Current Events > Someone help me understand the end of the movie Alien *spoilers I guess*

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So, Ripley sees the remaining crew was killed by the alien. She activates the ship's self destruct sequence and flees with her cat in a box.

She sees the alien, and apparently drops the cat and runs. She then tries to deactivate the self destruct sequence.

So, did she really do this because she didn't have the cat? She'd risk her life and keeping the alien alive to go back for a cat that hated everyone in the movie and ran from them the whole time?

I hope I'm missing something bigger here.


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been a while since i saw it, but was the alien blocking the way to the escape pod?

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Her plan was to escape in the shuttle and leave the Xeno behind to get blown up. When she goes to the shuttle the Xeno is already there blocking her from entering, so she goes back to stop the self destruct and give herself more time.

She should have just died with the Xeno, but greed and self-preservation are some of the major themes of the series.

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solosnake posted...

been a while since i saw it, but was the alien blocking the way to the escape pod?

DocDelicious posted...

Her plan was to escape in the shuttle and leave the Xeno behind to get blown up. When she goes to the shuttle the Xeno is already there blocking her from entering, so she goes back to stop the self destruct and give herself more time.

She should have just died with the Xeno, but greed and self-preservation are some of the major themes of the series.

Thanks, that makes more sense. I didn't realize she was at the entrance to the shuttle.

Yeah if it was that important to kill this thing she should have went down like the rest of the crew. But then she wouldn't be in the sequels.

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Correct.

She was going to leave but she realized the Alien wasnt going to let her do that alone. The scene where it climbs out of the wall at the end is nightmare fuel.