Quote from: Ulfer on Mar 31, 2012, 10:11:27 PM
As an idea, it is 100% valid to build a story upon. What matters here is the execution.
Precisely what I've been saying for ages.
We don't 'need' a galaxy to be portrayed as having acid-bleeding biomechanical monstrosities, either, but I can think of at least two films involving them which were pretty damned good.
Just like we don't 'need' history to be portrayed as involving flying DeLoreans, interdimensional blue telephone boxes, intergalactic sadistic safari hunters or blonde schoolgirls who patrol small towns looking for vampires to slay.
But if you got rid of them, some amazingly inspirational film/TV
art would be lost.
Also, it always amuses me when people say they can't possibly stomach even so much as a hint of the ancient astronaut theory, because they personally don't like it,
in a series which revolves around a parasite which grows from the size of a snake to larger than a man in less than 24 hours without apparently eating anything.
LOL
Would I have
preferred it not to deal with that subject? As someone who actually thinks the ET hypothesis for our origins has some merit, I'd have to say... Yes. Not because it's somehow impossible, but because, for me, the derelict represented the ultimate in 'here be dragons'. Something which was meant to be considered alien in
every way. A place of Eldritch monstrosities, untouched/untainted by humanity.
But that's purely an aesthetic preference and if any large-scale, big budget science-fiction franchise had to touch on the concept, I don't see anything
wrong with it involving certain themes touched upon by the original. I could see it happening...
What matters is how unfolds on screen. Nothing more, nothing less. Just because it involves our origins won't be what makes it a good or bad film. The writing, acting, direction, lighting, creature designs and more will dictate that.
A part of me thinks this weird obsession about how it
must be bad because it revolves around that theory, is the result of butt-hurt over Anderson's film, but the ancient pyramid plot point was never one of the primary reasons that film was regarded largely as a creative failure.
