Just saw the preview for this and I'm excited. More LV-223 jungle shenanigans, it looks like. Still, I'll be honest and say that it's probably going to be as uneventful as the rest of Fire and Stone.
We're most likely going to get: Marines go to LV-223 on a rescue mission, Predators show up looking for Ahab, carnage, and then we'll get some token 'expansion' of the black goo or Engineers, though it won't really do much to answer any questions or expand the mythology in any meaningful way.
I hope I'm wrong.
Another thing that always bothers me about future Predator stories is how they literally don't change at all over the course of almost 200 years. I mean I think the writers get hung up on the ritual hunting crap and stick with the iconic Predator gear and behavior, but come on there's so much room for creativity there.
Future Predators would have some scary, scary technology. There's no special rules dictating that they always use the same gear forever and wouldn't progress, I mean how did they establish the setup that's used in the Predator movies anyway?
I've always wanted to see that - expand on their deceptive, sadistic nature with new devices and hunting tools. Make them have a perfect invisibility cloak instead of the shimmery one, give them things like short-range teleportation and newer, smarter weapons, and please bring back their voice mimicry and voice-throwing, a creepier side to the Predators that's seemed to have fallen by the wayside. Sometimes they seem more like intergalactic wrestlers whose loftiest ambition is to have a naked sumo and arm-wrestling match with the meanest things they can find before returning to their ship to slap each other on the ass, drink alien beer, and taxidermy their trophies to put above their space mantles.
It seems like they're so shoe-horned into their own iconography that writers or artists don't want to stray from it in fear of alienating Predator fans.