Quote from: The Old One on Feb 06, 2019, 06:55:46 PMRape victims do not always suffer trauma, or immediate trauma.
So, why is it a rape, then?
Quote from: The Old One on Feb 06, 2019, 06:55:46 PMBut sex, without consent is rape regardless.
Only if you insist in seeing the xeno's implantation as an act of rape...
Quote from: The Old One on Feb 06, 2019, 06:55:46 PMWhat the Alien does is ram a phallus down your throat whilst strangling you and then forcing you to give birth,
And wasps implants you with your sting to put your eggs on you. Is being stung by a wasp a rape? Don't think so.
Quote from: The Old One on Feb 06, 2019, 06:55:46 PMthat's a rape. One Kane doesn't remember, like many, many date-rape victims.
Then rape is something that is a symbol of rape even if it doesn't have many psychological consequences. Like, you know, rape has.
Alien 3's Ripley is a rape victim. Kane is not. Most of the xenos (who, you know, are actually killed by the adult xeno, not by a cherstburster implantation) are not rape victims.
Alien's never been
always about rape. We can move on from that part and see what more possibilities the Alien has in storytelling. It's been proven in novels, comic books and that.
I don't even think future Alien movies need the 'cherstbuster moment'. It was surprising in the first movie (victims got a tube inserted in their mouths for the future shock moment, as it won't leave any wound and be unexpected), but it's run its course.
So much it became really forced in Alien Resurrection and they have to come up with the Backburster gimmick in order to try to shock again (spoilers: it didn't work).
You can have a grown xeno in the next movie, or simply incubators exploding, like in that badass background of AVP arcade.