Quote from: Master on Mar 25, 2023, 01:30:23 PMQuote from: Corporal Hicks on Mar 25, 2023, 08:51:25 AMIt annoys me in their separate franchises - ask me about how much I love Aliens in Predator: Concrete Jungle - but as part of the crossovers, a PredAlien always was and should have been involved. The design has just always struggled with.
That's the whole point right? The Predalien should be a focus and main star of AvP. That was my biggest gripe with AvP 2004 back in the day, that we only got a glimpse of Predalien chestburster in the last scene of the film.
I kinda get what you guys are saying, the concept of a predalien makes complete sense in the crossover. But then I think back to the early 90s (what I consider the 'golden age' of the franchise), and Aliens vs Predator worked perfectly fine in its own video game/arcade game/comic books series without the predalien - as cool as it is to see one, to a degree, I think it kinda knocks the balance and undermines each species in their own right. The Alien is the perfect organism, it didn't matter whether it was born from a human, an ox or a dog, the creature was still perfect in its own right... when we see a predalien, its always depicted as "bigger and stronger", and that doesn't sit well with me. It should be a standard xeno with traits of the host, differing only in appearance. The alien doesn't need a predator "to be better", which is how I feel they always push it. What it also does, is puts the predalien front and centre as the 'challenge' for the predator, and relegates 'regular xenos' to fodder. I think if I were to do an AvP movie, first and foremost, I'd handle it like a classic Alien movie (both tonally and aesthetically like the original Alien trilogy) - id take away the action/fight scenes and make it a horror (imagine scenes similar to Dallas in the ducts, with just the 'strobe effect' of a fan in the darkness, and seeing the distortion of a cloaked predator, like a ghost moving at the end of the vent...I think the predator could really add to the 'creep factor' as opposed to 'show it in its shining armour like a power ranger villain at every opportunity' like some of the newer entries prior to Prey do. I'd also make it just a single Predator, and a single Alien in the mix...no fodder. Human survival would be the focus of the story, with them putting together the pieces that there is more than one threat along they way. Any time the predator and xeno do encounter one another, id be handled in an 'Alien isolation' kind of way, with either one on the retreat from the other. I think I'd hold back on the predalien and show both individual species the respect they deserve...save a predalien for a future instalment (and even then, it'd be treated as a regular xenomorph, all but aesthetically)... but that's just my take. (sorry, I know this is going way off topic)