Quote from: happypred on Jun 15, 2015, 02:59:29 PM
It really depends on the extent to which they're humanised
For instance, one pred might challenge another pred to a death duel over a perceived insult. Human warriors did that in the past. Predators believe that it's only right for weak predators to die on challenging hunts. Spartans believed in weeding out weak individuals (during training and battles).
The predators belong to a tribal warrior society. It's almost inevitable that the practices and mindsets of certain real-world human warrior societies are the inspiration behind predator society.
What I would object to is making the predators mundane or too sympathetic. I'm against predator office workers or kind-hearted predator "prey rights" activists. Predator society should still be distinct from human society. Individually, predators should still think somewhat differently from how humans think.
The predators are semi-human in that they're intelligent "tool folk" with certain human-like motivations and emotions. I don't want them to become fully human.
Quote from: DUB1 on May 11, 2015, 01:48:07 PM
Lot of people dread Predators being "humanized", as in, being anything other than scary monsters. Why is that?
Would all the Predators truly cease to be scary if we were to be introduced to a few "sympathetic" ones, like individuals from that species who don't hunt (that I'd call Non-Predators) but are antagonized by the classic variety who do?
After all, just because there are sympathetic humans, doesn't change the fact that there are also rapists and murderers. The latter two are not made any less frightening by the former. So why can't the Predators be allowed the same nuances as a species?
I can understand being wary of Predators, the kind we know that is, being portrayed in a positive light, seeing as they hunt for sport, but are individuals from that species who don't hunt also a no-no?
Besides, I could never hate alien hunters as much as the human equivalent anyway. I'm not indifferent to the Predators' evil, but we've never encountered beings that look and sound like them in the real world, which makes them a less palpable evil. Therefore, insisting on keeping them purely evil seems forced, to me.
Quote from: overthere on May 12, 2015, 03:23:36 PMPride when they strip down their weapons. When they collect their trophy they seem proud of it.
Anger, well, they just seem angry, always growling. I think the Predator got angry when Dutch called him an ugly motherf**ker. Dutch hurt his feelings.
Overconfidence when he walked behind Dutch while he was crawling towards the trap. He's just walking behind him, taking his time, picking flowers on the way.
Quote from: HuDaFuK on May 12, 2015, 01:42:47 PMQuote from: DUB1 on May 12, 2015, 01:39:16 PMThe thing is, the Predators are already "humanized". Because all the emotions they've shown were like human ones. Pride, sadism, anger, overconfidence and even honor such as sparing that kid and a pregnant woman.
When have they ever categorically shown emotions?
Plus honour isn't really an emotion. It's ethics.
Quote from: DUB1 on May 12, 2015, 01:39:16 PMThe thing is, the Predators are already "humanized". Because all the emotions they've shown were like human ones. Pride, sadism, anger, overconfidence and even honor such as sparing that kid and a pregnant woman.
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on May 12, 2015, 10:54:02 AMI'd disagree with that. It's not the not knowing that makes them different. It's being different that makes them different.
Quote from: HuDaFuK on May 12, 2015, 10:49:50 AM
It's got nothing to do with them being scary. It's about them being different from humans. The less we know about them, and the less human they are, the more interesting they are. Otherwise you might as well just replace them with people and have no aliens at all.
Quote from: DUB1 on May 11, 2015, 01:48:07 PMLot of people dread Predators being "humanized", as in, being anything other than scary monsters. Why is that?
Would all the Predators truly cease to be scary if we were to be introduced to a few "sympathetic" ones, like individuals from that species who don't hunt (that I'd call Non-Predators) but are antagonized by the classic variety who do?
Quote from: DUB1 on May 11, 2015, 03:21:52 PM
For all we know, the Predators are outlaws among the Yautja, and there is a faction that specifically hunt them down.
Or there could be Predators who make a point of only hunting scum. Like the Punisher.
See, "good" Yautjas/Predators can in fact be anti-heroes, just as violent as those we know. They wouldn't be like Scar, who for all intents and purposes was a classic Predator (behaviorally, not aesthetically), who was portrayed as sympathetic despite killing that guy before entering the pyramid and later Wayland. I actually didn't have such an issue with the Scar-Lex team-up, but they could have done a better job of explaining why Scar spared her in particular.
Quote from: overthere on May 11, 2015, 02:58:22 PM
If we start having peaceful, friendly Predators, then the whole thing loses it's appeal, at least to me. The less we know about them the better, and all we know is they like to hunt. Imagine if there was an Alien movie with Xenomorphs being cute pets.
And regular Predators just hunt dangerous people, so they're not randomly evil and bloodthirsty in the first place.