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You know, for as much of a mixed bag that I think Prometheus and Alien Covenant are, I am sad we wont get a final film from Ridley to round out the David arc. Michael Fassbender brought a real verve to the character and it would have been cool to see it finished. It's a shame they really had to shoehorn the whole origin story of the Xenomorph into that story, but it was interesting enough.
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The opening scene of Covenant is real fuckin good, I love that poo poo.
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david_a posted:I thought the TV show was going to focus on wealth inequality or something like that. Splicer posted:Be "brave" about it and show earth utterly wrecked by climate change. Not as a major part of the story, just as an acceptance of what 2090 is going to look like. Oblivion does both. It's pretty good for a tom cruise vehicle
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Feb 2, 2023 03:13
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If the show is just gonna be a xeno outbreak but stretched out over like 8 hours instead of 2 hours it's gonna suck. Hopefully they'll be confident enough to get at least somewhat creative with it.
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Feb 2, 2023 04:53
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Eight hours of AvP: Requiem only the contrast is even darker
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Basebf555 posted:If the show is just gonna be a xeno outbreak but stretched out over like 8 hours instead of 2 hours it's gonna suck. Hopefully they'll be confident enough to get at least somewhat creative with it. Each episode should be a different animal version of a xenomorph like the action figures and also like be glowing read and green and poo poo like some of them.
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Feb 2, 2023 05:19
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aardvark alien. kangaroo alien. a tiny hamster alien.
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MrMojok posted:Eight hours of AvP: Requiem only the contrast is even darker Watch 20 actors with zero charisma blunder their way around an unfinished set!
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Feb 2, 2023 05:22
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Hundreds of pregnant women and children and babies explode this time
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Feb 2, 2023 05:24
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and the season finale giraffe alien
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A xeno outbreak at a zoo would definitely be something that would get my attention.
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Feb 2, 2023 14:48
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Alien vs. Goose whoever wins, we lo(o)se
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Feb 2, 2023 14:58
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The Xenogoose/Goosomorph should be the very first creature the characters confront and give them a ton of trouble because of its long neck. Perfect foreshadowing for when the season finale features the Giraffeomorph/Xenogiraffe.
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Feb 2, 2023 15:46
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The TV show being set on Earth at all is a bit of disappointment to me. I don't really have strong opinions one way or another on whether Earth in the Alien universe should be a polluted hellscape left behind by corporate exploitation, or a glittering paradise built on the back of downtrodden off-world colonists supplying it. I find the the larger through-line of the movies, beyond the xenomorph themselves, far more interesting. The universe beyond Earth is cold and empty place, dotted by ancient horrors that we have nothing in common with and any remotely relatable life seemingly subscribing to the Dark Forest hypothesis while humanity is the new fool making a lot of noise as they stumble about.
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Feb 2, 2023 16:04
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They should let David bomb Earth with black goo and see what happens. I know the timelines don't match up but let me dream.
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Feb 2, 2023 16:30
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General Battuta posted:They should let David bomb Earth with black goo and see what happens. pretty sure this is just the remote backstory of Raised by Wolves
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Feb 2, 2023 16:35
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We need to see a lava planet, a forest planet, an ocean planet, a warehouse planet, a sewer planet, a desert planet, and another, different forest planet with oceans.
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Feb 2, 2023 16:36
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Blood Boils posted:Oblivion does both. It's pretty good for a tom cruise vehicle Oblivion is fantastic.
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Feb 2, 2023 20:03
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Oblivion is peak dadwave
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the xenomorph threat would be completely nullified by a planet of creatures who are simply too tall to reliably facehug
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Blood Boils posted:Oblivion does both. It's pretty good for a tom cruise vehicle Splicer fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Feb 2, 2023 |
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Space Jam posted:the xenomorph threat would be completely nullified by a planet of creatures who are simply too tall to reliably facehug Then they would be Bumhuggers instead.
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General Battuta posted:They should let David bomb Earth with black goo and see what happens. David can be alive for a very long time. Do it, cowards!
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happyhippy posted:Then they would be Bumhuggers instead. 
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Space Jam posted:the xenomorph threat would be completely nullified by a planet of creatures who are simply too tall to reliably facehug Thank you for giving me the mental image of facehuggers climbing up a dude like its Shadow of the Colossus.
