Which 'Canon' do you prefer?

[Kenner_Alien_Kaste]

So while I probably didn't get all of the various timelines/'canons' or otherwise had organized them properly, but after having spent so much time trolling the internet and other forums and seeing just the sheer volume of content for Alien and its various 'licenses' so to speak, I was curious as to what canon you guys like the most, whether for personal projects or writing or just out of preference!

[SiL]

Original films plus the two prequels.

[PAS Spinelli]

Colonial Marines isn't canon according to people that worked on the Alien RPG, so you can't really include both of these in the same continuity

[Kradan]

Original films plus the two prequels.

I would throw Isolation in for good measure

[PAS Spinelli]

My personal take on canon would be:
 Alien, Aliens as real events
 Alien 3 as half true, no one really knowing what came to happen of Ripley
 Isolation as canon
 Aliens Fireteam Elite being essentially a in-universe legend simulator, as WeyYu caused more small Xeno outbreaks stories and myths began spreading across colonies, and AFTE essentially being a bunch of those(basically soft canon)
 Prometheus and Covenant with heavy readjusts, like reincorporating the fact David is only copying a preexisting "blueprint" or sorts of the Xenomorph egg, and that the Engineers aren't the creators of the aliens, blackgoo, and aren't the space jockeys either.

[BlueMarsalis79]

Colonial Marines isn't canon according to people that worked on the Alien RPG, so you can't really include both of these in the same continuity

Yeah, none of the above options work because of this.

[SiL]

Original films plus the two prequels.

I would throw Isolation in for good measure

I would burn anything that shoehorns itself between stories with relatives of memorable characters in a f**king fire.

Great game. Shit story.

[PAS Spinelli]

Original films plus the two prequels.

I would throw Isolation in for good measure

I would burn anything that shoehorns itself between stories with relatives of memorable characters in a f**king fire.

Great game. Shit story.

But Amanda isn't a new character? She was introduced in Aliens

[SiL]

Original films plus the two prequels.

I would throw Isolation in for good measure

I would burn anything that shoehorns itself between stories with relatives of memorable characters in a f**king fire.

Great game. Shit story.

But Amanda isn't a new character? She was introduced in Aliens

When did I say anything about new characters?

Her adventures are shoehorned in between two films that clearly do not support the events happening and they used her as a connection to Ripley. Whether she's established or pulled out of thin air for the game is entirely irrelevant.

[BlueMarsalis79]

I like the story, throw stones at me, the Amanda Ripley thing feels earned at the end of the day.

[Nightmare Asylum]

The six Alien movies.

There's other stuff I really like (Isolation, the Alex White novels, the RPG, select Dark Horse comics), but I consider them all to be more ancillary works.

[Stitch]

Whatever is applicable for the film I'm watching

[Nightmare Asylum]

Whatever is applicable for the film I'm watching

Also, this.

[SuperiorIronman]

I never really know what is canon anymore and what RPG books I'd have to read so I'm just rolling with it.

[RakaiThwei]

AVP Canon... At least, Pre-Disney Canon anyway. For me it goes like this--

Predator, Predator 2, AVP, AvP-R, Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Alien vs Predator (Rebellion 1999), Alien vs Predator 2 (Monolith), Alien vs Predator 3 (Rebellion 2010), and Alien Resurrection.