV 4 26 or planetoid Belinda Sue mm-hmm is to eradicate any Xenomorph aliens, not to study or capture them. She gives in. And because she can't look out for a cat and anybody else at the same time, Jones will remain on the station.

Steve:

Yes. This is a spoiler filled podcast. And the little girl's on the cover. I know yeah. I saw the little girl and I'm like, well, she can't look after a little girl on a cat at the same time,

Stephen:

but she doesn't know that Jones just stays behind because cats are gonna get in the

Steve:

way true. Now I get kind of her going back to overcome trauma, but that's also the same time. Like if you were just like attacked. By like another human, like it's not like going back to confront the human always is what you need to heal. No,

Stephen:

but I mean, there's a couple different things here. Would she be happy doing the whole forklift and everything for the rest of her life? Or does she want to get back on a ship and explore and salvage again? And if she stays there and no one really believes her, is she gonna be able to move on past that? Like, is there the sense that I have to be able to go there and show them that I'm not crazy? That I'm not a liar that I didn't kill my crew?

Steve:

Yeah, I guess so you have me convinced I'll go. Okay. now a massive worship. The Lanco travels through deep space inside our Colonel Marines led by Gorman and accompanied by Ripley and Burke. After awakening from hyper sleep seasoned veteran, Sergeant AONE quickly takes. Ripley discovers that most of the Marines are wise cracking undisciplined and joke around a lot, not really taking the alien threat seriously at all. One Butch queen named Vasquez refers to Ripley as snow white and the Marines seem to have a low opinion of their inexperienced ranking officer Gorman, who shows a little interesting getting to know his squad members.

Stephen:

So the men are all misogynistic hats, and then they have the character of Vasquez trying too hard. And I know they're trying to give us a clear difference between Ripley and the new people, but as with any action and horror movie, I also truly believe that you want to care about the cast. And so that has, you know, when they inevitably start to die, it matters. Yeah. And some of these people like you really hate and you want them to die. Yeah. But then others you're just like, you can go away. I just don't care.

Steve:

Yeah, and I feel like one or two in particular get better as the movie goes on. But you know, most of the crew I did just view as like alien fodder

Stephen:

now you wanna know something funny that you refer to her as snow white later on Seney Weaver plays the evil queen in a movie production of snow white.

Steve:

Oh, funny, funny. Now Ripley's also pissed off to learn that there's a synthetic named Bishop on board because she's racist against robots after the last synthetic from the first movie named Ash screwed her over. Yep. Bishop tries to assure that a new generation of artificial persons as he calls it all have behavioral inhibitors and are therefore incapable of hurting humans, whoever Ripley still gets pissed off. And would you be worried about Bishop or would you be like all robots are not the same?

Stephen:

So I think she has reason to feel as she does. Like. I'm extra kind to Alexa, because when robots eventually take over, I want a record for our new overlords that I was always good to her in Ripley's case, you know, Bishop is saying, oh no, they fixed all that. But for Ripley, like it's been two weeks where in, you know, Bishop's case, it's been 57 years. Mm-hmm but it's been two weeks since she woke up roughly. And how can she be expected to move on that fast? She's like, it was just yesterday for her. So I get that. What about you?

Steve:

I feel like I can understand why she would be hesitant, but I also feel like she definitely has the emotions of a woman going through something right now. And so it's a little different than if she was such approaching it with more of like a calm, cool level head, I think. Yeah. So I'll forgive

Stephen:

her for it. As the Lanco approaches, LV four 20. Ripley tells the Marines a better experience with the aliens dubbed Xenomorphs by Gorman and this sticks with the series for the rest of time. Yes. And they are still rather undisciplined and scoff at the possible threat that the creatures pose during the weapons detail, Ripley gradually begins to impress the soldiers offering to help them load their drop ship in displaying her expertise with the large power loader, a hydraulically enhanced suit or shadowing oh, shadowing, corporal Hicks takes a special interest in Ripley impressed with her strong personality and her way with people.

Steve:

Yes. I'd say that if she brought her cat with her, it was also her pussy, but Now we talked about how they're like none of the crew members are particularly likable. Did anyone stand out as like someone here, like, Ooh, they could be one of the final people. So

Stephen:

hick seems possible because he was the only one that wasn't really awful. Most of the rest seemed expendable and Hudson is an absolute douche and I hope he dies first. And, you know, as we said, it's very important for her to be shown using the equipment for things later in the movie. But to also show that she has these earned skills I've always said that if these movies were made today, the CIS white male population would call Ellen Ripley, a Mary Sue, like they do with Kaus Everdeen and captain Marvel. Like even though like we've shown that, you know, those people earn their skills later because this is in the past and dah, dah, dah, it's still a whole thing, but. Ripley gets a pass because it was the eighties.

