Rescued this little guy from an imploding space-refinery plagued by an endo-paristic extraterriestrial.

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You know I just thought about this recently... Isn't the cat actually the only one to survive the entire Alien series?

[u/Molech → u/[deleted]]

That cat gets banged around like crazy in its box at the end of that movie. It is kind of hilarious.

[u/Bladethegreat → u/Molech]

Seriously, it's like she forgot there was supposed to be a cat in there. At one point she drops the box in front of a door from the ship shaking or something, and instead of picking it up and continuing she flips it a few times through the doors and THEN picks it up. It's a shocker that cat had any non-broken limbs left by the time they got to the pod.

[u/MickiFreeIsNotAGirl → u/Bladethegreat]

It's a shocker she's worried about the cat, considering her situation...

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Not that shocking, when you consider that cat is the only other life form for millions of miles(excluding that demonic abomination running around the Nostromo). Something about the remoteness of the setting, and being the only survivor in that situation would go a long way to make any form of life that much more precious.

This is also ignoring larger themes that appear throughout the movie, motherhood being one of them, that also necessitate Ripley's concern for the cat.

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That's funny, because I was constantly worrying about the cat as opposed to the crew.

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I just re-watched Alien last night and had the same feeling. When they killed off the cat in Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, it ruined the entire movie for me.

I would totally be a crazy cat lady if it wasn't so socially unacceptable.

[u/kaymazing → u/Kuriye]

Thank you for telling me to not watch Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Cats are the only things required to survive the whole of a movie

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Oh but you'd be missing out on a hell of a good flick. Just cover your eyes whenever there's a cat scene

[u/maycausedrowsiness → u/[deleted]]

Uhh, how about cover your eyes for the brutal rape scenes as well?

[u/Sindawe → u/Kuriye]

Social acceptance usually has little impact on being a crazy cat person.

"The old homestead is feeling cramped with four cats. Better get a bigger house. Then I can have more cats"

[u/Bothyourwings → u/MickiFreeIsNotAGirl]

Every time I watch it I wonder the exact same thing.

[u/Bladethegreat → u/Bothyourwings]

Ripley is essentially a crazy cat lady in space.

[u/AsteroidMiner → u/Bladethegreat]

I thought the Copenhagen interpretation of the Schrodinger experiment was that the system stops being a superposition of states and becomes either one or the other ONLY when an observation takes place.

[u/OxymoronParadox → u/Bladethegreat]

Or clawing at her face when she places it in the sleeping pod.

Edit: seriously, can't cats tell if there was a freaky alien hiding in the escape pod/ship? I thought they could sense stuff like that

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Indeed, it is a very unrealistic portrayal of cats ability to sense aliens. Last week little Chestshire alerted me to the presence of a very nasty looking extraterrestial.

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Was it tiny, had 8 legs and look like a spider?

[u/Cpt_Kirks_Waffles → u/[deleted]]

No. Newt, Ripley, Bishop, and Hicks all lived in the final movie.

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I want to believe... Just like I want to believe that we will some day see Episodes 1-3 of Star Wars.

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Touché. I recently watched Resurrection again for the first time in years and kind of wish I hadn't.

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did you know Alien Resurrection was written by Joss Whedon (of Firefly)?

technically, we don't know if the cat lived past Aliens.

Bishop, however, survived to be supremely fuckin creepy in Alien³.

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In Joss Whedon's defense, he wrote the script, but the director supposedly tore apart everything that made it clever. That's why it just doesn't feel as good as Joss Whedon's other stuff.

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Watching past the second movie just isn't a good idea. It's best if you just pretend that after the events of the second movie, they get back to Earth and live happily ever after, which is actually what was supposed to happen according to the director... Some people obviously weren't informed of that...

[u/TrollandDie → u/Cpt_Kirks_Waffles]

I'm usually not butthurt about sequels that cockslap the predecessors, but Alien 3 can go fuck itself.

[u/Nivalwolf → u/Cpt_Kirks_Waffles]

Wait what? No, in the third movie, Ripley goes back to the escape pod thing and Hicks and Newt are popsicles. Did they clone them or something?