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Posted by Nostromo
 - Aug 07, 2017, 10:28:10 PM
Really enjoyed this podcast last night. Great dialogue and Q&A with Corp. Hicks, Chevvie (I'm good by the way how are you?) & Alan Dean Foster. Superstar questions asked by Hicks to Foster. Great stuff. You guys were pretty right on everything, was beginning to think I was the only one seeing Covenant's rights & wrongs. Blu Ray coming soon maybe if viewed a 2nd time it will be liked more. I need to get past that clumsy use of CGI.
Posted by HuDaFuK
 - Jul 03, 2017, 08:24:52 PM
Quote from: SM on Jul 03, 2017, 08:16:31 PMOr maybe it was unimportant in terms of keeping things moving.

I get that, just playing devil's advocate.
Posted by SM
 - Jul 03, 2017, 08:16:31 PM
Quote from: HuDaFuK on Jul 03, 2017, 12:30:45 PM
The crew didn't know that.

Perhaps.  Or maybe it was unimportant in terms of keeping things moving.  It's mindboggling to me that people get so hung up on 'WHY NO SPACE SUITS?!?!' as if they need to be told they checked the air and just opened the hatch without knowing.

They actually check the atmosphere in Prometheus and people moan about that too.  Can't win.
Posted by Corporal Hicks
 - Jul 03, 2017, 07:17:47 PM
Quote from: Mr. Clemens on Jul 01, 2017, 06:04:04 PM
Great interview. But Hicks... you need to be louder! I had to ride the volume the whole way through, which is why I never listen to podcasts (I only made this exception because of ADF).

But again, great interview!  :)

Thanks for the feedback, Clemens. It's something I know is a bit of an issue and I try to manage. Still working on it.
Posted by HuDaFuK
 - Jul 03, 2017, 12:30:45 PM
The crew didn't know that.
Posted by SM
 - Jul 03, 2017, 10:55:12 AM
Which would've come up negative anyway.
Posted by HuDaFuK
 - Jul 03, 2017, 08:46:53 AM
Quote from: tleilaxu on Jul 03, 2017, 01:12:24 AMYes, they could've shown a short scene where somebody scans the atmosphere and says "looks safe to me", but honestly you could also just use your imagination for that.

It's not so much the atmosphere, but the potential presence of harmful microbes/bacteria in it.
Posted by SM
 - Jul 03, 2017, 01:21:26 AM
I'd argue that the 3D representation of the very atmosphere they're about to descend to, does precisely that.
Posted by tleilaxu
 - Jul 03, 2017, 01:12:24 AM
Having people go without space suits is totally f**king unnecessary. It's Alien, not hard sci-fi, and it's cumbersome and probably expensive and slightly dangerous too. Yes, they could've shown a short scene where somebody scans the atmosphere and says "looks safe to me", but honestly you could also just use your imagination for that.
Posted by Highland
 - Jul 03, 2017, 12:29:20 AM
Quote from: SM on Jul 02, 2017, 08:59:40 PM
You see the actors frustrations with the helmets a couple of times in Furious Gods.

I can't remember if I watched that one or not. It's understandable though, Alien was a little different with it's atmosphere conditions on LV426. There's just no need to having them prancing about in helmets from a movie making perspective if we are on Planets with Earth like atmosphere's. I think from memory there are a few lines in the background of the dropship sequence that address the dangers, it's just not a whole scene or an obvious moment.
Posted by SM
 - Jul 02, 2017, 08:59:40 PM
You see the actors frustrations with the helmets a couple of times in Furious Gods.
Posted by Highland
 - Jul 02, 2017, 01:01:09 PM
I listened to this on my drive home. Good episode, I found it interesting the he kept mentioning "the third prequel" almost like it was a done deal. The black goo part too, sounded like he knew more.

The thing with the space suits ( and I never see anyone mention this) is that it would make for an incredibly frustrating time watching 20 minutes of people in suits ( for them to just inevitably remove them anyway). I think the simple answer is that Scott just wants clear dialog and character faces. He's making a movie after all not a space documentary. A few things do annoy me, but for the sake of the film, it is the right choice, even if it's a little daft.
Posted by SM
 - Jul 02, 2017, 06:35:17 AM
We can determine the atmosphere of a planet without landing on it now.  100 years in the future, while you're sitting in orbit over a planet with a live 3D representation of the weather systems - why couldn't you determine the atmospheric composition?
Posted by Bluray
 - Jul 02, 2017, 02:34:34 AM
Space Trukken - it seems like every planet that had been colonized or will be colonized has been properly vetted prior to the colonists arrival, hence "no space suit needed" which I accept as internal logic for the film's plot. However, this was a new planet not in their logs. So at least for the internal logic of the plot (actual science side, since I agree it's all debatable) it would be nice to have Walter provide a line of dialogue to close off that plot hole. Heck, just strap a mic onto Michael Fassbender during one of his press events and have him say " no known pathogens detected." Then just ADR this dialogue into the scene when the crew debates going into the planet. Lol. I know I'm obsessing over this a bit, but this film goes up a full point for me if this were included.
Posted by Mr. Clemens
 - Jul 01, 2017, 06:04:04 PM
Great interview. But Hicks... you need to be louder! I had to ride the volume the whole way through, which is why I never listen to podcasts (I only made this exception because of ADF).

But again, great interview!  :)
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