Quote from: Kelgaard on Mar 12, 2019, 04:33:40 AM
QuoteI think Ripley had all the finality she needed at the end of Aliens, personally. Went back to LV-426 and faced her fears, and found a surrogate daughter in Newt (as well as another alien survivor in Hicks). There were probably more stories that could have theoretically been told with those characters, but that was a perfect stopping off point for me.
Outbreak, Nightmare Asylum and Earth War are examples of great stories told with these characters.
Though the way in which these characters are killed off is part of the bleak and nihilistic tone that Alien 3 presents. That's part of why I like Alien 3, it's just so Alien that the universe is an uncaring, unknowable place and the Xenomorph is like a manifestation of this.
Ripley last survivor of the Nostromo, kills the Alien and escapes in the Narcissus? Lost in space for 57 years. Outlives her daughter.
Destroys all trace of the Xenomorph on Acheron, second chance at being a mother and potential companion? Newt and Hicks are killed as result of the damaged caused by the facehugger that impregnates Ripley with a Queen.
Makes the ultimate sacrifice by taking her own life to destroy last trace of the Xenomorph, stops Weyland-Yutani from obtaining a sample and is finally free of the nightmare? Cloned back to life by the USM Military for the purpose of resurrecting the Xenomorph species. Due to DNA cross-contamination is a hybrid with the very species that has plagued her existence since that first encounter.
