I have to agree with the general notion that the
first recordings of Keyes and Dutch were substantially better than Keyes Part II. The first recordings wonderfully filled in gaps in the Predator lore timeline, course corrected Stargazer to more of a villain organization, brought back OWLF, gave us the full backstory of what happened to Dutch after 1987. It righted so many wrongs! Outstanding. 👏
This second batch of recordings definitely did not live up to the first. There was was certainly more fluff over substance this time around.
The single recording dedicated to Isabelle's return was definitely fluff and disappointing, especially when it's stacked against the wonderful Dutch tapes. Tell us more about how living was like on the Reserve Planet. Maybe her & Royce teamed up with another human, or with a River Ghost and developed some sort of primitive crude sign language, acknowledging to work together to fight a common enemy. How did Isabelle acquire the ship? How did she understand the language? How did Royce and her split up? Maybe Royce stayed back at the last minute to create a diversion for another Super Predator so Isabelle could safely launch from the planet? Keyes has Isabelle's ship now in possession - what kind of great accomplishment is that? Nope, we basically got basically nothing.
And I can appreciate the desire to minimize, diminish and retcon as much of the lore damage The Predator caused, but the Predator Killer Suit = ineffective prototype was definitely weak sauce. Maybe have a Predator come back and steal it back even. Something. But this?
Quote from: SuperiorIronman on Jul 02, 2021, 01:21:45 AM
At least give the damn thing to Sean so it'd make more sense why he can suddenly take on a Predator.
Putting the Predator Killer suit in action on Keyes would just logically demand the technology reverse engineered and more suits put in action. So to me, I agree the 'how' they killed the suit was dumb, but killing the suit was the right way to go, necessary course correction.
Quote from: SuperiorIronman on Jul 02, 2021, 01:21:45 AM
You could explain the necessity for Cleopatra doing this by expanding on her fight with Dutch. Maybe Dutch is such a bad ass that Cleopatra needs to cheat. She can't take him in a fair fight and needs to be amped up in order to bring her down.
Quote from: SuperiorIronman on Jul 02, 2021, 12:09:42 PM
Like perhaps detailing a story of how it ended up in storage or maybe use it with Dutch to explain how he'd beat Cleopatra, but no it's in the garbage.
Are you under the impression that Dutch beat Cleopatra? Because in the recordings and the prequel novel Predator Stalking Shadows, Cleo owned Dutch's ass. She killed Dutch's entire team, handed Dutch's ass to him, scarred his face with a net gun and then let Dutch barely live as a warning. So there's no reason why Cleopatra would need the Predator Killer Suit to fight Dutch.