Quote from: Xenomrph on Aug 05, 2018, 04:05:21 AM
Quote from: Crazy Shrimp on Aug 05, 2018, 12:40:17 AM
I want the Lovecraftian horror back, but for some odd reason, I kinda like them.
If it makes you feel any better, the Engineers creating humanity is a sort of Lovecraftian horror, it's just from a different angle. "Strange creatures created humanity/protagonists but are otherwise indifferent to them, calling into question all of humanity's history"
Yeah, I guess it's quite Lovecraftian from that point of view. Nevertheless, at least one group or faction of Engineers seems to care for mankind:
But I still believe that they can resurrect the old Starbeast idea: just as the pilot found the pyramid and the ancient parasites in the planetoid, maybe the Engineers found something even more Alien than themselves, perhaps a form of otherworldly technology like Black Goo, which I suspect, could have been influenced in
norse mythology:
QuoteEitr is a mythical substance in Norse mythology. This liquid substance is the origin of all living things: the first giant Ymir was conceived from eitr. The substance is supposed to be very poisonous and is also produced by Jörmungandr (the Midgard serpent) and other serpents.
So dear FOX/Disney, f**k that hipster shit and the whole pseudo-intellectual crap and bring me my goddamn biomechanical civilization just for the sake of my Giger obsession. You think you can do that, FOX/Disney?
Quote from: Xenomrph on Aug 05, 2018, 04:05:21 AM
is straight out of 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth'
Maybe off topic, but I wonder if Lovecraft took influences from Mesopotamian mythology while building his story for 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth' since there are legends about demigods in the shape of
fish-man hybrids who are sent by the gods to impart knowledge to people.