Steve:

Yes. And taking the drop ship from the OACO to the planet, the Marines have no problem with being dropped into the planet's atmosphere. Bo Goman seems uncomfortable. He confesses, he hardly as any experience with these kinds of missions, further undermining the opinion the Marines have of him. One of the soldiers, private Hudson played by bill Paxton is loudly boasting his courage and the Supreme fire power that they have at their disposal, because my guns are bigger than Yugos exactly.

Stephen:

the drop ship, clears the clouds and flies over the colony, which is a gigantic manmade structure. But without any visible activity, Burke explains that the facility can contains an atmosphere, processor designed to make the planet suitable for human life. And that Wayland Dani manufactures them. Cause of course they do. Yeah. And it's a tiny ten second scene. But it's also important that they mention this so that the actors don't have to wear space suits for the movie. So you can see their faces more easily. This was really smart on James Cameron's

Steve:

part. Yes, it was now the ship lands and deploys an armored personal carrier, which will abbreviate as APC with the Marines inside. Before taking off the Marines, exit the APC and into the Marine colony complex door. They sweep the building with motion trackers, but find that it's deserted save for a few little mice, the Marines discover evidence of a fierce spa, including several barricades hits from small arms and acid burns on the ground, implying that there were casualties among the aliens as well. Good. They conclude the building safe for now, which Ripley doesn't believe smart Gorman, Burke and Ripley enter the building, but Ripley is visibly affected by dark memories in the medical labs. They finally happen upon evidence of Ripley's stories. In a series of stasis tubes, they find several face hugger organisms, the spider light creatures that attach to your face. Yeah. two of them appear to still be alive. Bishop finds a file describing an attempt to remove a face hugger from one of his victims before it can implant an embryo. And it resulted in the death of the

Stephen:

subject. So Ripley is having very Lori St. Strode like PTSD, which is totally understandable. And just like Lori, she's doing what she has to do. And I have a lot of respect for that. And of course the colony was keeping some of the face huggers to study. You know, it's like no one in the future has ever watched a horror movie

Steve:

before. I know it's ridiculous. Ripley and the others make an even more startling discovery. New the little girl from earlier survived, the aliens lost salt on the colony. She runs away under the floor, grading at the side of the Marines, Ripley succeeds, winning her trust. Initially, the girl is mute seemingly in shock. But Ripley eventually gets through to her. She calls herself Newt and tells Ripley that her parents, the Salvas who started this mess at the beginning of the movie and her brother are dead. Everyone has become a victim of the aliens and she would feel safer if she could return to her hidings place in the ventilation system, Ripley assures her that she will be safer with herself and the Marines Would you feel safer with this crew than in your hiding place?

Stephen:

Honestly, if she made it that long without being caught by the Xenomorphs, I would say that I would feel safer in her hiding place as well. I

Steve:

know, but what happens when she lives alone? Like on her own fending, in the wilderness for years and years and decades and decades, then she turns into the barbarian. true. It's not a good story. No. Yeah.

Stephen:

Now the cocky private Hudson tracks the colonist by using homing devices embedded in their skin and discovers that the entire population seems to be crowded underneath the primary heat exchangers of the facility. The team take the APC to the atmosphere, processor where opponent in the Marines get out and Gorman and Burke remain on board with Newton Ripley to coordinate the suite from a distance while the descending into the facility, the Marines discover strange organic hive like structures that must have been secreted and built by the aliens. Ripley realizes that the Marines are walking next to the colonies nuclear reactor, and that their armor piercing weapons could do some serious damage and it could cause it all to explode. So Gorman orders them to hand in their high caliber brain munition, however, both Vasquez and Drake secretly reactivate their smart guns. Using spare connectors. Vasquez had hidden in her equipment. One or two in this case always have to ruin it for the rest. Certain people always think they know better. And it's interesting that I think that like Vasquez is at a Nomi Malone of Showgirls level of. Throughout the

Steve:

whole movie. Oh yeah. I know that, like, it must be hard being like the only lesbian in a group full of men in a time where it's not like it's much better now, but it's like not great for women in the way that they're treated, especially in things like the military. Of course this is supposed to be the future. So hopefully we've evolved in real life by then. but yeah, no matter how difficult it is, she certainly is like a, a Nomi in face. Yeah. She's

Stephen:

always playing everything at a 12.

Steve:

Yes. Now as the team enters the basement, they find an alien hive containing the dead bodies of the colonists. Cocoon does host for alien face hugger parasites. One colonist is still alive, but she starts to convulse upon awakening, asks them to kill. Suddenly an infant alien, AKA, a chest burster burst its way out of her chest. What a good

Stephen:

name? Like it's that makes AER

Steve:

chest burster. You gotta stick with the basics. I like it. You know,

Stephen:

like vagina Exploder, like it's all there.

