Sigourney Weaver Becomes The Thing She Once Fought - io9 Comments

Sigourney Weaver Becomes The Thing She Once Fought

monkity — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:52:23 PDT

I don't get it... did the author of this thread not see the 4th Alien movie? Because this whole mother metaphor is played out fully there.

With this role, she's becoming the robot or the ship, not the mother AGAIN.

monkity

Sigourney Weaver Becomes The Thing She Once Fought

Stephanie A Fox — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:25:07 PDT

What a spiffy illustration of M-O. I was already stoked for WALL-E, but Pixar keeps putting out stuff from the film that makes me want to see it even more.

Stephanie A Fox

Sigourney Weaver Becomes The Thing She Once Fought

Silver_Back — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:30:02 PDT

@strangeasangels: it's weird if you think about it. The whole "Mother" aspect in all the films. Mother the computer, Ripley the surrogate mother for Newt, the large Xeno-Queen vs. Ripley in the end Ripley the doomed mother of a Xenomorph on the Prison planet and when she is cloned and becomes a mother to the Xeno-Hybrid.

Silver_Back

Sigourney Weaver Becomes The Thing She Once Fought

strangeasangels — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:10:03 PDT

I think they missed the point, actually...

Ripley's role in Aliens was largely that of a protective mother figure for Newt already. She was strong and bad-ass and maternal when she fought the xenomorph queen.

strangeasangels

Sigourney Weaver Becomes The Thing She Once Fought

BSAKat — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:09:10 PDT

@BeauZeau:
MILF indeed.

BSAKat

Sigourney Weaver Becomes The Thing She Once Fought

BeauZeau — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:46:34 PDT

Sigourney Weaver: Mother or MILF???

BeauZeau