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Space Jam posted:a tiny hamster alien. They did "small burrowing creature" in the ongoing comic series. It...wasn't nice. 
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Splicer posted:...what? Oblivion is about clones of Tom Cruise helping aliens steal all of Earth's oceans. That's the opposite of the ecological devastation of Earth not being a major part of the story and also it's not caused by climate change (except in a loose metaphorical sense) No, that's just a small part of the plot. Oblivion is about an Apple employee/drone slowly realizing he is killing the planet, putting aside his nostalgic hobbies to suicide bomb corporate hq. It's p fun General Battuta posted:Oblivion is peak dadwave The most unrealistic part is the idea that boomers can be redeemed
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Blood Boils posted:Oblivion is about an Apple employee/drone slowly realizing he is killing the planet Splicer posted:Not as a major part of the story 
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The Youtube algorithm dropped a Prometheus lore video about the engineers based off of some (unofficial / fanfic?) early draft of the script. I was wondering – where can I learn more about the engineers and the lore behind them? I think the *supposed* early draft mentioned something about the engineers worshipping the deacon, and the goo being an attempt at recreating its blood or something. I can always headcanon things but would love to see what is available out there that I can read more into.
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unpurposed posted:The Youtube algorithm dropped a Prometheus lore video about the engineers based off of some (unofficial / fanfic?) early draft of the script. I was wondering – where can I learn more about the engineers and the lore behind them? I think the *supposed* early draft mentioned something about the engineers worshipping the deacon, and the goo being an attempt at recreating its blood or something. I can always headcanon things but would love to see what is available out there that I can read more into. Off the top of my head I would start at Strange Shapes, although I don’t think he focused that much on Prometheus compared to the other films. “Lore” is a strong word though, like you mentioned a lot of this is probably from drafts, some of which may have been rejected quickly.
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Chinston Wurchill posted:They did "small burrowing creature" in the ongoing comic series. Lmao, is thet a mask? Where's the blood?
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Slashrat posted:I find the the larger through-line of the movies, beyond the xenomorph themselves, far more interesting. The universe beyond Earth is cold and empty place, dotted by ancient horrors that we have nothing in common with and any remotely relatable life seemingly subscribing to the Dark Forest hypothesis while humanity is the new fool making a lot of noise as they stumble about, That's Lost In Space (2018), which is to Prometheus and Covenant as Outland is to Alien.
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That's a really strong pitch for that not very good-looking tv show... I might watch now.
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Chinston Wurchill posted:They did "small burrowing creature" in the ongoing comic series.
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Bugblatter posted:That's a really strong pitch for that not very good-looking tv show... I might watch now. It’s my favorite science-fiction show, along with Space: 1999. The only caveat is that it’s not strictly horror but more of an adventure show. The tone is often closer to The Martian, and the series peaks with a two-episode mini-movie at the start of Season 2, but the quality is fairly consistent throughout, and it actually has an ending. SuperMechagodzilla fucked around with this message at 16:06 on Feb 4, 2023 |
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I think it's the porn tracing guy.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:It’s my favorite science-fiction show, along with Space: 1999.  (Actually, season 1 of Space: 1999 would fit quite well into the Alien universe in terms of tone. Space is a cold, hostile place, filled with beings and creatures that want to kill you just because, and even in the tiny survival enclave humans have established there's still a good chance that you'll die horribly and pointlessly simply from being in the wrong place at the wrong time. All the while, cosmic forces you have no hope of ever understanding toy with your existence for their own purposes, until suddenly they're done with you and you're abandoned to random fate. Enjoy!)
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Payndz posted:Season 1 or season 2? Season "0" for sure 
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I enjoyed Lost in Space as a sci-fi adventure, but I wouldn't say it invokes the Dark Forest hypothesis in any way. The show's mainly hopeful in its message by showing the alien robots are fundamentally benevolent and empathic, but have been corrupted and just need to be shown benevolence by humans in order to revert to it themselves
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Splicer posted:God the art in that comic is hilariously garbage. Yeah I'm kind of disappointed they changed artists because it was delightfully terrible. Azubah posted:I think it's the porn tracing guy. Larocca, specifically. There are at least two of them.
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