Oh your post was totally clear. Sorry I was more explaining my own use of it earlier to clarify that Gaska decides canon in the "corporate" sense, not "single author vision of truth" sense in case I'd left that impression.
Thanks for that.
I knew her from Legion where she was very similar so it fit to me.
Amber Midthunder and Aubrey Plaza are both in Legion. Watching that may either help you separate them in your mind, or blow it apart. Given the rest of the show, the latter is more likely
Oh... is Aubrey Plaza the one from Parks & Rec he was referring to (haven't watched that). I don't consider them similar, IMO.Amber Midthunder and Aubrey Plaza are both in Legion. Watching that may either help you separate them in your mind, or blow it apart. Given the rest of the show, the latter is more likely
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They only look alike to the Anglos.
Probably trying to make all those people that think they look alike feel better about it.
Seemed like a logical progression to me. She works for a big corporation, and destroyed their assets. She explains why, and they send some colonists first to see what they can see, then send some marines to get a sample if there is one. They win if the colony succeeds without the alien, and they win if it fails but they get the alien.
I look at them as different genres in a way that was pretty fresh at the time. Alien was horror, aliens action, alien 3 thriller
I'm not gonna lie, you had me in the first half. But where Alien was a Horror film, Alien 3 was more intrigue/thriller.
Actually, Kane was the X.O.
How dare you, sir! Everyone knows a franchise doesn't hit its stride until the 5th installment.
In tonight's episode, Big Enos offers the crew of the Nostromo $80,000 if they can get to LV-426, pick up a xenomorph and bring it back in 48 hours.
I'm gonna add Starship Troopers and John Carpenters The Thing to this list.
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I think at this point in our timeline any RPG company trying to make sense out of the churn of industrial IPs - especially one like Alien with such slippery canon in the first place - would quickly exhaust themselves on the edition treadmill. Still, if the new thing takes off maybe they'll try for a do-over. One of the reasons we (my group, all Alien fanatics) didn't bother with the official game was because of the prequel BS, so maybe there's a market for an alternate updated version. Sort of like a Star Wars RPG that only covers A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back and then leaves the rest wide open.Apparently the new Alien: Romulus series is retconning away the prequel movies and bringing back the Giger biomechanics and cassette futurism aesthetic.
Disney’s Alien Show All But Confirms Ridley Scott’s $644 Million Prequel Movies Aren’t Canon
Alien's TV spinoff doesn't share Scott's canon.
Welp, I imagine that creates all sorts of new continuity errors for the ttrpg if the current ones weren't bad enough. The ttrpg had previously been assuming the seven foot albino humanoid engineers were responsible for all the ruins and creating the aliens and so on, but now they just don't exist anymore. Is this going to require a new edition to fix all the continuity problems this creates?
I think the Romulus guy is on record as saying he hated the direction things went in the prequels. That doesn't mean much for the RPG, but I doubt he'll be leaning into the new stuff as from what I read, the whole "mid-Engineers", "Aliens as bioweapons" and "David recreates the Aliens" stuff is his bete noir.
As you say, with where it sits on the timeline he could easily get away with no retcon. Going from the interview he definitely sees the Alien as a species in its own right, rather than as a creation or a by-blow.
Well, if anyone can fix it, Noah Hawley might be able to. I like the material he works on.Apparently the new Alien: Romulus series is retconning away the prequel movies and bringing back the Giger biomechanics and cassette futurism aesthetic.
Disney’s Alien Show All But Confirms Ridley Scott’s $644 Million Prequel Movies Aren’t Canon
Alien's TV spinoff doesn't share Scott's canon.
Welp, I imagine that creates all sorts of new continuity errors for the ttrpg if the current ones weren't bad enough. The ttrpg had previously been assuming the seven foot albino humanoid engineers were responsible for all the ruins and creating the aliens and so on, but now they just don't exist anymore. Is this going to require a new edition to fix all the continuity problems this creates?
This ^ I'd much prefer something like this with the backdrop being the Aliens and the general horrors of space and space exploration. The horror springs to the forefront at times and shakes them and us up and then goes back to the ground. We then return to being focused & distracted by the whole greed and ethical bankruptcy that is the corporations, specially those corporations in space and how they're pretty much going to be a government/power onto themselves, where lives are cheap.
As a WFRP gamer, I have learned that diverging canon only allow gives me more options to add to my game. I don't see any problem here. It gives more options for a GM than they already had in setting up the background of their own game.Apparently the new Alien: Romulus series is retconning away the prequel movies and bringing back the Giger biomechanics and cassette futurism aesthetic.
Disney’s Alien Show All But Confirms Ridley Scott’s $644 Million Prequel Movies Aren’t Canon
Alien's TV spinoff doesn't share Scott's canon.
Welp, I imagine that creates all sorts of new continuity errors for the ttrpg if the current ones weren't bad enough. The ttrpg had previously been assuming the seven foot albino humanoid engineers were responsible for all the ruins and creating the aliens and so on, but now they just don't exist anymore. Is this going to require a new edition to fix all the continuity problems this creates?