Steve:

No, I don't think so. Is that the third one? Yeah, that's the third one. The Marines, kill it with a flame thrower, but the sudden stir awake, dormant warrior aliens, which are concealed inside the walls, which offer them effective camouflage. Okay.

Stephen:

So when that happened, it was creepy. It was so creepy. Cuz you were thinking that Vasquez was kind of there by herself and all of a sudden the wall behind her started to move and you could realize that it was one of the alien warriors super well

Steve:

done. Yeah. I mean this movie definitely has more action than while the first one I feel like was more horror, but this one definitely has its horror elements for sure as well. And the one way that they camouflage and reveal themselves is really horrific.

Stephen:

now they begin to attack causing one Marine to misfire her flame thrower causing explosion of the ammunition

Steve:

stash. Yes, they're resulting disorientation proofs disastrous as the disoriented Marines have no idea where the attacks are coming from and are quickly reduced in their numbers. Now,

Stephen:

this is always important to have happen in scaring movies. You need the main cast whittled down to a forecast. So the audience can better focus on the ones that are important. The same thing always happens in disaster movies as

Steve:

well. Yes. Did these people that die have names? Probably. Do we end up caring? No, no. The Marines start firing back at random. Some with restricted ammo, but the chaos and noise make it hard for anyone. Especially Lieutenant Gorman and Sergeant AONE to focus and organize a coordinated defense pone is suddenly attacked, incapacitated causing an unprepared Gorman to panic. Angered and frantically shouting at Gorman for his lack of control. Ripley takes over Gorman's protests, driving the APC all the way down the service ramps into the nest to rescue the surviving Marines. Only four, make it back to the APC. And one Drake is killed by acid from an exploding alien shot by a Vasquez.

Stephen:

You know, that's gotta suck. I made it all the way back. And then whenever my fellow Marine is trying to save my life, the blood from the alien that she shot to save me, kills me.

Steve:

Yes, it's good defense mechanism for that. Yeah. Now Ripley recovers VA as Hickson, Hudson Hicks manages to kill an alien that tries to enter the APC with a shotgun blast, yelling, eat this which results in a large acid burn on Hudson's arm. Gorman's knocked unconscious while Ripley drives the APC out of the facility, crushing an alien under the wheels, along the way, and driving straight through a closed metal door. The escape destroys the APCs transac. Car stuff. Yeah. Rendering the vehicle largely iMobile to which you say.

Stephen:

Sure. Yeah. Whenever he is like, you, you blew the transaxle. I was like, is that a thing? I, and I, I didn't bother to Google cuz I just don't care cars. Yeah. Like it, it just doesn't matter. Now we're getting to the

Steve:

action. Yes. Was the lead up worth it for you?

Stephen:

Yeah, so we needed this character work, the exposition and the development so that we be invested now that the shit's hitting the fan because without proper build up the audience just isn't going to care. And so with this, they've set up, you know, the stakes and everything like that. They've set up how it's all set and things like. And we've now got down to a forecast. This is expertly well done.

Steve:

Yes. Considering how long the movie is. I think that this amount of like a lead up why, and I'm sure also the fact that we watched the director's edition, remember it was only 20 more minutes. It was 20 more minutes, but I'm sure a lot of those 20 minutes were in the top half because in the bottom half, a lot of it was timed. Yes. And so even with the extra 20 minutes, I do feel like it probably could have been like 10 minutes shorter, but I do feel that overall it was worth it. Or if they had done like another, like fake out thing, like the dream. Yeah. Like something to break it up. It just did feel for like about 15, 20 minutes straight. We just got a lot of talking, talking, talking, talking, and yeah, but we're we're here now. We are on the, the planet's surface in the APC. The survivors discover several of their missing colleagues are still displaying life signs on the monitor. Ripley assures them. Nothing could be done as they're being cocooned, like the colonists to be hosts from where face huggers and chest.

Stephen:

Yeah, they were all like, no man left behind and she's like, girl.

Steve:

Yeah, they're dead, girl. Bye. Yeah. Vasquez recommends they nerve gas the area, but they opt against it as there's no guarantee that aliens are even susceptible. Right. Because

Stephen:

obviously the aliens don't need to breathe oxygen. So yeah, maybe the nerve gas would do nothing.

