So far, the first person format keeps everything personal but (in)conveniently means that there no "visible" character deaths or events happening outside of the Protagonists perspective.
The alien killing a lame chestburster was interesting, they usually protective of their kind and will refrain from killing hosts, this does not happen here. Another interesting thing is that we have another lgbt character/protagonist. The Alien franchise seems to be consistent in this. There was the avp novel with same sex married couple (ommited from the comic version) another married couple in Fire and Stone/Life and Death, another married couple in Dust to Dust. Then we have Blue in Cold forge. Makes sense of course, it is the future and logically there shouldn't be any inequality or different treatment and it least it keeps things consistent that the alien franchise has pushed boundaries before, Ripley being one of the first female action hereos and tthe second film getting awards for a genre that rarely did before.
The character of Micheal was it? was a bit too obvious in his character type and it clearly set up to have his comeuppance. The twist regarding the twins is interesting too. All in all, I will give this a more closer read and give proper and more informed thoughts at later time.
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