Alien/Predator novels ranking

[[cancerblack]]

That's my problem with it, personally. I prefer a more mysterious and unknowable bunch of space sadists to anything that codified.

That's a perfectly reasonable preference, although I'd argue that the Yautja youngsters, or at least some of them, were a bunch of inhuman space sadists getting their kicks from slaughtering the Ryushi settlers and killing xenomorphs alike.

Sure. But I don't want to hear about their planet or culture or language to that degree, especially when it's done so uncreatively. "Mysterious" was the key word in my post.

[Local Trouble]

I want to see a subversion of the trope in which an alien civilization thinks that all of humanity is a rampaging warrior race because they've only ever encountered our military forces.

[SM]

Humanity solely as consumers is increasingly more accurate.

[[cancerblack]]

I'm still just perplexed as to how a creature with no lips and a small, forked tongue is supposed to pronounce all those TH and W sounds Perry gave them.

[happypred]

Sure. But I don't want to hear about their planet or culture or language to that degree, especially when it's done so uncreatively. "Mysterious" was the key word in my post.

I don't recall anything about their planet, maybe I missed it...but we get glimpses of their language and hear the main predator's inner thoughts/voice, which IIRC is the primary lens through which we see their culture

People can differ as to whether that reveals too much about them

[[cancerblack]]

I seem to remember something that I thought at the time was on their homeworld but may have been a ship. We're talking like 1999 here. The stuff about mating, iirc.

[BlueMarsalis79]

I was literally two.

[Still Collating...]

I'm still just perplexed as to how a creature with no lips and a small, forked tongue is supposed to pronounce all those TH and W sounds Perry gave them.

Never thought about that! Obviously, neither did Steve. That's why you don't portray the Predators as Klingons. I never liked the Perry's take on the Predators, nor their take on the Aliens most of the time.

[SiL]

I'm still just perplexed as to how a creature with no lips and a small, forked tongue is supposed to pronounce all those TH and W sounds Perry gave them.

They aren't pronounced as TH and W. "Yautja" for example is supposed to be "yach-taw" (Yes I realised just used a w in pronunciation but w at the end of a word is pronounced very differently) or something. I think TH is just T.

Still dumb but he thought of that much.

[Local Trouble]

Can't they pronounce TH and W when they mimic human speech?

"What...the hell...are you?"

"Want some candy?"

"Motherf**ker!"

[[cancerblack]]

Can't they pronounce TH and W when they mimic human speech?

"What...the hell...are you?"

"Want some candy?"

"Motherf**ker!"

Parroting vs naturally evolved speech based on the mouthparts.

[SiL]

I can whistle like a bird but I'm not about to talk like that.

[TheBATMAN]

Can't they pronounce TH and W when they mimic human speech?

"What...the hell...are you?"

"Want some candy?"

"Motherf**ker!"

I always thought these were actually recordings that they then ran through a filter to get right. In the first two films and the second in particular they make a sound I always thought was a recorder starting, like when it confronts the kid with the candy or when all the Preds confront Harrigan on the ship.

Then again though I did wonder how Fugitive did it in The Predator without his mask. It never occurred to me they actaully mimic precisely because of what cancerblack says above.

[Local Trouble]

Then again though I did wonder how Fugitive did it in The Predator without his mask.

Jungle Hunter did it at the end of P1 without his mask too.

[SiL]

Yeah it's them, not the mask.