Without her emotional display of waking from her nightmares it would not have been believable that she would want to face the monsters that dominate her sleep in real life again. In addition, she knew she was betrayed by Weyland-Yutani as a crew member of the Nostromo and that she would have to trust them again that she would not be expendable. After seeing this movie so many times, I got this deep sense that many of the Marines sent in to rescue the colonists were absolutely expendable and I often wonder if they didn’t mean for Ripley to die as well.
But I really have to knock off a point for the robot-walking alien which looked so fake and because that little clip was just so unnecessary to the film. It could have been left out completely and it would have built more suspense to see the alien later on and wouldn’t have avoided my expectation that it would start popping and locking.
How would little baby Jabba ever grow up to leave his world and be the kingpin of a black market in a dangerous corner of the Star Wars galaxy? He’s got no fingers!
The equipment that they use is certainly not too futuristic for a film set in 2254. What else do you expect for grunts at the end of the universe to be packing?
