ALIEN: The Weyland-Yutani Report (S.D. Perry, 160 pages)

[Xenomrph]

I admit, many of those scenerios Xenomrph mentioned sound interesting to me. Except for Hicks not being dead. That is angering to me.

The parentheses are the titles in which they happened (or will happen, in some cases - not all of those titles are out yet).

[predxeno]

It's funny cause if there's already this much anger then this new "reboot" of canon that Fox is planning will probably implode in their faces... again, then all this angst we've been experiencing with this new canon will all be for nothing.

[RakaiThwei]

The parentheses are the titles in which they happened (or will happen, in some cases - not all of those titles are out yet).

What scenarios in particular happened? What titles were accounted for?

It's funny cause if there's already this much anger then this new "reboot" of canon that Fox is planning will probably implode in their faces... again, then all this angst we've been experiencing with this new canon will all be for nothing.

Funny, because I was asking my comic clerk today if the comics were selling like hot-cakes. They are selling but not like hot-cakes. And what angst and anger? I've seen little to none of that. What angst and anger?

[SM]

Predxeno can summon enough hardcore angst and anger to account for 10 normal fans.

[predxeno]

It was implied that not a lot of people are fond of the rewriting the past films concept that Fox currently has going on.

[RakaiThwei]

It was implied that not a lot of people are fond of the rewriting the past films concept that Fox currently has going on.

I most certainly don't like it. But hey.. every fandom goes through retcons.

[Xenomrph]

The parentheses are the titles in which they happened (or will happen, in some cases - not all of those titles are out yet).

What scenarios in particular happened? What titles were accounted for?

I'm not sure I understand the question? All of the scenarios I listed will have happened once their titles have been released, and all the ones that have been released so far have happened. Hicks lives in Colonial Marines, Ripley wakes up in Out of the Shadows, W-Y comes back in Sea of Sorrows, etc.

[predxeno]

I still don't get why fans never liked bringing Hicks back from the dead, then again no one ever told me.

[Xenomrph]

I still don't get why fans never liked bringing Hicks back from the dead, then again no one ever told me.

It wasn't the fact that they did it, it was how they did it.
I don't mind it, but I can see how it could rub people the wrong way. It feels a bit like bad fan-fiction in some ways.

[FiorinaFury161]

I still don't get why fans never liked bringing Hicks back from the dead, then again no one ever told me.

Because of...

Spoiler

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[SM]

I still don't get why fans never liked bringing Hicks back from the dead, then again no one ever told me.

Because he was quite clearly, obviously and irretrievably dead in Alien3, and the manner of his return was possibly the most incomprehensibly bad piece of writiing ever associated with an Alien license.  It not only paid no attention to the continuity of the souce material - it paid no attention to its own continuity.

[predxeno]

Am I to take it that this will be our official stance in the continuity rewrites laid out in the future?

[RakaiThwei]

I'm not sure I understand the question? All of the scenarios I listed will have happened once their titles have been released, and all the ones that have been released so far have happened. Hicks lives in Colonial Marines, Ripley wakes up in Out of the Shadows, W-Y comes back in Sea of Sorrows, etc.

I was asking if any of the past EU was accounted for, but it seems I misunderstood your statement.

[SM]

What's "our official stance"?

[Xenomrph]

Isn't there a totally different Hicks prop in the theatrical cut vs the extended cut?

I still don't get why fans never liked bringing Hicks back from the dead, then again no one ever told me.

Because he was quite clearly, obviously and irretrievably dead in Alien3, and the manner of his return was possibly the most incomprehensibly bad piece of writiing ever associated with an Alien license.  It not only paid no attention to the continuity of the souce material - it paid no attention to its own continuity.

'Alien3' left enough wiggle-room by making his corpse unrecognizable. If they'd left his head intact and just had him impaled through the chest or something obviously unsurvivable, I highly doubt Colonial Marines would have even tried to resurrect him.

I'm not sure I understand the question? All of the scenarios I listed will have happened once their titles have been released, and all the ones that have been released so far have happened. Hicks lives in Colonial Marines, Ripley wakes up in Out of the Shadows, W-Y comes back in Sea of Sorrows, etc.

I was asking if any of the past EU was accounted for, but it seems I misunderstood your statement.

Yeah no, those are all retcons within the last year, from entirely new material that's just come out or about to come out.