Alien: Covenant

[Jarhead0331]

Time to go back to Alien vs Predator I say. If we're gonna screw the franchise, why not screw it with gusto?  :clap:

It's a two-for-one bargain. Cause destroying one beloved franchise just isn't enough.

[Sir Slash]

Sometimes it seems to me, the more people try to explain how things came to be, the more unlikely the explanation becomes. I find myself caring much less about the 'Aliens' series the more they explain where they came from and how they got to be the way they are. I just like the plain old fact they kill everything. No further explanation needed.

BTW The corporation that spent so much time trying to get their hands on this perfect killing machine, pretty much already has some damned good ones in those cyborgs that don't seem to have a problem doing it. Scorecard: Aliens vs Cyborgs, who's ahead?

[BanzaiCat]

Everyone has forgotten what made the original Alien film click so well with audiences - fear of the unknown. Not knowing what it was, or where it was, or the things it was capable of...trying to explain all that has ruined the franchise.

Aliens kind of toed that line, but never crossed it. They even removed the parts of the theatrical release that showed the colony and colonists going about their merry way before the Jordans brought the first baby Alien back into their complex. Unwillingly, of course. :)

There's a book called Alien: River of Pain that goes into greater detail than the Dark Horse comic 'Newt's Tale' did, in explaining what happened to the colony between the time the Jordans went to explore the craft and the hell they all went through in the resulting chaos. I don't mind that kind of exposition, but trying to give me the entire history of the Xenomorph, Michael Fassbender or no, kind of ruined everything. Among other things ruining things.

[Sir Slash]

Agreed. Being a product of a mad cyborg kind of takes away from them somehow. Maybe somewhere down the line there'll be a scene where aliens are praying in front of a temple to their Cyborg God. 

[mirth]

They prefer to be called Artificial Persons.

[JasonPratt]

Hey, they could hire Pratt to write the script! He'd give it a good go.

You're right! Gnostic Batman is just what the Aliens Franchise needs!

Orthodox Batman rather.  ::) Someone with actual Christianity might be worth hiring on a movie series that recently keeps shoving in Christian themes as window dressing for a shallow illusion of depth.

Though I probably wouldn't bother milking that well any further. Some things can work well with the Alien franchise, but the monastery in space is about as far as I'd care to add Christianity for. And that's been done (not very well) already. I'm much more likely to play with the Xenos being secretly the Tyrannids.

Besides, my perfectly valid albeit strained explanation for synching back up to Alien79, has already been described as illogical cockamamey and my feelings are hurt. 

[Windigo]

Its all moot PJ   <:-), alien genealogy/ontology all goes back to Godzilla

[mirth]

Its all moot PJ   <:-), alien genealogy/ontology all goes back to Godzilla

PJ?

[Windigo]

reversed JP.... I saw the ops and said... to hell with it. ^-^

[mirth]

ops?

[Windigo]

ops?

Freudian slide?

[mirth]

Duck hat

[Windigo]

I still think Jason's nick should be PJ

[Jarhead0331]

Besides, my perfectly valid albeit strained explanation for synching back up to Alien79, has already been described as illogical cockamamey and my feelings are hurt. 

Oh, don't be bothered by that...I just had to jump on the opportunity to use the word "cockamamey".

[mirth]

I thought it was donglemamey