Quote from: XenoZipper on Apr 08, 2016, 09:35:35 AM
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Apr 08, 2016, 07:22:12 AM
I'm going to have to have a re-read because I don't recall it being obtrusive or overly done. I definitely recognized some of the same confidence and attitude but it wasn't reusing dialogue from the films.
We need to remember we're only 2 parts into a 17 part story here and we've got lots of setup to get out of the way.
You could be right & it might not have been as much as I'm making it out to be. I think I'm just being a bitter ass about some of the attitudes being similar & me thinking they're just rehashing things. My defenses are up pretty high lately after Force Awakens came out. I was never so excited to see a movie I didn't end up liking much at all so my guard is up a little more these days especially when it comes to my beloved Aliens & Pred. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't super weary about Alien:Covenant & The Predator.
No, I think you're spot on. The author made some minor tweaks to the one-liners, but you can clearly tell what he's getting at, and then he sprinkled them like pepper all over the comic. I'm all fan-serviced out at the moment. It's too much. It's like the author is telling me, "hey, I know that you know", but now we're saying, "I know that you know, that I know" and it becomes pandering.
Now mind you, just about every single line in Aliens is classic, with one-liner potential, and is thoroughly quotable. The issue is not in whether to use those those quotes or not, but rather it is in execution. So far it feels to me like a cheap ploy to make the book feel like the movie. Instead, such Aliens "one-liners should match the story and be added appropriately for dramatic effect, where really make sense and are necessary. Otherwise, they fall flat.
Anyway, 15 issues to go, so I will give this a chance of course. But I think we need to ramp up the art and tone down the fromage factor a bit..