Steve:

Yes. Ripley suggests taking off a Ning, the entire site from orbit, but Burke for testes, he's concerned about the dollar value of the facility. Of course he is. They can bill me Ripley replies. Burke continues to bitch citing the importance that the alien species and claiming no one has the right to arbitrarily exterminate them. I would say survival of the

Stephen:

fittest. And I would also say the alien species does not seem to have a problem. Exterminating the

Steve:

humans. Yes. Despite Ripley Vasca and Hudson protesting, he refuses to authorize the use of nukes. However, Ripley points out that it's a military operation now and the raking or officer corporal Hicks is now in command. Hick seconds. Ripley's motion of nuking, the site from orbit over Burke's objections saying to the audience, please like me. Yeah. and sums the pilots

Stephen:

of the drop ship. And funny enough, it worked because right then I was like, oh, maybe I do like

Steve:

Hicks. Yes. As private spunk, Meer reenters the drop ship, finding some slime before closing the ramp. We're all surprised that an alien slipped on board kills the pilot in mid-flight and the ship crashes as the rest of the Marines barely flee the crash site. Part of the drop ship collides with the APC, destroying it in most of the team's weaponry.

Stephen:

So now they're low on ammo, isolated, scared, and few options. It's perfect setup. It ups the anxiety for those involved and the audience. And you can kind of start seeing how the alien movies are allegedly loose inspiration for the Metro games for an Nintendo. And I can totally see Samran as the, or Sam, Aaron as the standin for Ellen Ripley.

Steve:

Yeah. Ripley and the others. Like we mentioned now, stranded, no means of returning to the Lanco. And Hudson's starting to annoy the group with his incessant bitching, Ugh, nude, warns them that they should get back because it will be dark soon. And they mostly come at night. Mostly they retreat back into the main colony complex where Bishop treats Gorman and the rest survey, the limited remaining weapon arsenal that they were able to salvage from the APC wreckage. The bad news is that there are only a few impact pulse rifles in flame throwers left, left. The good news is that there is none they're fucked.

Stephen:

however, amongst the salvage items are four century guns, remote operated machine guns that can target objects automatically. And upon hearing that a rescue team can be expected nowhere earlier than 17 days. Hudson starts panicking again, yelling that the aliens will infiltrate the complex again and kill them. But Ripley finally reprimands him and points out that nude has survived an even longer period without weapons or training

Steve:

that's because she's better than him. Yeah.

Stephen:

The survivors decide to fortify the barricades in Coff, all possible access routes for the aliens into the main colony complex. The plan is quickly brought into action and even Hudson shows them determination. Again, the century guns are placed at strategic locations where the aliens are expected to attempt to enter the building. A test shows that they do function optimally. Now Hudson is really annoying in these scenes and he sounds like a whiny stoner with the guys we're going where, and it's really hard to imagine that the same actor as Hudson is the same one who magnificently leads the movie twister. A decade later.

Steve:

Yeah. I think that it also just goes to show just like that he has very much like that part of the time there was, you know, always that like stoner dummy and a lot of movies back then. Yeah. And so I think that he was just the stoner dummy, just non chronologically stoned. Yeah. this is what happens when you send your stoner to space. Yeah.

Stephen:

then he's just paranoid the whole time.

Steve:

Yep. Hicks ol. Oh, that's a weird word. Hicks earns Ripley's trust by giving her a small locator to wear on her wrist so he can find her anywhere inside the complex Ripley puts new to bed and checks inside her doll, head Casey, for scary dreams. Nude explains Ripley that Casey doesn't have bad dreams because she's just a piece of plastic doll, Ripley. Yeah. Nude wonders about what happened to her mother, especially one of the aliens came from inside her mother, but Ripley explains that just means you have a sister now. No, no, she can't give her the answer. She tells nude about her own daughter who also died nudes, scared to go to sleep. So Ripley puts the locator that was trusted to her and solely her on new instead and assures her. She can find her anywhere in the complex. Now I

Stephen:

wonder if she'll have to the need to use it later for shadow wing.

Steve:

Yes. Bishops discovered the aliens acid blood neutralizes, after exposure to the air, the group is discussing the aliens and their way of reproduction. Humans are used as hosts for the face huggers, which come from the eggs, but who or what produces these eggs, they deduce. They must be a large dominant female, a queen such as in a social insect colony with more common sense, involved in that than we see in our Batman movies. Ripley tells Bishop to destroy the two remaining face huggers, but he also tells sir, he got specific orders from Burke to keep them alive. Ripley confronts Burke about it. He wants the specimens taken back to earth because the weapons in the industry will pay large amounts of money for them even tries to enlist her in helping smuggling them past quarantine. But she's the good guy. So she refuses. Moreover, she has checked the colony log and learned Burke was responsible for sending the colonist to the de like ship. After he learned about its existence from Ripley during her trial.

