Wow!
Ok, so I was curious about this thread, and went ALL the way back to the very beginning and read everything up to now! This thread should be kept permmenately! It has everything!
Emotional highs and lows
Canon debates
Speculations and theories
Insults
People getting banned
Celebrity appearances
Trips down memory lane (i.e., alien trilogy on ps1, hell yea! Good ol' days)
And a dash of real facts occasionally sprinkled in!
Oh the drama! It's all here! This made for a better story than AvP:R and A:CM, both! Lol
More seriously though, I have some catching up to do on the new canon. I have the Titan trilogy, and I'm really looking forward to diving into those, especially book 3. I haven't yet touched or obtained any parts of fire and stone, but I've been VERY intrigued by everything I've heard about it. I'm still working on beating isolation; it stressed me out so much that I haven't been able to get the nerve up to finish it! Haha.
I own most of the materials released between 1988 and 2010, and while some of the comics and novels were really good, I never felt like they were officially part of the series. They were all more of a 'what if' scenario to me. Don't get me wrong; some of the stories I really wanted to be part of the official canon, they just didn't quite fit for me. My favorite stories were probably genocide, rogue and I also really like music of the spears (it was odd, but a unique direction/angle that I appreciated). Most of the other EU stuff I felt was terrible, like original sin and DNA war. The avp stories I liked too (except the movies), but never really felt like they fit in either.
I like the fact that fox is trying harder to maintain a stronger continuity/consistency. And with fire and stone, being official, it still has ties to the predators which is interesting. In fact, it seems like a stronger tie now in my opinion. I'd be ok without predators being part of the alien series officially, but if they respect both series well enough in their own rights, I'm ok with them being tied together too.
I don't like the idea of alien 3 being retcon'd (alien 4 I don't care about so much) but I have a feeling that alien 5 won't be a retcon, at least not in the way we're all use to (time will tell though), And I'd like to hear more about what's in store for predator 4. Prometheus 2, I think has potential, especially if mr. Scott is moving away from "gods and dragons." But aside from the visuals, really the only thing about prometheus 1 I liked was that it trampled all over the avp movies! I got a lot of satisfaction out of that! Lol
With all that being said, I'm overall very happy to hear that the stories in the EU that I never felt like they fit in, aren't being squeezed in and explained with half assed rational. But they aren't being denounced either. That fact actually makes me want THIS book more! The extra content is a huge plus too; I really want to know more about those things too, like space beast for example!
The big icing on the cake for me would/will be if A:CM gets the same treatment! I've read here that isolation got mentioned in this book, which I was extremely happy to hear! Isolation deserves canon status! But A:CM not so much!
So my one big question, which I saw about a half dozen people ask but it never got answered, is: what's the status on A:CM? Did it get ignored or left out of this book??