Some dongs are pointing out that classism was a thing in the movies but it was in the background. Far in the background. Barely a thing in Alien, a little more prominent in Aliens and Alien 3 but it was still far in the background. The fact that the show runner is highlighting this element as a main theme is very worrisome.
Reading this post I have to ask: "Did IQ's just drop sharply while I was away?" Something being worked in organically rather than hit you over the head with it modern woke style doesn't mean that it wasn't an integral element of the films. The long boardroom scene where the suits just wont listen to Ellen and are more concerned with her "detonating the engine's of and thereby destroying an M-class star freighter. A very expensive piece of equipment". Burke's "this installation represents a substantial dollar investment" when Riply suggests nuking it from orbit. That the very motivating event for everything that follows in the first movie is the Company screwing over their workers to get them to bring back the organism. Nobody remembers "Crew Expendable" on Mother's computer screen when Ellen finally gets access to it? The very reason the colony is destroyed in the second movie is because Burke doesn't want to share rights to the organism "nobody gets a cut" are his words if I remember. Is it Four or Two where they make reference to the organism's value in "urban pacification"? In the second movie the reason Ripley is working on the docks (and apparently where she learns to handle the loader suit she uses at the end) is because the Company has her blacklisted, revoked her licence and as Burke says: "it's all you could get". The breakfast scene in the first movie is filled with Brett and Parker talking about their "shares" and Dallas shuts them up and gets them to go along with the mission they don't want to by quoting their contract and telling them "forfeiture of all shares" is what happens if they disobey. These people literally die in both movies as a
DIRECT consequence of the Company and its executives seeking to increase their profit.
I mean, you have to be actively not wanting to see it to say that money / corporate / classisim was "far, in the background" of these movies.
I have watched the first and second movie many times and third one several. I've even watched the fourth one a few times (mainly for the basketball scene and the xenomorphs swimming but whatever). It's a recurrent, central theme in both of the first movies. There's no reason based on those movies that it shouldn't be a theme in a TV series.
The two reasons - and they're
nothing to do with the movies - that class issues shouldn't be in the TV series is firstly because to accurately deal with class issues as we have them today you have to engage with and challenge how identity politics are used to divert and neuter actual organization against corrupt elites. And no mainstream funded project is going to go against the Woke mob. And the second reason is like it - it's likely going to promote socialism / socialists as the counter to a corrupt oligarchy and the oligarchs / Company will be equated with modern day Republicans, Trump, etc. which is precisely the wrong way round.
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I mean, Weyland-Yutani‘s actions throughout the Alien Trilogy and Burke in Aliens explore the sort of corporatism
Corporatism is a left-wing / big state approach to governing where government is structured along aspects of industry / society such that, for example, an Education union has a voice in overall policy, a Manufacturing union has a voice, etc. It shares a root with "corporation", both coming from corpus meaning body but they are not the same thing. You mean corpocracy. But more normally called oligarchy. If I seem a little pendantic on the subject it's (a) because I'm pedantic but (b) the Nazis practiced corporatism and that is used by ignorant people to claim that the Nazis were right-wing.