Stephen:

Well, she should at least feel good that he believed

Steve:

her. Yes, Ripley Williamsburg for not wanting the colon warning, the colonists about the danger, but Burke maintains. He simply wanted the colonists to accidentally find it in order to lay a valid claim on the ship. He puts it aside as a bad call. My bad suddenly in rage, Ripley grabs him by the lapels and angrily vows to expose his Treacher when they return to earth. Now, were we really surprised at this after the reveal of the first one?

Stephen:

So I mean, it, it puts everything into place, but then you realize that he just has no soul. Yeah.

Steve:

I mean, it's bad, but I also wasn't surprised. I mean, if anything, it's kind of Ripley's fault for bleeding this company again, cuz it's the same company and the first one that sends them after the alien to get the alien. Yeah. And so now that the aliens are back again, they're like, okay, we're going back out to get the alien, but we won't capture it this time. We promise. And we're an ethical company that definitely follows all the laws and

Stephen:

rules. Yeah. And of course it's a desire for money that has caused all this death and destruction.

Steve:

Yes. As Ripley exits the room, the alarm sounds, the aliens have arrived at the first set of century guns inside the access tunnels, the guns kill many of them, but they quickly run out of ammo. As the aliens numbers are vastly superior, Bishop calls in there's another problem. The nuclear reactor at the terraforming tower started emergency venting. They learned the damage to the structure has caused it to malfunction. The cooling units have failed and the core will explode within four hours. That's not good so much for 17 days. Damage from the crash has made it impossible to shut down their reactor from their location. Remotely calling the second drop ship from the Lanco is also impossible. As the transmitter was on the APC and was wrecked in the crash. The only option is to go the uplink tower and manually remote pilot, the Lanco second drop ship to the surface, Hudson relapses into his desperate act. Again, refusing to go. However, Bishop unexpectedly offers to crawl through the small conduit to the uplink towers. He's the only one qualified to pilot the ship anyway.

Stephen:

So this is all brilliantly done because no longer is it just about surviving the adults, you know, morphs on the planet and making sure there's enough food that they ha can wait until help can come. Now there's a ticking clock. And so each time we think we have things figured out, James Cameron adds in drama at just the right time.

Steve:

Yes. And at this point, where do we stand with our survivors? Are we rooting for any of them yet?

Stephen:

Obviously Ripley. Yes. Hicks. Yes. Newt. And now Bishop. Yes. Because he's willing to sacrifice himself. I still feel that Hudson and Vasquez are expendable. Yes. Because we

Steve:

still need more bodies. Yeah. And it's funny cuz at this point that is our final four. Well,

Stephen:

Gorman is still around too. Just we keep forgetting about

Steve:

him. Yeah. I don't like him. did we end up seeing

Stephen:

him die? We do in just a

Steve:

little bit. Okay. Oh right. Yes. I remember now the second set of century guns in the lower hallway empties its ammo into the hor of aliens, a great many aliens advanced on the unmanned guns, but eventually they stop not realizing the guns have almost run out of ammo. Apparently the attempts to stop aliens advance have temporarily succeeded. Yay. Hick says Hudson and Vasquez checked the perimeter. He promises Ripley will not. Let her die by aliens preferring to kill them both rather than falling victim to the creatures.

Stephen:

Yeah. Cuz the last thing she wants is to have a face hugger turn into a chest burster and like her be responsible for more warrior aliens

Steve:

out there. Yes. He then gives her a crash course on how to use a M four one, a 10 millimeter pulse

Stephen:

rifle. Again, showing us she is training and not just magically able to use the equipment later on when she needs to in the movie.

Steve:

Yes. And there appears to be a subtle attraction between them, which I disregard. I don't know. I didn't buy it. I,

Stephen:

I felt it was more respect than

Steve:

romance. Yes. On our way back to Newt Ripley passes by Gorman who has regained consciousness and is clearly embarrassed by his earlier conduct as he should be. She returns to Newt and finds her curled up asleep, hiding underneath the bed. Instead of waking her Ripley joins her underneath for a nap, laying her pulse rifle on the bed for safe, safe, keeping. And I just must say napping right before the second half of a movie. That's my kind of hero. That would be me. If I was in a movie, I'd be like, oh wait, shit's about to get real. Let me take a nappy

Stephen:

And helping NT is helping Ripley's own fears. Kind of like what happened with me before hurricane Irma? Like how terrified I was that this category five hurricane was gonna make a direct impact on Sarasota. And then when we got to my job and I had to care for the residents, I was able to focus my fear, something else, which is what we're seeing here. Yep.

