Quote from: 426Buddy on May 29, 2025, 06:03:52 PMPersonally I'm not interested in taking all the mystery out of the creature. It all tends to be very humanizing and relatable. Especially goes for giving them human family dynamics.
Not to mention the Y-word lore that leaked out of Steve Perry's fetid, limited imagination is completely awful.
I mean, the Predator we saw in the original film comes from a species that has mastered interstellar travel, energy weapons, pocket-sized fuel air explosives, optical camouflage, and the miniaturized power sources to indefinitely fuel them. A species that has reach achievements of science far above our own. Hundreds of years or more. And they use it only to go sport hunting? Seems far more likely that the antagonist of the movies is his culture's equivalent of that dentist from Minnesota that killed Cecil the Lion.
The idea that they come from a society that's barely one step above Warhammer 40K orks where might makes right... Like an entire culture built around an MMA gym or Duck Dynasty.
The Predator story
I want to read now is the one where the undersized, nerdy Predator gets bullied by the bigger members of his clan to "go do science stuff" and to fix all of their broken gear.
Or, more seriously, where a deep spacefaring humanity encounters the Predators and they're an advanced civilization that apologizes for the criminals that kept illegally poaching on Earth.
