A depressing end for Ripley............ Good!

Rating: 8/10 (11 November 2011)

Thats right, good!. As much as I like Aliens and as good and fresh an entry it was to the series, James Cameron was treading on dangerous ground. The franchise was at risk of becoming just another comic-book "adventures of" kind of series with Ripley and her "old gang" from Aliens as recurring central figures.
Alien 3 was to be the continuation of that formula, thankfully it wasn't. It's plainly clear from the style and tone of the original Alien movie and even Aliens that this series was a dark and lonely tale of a strong and resilient woman trying to survive a horrific journey through space. Even though she encounters a variety of characters along the way, the journey is hers and hers alone. She becomes an unwilling transient through space, the settings change and so do the characters around her. To experience so much loss through all three movies and still remain fighting strong, this is what made Ripley such a powerful character a deviation towards comic book adventure would surely weaken the intensity of her character and the journey she has been on.
Sigourney Weaver herself agreed with this and it is why she supported in killing off her Aliens counterparts and facilitating her solitary status in the series, so far as to being a producer of the movie.
So thats why I am thankful that Alien 3 was made this way. It's true that Alien 3 has its share of faults, as many reviews here point out, but the movie does provide a new setting with new and different characters a good dark atmosphere and a new challenge for Ripley. In my opinion the movie is allot less worse than it could of been.