Quote from: SM on Nov 13, 2014, 07:43:42 AM
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You want it to blindly try and take Elden on, knowing that he's had a hole blown in him, and been impaled on a spear and wrist blades and not batted an eyelid AND he's controlling the Aliens?
Never said I wanted exactly what you presented as a scenario to happen, but still it just seems odd to me that a Hunter would mark a prey under those particular circumstances. It comes off as more like: "f**k it! I give up! Here's a marking, please don't kill me!"
As for them taking on prey known for controlling Aliens.. Hasn't stopped them from trying before. I haven't read all of the old EU material but I vaguely remember reading up somewhere that Eloise had some control of the Aliens and she was killing Predators and controlling the Xenomorphs, and they still were going after her but none succeeded but that didn't stop them.
Whatever the case, this Hunter has some options to weigh on here with Elden. I guess we'll see that in later issues..
Also anyone notice some parallels to Francis and Charles Bishop Weyland? Both are sick and dying from a terminal illness and are wanting some form of immortality. Of course you could apply the parallels to Francis and Peter too but.. whatever.
Quote from: SM on Nov 13, 2014, 07:43:42 AM
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Makes more sense to pick your battles, than giving status to some prey who got lucky when an Alien walked onto a spear said prey was holding and the Alien forgot it had arms.
In defense of Alexa Woods, she did a little bit more than get lucky in that one scene. She had saved Scar's hide out of necessity when she blew that one Xenomorph's head off before evacuating that tunnel. But in some way, your point still stands..
As for Machiko.. well.. she's definitely got more merit than Alexa Wood considering that she had done more to earn that blood marking.
