Easy pass.
Things like this just make the galaxy seem so small:
"our new lead characters are RELATED to those classic characters you LOVE! and EVERYONE MEETS THE ALIEN!"
...and.... are you really telling me that Vasquez was ever attracted to men?
Claiming Vasquez for "the straights" just feels like the exact opposite of how "representation" ought to work but.... whatever.
(Alien Isolation is good DESPITE Amanda being related to Ripley btw)
Quote from: Engineer on Mar 25, 2022, 10:16:37 PM
The back-story given to Vasquez, as jenette Goldstein describes it in older interviews, does not jive well with what the author is trying to do here imo. Vasquez was a great character, But her history is not all that heroic. She was in gangs and committed murder as a juvenile (hence the teardrop tattoo). She had a life sentence in prison and joined the marines as an alternative to prison, but she was still a lifer serving in the marines. She always took point in her squad because she didn't care if she died. None of this sounds like a woman who had children and/or is anxious to get back to her family. All that aside, even if she did have children, going to prison at such a young age doesn't exactly allow for her to develop a meaningful relationship with her children so that they'd go searching for what happened to her when they grow up.
I hate to be a downer, but this is probably the least interesting novel Titan has come up with so far, and I really don't see how this is going to work in a way the feels as natural as isolation did...
exactly. There's no art here. It's just top to bottom fanfic tier stuff.
