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Looking great. The Disney era and Alien and Predator seems to be in great hands. Fox had no idea wtf they were doing with the properties for a long time.
These are my opinions. This is how I feel. Others may feel differently. This needs to be stated for some reason.
'It is a source of constant consternation that my opponents cannot correlate their innate inferiority with their inevitable defeat. It would seem that stupidity is as eternal as war.'
- Nemesor Zahndrekh of the Sautekh Dynasty Overlord of the Crownworld of Gidrim
Preferably a genius level physicist who gave up his day job to make the lives of those artsy types difficult. Because normal people won't make time travel work any better next time than any other time before.
Nehekhara lives! Sort of!
Why is the rum always gone?
Exactly who do I need to offer “executive relief” to in order to get The Terminator into similar hands?
I’d kill for a proper Future War series.
Isn’t the future war canonically a tedious grind of attrition? Terminator Salvation tried to give us more of it, and it somehow made it less. On YouTube someone edited together the future war sequences from the first 2 (or 3, unfortunately) movies, which is almost certainly the best way to get that future war fix without further degrading the franchise.
Terminator Salvation is a movie from the 00s, and like many, possibly most such movies, it suffers from the need to take a thing, skin the thing, and then make another thing wear that thing's skin with a big name tag stapled on to make sure everyone knows it is in fact the thing it tries to pass for.
I'm tempted to say we're barely ten years out of that fad. Studios these days seem to do better at making sequels that feel like they respect and build on the originals of old than what we got for the first decade and a half of this century.
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote: Nope. I’m not fussed for Hard Sci-Fi. Otherwise, many classic series and settings would be much more boring.
Just to point out, I'm not asking for hard sci-fi. If I asked for hard sci-fi with time travel, I'd ask for hard sci-fi without time travel.
Nehekhara lives! Sort of!
Why is the rum always gone?
Watched the first two episodes of this last night. It's pretty good so far. Some good world-building with expansion on the corporations and a good amount of well-done horror elements. Lots of nods to the franchise without dwelling on things too much. It looks like the initial trailers with looks at all the various alien creatures might be a bit of a misdirect, but maybe not. We'll have to see where things go as far as the crashed ship is concerned. Not sure if the whole season will be set there over quite a compressed timeline, or if this is just the first few episodes.
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Having one group of characters being basically children in super-powered adult bodies has some interesting potential. I'm hoping they explore the consequences of exposing pre-teens to the absolute horror of the alien. Speaking of the xenomorph, it's amusing how it switches from ridiculous efficiency as it slaughters 4 fully armed men in two seconds, to the long, drawn-out attack on individual characters. Also, I'm already a little bit bored of the motionless xenomorph in the background thing they're doing.
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It’s definitely different having an Alien tale not done and dusted within a couple of hours.
I’ve loved what I’ve seen so far, including some excellent world building. And I look forward to some of the mysteries being presumably revealed as we go along.
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Speaking of the xenomorph, it's amusing how it switches from ridiculous efficiency as it slaughters 4 fully armed men in two seconds, to the long, drawn-out attack on individual characters.
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Amusing isn't the word I'd use. I find the blatant favoritism only slightly less annoying than the lingering black transitions.
Nehekhara lives! Sort of!
Why is the rum always gone?
Unrelentingly smashes thru welded bulkhead doors, can’t get into an elevator. Also
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why the heck is it killing everyone on sight when there’s a room full of eggs back on the ship? It should be taking captives back to the eggs for implantation.
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My take?
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The aggression is to protect the nascent nest. There’s armed prey out there, who right now are a risk to the nest. Priory is to take them out, with the last few being parents to the following generation.
Bulkhead, if I’m thinking of the right scene? It’s just Mr Gribblybug and Mr Cyborg at that time. Hence it takes the time to headbutt its way in and get the door open. Elevator? Two armed humans in very close proximity, so again different priorities.
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I don't understand what year it's supposed to be as we are missing Hyperdyne (the Corporation who makes Synthetics) and America (The USCM were around in 2101.
BorderCountess wrote: Just because you're doing something right doesn't necessarily mean you know what you're doing...
Lathe Biosas wrote: I don't understand what year it's supposed to be as we are missing Hyperdyne (the Corporation who makes Synthetics) and America (The USCM were around in 2101.
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Got to say, I’ve recently been ploughing my way through the six Dark Horse Aliens Omnibi.
Whilst Alien Earth isn’t a direct translation of any, there are common elements which are colouring my take.
For instance, Weyland Yutani being only one of a number of Massive Companies. And the Alien, when alone, prioritising targets by threat and density of prey.
So apologies if I seem to be pulling thoughts and inferences out of thin air.
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It's a drone. So it's mostly running on instinct. There is a not insignificant stretch of time spent on the ship before the crash that we have not seen. We don't know what happened to it for them to catch it and/or trying to escape it on the ship. A lot of unknowns that could explain it's behavior.
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Souleater wrote: I'm enjoying it so far. World building is good. I like the characters and setup. The reason for the hybrids being kids is solid.
Effects, script and acting are really good.
But some bits seem a bit too For the Purposes of the Plot, but maybe those will be explained later on.
That’s pretty much my take on it too. Although I wonder if the “alien” Earth is actually the weird deviations from humanity, rather than the big monsters?
Also I respect the fact that it’s doing some slightly arty things, and also not taking a straight line with the plot. My biggest fear was that this would be a very generic, by the numbers, box ticking series and it is definitely not that so far.
Also, I like that they didn’t keep the sister’s identity secret from her brother, so there’s no silly false tension there.
Zed wrote: *All statements reflect my opinion at this moment. if some sort of pretty new model gets released (or if I change my mind at random) I reserve the right to jump on any bandwagon at will.
