Quote from: Perfect-Organism on Sep 01, 2016, 05:13:52 PM
Quote from: BishopShouldGo on Sep 01, 2016, 05:01:41 PM
And the theme to that hypothetical is that you can't better evil with evil; both are bad.
Arguably in keeping with the theme of the series, while not painting the series into a corner and depriving the series of its lead heroine and her raison d'etre. Ripley could be cursing the company the whole time as she does their work. Maybe it's just me, but that would be compelling. Nah, it's not just me..
Ripley working for the Company would completely undermine everything her character is. She was a vicim of the Company, she went along with the Company, got betrayed again (Burke) and in the end, realised that she had to do everything in her power to stop the Company getting their hands on the Xenomorph, making the ultimate sacrifice to destroy their chances.
And as for the Company maybe trying to save the world. That doesn't work for two reasons, it completely changes the dynamic of the movies by making all of the heroes inadvertently the villains. If they were trying to save the world, why would they go through all of the secrecy? You want to save the world, so you purposefully lead one of your own teams to a planet, get them infected and kill all of them. How is that heroic? Surely they could just send a ship with an android crew, pick up a few specimens, bring them home, allow an animal to be facehugged and boom, you have your specimen. The whole point of the company, is that they are the bad guys, the xenomorph is the monster, but the real villain is greed. And a story where the aliens are supposed to be the weapon to fight something worse would be ridiculously convoluted, and again completely ruin the menace and the threat of the Alien itself.
Aliens did a bad enough job turning them into 'bugs'