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From: craig@think.ARPA (Craig Stanfill)
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Subject: Re: Alien II coming soon
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Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 13:04:14 EST
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There is a common notion that, in Alien, it was foreshadowed
that the cat was going to bring the Alien back to earth.  As
it happens, several years ago (at Unicon 5 in Washington,
DC) I talked with Linda Shusette, wife of the producer of
Alien (Ron Shussette), and the topic of the cat came up.
She said that the cat was intended as a sympathetic
character, that they hoped the audience would identify with
the cat and want the cat to live.  As it worked out, the
audience does not identify with the cat, but irrationally
fears it and wants the crew to space it.  The result is that
the cat became a sort of red-herring, serving only as yet
one more thing for the audience to be afraid of.

As to what the purported makers of Alien II might do, your
guess is as good as mine.  They might well have the cat
transport the alien back to earth, but this was never
intended in the original movie.