Quote from: HuDaFuK on Jan 06, 2015, 08:43:25 AM
Quote from: Xenomorphine on Jan 06, 2015, 03:20:38 AMI wouldn't be averse to retconning the third and fourth movies as dreams.
Every time I hear this I'm genuinely stunned anyone would think it's a good, enjoyable idea.
Seriously, it's just ridiculous.
You might as well say the same about the basic AVP concept: Every attempt at getting it on the screen, so far, has been fairly underwhelming, but there's every reason to believe it could be an exhilerating thrill-ride -
if done right.
The same applies here. Like the very first of the AVP comics still stands up today as great, so do the first two original '
Aliens' comics, back when they were about Hicks and a then-adult Newt. They'd need polishing, but the basics were fine.
Also, don't assume it would have to be about Ripley, Hicks and Newt being together. It could simply be any single one of those characters waking up and finding themselves seperated from the Sulaco or other passengers, for whatever reason. There are any number of ways to take it.
I know the new push is to try and make Weyland-Yutani resurrected in a semi-believable fashion, but, eh... The logic used is a little rickety. Having all the USM and magical egg stuff explained away as dreams would, in many ways, feel more satisfying.
But as I say, it
would be a gamble. I'm just saying that it could also,
potentially, be fantastic. I'm just not sure who I'd trust to do it right, is all. Right now, considering how the third and fourth films turned out (in comparison to the original two), a non-dream sequel has just as much chance of being decent as an it-was-all-a-dream version would.
My own preference would be to continue Ripley 8's life, however, as the Alien DNA angle is very interesting (and I think the fate and status of the seventh clone is still unknown).
Quote from: Russ on Jan 06, 2015, 03:58:24 PM
I can't believe we didn't think of this, but someone says "What if Burke was lying about Amanda Ripley."
Given Burke's track record, that's not an unlikely scenario because he wanted to set himself up as the only person Ripley could rely on, trust and be on her side. That opens the door for Amanda stories without the inconvenience of us knowing she dies.
At that point, he had no reason to, whereas
she would have had every reason to read up on whatever existed of records about her daughter's life in private. Amanda was literally her only surviving link to her old pre-nightmare life. Especially since she'd probably be paranoid about trusting a company representative's word, at that point.
Plus, she seemed to be in pretty much I've-wrapped-up-all-my-affairs mode before agreeing to accompany the Marines on their adventure.