Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Jul 05, 2018, 08:10:30 AM
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I think there's genuine room for more Alien-less projects in the Alien series
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Your initial speculation about a
Space: Above and Beyond-like series got me all nostalgic so I went to YouTube and the whole season of episodes is there in all its mid-90s glory. It's much better than I remember. If any millennial
Aliens fans are curious about what a
Colonial Marines series might be like, have a look. The big difference would be that nowadays a series tends to be less episodic (in which each episode is a standalone story) and more serialised (like a soap opera's continually developing plot and character arcs).
If I was Fox I would stay away from Engineers and Power Goo. The fanbase is too mixed on those stories, and the box office too disappointing.
Here's an off-the-wall idea: What if the series is actually a reboot of the entire original franchise, but told from the point of view of a special ops team of Colonial Marines.
Here's an example:
Ep 1: There's some hanky panky at Thedus and a malevant corporation called Weyland Yutani knowingly despatches one of their space tugs off to its doom before the marines can intervene.
Ep 2 - 3; Other stories.
Ep 4: They come across the wrecked tug which has been abandoned in space and consult its flight recorder, which happens to include the uploaded memories of the onboard synthetic.
Ep 5 - 7; Other stories.
Ep 8: There's a rumour of ructions at a nearby prison colony, but by the time they get there all the inmates are dead except for signs that a lone civilian managed to escape.
Ep 9 - 11; Other stories.
Ep 12; they are sent to an outlying colony called Hadleys Hope, on the way they pick up a drifting lifeboat containing W.O. Ripley in stasis.
Etc...
TC
