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When Alien Day 2016 rolled around the Alien community was introduced to its first taste of a full cast audio drama set within the Alien universe with Alien: Out of the Shadows. We were treated to a second one when Alien Day 2017 came upon us when Alien: River of Pain was released. River of Pain gave us an audio telling of how Hadley’s Hope became over-ran by Aliens.

The crew over at the Perfect Organism Podcast have been working on their own audio drama and their own take on the falling of Hadley’s Hope.  Having been working on this since April of 2017, Perfect Organism have now released the first chapter of their two part series!

“Perfect Organism is proud to present a groundbreaking new audio drama set in the Alien universe. The culmination of nearly a year of work, Proximity is a character-driven glimpse into the nightmare that erupted in the Hadley’s Hope colony on Acheron in June of 2179.

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What happened at Hadley's Hope would have been the true sequel to Alien.  Would have been like Alien Isolation.  But they had to bring in marines and make it a cheesy 80s action flick.

It's like Alien Covenant and them cutting out the David/Shaw story. 

You know...except without Aliens there'd be no Hadley's Hope at all?? This anti-Aliens sentiment is just getting really dull. Let's keep to the topic at hand please. Not interested in derailing this.  :)

Really cool  ;D iam a big fan of the PO pod

Thanks for the heads up Corporal Hicks  :)

Scorpio, you have got to be kidding me.   ::)   Aliens, a cheesy 80s action flick?

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE i hope the best for  everyone involved in this site, from admins to member, i wish you a great year and the best success in everything you propose :)

Anyway, i think this is a really great production.  Thanks for that!  I can't tell if it contradicts River of Pain but if the writers intent was to complement it, then well done...

Haven't listened yet but bookmarked (awoke too early after post New Years drinks so feeling tired and groggy).

I've always wanted a "what happened to Hadley's Hope during Xenomorph outbreak". You'd get a kick-ass, albeit human tragic, ALIENS film. We know the colonists did not have high powered weapons and only seismic charges as defense, but in a way that is awesome and suspenseful.
Seeing humans and colonists try to defend their self preservation, the claustrophobia, cracking under pressure, desperate actions, seeing ALIENS crawl through vents. The possibilities are endless.

Sure we know how it ends (badly), but with imagination and competent film making it would be a case of journey not destination.
Plus it would not break canon or continuity.

Just to cross-post what I commented over on their Facebook -

First impressions was just how professionally it all came together. It sounded like a top-notch production. I also enjoyed that they took a different take on the topic, focusing on a different kind of character. It might have been too easy to fall into the trap of it being about the Jordan's or their close friends.

As Chapter 1 dealt with a lot of character set-up, I'm looking forward to Chapter 2 and seeing how the story comes together completely!

Loved it. But I love audio dramas in general. I can't imagine how much goes into making something like this.

Can you just clarify how long it is in total? It's not just two 20 min episodes and that's it, is it? I thought you were going to release it over weekly instalments so I thought there were going to be many episodes.

It's two 20 minute or so parts, Darkness.

Love the idea, the performances and the overall sound! I love these great fan projects, so much passion and work put into it, can't wait for the second chapter.

Thanks for the great feedback, everyone!!! Just to clarify: Chapter Two is significantly more involved—there is a lot of action—sonitll probably run longer. We're currently assembling and editing that material so we can hopefully get it out by February 1.

Awesome!  This is really well done.  Thanks for that.

This is making me feel like they could do a prequel on LV-426 as a movie.  It could really work well and it would be fun to revisit Hadley's hope.  It's really a "Titanic" story.  You know it's not going to end well, but the struggle leading up to the end is epic.

Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Jan 02, 2018, 01:08:28 PM
It's two 20 minute or so parts, Darkness.

Damn, for some reason I thought it would be the same length as River of Pain, just split into multiple episodes.

Well, I'll reserve judgement until I listen to the second part.

I really dont like river of pains take on the fall of Hadleys hope(turning it a gung hoo marine story(and much prefer this podcast. Looking forward to part 2.

As an aside I hope Disney look at this story now they have the IP. A series on netflix or amazon prime  showing the fall of the colony over 6 to 10 parts would be amazing.

