Quote from: Paranoid Android on Feb 07, 2018, 05:12:26 AM
It's funny how you point out that conservative values are about a couple being married, and then mention Aliens as a film that upholds those values? Like, Ripley and Hicks are married? What? In what universe is the "family" in Aliens a traditional one?
They're not married, but they didn't share any intimate contact so they adhering to conservative morals.
Hicks did give her a psuedo-engagement gift, however. A ring is a circular object, usually worn on the finger, and traditionally used as a gift to propose a marriage. That's why I say 'psuedo', because it's not a ring, but it is a circular object.
And the idea of them being a 'traditional family' except a surrogate one, fits in with the modern ideas of the time. The Brady Bunch is not a traditional family, for example.
QuoteThis is all without mentioning that getting her flight status back was one of Ripley's reasons for going, so she still chooses career over staying on Earth and having a "traditional family"...
She had no family on Earth. What's the difference between having a traditional family on Earth or having one in space?
Quote from: SM on Feb 07, 2018, 05:58:55 AM
Ricks and Upworth are interracial however, challenging conversative mores and are punished accordingly.
That doesn't fit with 2017 conservatism, maybe 1950s, so I don't see your point. I'm not a conservative, but pretty sure modern mainstream conservatism doesn't view that as taboo.