Quote from: Rockybear on Jun 19, 2017, 06:26:18 AM
Just recived the report and I enjoyed it, with some respects.
For the first time I read a fictional report with so many supplementary inserts. These inserts are diverse fictional images, oral reports and written information WY collected from characters in the movies. It feels like I'm reading a real secret report with internal materials, as an executive in WY corporation.
CG portraits of xenomorphs are elaborate and gorgeous. Colorful arts of weapons and vihecles are no less than what Ron Cobb and Syd Mead did for Alien and Aliens.
What I don't like about this report is, many page backgrounds are just roughly assembled screenshots from the movie.
Quote from: Xenomrph on May 04, 2017, 03:01:48 AMQuote from: TheBATMAN on May 02, 2017, 08:05:59 AMIf the book had said the Pulse Rifle was "apparently effective" in the single encounter it gets used in, that'd be one thing. claiming it's the best ever is like claiming in 1798 that George Washington was "the best President ever". It's an extremely limited data set, and saying it's the best ever reeks of fanservice.Quote from: SM on Apr 30, 2017, 08:32:08 PM
The Company didn't own the USCM at that point.
I know they didn't, hence why I said at the time the book was written.Quote from: Xenomrph on May 02, 2017, 02:29:40 AM
The pulse rifle isn't WY tech either, and it's a 200 year old gun.
We don't know what the Resurrection weapons are like because we don't see them in action and we know next to nothing about them.
My point is that if the book wasn't being fan-service-centric, there'd have been better ways to frame the pulse rifle (and other things) as being The Best Ever while still being an in-universe document. Taken strictly as an in-universe document, the presentation is pretty lacking, often cotnradictory, and doesn't really have a lot of reasoning behind it. Framed as a fan-supplement book whose focus is the popular movies and the things fans like, the presentation makes a lot more sense.
The pulse rifle technically is at the time the book was written, and regardless they have access to extensive archives on the weapon, what of it? In documented encounters with the Alien it is hailed as the best ever because from what we do know it was the most effective. No issue there. A few posts back you wanted to argue a case for the resurrection weapons but now seemingly admit we know nothing about them.
I fail to see what supplementary books are not written with 'fan-service' in mind. This is nit-picking to the extreme.
We know nothing about the Resurrection weapons because the book doesn't spend any time on them, because it'd rather fellate the Pulse Rifle (a weapon that had its own chapter in the USCM Tech Manual) with a multi-page spread.
The USCM Tech Manual is real light on fan service, considering 98% of the book is fabricated from whole cloth.
It's not nit-picking when fan-service drags down the quality and impact of the finished product.
When fan-service is the book's goal, as it was with the WY Report according to the author, then yeah it's fair to say it achieved its goal.
Quote from: TheBATMAN on May 02, 2017, 08:05:59 AMIf the book had said the Pulse Rifle was "apparently effective" in the single encounter it gets used in, that'd be one thing. claiming it's the best ever is like claiming in 1798 that George Washington was "the best President ever". It's an extremely limited data set, and saying it's the best ever reeks of fanservice.Quote from: SM on Apr 30, 2017, 08:32:08 PM
The Company didn't own the USCM at that point.
I know they didn't, hence why I said at the time the book was written.Quote from: Xenomrph on May 02, 2017, 02:29:40 AM
The pulse rifle isn't WY tech either, and it's a 200 year old gun.
We don't know what the Resurrection weapons are like because we don't see them in action and we know next to nothing about them.
My point is that if the book wasn't being fan-service-centric, there'd have been better ways to frame the pulse rifle (and other things) as being The Best Ever while still being an in-universe document. Taken strictly as an in-universe document, the presentation is pretty lacking, often cotnradictory, and doesn't really have a lot of reasoning behind it. Framed as a fan-supplement book whose focus is the popular movies and the things fans like, the presentation makes a lot more sense.
The pulse rifle technically is at the time the book was written, and regardless they have access to extensive archives on the weapon, what of it? In documented encounters with the Alien it is hailed as the best ever because from what we do know it was the most effective. No issue there. A few posts back you wanted to argue a case for the resurrection weapons but now seemingly admit we know nothing about them.
I fail to see what supplementary books are not written with 'fan-service' in mind. This is nit-picking to the extreme.
QuoteI know they didn't, hence why I said at the time the book was written.
Quote from: CoalescedChaos on May 03, 2017, 02:52:17 PM
Why does Millburn handle the Hammerpede the way he does? Why do some characters seem to lack common sense? We all know Vickers didn't necessarily adore her father to any extent. Understandably so, considering Weyland's non-remorseful words of "David is the son I never had."
The Weyland-Yutani Report states Vickers was personally responsible for choosing the entire crew of the Prometheus, save for Shaw, Holloway, and of course David who were chosen by Weyland.
Seeing as Vickers was in line to become CEO after her father's death and given that she had a less than stellar relationship with him, I can definitely see Vickers' resentment being so strong that she purposely sabotaged the Prometheus mission by recruiting unqualified, loose-cannon individuals and scientists so that Weyland wouldn't have the success he hoped for during the mission.
"Time to go home."
Quote from: SM on Apr 30, 2017, 08:32:08 PM
The Company didn't own the USCM at that point.
Quote from: Xenomrph on May 02, 2017, 02:29:40 AM
The pulse rifle isn't WY tech either, and it's a 200 year old gun.
We don't know what the Resurrection weapons are like because we don't see them in action and we know next to nothing about them.
My point is that if the book wasn't being fan-service-centric, there'd have been better ways to frame the pulse rifle (and other things) as being The Best Ever while still being an in-universe document. Taken strictly as an in-universe document, the presentation is pretty lacking, often cotnradictory, and doesn't really have a lot of reasoning behind it. Framed as a fan-supplement book whose focus is the popular movies and the things fans like, the presentation makes a lot more sense.
Quote from: Local Trouble on May 02, 2017, 02:58:34 AMNo, why would it?
Does the death of Alien 5 mean we can finally stick a fork in the derelict too?