Alien
Geek History Lesson
Jason Inman
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🗓️ 27 August 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Amazing! of the most popular brands of prescription glasses and sunglasses |
| 0:14.6 | there's even up to 50% off hearing aids up to 50% off in the optical center sale |
| 0:19.8 | don't wait bring the whole family and make the most of it. |
| 0:26.0 | Sale offers can't be combined with other current offers. |
| 0:28.1 | See in store for T's and C's. Ashley when I say the word alien, I don't mean the aliens in the sky that live in |
| 0:48.0 | Roswell, New Mexico. I am talking about specifically the alien franchise or as some would be called |
| 0:54.9 | them these creatures the xenomorphs these the 20th I guess 20th century studios |
| 0:59.7 | now because you can't call it 20th century Fox anymore because weird thing |
| 1:03.0 | thing Disney owns the alien franchise now we were just talking about this |
| 1:06.4 | actually recently the alien queen character from aliens is now a |
| 1:10.7 | Disney queen. Well yes to quote Jason don't demote her to Princess, she's a Queen. |
| 1:16.0 | But you know, so we're talking about the alien franchise today, and I want to ask you, because there's |
| 1:20.8 | a lot of different opinions here. It's definitely a |
| 1:22.9 | sci-fi franchise because it involves aliens in outer space. Right, yes. But is it a |
| 1:27.9 | horror franchise or is it an action franchise? |
| 1:32.8 | Well, to you. |
| 1:34.6 | As with most things in the post-modern, meta-modern age, |
| 1:41.2 | we're so far beyond archetypes and tropes, particularly in the film and television medium, |
| 1:47.0 | that it's a mix of the two. |
| 1:49.0 | But for my money, the purest form of this franchise that I enjoy the most is the more horror element. |
| 1:56.0 | So like I ascribe, you know, to the O.G. Ridley Scott, alien. |
| 2:01.7 | This is the vibe, |
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