Quote from: SiL on Mar 15, 2015, 06:52:34 AM
Quote from: Born Of Cold Light on Mar 15, 2015, 06:39:34 AM
Rather, the aliens could be one filament in the sinews of the fingers that reach out from the blackest core of the universe.
That kind of thing is exaaaactly what I'm against.
I'm cool with Lovecraftian horrors, I just kind of liked that the Alien universe was big, dead and empty.
But we know now that it's not big, dead and empty, even with the predators now removed from continuity. Even from the very beginning of the series, there were hints of something larger at work, with the presence of the Derelict and Space Jockey. While it was postulated that they were hundreds if not thousands of years old, I don't think that that was ever officially confirmed. Now with the Prometheus series and the likelihood of more revelations about the Engineers, why not make something incredibly terrifying and awe-inspiring that pays tribute to the visions which Giger tried to suppress with opium, instead of just albino Buddha fascists who probably don't have the equivalent of the Geneva Conventions? The cat's out of the bag, let's make it a truly epic cat to remember.
And even if Prometheus had never happened, with the exception of Isolation, the Alien series has been going down the drain for years with poor crossover films, repetitious AVP games and the debacle of Colonial Marines. Heck, the best thing to come out during that time were excellent action figures. While I'm not pointing figures at anyone on this board, there are a large number of fans who, if they had their way, would have the series be nothing but 'bug hunts' featuring marines who yelled "Stay frosty!" every ten seconds. The last serious attempt to create something that paid tribute to the vision of the original film was Alien 3, and we all know how flawed that was. Resurrection had its moments but it was just too goofy and flat. Since the mid-90s, Aliens has been predominantly about explosions and guys with big guns; completely the opposite of what was originally intended. The first AVP computer game partially succeeded in bringing back that claustrophobic atmosphere but by and large, it was more of the same. The Alien series needs to go in another, possibly radical direction; the last twenty years are what's the problem, not Prometheus.
Alien
desperately needs a major shake up in order to stay fresh and Isolation only begins to correct the problem. I'm not saying that my idea has to be accepted but there needs to be something to reinvigorate the series and bring back the original theme. Despite all its flaws, I applaud Ridley Scott for creating something totally unique. The Alien universe was honestly never a truly dead place and it's just become more crowded in recent years. Better to have a nihilistic Lovecraftian vision than something like
this which I can easily see Fox lapsing back into.