For instance, when she attacked Dr. Wren very early in the
>movie: she had no reason to, except that she felt like it and he'd let his
>guard down.
She had a great reason: he was wayyy up in her face. What does an animal
do, and what do most people probably feel like doing when a person they
don't know does something like that?
At
>least when the aliens hurt and abuse and kill, they tend to do so quickly
>(even those humans who are impregnated with an alien and die during it's
>"birth" die more quickly than "7"), and not to their own species.
Welll, there was the cage scene w/ the three aliens, two of whom killed the
third, but for a good reason: to get outta the cage.
>
>> Are we to feel more compassionate? I'd say so and I don't see how we
>> could not feel compassionate. These aliens were not acting out of malice
>> and that's important to keep in mind. I didn't even see the freezing a
>> person scene malicious but a way to get rid of a human, i.e., an obstacle.
>
>I would disagree - the freezing a person scene probably was malicious,
>actually. I see it as a retaliation for the times the alien itself was
>frozen by the doctor. Not that I blame it, but I do see it as a relatiation,
>and not just a way to remove an obstacle. However, I do agree that we're
>supposed to have certainly more compassion for the aliens than we've had in
>the past.
><snip>
Hm. Might have a point there, but I still don't see the aliens as
malicious beings. Harsh by our standards, but not cruel. Heck, even the
scene where the new alien bites a hunk outta the doc's head wasn't cruel.
It was merely reacting to something it may have seen as a threat the most
natural way it could, and perhaps the only way it could.
By the by, who out there thinks the baby alien, the one with paler skin and
the quivering nose, was scarier than ten regular aliens combined with the
queen alien tossed in? I think is was wayyyy scarier because it's a lot
closer to human, so there's not such convenient sort of visual
dissociation. For a perfect example of what I'm talking about, consider
how much scarier Hannibal Lecter was than Freddy Kreuger, since Hannibal
looked so much more...normal...so non-threatening at times. Freddy looked
threatening all the time, so we got used to it and weren't so disarmed when
he did something spooky. Lecter, on the other hand, I didn't really get so
used to as a threat, which made him more of a threat, since he could disarm
so much more easily.
Of course, this analyzing of the Newborn is an attempt to not be so scared
of it when, not if, I see the show again. That's not all that it is, but
it's a good portion.
>- I was really disturbed by the Newborn (I guess that's what they're
>officially calling that human-alien hybrid at the end) killing it's mother.
> I still can't decide what exactly to make of that, but I don't much like it
>either way.
See above paragraph.
-Sean
Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.--Author Unknown
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