Quote from: thexenomorph on Jun 18, 2025, 12:46:40 PMTo be fair, isn't there a lot more lore to the Alien series than the Predator series? Like, wouldn't there be more to discuss for an Alien movie?
Yeah, it's been an imbalance in the two franchises since the beginning.
The first Alien movie is a very focused story, but it comes with a turnkey imaginary setting full of details and major elements. The Weylan-Yutani, the future exploitation of space resources, the biomechanical synthetics, the space travel legislation, LV-426, the Derelict, the Space Jockey, the Alien creature, as well as more subtle components such as the Semiotic Standard or the Moebian "samurai" space suits, are ready-made worldbuilding for franchise expansion. Not to mention the 1979 masterpiece has very distinct atmosphere and art direction.
The first Predator is a great movie, but it's ultimately a raw actioner set in a contemporary forest with some basic real/pseudo-real geopolitical context, whose only lore elements are the title character and their technology.
Predator always struggled to adequately develop from this point, it lacked some strong franchise vocabulary. Predator 2 did the wise move to situate its story in the near future and to work a little more on Yautja culture, but it was badly received and did not became the launching ramp for further sequel.
Then about every Predator movie tried things in a different direction, while the extended universe worked HARD to really develop the biology, sociology, traditions of the Yautja... with no consistent vision and almost no appreciation from the episodes hitting the silver screen, which also started showing large discrepancies (Yautja technology is radically redesigned in every flick).
And then there's the problem of Fox trying to merge the two settings, which in my opinion harms both.
