Quote from: SiL on Mar 03, 2013, 07:10:10 AM
Isn't there an Easter egg where the eggs are ... Easter eggs?
Yes. There's an achievement for finding it.
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Quote from: SpreadEagleBeagle on Mar 02, 2013, 02:28:14 PM
So exploding giant rolling doughnuts are a part of the canon now? Getting better and better.
Yeah no. It's an easter egg.
But it's in the game, and they said the game is canon. So whatever is in the game it has to be considered canon, therefore exploding giant doughnuts of doom rolling around on LV-426 has to be taken as a fact and nothing to laugh about.
Yeah no.
This is the internet so I honestly can't tell if you're being flippant or being serious. Like seriously it's really hard to tell with people online sometimes, so I'm holding back an exasperated response in the off chance that you're just joking around. But like I said, this is the internet so anything is possible I guess.
A little bit of both my friend.
Personally, as you may know by now, I don't consider anything else other than the original movies as Alien canon. The thought of games being a part of the same canon as the movies is ridiculous and just doesn't work at all - these easter eggs are one amongst hundreds of reasons why that's the case.
I know you're of a different opinion though.
It always seemed pretty straightforward to me that easter eggs are by and large not meant to be taken seriously or "canon", within reason. I see it more as a case-by-case basis.
Rolling giant donut? Yeah not canon.
Painted "Easter Egg" Alien eggs? Ditto. (having said that, some sort of later source referencing the easter-egg in a semi-plausible way and
making it canon isn't out of the picture - Star Wars stuff has occasionally done that
)
The holographic space battle in Space Jockey room? I'm actually on the fence on that one.
Likewise, the "Crew Manifest" easter egg on the 'Alien' 1999 DVD, I'm totally willing to take that as canon. It's written in-universe and doesn't contradict anything, and it's chock-full of cool and useful information. Same thing with the "Ash's Science Report" easter egg on the same DVD.
Or the "egg opening sound effect" easter egg from the end of the credits in 'Aliens'. It's meant as a little in-joke for people who are paying attention, but I doubt Cameron meant for you to take it
literally. Of course 'Alien3' went ahead and pretty much made it canon anyway so it's a bit of a non-issue.
