I wouldn’a thought a fusion reactor would be prone to runaway cascade failures and thermonuclear explosions and such, frankly. Is this what’s waiting for us when we finally perfect the technology they’ve been promising us for the last 50 years, 50 years from now?
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Bryan_Ekers:
[snip] And criticisms of Newt are just not on … it’s one of the absolutely very few child performances I can tolerate. Her character helps the protagonist (the extended footage makes it clearer that she’s something of an expert at navigating the ventilation system, something “all the kids” do, probably out of boredom, explaining her survival) and when the grenade goes off and she gets separated from Ripley and Hicks, it’s not her fault (as opposed to the lame convention of the child character wandering off to explore in the middle of a crisis, to be rescued by an adult at the cost of the adult’s life).
And when the facehugger is trying to get her, damn if she ain’t there all gritted-teeth and determination to hold the thing at bay until Hudson shows up. Speaking of which, she gets to call the adults by their last names (“Hudson!”, “Ripleeeeey!”, “Bishop!”) and how cool is that?
Affirmative!
Thirded. That little girl managed to survive the duration of a Cameron shoot with no military weapons or training.