OK guys!
I know I’ve mentioned this before, but since you’re doing an ALIEN arch I feel the need to draw your attention to this. I’ve always been a huge fan of these movies. I saw the original at the theater with my older sister who dug her nails into my arm during the course of the movie.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE check this out.
The music used in ALIEN is used as Hara’s theme in the BSG finale when she’s running around the ship. Maybe an homage to Newt running around? There are definitely parallels. PLEASE confirm this. You’ll be amazed. I’m sure Bear was a fan of the original ALIEN.
Keep up the good work!
Wil
Now I must join both the adoration of Sean’s voice and the bemoaning of having that stupid frog song stuck in my head. It’s going to be a long week at work.
Since Sean mentioned Sheriff Andy again in this week’s podcast (Ty Olsson will forever be known in GWC as Sheriff Andy from Eureka I guess), has anyone caught his current performance in Defying Gravity? After watching Ty in BSG, Men-In-Trees, Eureka, and Defying Gravity, I can say that I like his light hearted comedy acting (Men-In-Trees & Eureka) more than his serious drama acting (BSG & Defying Gravity). He does the more serious stuff well, but he plays “in-control” a little too well - just before he snaps. He probably would have made a good Bishop android in Alien(s), though.
Hi GWCrew, I’m loving the new direction you’ve gone since the BSG finale. The alien series is a great choice, and I thought I’d throw a few bits I learned in.
The aliens aren’t what inspired the Flood - not directly. The Flood are the Alien’s grandkids. Chris Rowley saw the Alien movie and started thinking about how an even better bioweapon would be designed:
The Aliens, however, had a major weakness. While being swift and powerful and undoubtedly deadly, they lacked the intelligence to employ weapons. If an advanced space going species were to go all the way down this road, from “replicants” to bio-weapons and beyond, where would it end up?
So Chris Rowley wrote the Vang series, loved by the makers of Halo. I believe the best in the series, or at least most like the Alien movies, is The Vang: The Military Form. All the elements are there, Alien’s ancient spacecraft, takign over bodies, to Halo’s glassing.
Also, as you’re getting ready to watch Alien3, there was another script written for that movie by William Gibson. THere’s many reasons given why it was rejected, budget most likely, but it shows how things could have gone. WG Alien3
Hope you have fun, and may Alien3 not turn you off of puppies.
Your analysis is right on…LISTEN TO RIPLEY, people… Even Clone Ripley (I believe no. 4) deserves your respect!
How fun was it to revist Choose Your Own Adventures…I had a huge collection and the Sean man is right…always go the dangerous route and the bravery pays off with joy and treasure…lol. Sweet.
Commentary track is totally worth watching. It has Cameron, the actors, effects people, everything. It’s very actively edited to keep the relevant information coming.
Regarding Ripley’s motivation, Cameron says he had a long, heated debate with Sigourney Weaver: One of them thought her motivation to go back was revenge. The other thought she did it because she knew the colonists were facing all-but-certain death. (I think Weaver took the former position, but I could be wrong.)
As we’re discussing in another thread, 3 is good, but if you haven’t seen, don’t go into it expecting a fun thrillride.
I remember laughing my sorryBarb off the first time i watched that cartoon as a kid. I clearly remember the toad singing a most excellent rendition of Largo al factotum (Figaro) from Rossini’s Barber of Seville.
Hot tip! Here’s how to pronounce Giger’s name
I wonder if they set up a pump to the antifreeze so it can splurt “acid” outta the mouth.
Why? So it could FINALLY get Jones?
A choose-your-own-adventure deconstructed:
http://flowingdata.com/2009/08/11/choose-your-own-adventure-most-likely-youll-die/
The one choose-your-own-adventure I still remember way back from my childhood involved decoding humpback whale songs (all the rage back then) and visiting a secret bunker many stories deep under the White House. Really can’t remember more of the details. Pretty much set me up for liking ST IV:TVH I guess…
What a wookie!
“Berkzerker” is also a real song.
Oh yeah - now I’m singing Figaro in my head too. You know, about the only thing more annoying at this point would be if Sean sang the opening theme to the Tiny Toons cartoon or the original muppet show theme in the next podcast. Sean’s voice is great - it is just the stupid song that got stuck in my head.
Strange. I had the Tiny Toons song stuck in my head yesterday.
Lovin’ the Alien arc. Wish I’da had the time to redo my avatar for it. These are some of my favorite movies of all time. Sadly, I sold my Alien Quadrilogy earlier this year when I was jettisoning extra stuff to pay bills. Will have to invest in a new set. Alien Resurrection was on TV a few days ago. Not as scary as the others, but it fed my fix a little.
I remember the Choose Your Own Adventure books!
I’ve been digging to find more fun photos, but no dice. 
Loving this arc, too!
I can’t stop Listening To Ripley!!!
IMDB got it wrong. (Hey it happens.) Fortune (or luck) favours the bold (or the brave) most famously appears in slightly different forms in Terence’s Phormio and Virgil’s Aeneid. While it’s possible Cicero may have written it too, he’d have been quoting Terence, so it’s really Terence’s quote.
Who knew my worlds of classics and sci-fi would collide? 
I loved the Halo call outs - by the time I saw Aliens in college, I had gone through a hard core/old school sci-fi phase and had read a lot of Heinlen by then.
When I first saw the movie I had just finished reading Starship Troopers - it was a buzz, because I saw Rico’s Roughnecks on the big screen - the drop ship, armor, the personel systems, and the loader were all part of Heinlen’s work.
After Alienseses came out, in an interview with Weaver she related that James Cameron had the cast read Starship Troopers as prep work for their characters in Aliens. A novel from 1959 - that was the source of inspiration for all the cool tech Cameron used.
I definitely recommend the book to anyone (interestingly enough it’s still on US military reading lists and the Mobile Infantry of this 1959 novel is still referenced as the model of the future for the USMC as recently as 2002).
So does that make Halo derivative pulp? Probably not.
Favorite Heinlen Quote: “Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never met a cat”… Nimitz inspiration too?
Though I personally disliked it, Starship Troopers was a book club selection back in 2007 in case anyone wanted to revisit it.
bkitty, I think your sig should read:
I’m mostly nice… mostly…
A Newt reference. d: Great picture btw.