After skating the parched streets of SoCal in the last episode, Sean and Cody get shot into space for the first time since Episode 21 as they commando-drop onto desolate planet LV-426 to meet its disagreeable inhabitants. In the classic 1986 sci-fi action epic Aliens, space jockey Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) wakes up after 60 years in cold storage to find the monsters she tangled with in a previous movie have run amok on a distant planet. She joins up with a gang of misfit Marines who can’t seem to shoot straight in a “bug hunt” that becomes an apocalyptic duel with power loaders and mommy issues. Environmental issues discussed center around invasive species: what they are, how they propagate, how (and how not) to eradicate them, and whether, as some characters in this film surmise, humans are the worst invasive species of all.
Are invasive species really “invasive,” or do humans just think they are? What happens when millions of rabbits took over one of the Hawaiian islands in the 1890s? What are lampreys, why do Great Lakes fishermen hate them, and how come nothing has been done about them since the 1940s? Whatever happened to the “murder hornets” that were supposed to be invading the Northwest in the early days of the pandemic, are they still around? Why is Ripley the ultimate action hero? How did James Cameron basically build the genre of the mid-80s action movie? Why don’t the titles of the various Rambo sequels match up with one another? Which member of the cast of this film was illiterate until well into adulthood? Is this going to be a stand-up fight, or another bug hunt? All these questions and more are waiting to be nuked from orbit, because it’s the only way to be sure in this action-packed episode of Green Screen.
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