Bishop in Alien 3 - Human or Android?

[SM]

Could the same thing have happened 57 years earlier on board Nostromo with an older model synthetic relaying information back directly to Weylan(d)-Yutani?

Not in any useful sense.

If Ash was in fact relaying info back to network, no one either received or acted on it for the next 6 decades.

[Arterial Spray]

Could the same thing have happened 57 years earlier on board Nostromo with an older model synthetic relaying information back directly to Weylan(d)-Yutani?

Not in any useful sense.

If Ash was in fact relaying info back to network, no one either received or acted on it for the next 6 decades.

Or so we thought. There are after all a trillogy of books and a game coming out, all set in the interveening years.
Joy for the continuity nightmare to be created!

[SM]

They can nibble around the edges, but nothing's going to change the fact they had Alien specimens on their doorstep for over 20 years and did sweet FA with them.

[HuDaFuK]

They can nibble around the edges, but nothing's going to change the fact they had Alien specimens on their doorstep for over 20 years and did sweet FA with them.

Kinda like how nothing could change the fact that when Ripley topped herself on Fury, she effectively wiped out the Xenomorphs... until ACM came along and took a big diarrhetic shite all over that.

[SM]

Just like every other video game that most people don't pay attention to.

[HuDaFuK]

Except ACM had very vocal backing from Fox. I don't remember them ever stating a game was an official part of the film series before.

Don't get me wrong, I'm arguing with you. I just won't be holding my breath that these new Fox-backed novels won't shit all over what was established in the films in exactly the same way as the most recent game.

[Arterial Spray]

I still like that fox has remained completely silent with regards to A:CM's cannon status. All mentions of cannon came from within Gearbox and a Sega press release.

Looking back IIRC a number of EU projects made a big deal about being cannon but fell by the wayside when they failed to live up to expectations.
The author of the first of the new novels has been touting them as cannon.

[Local Trouble]

Did Fox ever make an official statement or was it all Gearbox and Sega claiming that Fox said that?

[SM]

Except ACM had very vocal backing from Fox. I don't remember them ever stating a game was an official part of the film series before.

I don't remember Fox ever saying anything.  Some clowns at Gearbox did though.

Don't get me wrong, I'm arguing with you. I just won't be holding my breath that these new Fox-backed novels won't shit all over what was established in the films in exactly the same way as the most recent game.

I'm sure they will in varying degrees.

[HuDaFuK]

I don't remember Fox ever saying anything.  Some clowns at Gearbox did though.

No you're right, Fox never said anything themselves. But with Gearbox throwing Fox's name around so openly, I can't imagine they wouldn't have said something if they disagreed with what they were doing.

Don't get me wrong, I'm arguing with you. I just won't be holding my breath that these new Fox-backed novels won't shit all over what was established in the films in exactly the same way as the most recent game.

I'm sure they will in varying degrees.

Also just realised I meant to say "Don't get me wrong, I'm not arguing with you." Missing out the one word kinda made my statement the complete opposite of what I meant to say, sorry!

[SM]

I know what you meant.

[The1PerfectOrganism]

Human, the Assembly cut makes that obvious and Alien-3 isn't as good without the Assembly Version.

[Vermillion]

Human, the Assembly cut makes that obvious and Alien-3 isn't as good without the Assembly Version.

Like saying Star Wars is inaccurate based on the first draft written as Starkiller. 

[HuDaFuK]

Like saying Star Wars is inaccurate based on the first draft written as Starkiller.

How is that even slightly similar?

[Vermillion]

Like saying Star Wars is inaccurate based on the first draft written as Starkiller.

How is that even slightly similar?

Assembly cut.  Is a draft version or a hypothetical director's vision.