The Halloween moviefest has continued. Two nights ago they watched Aliens, which doesn't make sense to me (I thought Alien was the horror movie one), but fine.
Watching the ending, though, it was pointed out that it was really stupid of Ripley to destroy all those eggs. She wasted time better spent getting out of there, pissed off the Queen enough to have it come after her, and there was no point. The whole place was going to blow up in about 5 minutes, and the Queen didn't seem particularly worried about that. Even if she had been worried, she wasn't fast enough to get herself to a safe distance in time - unless she's hitching a ride on a spacecraft in an attempt to take revenge.
I had always just looked at that scene from the stance of it being really cool, and Ripley taking revenge for all the horror and nightmares the xenomorphs had put her through, but it was incredibly ill-advised. I don't know if Cameron meant it that way, as a commentary on the futility of revenge, or the pointlessness of hating something for following its nature, or if he didn't think it through any more than I had.
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