Episode Description
An episode after which Ashley will never be able to think about stomachaches the same way again.

Also, in honor of our Season 1 finale, it's a DOUBLE FEATURE, babaaaaaay!

How well did Ashley guess what these movies were about? ...well, her closest guess involved dairy products (and even then, calling that a "close" guess is generous).

Show Notes

1979's Alien was written by Dan O'Bannon and follows the crew of the commercial space tug Nostromo in the year 2122, who respond to a distress signal. They discover the signal comes from a derelict alien ship and enter it (an objectively bad idea), losing communication with the Nostromo. Inside, the crew discovers a chamber containing hundreds of large, egg-like objects. A creature springs out of one and attaches to the face of a crew member. It later detaches on its own and is found dead. All's well that ends well, right? Not quite. Turns out, the crew wasn’t quite done with the Xenomorph, a deadly and aggressive extraterrestrial set loose on the ship. 

1986's Aliens was written by James Cameron and continues Ellen Ripley's story. Ripley is rescued by a deep salvage team after being in hypersleep for 57 years. The moon that the Nostromo had visited in Alien  has been colonized, but contact has been lost with the colonists. Support is being sent in the form of a team of colonial marines with impressive firepower, and Ripley goes in with them. They find the colony deserted. Inside, they find makeshift barricades and battle signs, but no bodies; two live facehuggers in containment tanks; and a traumatized young girl nicknamed Newt, the sole survivor. What happened to the rest of the colonists, and why are all their signals coming from beneath the fusion-powered atmosphere processing station? 

Alien and Aliens kicked off a wildly successful franchise,  largely due to a brilliant team of artists, and a revolutionary genre switch from horror to science fiction/action between the two films. So let's talk about it! 

Sources
Alien Behind the Scenes Featurette
CineFix's Art of the Scene - Alien Chestburster
Aliens The Chestburster Mechanism  - Stan Winston School
Credited As: Creature Performer - Academy of Motion Pictures
Alien - H.R. Giger's Beautiful Monster
Cosmavoid 

Socials
Instagram: @youdontknowpod
Twitter: @youdontknowpod
Website: https://youdontknowpod.buzzsprout.com 
Email: youdontknowthatthepodcast@gmail.com