"an aspect of its design that usually flies under the radar" OH THEY SURE DIDN'T FLY UNDER MY RADAR!! the costumes were a solid 50% of why i liked this movie.....ripley's boilersuit i have feelings for you

Just goes to show, good costume design can demonstrate character even when they’re wearing corporately mandated uniforms. I wish that sort of care and world building through fashion had gone into Alien: Isolation. I think it’s the most extensive look we get at a civilian population in the Alien universe, but it mostly sticks to what came before as far aesthetics go.

'Well, we had a lot of luck on Venus We always had a ball on Mars Meeting all the groovy people We've rocked the Milky Way so far We danced around with Borealis We're space truckin' 'round the the stars Come on, let's go space truckin' Come on Space truckin'

The more recent films are just an echo of the original trilogy.

Great video

Wow I tough you have done a video on the Ireland-shot Stuart Gordon classic "Space Truckers" before remembering that Alien not only exists, but is way more famous and better movie Was lowkey sad

Did you see Thrilling Wonder Stories" Summer 1945?

I wonder if all the Nu!Trek gratuitous changing scenes also derived from this one. Where it kind of has a plot/character revealing purpose, but what was taken away was clearly that you could just have a lady change her clothes in the middle of the film and the camera could watch :/

Taken from A. E. Van Vogt's "Dark Destroyer" "Astounding" July 1939 and is an allegorical story of what it would be like if males had to get pregnant to give birth and has similarities to Han Solo's "Millenium Falcon" of tramp steamer of space going back to Catherine Lucillie Moore's stories and Isaac Asimov's trilogies to Anime of from Akihabara Tokyo.

The saga is really about Ripley rejecting the idiotic mandates of the corporate bureacracy that has no concern for their safety. This deliberate rejection--and teaching others to take the initiative--is what the story is really about. Those offerings that dont develop this theme and arc--or that do so poorly--never make it. An alternative arc would be government bureaucracy pretending to step in with safety regulations only to drop hints that government and WUC are in league.

Wait, a whole video about the costumes of Alien, but no discussion about the infamous panty scene? I've been waiting for forty years for some explanation for that - ahem - memorable article of clothing. 🤔