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Re: Alien and gravity
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Wed, 18 Apr 2001 20:00:45 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, James Simpson writes:
> If I may stray into the topic of Alien IV, I've always found it ironically
> amusing that the crew remarked how beautiful Earth is as they entered the
> atmosphere shortly after the mothership took out all of southern Africa. The
> crew seemed to be pretty unconcerned about the several hundred million people
> that no doubt lay in smoldering heaps in their ruined cities. Not all that
> beautiful. Anyway, just a nitpick...it's just always struck me as somehow
> incongruous and disturbing that the movie ended with the ship flying through a
> beautiful sunset (on the suprise! not so shabby-after-all Earth) while probably
> the worst human tragedy in history just occured. I realize the crew didn't
> cause the disaster... but the ending of the movie has just really stuck in my
> mind.
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> james
Can't say that I disagree. "Oh, geez, we just laid waste to half the planet
- kinda, pretty, though, ain't it?" StOOpid.
Bruce
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| (...) Yep. Makes me wonder what kind of welcome they received upon landing. What kind of welcome would you get? "Hi! Errr...the out-of-control capital-class starship you ditched somewhere this side of Mars just slammed into Africa, thereby (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) If I may stray into the topic of Alien IV, I've always found it ironically amusing that the crew remarked how beautiful Earth is as they entered the atmosphere shortly after the mothership took out all of southern Africa. The crew seemed to be (...) (24 years ago, 18-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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