Quote from: HuDaFuK on Jan 15, 2015, 08:57:44 AMQuote from: Birth_Machine on Jan 15, 2015, 03:43:50 AMNo sarcasm here, but do the aliens recycle? Did they retrieve their own kind's remains and Anne's corpse (not a spoiler at this point) for building material or food?
In the novelization corpses are used in the construction of the hive. But even disregarding that, it's not unreasonable to assume the Aliens might collect and nom the people they've killed. The Alien in the third film is seen eating someone (at least, I assume it was eating him, maybe it was just mauling that corpse for a laugh).
Quote from: Birth_Machine on Jan 15, 2015, 03:43:50 AMNo sarcasm here, but do the aliens recycle? Did they retrieve their own kind's remains and Anne's corpse (not a spoiler at this point) for building material or food?
Quote from: Xenomrph on Jan 15, 2015, 04:21:37 AM
So in other words you signature with The Dude is pretty much what's happening here?
Quote from: RakaiThwei on Jan 14, 2015, 11:21:15 PMThat's always what's been happening.Quote from: Xenomrph on Jan 14, 2015, 09:59:05 AM
To be entirely fair, FOX didn't veto any of the Newt's Tale stuff, and "it's canon" has been pretty par for the course when FOX has actually responded to questions from writers/licensors over the years. They've been pretty consistent about that.
So in other words you signature with The Dude is pretty much what's happening here?
Quote from: Birth_Machine on Jan 15, 2015, 03:43:50 AMIf the other EU comics and whatnot are any indication, then yes the Aliens recycle. They use corpses (Alien or otherwise) to build the Hive walls and whatnot. What better camouflage for an Alien in the hive than parts of other Aliens?
There's one question that stood out more than others since I read the novel. There was obviously a lot more carnage in the story than the film lends evidence to, and a number of alien and human corpses. But when the marines arrive in Aliens, there are no bodies laying about. No sarcasm here, but do the aliens recycle? Did they retrieve their own kind's remains and Anne's corpse (not a spoiler at this point) for building material or food?
Quote from: Xenomrph on Jan 14, 2015, 09:59:05 AM
To be entirely fair, FOX didn't veto any of the Newt's Tale stuff, and "it's canon" has been pretty par for the course when FOX has actually responded to questions from writers/licensors over the years. They've been pretty consistent about that.
Quote from: Xenomorphine on Jan 13, 2015, 11:33:08 AMTo be entirely fair, FOX didn't veto any of the Newt's Tale stuff, and "it's canon" has been pretty par for the course when FOX has actually responded to questions from writers/licensors over the years. They've been pretty consistent about that.QuoteThe premise provided by Fox included all of those things, and specifically laid out that the Weyland-Yutani scientists knew they were looking for something in particular. The premise supplied by Fox began by describing the book as "a novel of the Colonial Marines."
Aaand now we know who to blame for all of that... Studio executives.
Also, judging by that reference to 'Newt's Tale' being "official continuity", but only because the author assumed so, I'm guessing that's what's truly to blame for a lot of these 'it's canon' quotations we've been seeing in the last few years. Nobody truly knows and they're kind of just trying to glue everything together in a haphazard fashion.
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Jan 13, 2015, 04:13:45 PM
Hopefully neither. Something more akin to how Youll handled them in South China Sea.
Quote from: Xenomorphine on Jan 13, 2015, 11:33:08 AM
Aaand now we know who to blame for all of that... Studio executives.
QuoteI'd have been interested in why the cocooned woman in the film wasn't included. From what I've read of reviews, she doesn't feature in the story.
Quote from: RakaiThwei on Jan 13, 2015, 03:28:48 PM
1) What will be the treatment of Predators be like? Will they be written as Yautja or Hish, or will they be a new interpretation?
QuoteThe premise provided by Fox included all of those things, and specifically laid out that the Weyland-Yutani scientists knew they were looking for something in particular. The premise supplied by Fox began by describing the book as "a novel of the Colonial Marines."
QuoteAlso, several people have complained about the lack of communication between the company and the colony...completely ignoring the established time frame of interstellar communications. Those who are concerned about canon should also pay attention to established science within the ALIEN universe.
November 2014 saw the release of Aliens – River of Pain, the third and final in a trilogy published by Titan Books. Written by Christopher Golden, River of Pain took us back to the weeks leading up to the fall of Hadley's Hope, the aftermath of which we saw in Aliens. We spoke to Christopher prior to the release of the novel in October and now that we’ve had chance to digest and review the book, Christopher has taken some time to answer some of our follow up questions:
“AvPG – An aspect of River of Pain that I really loved was the focus you put on the difficulties of the frontier life. This wasn't something that was ever really alluded to in other literature. What made you explore this in the novel?
CG – If you're going to do a novel about colonists out on the fringes of the explored universe, desperate people who are starting over in life and will probably never get back to Earth, there's no other way to do it. It's very much a frontier mentality. It's dangerous and lonely and probably maddening to think that if something goes wrong and you die, you're dying so far from home.”
Be sure to check out the interview in its entirety. I’d like to thank Christopher Golden for taking the time to talk to us again. Next up with have Tim Lebbon’s Rage War trilogy, a new series that sees Aliens vs. Predator return to the novel format.
Be sure to let us know what you’re looking forward to in Rage Wars and what you thought of River of Pain down below.