I think that was the point. He had very little time to establish the characters before the action kicked into overdrive so none of them could be nuanced in any way. They were all basically caricatures.
Interesting tidbit. Jenette Goldstein (Vasquez) is the only actor to have appeared in Cameron's 3 biggest films. Aliens, Terminator 2 (John Connors' step-mom), and Titanic (Irish mom).
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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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