Chaotic Wooster
a fire made of rats
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We won't know until we see more.
I'm all for a return to the retro-futuristic aesthetic of Alien and Alien: Isolation, which is very much supported in the role-playing game. Space travel and colonization is expensively risky, no-one's wasting billions of dollars they don't need to on these ventures. Prometheus' cutting edge technology belonged to the wealthiest man in the solar system blowing his fortune on a quest for immortality.
As for the evolved creature, I don't see any issues so far. Unless Hawley's show is going to flat-out state a whole new slew of facts about the creature that directly defy the prequels, there's no conflict. We know that some engineers were messing with biotechnology and that David took their work to make it his own. That's it. Nowhere does it say the creature (or it's varients) aren't ancient beings.
One of the aspects of the Alien universe I like is the lack of overall clarity, the lack of definite truth. It gives wiggle room for the expanded media, including the role-playing game. The ongoing narrative of the line seems to specifically concern itself with one faction of engineers and their creations on the other end of the Middle Heavens to where the movies took place. It doesn't tread on any toes.
As I've said before, the movie I'd retcon is Aliens. Because the hive of easily killed idiot bugs annoys me and the queen is a liability, not to mention a redundent step in the creature's already complex life cycle. Aliens is a truly great action movie, but I think it does the creature a real disservice. I haven't gone so far as to rewrite anything in my own role-playing game campaigns to eliminate the hive and queen concepts though.
So am I worried? No, not really. There's good film-makers behind the series and the new movie, and Scott is still producing. I'm resigned to never seeing the third of his prequels at this point. There's already plenty of Aliens media worth ignoring entirely and dumping into molten lead... Alien Resurrection, the Predator crossovers, nearly all the video games, and however many of the books or comics.
I'm all for a return to the retro-futuristic aesthetic of Alien and Alien: Isolation, which is very much supported in the role-playing game. Space travel and colonization is expensively risky, no-one's wasting billions of dollars they don't need to on these ventures. Prometheus' cutting edge technology belonged to the wealthiest man in the solar system blowing his fortune on a quest for immortality.
As for the evolved creature, I don't see any issues so far. Unless Hawley's show is going to flat-out state a whole new slew of facts about the creature that directly defy the prequels, there's no conflict. We know that some engineers were messing with biotechnology and that David took their work to make it his own. That's it. Nowhere does it say the creature (or it's varients) aren't ancient beings.
One of the aspects of the Alien universe I like is the lack of overall clarity, the lack of definite truth. It gives wiggle room for the expanded media, including the role-playing game. The ongoing narrative of the line seems to specifically concern itself with one faction of engineers and their creations on the other end of the Middle Heavens to where the movies took place. It doesn't tread on any toes.
As I've said before, the movie I'd retcon is Aliens. Because the hive of easily killed idiot bugs annoys me and the queen is a liability, not to mention a redundent step in the creature's already complex life cycle. Aliens is a truly great action movie, but I think it does the creature a real disservice. I haven't gone so far as to rewrite anything in my own role-playing game campaigns to eliminate the hive and queen concepts though.
So am I worried? No, not really. There's good film-makers behind the series and the new movie, and Scott is still producing. I'm resigned to never seeing the third of his prequels at this point. There's already plenty of Aliens media worth ignoring entirely and dumping into molten lead... Alien Resurrection, the Predator crossovers, nearly all the video games, and however many of the books or comics.