Steve:

Meanwhile, Bishop has crawled through the narrow conduit and reaches the uplink tower and is preparing for the other drop ship for departure. Ripley wakes to find two empty stasis tubes on the floor. The face huggers have escaped. They're locked inside the lab and the pulse rifle's been taken Ripley. Auter attacked by a scarring face hugger where Ripley fence it off and tries to signal the Marines through a surveillance camera. However, as the Bishop keeps updating Hickson his crew about the drop ship, or slightly turns off the monitor to prevent the others from seeing Ripley's cry for help

Stephen:

that son of a bitch. I mean, as soon as I saw the things were knocked over and that her gun was missing you automatically are like, somebody did this.

Steve:

Yeah. It'd be one thing if like the gun was still there. Yeah. You might like have some room for it, but you're like, no, this guy is just pure evil. Doesn't care about anyone because I mean, ultimately the guys end up end Vasquez end up going to save her and new and they're killed, but let's say that Bri managed to kill them. What next? You still have two aliens running around, loose on the damn ship.

Stephen:

Yeah, exactly. And he's just, he's just thinking about the money that can come and also the promotion. That will also lead to more money. Like for him, it's all about the almighty dollar. Yes. Or whatever mode of currency they're using in space

Steve:

credits. In the operations room, Ripley knows it must have been Burke who was acting in retaliation to her promise to expose him, exposing him to the ship. He would emerge back on earth as serve the only survivor if this worked. And he was able to cut the other Marines cryo tubes and he says, that's all speculation. But the other Marines are clearly convinced by her story cuz he's a slimy douche bag. Yep. As they debate what to do with him and are about to waste him the power to the facility suddenly cut off Hicks has Vesquez and Hudson walk the perimeter. They use the motion trackers and register movement coming towards them already inside the perimeter and Hudson reports. There's movement all over the place. now, what would you do with Burke? Would you waste

Stephen:

him? I would've shot him in the head, leave his body and blame it on the aliens, like 100%. And if you needed to like, take one of the warrior aliens and like open up the body more and just drain the acid over Burke's body. So they're like what gunshot wound he's been destroyed by the alien.

Steve:

I guess. So there's also, I mean like the Batman in me, who's like, no, he should go to jail forever and live like a long life Trapp behind

Stephen:

bars. I think he has so many connections. He would never see a day inside

Steve:

jail. Well then waste him. now everyone pulls back in the central operations room, but the signal keeps approaching even inside the barricades. How is this

Stephen:

possible Batman? They

Steve:

suddenly realize they obviously are coming in through the ceiling panels and they finally, the army circumvented the barricades by climbing upside down through the crawl spaces over the ceiling.

Stephen:

Oh, maybe we should have thought of that.

Steve:

Yes. They open fire and the HDS of aliens break through the ceiling as their remaining Marines take on the creatures, Burke slips away and prevents the rest from escaping by seal the med lab door

Stephen:

again, what an asshole. Yes. Like to like the fact that Paul reer became one of America's most beloved people. Thanks to that. Sitcom mad about you after he was so awful in this?

Steve:

Yes. Oh, Hudson puts up a brave fight, gunning down several aliens, but is ambushed by more coming up from the floor grid who grab him and pull him down out of sight. Oh, well, Burke is killed by an alien. That's already found its way into the med lab again. No great loss. He

Stephen:

had it coming. Yeah, I both of them gone. I'm okay with that. Now,

Steve:

Newt being the little road that she is finds an alternative escape through the air ducts. Bishop reports that the ships on its way, ETA 16 minutes inside the vent. Vasques the last and fires. All her grenades, impulse, ammo throw shut, but then is attacked by an alien coming down a vertical duct. She ETI her handgun into it and kills it, but it spills acid blood all over her leg. Gorman comes to help her, but they suddenly find themselves surrounded by aliens. Uhoh once S Gorman's handgun is also empty. He triggers the gay Renee killing himself and VA Vasquez and the aliens around

Stephen:

him. So we're down to three in the robot with this few, you know, we're ramping up for F finale, but also good on Gorman for finally stepping up and being a selfless leader. He was kind of useless for the whole movie, but this 10 seconds, redeemed enough, I

Steve:

guess. Yes. Now the explosion causes NT to fall through a ventilation shaft that leads to the bottom of the facility.

Stephen:

Yeah. There's like teenage mutant ninja turtle sewers down there. Yes.

