Quote from: Ultramorph on Jan 07, 2014, 12:40:37 AM
Except the NEWEST Prometheus stuff, which I think has part of a creature's tail snaking along the left-hand side. 
It seems to be rooted to the floor. Whatever it is, I don't think it's a tail. Possibly alien vegetation or part of the architecture.
Quote from: RakaiThwei on Jan 07, 2014, 01:29:00 AM
I thought you didn't like PREDATORS. Unless I'm confusing you and DoomRulz.
Think you must be.
I found it entertaining.
QuoteI honestly didn't like the Super Predators. I thought they were completely unnecessary and they devalued what the original Predator was supposed to be, a nigh unstoppable creature from space which was a Grendel archetype of enemy. To me the Super Predator downgraded what the original concept was just so they could be sold as more dangerous than the original.
I don't think the 'Super Predator' was executed as well as it could have been, but them feeling more primal and Neanderthal-like seemed like the impression the film
wanted you to have. I can't think there'd be much of a reason to keep reinforcing the differences with the classic design's reappearance, otherwise.
QuoteAlso, what the Super Predators were.. depends on how you take things. Unless you count the July 2009 script which was the draft that the folks here got, then they were supposedly normal Predators who had altered themselves with the genetics of their prey to become what they are. But then that idea was tossed out and worked in favor of them for being a different species, and according to Rodriguez, they were sent on that planet as a form of punishment of sorts. Again, depends on what you take.
Indeed. But that's the whole point: We don't know who or what they were. We don't know the reasons and the story didn't need to give any.
Were they required? No, not really. Just accept it as a 'bigger, badder' plot device. Rodriguez's attempt to do what Cameron did in '
Aliens' with the Queen: Up the stakes. We only have to look at the plural nature of the title to realise he was trying to emulate that formula. Considering what the original script was like, urination mockery and all, what we wound up having was practically a masterpiece.
The problem with them is that they don't quite match up to the concept. If you can imagine them being taken on by the originals without much trouble, then it fails. That's the yardstick I use for Alien designs: The ones in '
Requiem' would have posed no problem for even Ripley 8, let alone the monstrosities presented in the seventies/eighties.
I'd imagine that's why this series won't really be touching on them. The story it they want to tell can be told jsut as easily with the original designs.
I'd hope, however, that they bother to update their equipment.
One of my very few issues with the first of the AVP comics was that they'd upgraded the armour for fighting Aliens, but had
downgraded the weaponry, by giving them clunky, unwieldy shotguns, instead of the auto-tracking shoulder-mounted energy weapon from the films.
QuoteConsidering that the cast and crew, referred to Berserker as Mr. Black, not Mrs. Black or Ms. Black.. I'm pretty sure that these guys were one hundred percent male. And as for female Predators, we almost got one in the film-- Michael Broom even drew concept art for her and she only made it to concept art stage. And guess what, she had breast
From a canonical standpoint, for all we know, the ones we've always seen in the other films could be female. what a production crew on set refers them to as, has no bearing on what they
could be. What matters is whether anything's been clarified on screen or not.
I've never felt breasted Predators make logical sense, considering how their mouthparts are clearly designed to shred flesh. Some feel differently, but the breasts thing has always seemed like a fetish ideal which hasn't eben logically thought through.
