Sean Laughery returns to the podcast to talk about Alien! The gang talks about Ripley, her place in film history, and her relation to the Final Girl trope. This also takes us to talking about Lambert and her treatment in the film, Vasquez Always Dies, and women in horror as a whole. The discussion does involve talk of sexual violence throughout, starting at the 34 minute mark.
Inevitably, Kayla and Sean spend several minutes on LTRFI hero Jones the cat, Even more inevitably, Kayla finds a wholly preposterous way to wedge Chris Evans into the recommendations. We will never be free.
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00:47 – Intro + Opening Discussion
02:06 – The Fly
03:09 – Wes Craven: The Hills Have Eyes, Swamp Thing, Nightmare on Elm Street(s), Never Sleep Again
07:12 – Game of Thrones
08:37 – Last Week Tonight
13:59 – Black Mirror
16:03 – The Weekly Parks and Rec Rewatch Segment
16:31 – Alien discussion
17:30 – Box office, Oscar nominations, Critical reactions
27:49 – Casting Sigourney
29:49 – Ridley Scott, The Martian, The Counselor, Exodus
35:10 – Alien’s treatment of female characters, “Vasquez Always Dies,” “The Final Girl” (TRIGGER WARNING - sexual violence in film talked about throughout the rest of the podcast)
48:52 – H.R. Giger’s art
49:54 – Jones the Cat
57:10 – Dadtalk
1:00:20 – Sexual violence in horror movies and criticizing the things you love
1:06:49 – Recomendations
1:12:14 – The Chris Evans Corner
1:12:44 – Trivia and Stat of the Week
1:15:55 – Outro and bloopers!