Steve:

They find newts still clutching her dolls, head in a sewer below the grid, which HS trust cut open, but she snatched by an alien before they can rescue her. And she dies. Just kidding. No Ripley screams in desperation. When she sees the dolls head floating in the water, but remains determined to rescue a renew. Knowing the aliens would cocoon her for a face hugger, Ripley and Hicks rushed the elevator to go up the doors don't close until they pound on the buttons for a second time. And the alien jumps in before the doors close. Hicks kills the creature, but is severely wounded by the alien spilling blood, which quickly eats through his body armor. And it seems part of his face. Yes, Ripley drags Hicks out through the complex main doors and they need up on the surface with Bishop who just pilot piloted the rescue ship to the surface by remote, whoever Ripley refuses to leave the planet and demands the Bishop, take her back to the atmosphere, processor to rescue N. So

Stephen:

we have very little time left and now we have unnecessary rescue. Again, they're upping the ante more anxiety. This should almost be a how to, in terms of action, survival movies. Like each time you think, oh, we're about to get out. They add something else in. And so then you're just, it's even more intense. I'm very impressed at the mechanics of how this movie was done.

Steve:

Yes. Bishop reluctantly flies the drop ship into the atmosphere processor, which is now beginning to overload and lands on a high platform. Ripley arms herself with a pulse rifle, a flame thrower, and the locator duct tape together. Plus M 40 grenades and a M 94 marking flare ignoring Bishop's warning. The explosion will occur in 19 minutes, leaving a cloud of vapor, the size of Nebraska. She says goodbye to the wounded Hicks, who as a sign of trust tells her his name is Dwayne Ripley tells her. Her name is Ellen. She tells Hicks who has been treating his injuries, not to let Bishop leave. And he confirms they're not going anywhere. Yeah. Starting to feel what the countdown in timers and everything like a Metro game. Huh? Yeah.

Stephen:

So in the Metro things, usually when you kill mother brain, like, especially at the end of super Metro, you have a certain amount of real world time to get out of the basement of the planet before it explodes. And this is just like that. Now there's an interesting fact with this.

Steve:

Yeah. In both the standard and special edition versions, the 15 minute countdown is indeed 15 minutes. That's

Stephen:

really interesting. And that does help to increase the anxiety for the audience as we're watching it. Because if they're announcing how much time is left, we're feeling that

Steve:

yes, Ripley takes the elevator down loads, the grenade, launcher and stuff, some flares in her pocket and announcement declares. It's now 14 minutes. She socks through the basement, blasting her flame thrower and leaving signal flares on the floor for backtracking. As she infiltrates the alien hive, which is very smart, smart, smart. Yeah. She's the locator signal to find Newt only to find the detached piece. She collapses to the floor filled with grief, but then hears Newt scream. The girl's been cocooned and is threatened by a face hugger hatching from an egg Ripley kills the creature, which alerts warrior aliens to her presence.

Stephen:

The attacking warriors are quickly gunned down by Ripley and she frees NT from the cocoon wall. Several explosions from the failing reactor drive Ripley carrying NT into a chamber full of eggs. It also houses a monstrously, large alien, the Xenomorph queen of the hive still laying more eggs because they don't realize the planet to wait is about to blow. Yes,

Steve:

several warrior aliens close in on them. When Ripley threatens to destroy the eggs, the queen signals them to retreat. I love

Stephen:

that though. They communicate differently. The queen totally understands. What Ripley is saying

Steve:

with her actions. Oh, for sure. Yeah. Ripley and Newt slowly back out of the egg chamber planning to leave the queen in the eggs to be destroyed in the imminent nuclear explosion. But when an egg hatches next to Ripley, she can't stand it anymore. She turns the flame thrower on the eggs, spraying the room with napalm. The queen goes mad, screeching insanely at the destruction of her offspring, Ripley then fires a series of bullets and grenades into the eggs, several warrior aliens, and the Queen's vagina bits. blowing it to bits as she and Nute retreat out of the chamber, a warrior alien ambushes them, but as quickly gunned down, Ripley throws her grenade belt into the raging Inferno and then retreats towards the elevator. The exploding grenades destroy the remaining eggs, but also dislodge the queen alien from her perch, the queen tears herself free from the egg sack and furiously pursues, Ripley, and nude who make it back to the elevator, then have to wait for it to return. There are four minutes left on the countdown. now, would you have left the queen and the eggs to blow up it with the planet or let loose, like Ripley did.

Stephen:

So at that point, once the eggs are hatching, I agree. She had zero choice. But if they had not hatched, I would've slowly backed

Steve:

out of the room. Yeah. I also don't think that, like, there was a single point where she could have gotten far enough where they would've been like now after her.

Stephen:

Right. That's I mean, that's exactly what if the queen could have said something and, and Ripley gotten out of there, she would've like pointed her little alien arm and been like,

Steve:

get her. Exactly. Yeah. Now, as they retreat into the elevator, they're approached by the queen and Ripley uses the remaining napalm in the flame thrower on the queen, burning her severely as the elevator carries them up. However, the second elevator opens up in front of the queen who tilts her head while looking at it as they smart girl. Yep. Smart Queenie. That's why she's the queen and not just a warrior alien. Yep. As they arrive on the platform with two minutes remaining to Ripley's desperation, the drop ship's not there. Dammit Bishop Ripley's ammunition, counter reaches zero while the surrounding complex as quickly exploding and collapsing. The other elevator arrives the door opens and it's the queen. Oh

Stephen:

my goodness.

