Quote from: Slutty Badger on May 14, 2024, 08:47:05 PMQuote from: Hed-Veta on May 14, 2024, 07:53:31 PMMeh... Gaska's methodology slightly contradicts itself in a number of aspects.
How, exactly?
For example, in accounting of "Fire and Stone" and "Life and Death". He writes that "Only the Aliens issues of "Fire and Stone" and "Life and Death" are part of the Alien Universe. The Predator and AVP portions are not". I'm wondering how it works if Predator and AvP are literally parts of one big story that is directly related to Aliens. It's like writing that the first chapter of a book is non-canon, the second chapter is like a canon, and the third is again non-canon. How does it work? Yes, I understand that this is a tier of Myths and Legends, but he really even put the Blade Runner above the immediate chapters of "Fire and Stone" and "Life and Death", pushing the Runner into the SHOE-HORN CANON. Like, you can somehow cram a film from a completely different copyright holder for yourself, but you can't cram individual chapters of a specific story.
The same goes for Alien: Out of the Shadows and
Alien: Sea of Sorrows. They are in the third tier, indicating only "minor problems". At the same time, these books, being the canonical part, directly set-up the events of Rage War. That is, there are not just any "discrepancies" there, but connections are directly established within the framework of a cross-cutting plot. In fact, again, throwing out the chapters of one big story.
And an example with games. Alien Isolation is one hundred percent canon of Tier 1. Fireteam Elite is tier 2. Why? What's the difference? Why is the novelization of Alien: Isolation in the second tier, and the novelization of films in the third? What is the difference between the formats?
