Quote from: SamHain on Jan 25, 2010, 02:36:27 AM
Gill was killed because of the Grid's 3 meter tail and Celtic could have used his spear, shuriken, dagger, netgun in any moment of the fight to kill Grid but he decided to fight like some crazy berseker.
As long the preds' deatchs are logic I'm ok with it, Im pretty sure that most of the predator fans didn't have any problem with the alien queen killing Scar and the predalien killing the preds on the ship.
There's a certain sect of
Predator fans that don't acknowledge the power of your basic Alien warrior, however. After all, your normal adult Alien is what the
Alien fans really want to see. They don't want to see a Queen kick ass, or a Predalien slapping around unarmed civilians as much as they want to see Aliens doing their thing.
And if you take canonical evidence from the
Alien saga, then you'll find that they're strong (even moreso than Predators), agile, stealthy, highly resilient (plasma thrusters, molten lead, pistol rounds to the face) and clever. A match for any Predator, especially considering that Pussyface went down in hand-to-hand combat to a cop and Anytime got scared shitless by Arnie's clever tactics.
That's what potentially so great about the
Aliens vs. Predator franchise - tense battles that don't have a forgone conclusion and display the strengths (and weaknesses) of both species. The original comics were out of touch with the core concepts of both the Alien and the Predator and so were flawed representations. Only the first movie and the two PC FPS games have really gotten a respectable result in this regard, and they all display the Alien as a strong, resilient creature which is a threat to both humans and Predators irrespective of how many there are.
One Predator taking down two Aliens isn't 'logic' or a 'given'. It's poor, generalised narrative based on comics that failed to really capture what made the Aliens and Predators compelling in the first place. Not only does it trivialise the Aliens themselves, but the struggles of Ripley and the doomed souls around her. So an
Alien fan feels confused when the Aliens become cannon fodder, because in the movies, if just one of those things got down here,
all this, all this
bullshit you think is so important? You can just kiss that all goodbye. But in the comics (and AvPR), civilian-issue pistols are highly effective weapons against them and humans can even defeat them in hand-to-hand combat.
Complete and utter ruination of both a wonderful saga and a compelling creature.
There's a different sect of
Predator fan, too, but they're far too reasonable for me to complain about.