Steve:

Ly tells new to close their eyes, possibly intending to leap to their deaths rather than letting the queen kill them. Just then the drop ship comes, hovering over the platform. Ripley and Newt are narrowly able to get on safely and on time, the drop ship carrying Newt, Ripley, Bishop, and Hicks, barely escape as the processing facility explodes into a massive mushroom cloud below them. And the alien definitely didn't St away. No. Do you think she'd left to their deaths rather than let the alien kill them? Had it not arrived

Stephen:

100% because it, then it would've been a faster death because obviously as we saw earlier in the movie, when they first found the colonists. They can totally are still aware of what's happening to them. They're in pain and all that. I think it would be smarter just to have her jumped.

Steve:

Well, I'm glad I didn't come to that. Yes. Now, at this point while they were back on the Lanco, Bishop says he had to sedate Hicks for the pain, but that he would be all right. Ah, he explains he had to take off from the platform which became unstable and had to circle, waiting to pick them up. Ripley makes peace with Bishop, thanking him for saving their lives. There's a small drop of acid. Suddenly Bishop is sped from behind by a huge stinger and ripped in half of the waist by the queen. She had STED away by hiding inside the recess for the landing gear. She advances menacingly towards Ripley and NT. Ripley attracts the Queen's attention and tells nude to run nude of course goes under the flooring because that's her only go-to move. Yep. As Ripley continues to call the queen then runs and quickly closes the door.

Stephen:

So I love this because just when you think all is safe, now we're onto the real finale and the queen batters the door then searches the floor and starts ripping the floor plates up until she has Newt cornered and Newt screams like a high pitched siren. And suddenly Ripley appears inside the large forklift power loader that she'd used earlier. The exoskeleton lake machine makes her even match for the giant queen and they battle furiously. And the Ripley has that whole line about get away from her you bitch. Yes. And Ripley punches. The queen several times grabs her attempts to dump her into the ship's airlock. But the queen click quickly grabs hold of the power loader and Ripley gets dragged down into the airlock. Ripley manages to get out and climb up the ladder. And as the queen grabs her leg, Ripley activates the controls, opening the outer locked door, causing air to rush out of the ship. Now, Bishop is in bad shape because he's been ripped in half. His head and upper tour sewer are still functioning, but that white hydraulic fluid is leaking everywhere. And what's left of him, starts sliding towards the airlock, but he's able to grab onto the floor, grill to hold himself into place. And the queen desperately tries to hold onto Ripley's foot, but her shoe comes off and the queen is blown out into space screaming and flailing madly.

Steve:

Yes, as N is also being blown towards the airlock. Bishop grabs certain anchors than both in place. Ripley somehow manages to pull herself up out of the airlock with almost superhuman strength against the enormous air pressure and closes the airlock. Barely pulling her leg out in time. Nude comes up to her and hugs her, calling her mommy, Bishop congratulates her not bad for a human and Ripley, a nude hug.

Stephen:

Ugh. That was intense.

Steve:

Yes. The film ends as Ripley prepares Newt Hicks and what's left of Bishop for hypers sleep for their journey back to earth. She assures Newt can sleep all the way home and they both can dream. They're both in a deep sleep as they're ending credits roll. And after the ending credits, if you stick around, you'll hear the sound of the wind howing and the Curring face hugger heard off in the distance.

Stephen:

Ah, so obviously they wanna leave the potential open for a sequel. Now we know that there's this potential face hugger. We know that the ones that were alive in the terraforming air area were blown up. What we don't know is if there were anything left in the old ship that were on the other side and did the explosion make it, as far as that ship, we don't.

Steve:

I guess we'll find out in the third one, because like any good sequel, it leaves way two more alien three. Yes. And then there's alien, resurrection and alien versus predator, which is the one that we both started the series with, which is so funny that that's how we started. And isn't there a sequel to that there's

Stephen:

alien. Yeah. There's another alien versus predator. And then there's Prometheus and then there's a sequel to Prometheus that actually has the name alien in it. Did we watch

Steve:

that alien? What? Resurrection? No,

Stephen:

that, that one's the fourth one fourth one, but yeah, so like Prometheus and then the other alien are like the two prequel movies before all

Steve:

of this. Okay. Yes. So we'd love to hear your thoughts on the episode, on the movie and on the series, you can do that by getting in touch with us, by emailing us at happy life pod.

Stephen:

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Steve:

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