This confused me. So had the USMC encountered aliens before or not?
Hicks and Hudson speculate if the mission is another bug hunt. 'Bug Stompers' is written on the side of the dropship. So is "We endanger species" on the eagle emblem. AND YET Ferro says about Ripley, "Apparently, she saw an alien once." ??? Well hadn't they ALL encountered aliens/bugs before???? She says it as if its unusual.
This confused me. So had the USMC encountered aliens before or not?
Hicks and Hudson speculate if the mission is another bug hunt.
'Bug Stompers' is written on the side of the dropship. So is "We endanger species" on the eagle emblem.
AND YET Ferro says about Ripley, "Apparently, she saw an alien once." ??? Well hadn't they ALL encountered aliens/bugs before???? She says it as if its unusual.
the whole Bughunt thing can also be explained as....
Yes, Humans have encountered Alien life, but Alien ANIMAL life, not sentient creatures. Nothing like the Aliens in the films.
I joined the Navy to see the world, only to discover the world is 2/3 water!
Yup, missed that bit!
shareYep! That's how I always saw it too...
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However, they clearly mention the androgynous Arcturans (famous for good "poontang" regardless of gender) which implies something more advanced than just animal life... after all, publicly admitting that you *beep* a "horse" or whatever they look like doesn't really seem their style.
Bug hunt clearly seems to imply some form of varmint action in the past... probably versus creatures so tactically inferior that it was boring to these trained Marines.
Maybe they had run into sentients and maybe they hadn't, but new intelligent species were always worth investigating.
That's how I always interpreted it. They've faced aliens before. Heck, with their slogans and nose art, they might have wide experience with them. But nothing they've faced has come close to the Xenomorphs we know before.
Hence "she saw an alien once" being sarcasm, because they see and defeat them all the time.
"Apparently, she saw an alien once." ??? Well hadn't they ALL encountered aliens/bugs before???? She says it as if its unusual.She's being sarcastic. They've all seen aliens before, so having a civilian come aboard as a "consultant" on alien life doesn't impress them. Hence Hudson's response of "Whoopty-f---in'-doo." share
Since they never seemed surprised or disbelieving when they do encounter the facehuggers and Xenos I've always read it as they had encountered several species before so there was no thrill or mystery for them. The "bug hunt" sounds to me as if they've been on missions where they'd had to clear out hostile species before, but not anything intelligent to have any sort of army or battle tactics, hence why they're so under prepared.
shareYes, Humans have encountered Alien life, but Alien ANIMAL life, not sentient creatures. Nothing like the Aliens in the films.
However, they clearly mention the androgynous Arcturans (famous for good "poontang" regardless of gender) which implies something more advanced than just animal life... after all, publicly admitting that you *beep* a "horse" or whatever they look like doesn't really seem their style.
I'm almost certain that the Arcturians were nothing more than human colonists; Hudson was just making a gay joke, and Frost played along rather then get defensive.
Seems like Spunkmeyer (not Hudson, BTW. Sorry, nit pick) was trying to get a rise out of Frost but Frost sure wasn't biting.
Frost's response of "It don't matter when it's Arcturian, baby!" seems to infer that the Arcturians were an alien race.
a civilian come aboard as a "consultant" on alien life doesn't impress them
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