Quote from: [cancerblack] on Mar 05, 2022, 03:53:45 AM
I'm vexed it isn't a resolution to the David arc though.
Yeah. I always figured we'd eventually end up with an era of relatively contained installments from new voices tackling
Alien (like Hawley and Alvarez are now – though I never imagined that that entire future would be entirely relegated to Hulu), and that's something I was very much looking forward to (the whole appeal of
Alien as an ongoing franchise to me is the differening voices and interpretations of the material), but I also really, honestly thought that Ridley would be given one more film to close out his prequel narrative, even after the Disney/Fox acquisition, before we pivoted in this particular direction. Maybe that was just me being naively optimistic about the powers at play here.
Quote from: SiL on Mar 05, 2022, 08:50:33 AMI really just don't seem to care any more 
Direct to streaming Alien movies just feels like such an end of an era.
I think that about sums it up well. The era of
Alien as a sort of prestige franchise with semi-regular major installments that hit the big screen once or twice a decade is very much behind us now, in favor of the more rapid-fire, multi-release onslaught that is contemporary
Star Wars/Marvel/DC... and like
Star Wars, it seems that
Alien is now mostly being relegated to streaming.
I hope
Alien doesn't crash under this weight, and that these projects are interesting but... I'm mostly just tired I think. I want this film, and the Hawley series, to be great, but I can see myself getting very overwhelmed very very quickly by this sudden pivot into what the franchise is going to be moving forward. Having two separate
Alien projects in the works at the same time now is a lot – perhaps too much – to chew on.
I'm going to try to be optimistic about both projects. I don't want them to fail, I want to love them. But it's a whole different ballgame now, and not one I'm entirely sure
Alien is fit to be playing.
