What I get more and more with subsequent viewings of Aliens is how emotion is involved and how characters changed over the course of the movie.
Ripley, the hard as stone uber female, evolving into full on protective mother by the end. "Leave her alone, you BITCH!"
Vasquez starts out hating Gorman but after he bravely goes back to try and save her they end up almost embracing as they blow themselves up in the air shaft.
Same with Bishop and Ripley. She, and us the audience, starts out completely distrusting him, and yet he turns out to be a hero who gains Ripley's trust.
The way Hicks starts out as boss but slowly gives leadership over to Ripley. And the funny and almost sweet flirting that goes on during the quiet moments.
And then there's Hudson. Dude completely loses it once the Aliens show up and becomes a blubbering mess. Then he gets that simple little salute from Newt while she's wearing the helmet and he starts getting it back together. And in his final scene he's a total killing machine. "Come on! Come on! Come and get it, baby! Come on! I don't got all day! Come on! Come on! Come on you bastard! Come on, you too! Oh, you want some of this? **** you!"
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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