Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Jul 28, 2015, 07:34:28 AM
PMs sent lads. Please keep the conversation to Alien 5. Thanks.
As to the 30 years thing...who knows? There's literally plenty of different avenues to take that story. They're on the run, the Derelict really was damaged beyond viability, etc. It's obviously to keep in line with real time but an in-universe explanation would be pretty damn easy I reckon.
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Quote from: MrSpaceJockey on Jul 27, 2015, 08:56:18 PM
That's true. I guess it's just a personal thing that I can't help but find a little forced. Like, why would you bring these two characters back to fight Aliens 30 years after they last did that? Like, they woke up, briefed the government and company about the Aliens, and however the government or company chose to act upon these facts wouldn't be relevant enough to go back to these same two characters for 30 years? I dunno, do you have a good idea for how Blomkamp's film would reintroduce these characters?
City Hunter's idea about hypersleep malfunction is something I've thought about too. Once again though, it's still an explanation - a contrivance to explain something that, if this movie was made instead of Alien 3, needn't exist.
I absolutely do not think it should happen. The entire affair screams butt-hurt over Alien3, and I don't think there's any way to get around that. Maybe if A3 was the only film they'd made since, a sort of reboot/deviation from it would be better received, but the universe has moved on for better or worse.
Since they're determined to go with Ripley and Hicks, the best course of action I think given that dodgy scenario is to have a story where they stay their natural age. I would rather this plot-contrivance than a movie full of CGI de-aging.
It could be as simple as 'Alien 3 was a bad hypersleep dream, and the Sulaco somehow drifted for 30 years.' Maybe Weyland-Yutani caught up to the Sulaco and deactivated its beacons and systems and just set it adrift so that no one could find it? This would allow them to deny what happened without having to directly murder anybody or scuttle a ship, otherwise get their hands dirty.
Then the South Korean soldier could be explained by having the Sulaco being found by some deep, deep space exploration or military unit, or something like that. Maybe there was even an egg or something still aboard, but it went dormant when the crew entered hypersleep and wakes up when they're found?
I think that would be a lot easier to swallow than some insane digital de-aging.
