Alien Franchise Watch-Along: Aliens

Eiko YamamotoLet's keep this ship sailingAlienAliensAlien 3Alien: ResurrectionPrometheusCovenant Aliens(1986, dir. James Cameron) Blue nebula opening this time, now with military drums. ** So they have floating drone robots now? What an extremely useful thing that we’re never going to see again.**Ripley was sleeping for 57 years, which we’re told is long enough for her ship to pass through the core worlds and come out the other side. With the Nostromo destroyed shortly after leaving Zeta Reticuli and given the numbers crunched in the last movie (~40 light years to Earth), Ripley’s shuttle was definitiely FTL. No wonder no one was able to pick it up for decades. Was her distress signal off to save power?**In what I've realized was a bad move, I watched the theatrical cut instead of the extended one, and so lost the entire thing with Ripley outliving her daughter. Normally I'm in the "cut content is usually cut for a reason" but that is kind of an extremely important bit of thematic and…