A Town Called Malus wrote:
Col Hammer wrote:
The drop ships name was "Bug Stomper" with a motto "We Endanger Species"
I wonder what species it is referring to?
And we paint shark mouths and pin-up women on our aircraft and call them stuff like Enola Gay and Memphis Belle but that doesn't make them sharks or women. If that dropship had any confirmed kills of bugs it would 100% be shown in a tally next to said nose art, just as successful missions and kills were displayed on WW2 aircraft.
Consider how gung ho the marines were and Hudson bragging about the level of firepower they had access to on the drop down. Doesn't mean they ever actually used any of it in combat.
I'm pretty sure that the dakka members who have served in the armed forces of their respective countries will probably all agree that they talked an immense amount of gak with their squad mates, or had comrades who did, with regards to how badass they were and the level of firepower their respective country has access to (and doubly so if they were talking to people from a different branch of the military). That motto is just an extension of this chest beating.
Again, "We Endanger Species".
Which species are they referring to? If there is no life in the universe beyond that found on earth, are they referring to human species?
Killing badly armed colonists does not endager the human species, no matter which way you look at it.
Are they calling the colonists they gun down bugs? Why?
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BobtheInquisitor wrote:It would contradict the rest of this movie to insist these particular marines were hardened alien-killers who have killed lots of aliens.
It’s like suggesting the Ghostbusters makes themselves that because they already had experience busting ghosts before the hotel.
Why?
If the "Bug Hunt" actually refers to killing alien species, it is obvious that the marines superior firepower makes the "bug stomping" easy for the marines. Easy enough that they are very nonchalant about the thought of killing even more alien species. ("She thought they were illegal aliens…" ).
They just haven't encountered any extra terrestrial life forms they couldn't handle before.
There are obviously 100% proof that planet earth is not the only Place in the galaxy with life in it. The Jockey species had to come from somewhere else. So why is it so hard to think that humanity could have met other extra terrestrial life before this? Arcturians?
To me, the marines obvious nonchalant attitude towards the thought of meeting a new alien species indicates that meeting alien species is not something new and unique thing. They just thought that Ripleys aliens were animals, nothing more ("How could they cut the power man, they're animals!"). They didn't expect to meet something so intelligent.
