No offense intended to Lt. Ellen Louise Ripley — a god-tier science-fiction action hero, brought to vivid life by Sigourney Weaver — but for the most part, the Alien movies have been a little light on sympathetic rooting interests. Ripley’s awesome, don’t get me wrong. But she’s a chilly character by nature; and anyway, her stories have always been more about raw survival than the fine details of her personal life.

I bring this up just to note that I’ve never seen a scene in an Alien movie quite like the one in episode two of Alien: Earth where Wendy reunites with her brother. The emotion these two bring to the moment has nothing to do with escaping danger. It’s more about the profound loneliness that the siblings have felt in each other’s absence, and the relief in knowing — howeve

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