Just caught Aliens on the bar TV and only just now picked up something

How even setting aside the “refighting the Vietnam War with better tech and still losing” bit

Ripley receiving passive-aggressive entreaties to help the company from Burke’s Paul Simon yuppie ass in these perfect white rooms with Japanese-style cartridge-powered consoles, after her gritty worker cameraderie on the steampipe-ass Nostromo, is exactly & intentionally the difference between 1979 and 1985