This has inspired me to give the River of Pain a second listen.  While I don't like every aspect of the story, especially the bit about the marine and the little girl escaping to set up some sort of "Billie and Wilks" scenario, I have to say that a Netflicks series about the fall of Hadley's hope would be AMAZING!

That was good! No part 2 yet? Can't wait!  ;D

Early Feb for part 2, I believe.

Confirmed in their podcast. Thanks!

https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-m7mjh-891cb3

Part 2 has been released. They've released it as part of a super-cut with Part 1. I've not had the chance to listen to it yet.

Love falling asleep to radio plays or audio books or podcasts
Can you post a link to the first part please. Some of us missed it

That is a supercut of Part 1 and 2.  :)

(C&P from the PO Facebook page) Finally had the chance to listen to this the other day. Really enjoyed it. I thought it was really well put together - it felt very professional. The acting was great, the sound design was great and I really enjoyed the original music (this alone helps these kinds of fan productions stand out!)

My only real issue throughout both chapters is the passage of time. Occasionally it just felt a little murky at times and jarring as a result. I think something needed to be done to make them a little clearer.

I liked the bleak ending. It works. Not everyone gets a happy story and obviously these guys couldn't have one either. That said...it is kind of abrupt. That both works and doesn't so I think that was something a no-win scenario going that way. I do appreciate it though.

I would have perhaps liked some more Alien involvement though I get what you were going by with the focus on the characters and I think that worked. The fan inside me just couldn't help craving the Aliens.

All in all, I really enjoyed this! There's so many ideas I have in my head for fan productions that I just don't have the time or patience to put down so whenever someone does and it turns out as well as this, I'm just so incredibly impressed. Well done to all involved!

Way too much use of music and the ending was abrupt, quiet and... abrupt.

Usually people make more noise when the aliens kill them.

But it was good.

The abrupt ending was something I thought people would be so/so on. It worked for me. I also really liked the silence. I like it when the Aliens are actually shown to be stealthy.

Yeah, but every alien kill hasn't been silent.

I get what they intended though.

That was good. The ending works. I might have picked a different ending, but OK. I guess we're not dissecting with spoilers yet.  ;D

Enjoyable. Everybody below pretty much summed up the big points. I like the ending. My only issue is the dialogue is way too unnatural many times. in the future they should read the dialogue aloud to people not involved with the project, preferably not friends or family either. Then take that feedback and trim the lines or rewrite them to improve the natural flow.

Well done, just listened to part 2.  It was fun.  Very few awkward moments of dialogue.  Very forgivable.  I would have perhaps ended on a more violent note with some Alien sounds but it was not a bad ending by any stretch.  I wonder why Anne disappeared so silently..

Hey all!! Thanks for the great feedback and support. This is Patrick from Perfect Organism—I played Aaron in this, and together with Jaime did the sound design and editing. I also composed the music.

So if anyone has any questions, suggestions, etc., feel free to ask. :)

Quote from: Gorilla Alien on Mar 23, 2018, 08:13:48 PM
Hey all!! Thanks for the great feedback and support. This is Patrick from Perfect Organism—I played Aaron in this, and together with Jaime did the sound design and editing. I also composed the music.

So if anyone has any questions, suggestions, etc., feel free to ask. :)

I have basically every sound effect you could ever need for my series, from games to taken from the movies, how come you didn't use more recognizable effects? I've been told I nailed that sound and feel of alien by using the sounds I did. Yours was very sparse.

Quote from: Gorilla Alien on Mar 23, 2018, 08:13:48 PM
Hey all!! Thanks for the great feedback and support. This is Patrick from Perfect Organism—I played Aaron in this, and together with Jaime did the sound design and editing. I also composed the music.

So if anyone has any questions, suggestions, etc., feel free to ask. :)

Hey Patrick. Listened to Proximity again today (2nd time). Really fantastic job by Jamie, you and co.

Quick question ... are those obvious name drops in the beginning when Aaron is reading the approval to check out the location from Burke - noticed the name Daniels dropped ... a relative of Daniels from Covenant? ;-)