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[Frumple]

I'm not sure how legal it is, so I won't be linking, but if you take like two minutes and check the wikipedia page and its attendant bottom of article links, I think you might find something helpful.

[itisnotlogical]

Spoiler: Alien series spoilers (click to show/hide)

Apologies if this has been brought up in a sequel I haven't seen, but am I the only one who thought Jonesy (Ripley's cat) would bring a xenomorph embryo back to Earth? Was that an intentional red herring by the writers? Did I miss some dialogue about the alien only infecting humans?

[Hanslanda]

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I'm going to say yeah because it never seemed like a viable possibility to me in the movie. Deleted scenes contain the Alien egg-ifying Brett and gluing Dallas to the wall though.

[EnigmaticHat]

Spoiler: Alien series spoilers (click to show/hide)

Apologies if this has been brought up in a sequel I haven't seen, but am I the only one who thought Jonesy (Ripley's cat) would bring a xenomorph embryo back to Earth? Was that an intentional red herring by the writers? Did I miss some dialogue about the alien only infecting humans?

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The was only one facehugger in the first movie and it died (on its own) after infecting one of the crew.  The chestburster/xenomorph is a separate organism which can't reproduce.  Or if it was intended to in the first movie it never had enough time to finish the cycle and produce a new facehugger.  As of the second movie the only xenomorph who can produce the facehuggers is a queen.  As for any sequels past that point... what sequels?

IIRC the engineer from the first movie had a hole in its chest which would imply the facehugger can infect non-humans.  However assuming that the chestburster needs to reach that size before exiting the host body a house cat would be way too small.

[SaberToothTiger]

Game of Thrones question:
Could anyone explain to me the appeal of Daenerys? Both in-universe and in the fandom she is regarded as the next best thing since sliced bread, but I never really understood what positive qualities had inspired such a following.

[Egan_BW]

dragons

[SaberToothTiger]

Didn't she, like, fuck up every situation she got into? Are the dragons the only positive thing the character has going for her?

[scriver]

She's the Stallion Who Mounts the World. She is the Prince Who Was Promised. Ahor Azai. What else reason do we need?

[TD1]

More to the point -
She screws up often, but she ticks many modern boxes associated with 'good'. She's a strong woman leader. She's young. She frees slaves.

As a character she messes everything up, but so long as she sticks to the previous list she can't really be unlikable.

Plus she has dragons and has a penchant for revealing her breasts.

To conclude - for an actual in-depth character read the books. For virtue signalling watch the show.

[Egan_BW]

I haven't read em, I haven't watched em, all I know is dragons and dragons are good.

[scriver]

She also has super cute eyebrow wiggles

[SaberToothTiger]

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I've read the books and from what I remember she was given just about everything from the dragons to power in Mereen. Casually destroying a social structrure without replacing it (via freeing slaves yet giving them no influence) is also no virtue, because she was almost instantly overthrown and only extraordinary luck saved her shapely bum from assasination. She was a worse ruler than Joffrey. Calling her a strong female leader is an overstatement. She accomplished very little before being left by the POV of the books. I'm just frustratrd that the character is wasted on being the designated goodie. Instead of the Stallion who Mounts the World she's a mare mounted by the next dude willing to tell her what she wants to hear.

On the other hand, dragons ARE pretty cool...

EDIT: The eyebrows are very good, but in all honesty the show is filled with fine eyebrows.

[Yoink]

She a hoe

[TD1]

I said in depth character, not a good or even competent ruler.

As an aside, one can be a strong leader - ie strong willed, ruthless, ambitious, whatever - and still not be a competent one.

[Yoink]

#teamviserys