Quote from: Rhaw on Nov 07, 2007, 06:29:01 PM
Quote from: Xenomorphine on Nov 07, 2007, 06:17:48 PM
As I say, it screams out 'plot device'.
The Predator was a plot device for an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.
No, it was a character functioning as the antagonist. Not nearly the same thing.
QuoteQuote from: Xenomorphine on Nov 07, 2007, 06:17:48 PMPersonally, I'd say a big enough dose of super-heated plasma/whatever it is should be enough to incinerate any corpse evidence. All it would take is an extra setting on their guns. But that's just me.
Yes use one plot device as the end all be all plot device?
How do you figure that? Predators already have guns which fire some sort of super-heated energy. People presume it's plasma, but there's never been any indication as to precisely what it was. It might even be a concentrated form of ball lightning.
Using a higher setting to bathe Alien corpses with would simply be them using what they've already got in a practical way to achieve the same ends.
Using some sort of blue liquid to turn Aliens into dust, by contrast, is an excuse for Hydraulx to copy vampire deaths from '
Blade 2'.
It's giving the Predators something they don't need.
QuoteQuote from: Xenomorphine on Nov 07, 2007, 06:17:48 PM
They can't be composed of acid because acid is a liquid. Aliens are clearly not made out of liquid.
Humans are 60%+ made up of water.
Which leaves an awful lot which isn't.
Ever seen mummified corpses from Egypt? All the fluid has been taken out of them. That still leaves a lot of flesh, skin and bone.
It seems the directors' original idea was to neutralise acid. Now, after it being pointed out that while Aliens apparently have acidic fluids flowing
through them, they are not 100% acid, this explanation has been changed to something a lot more ambiguous.
Because of that, as with their recent admission over the Predalien reproduction method, my feeling is that this was something they just tossed in there for the sake of it.
QuoteIt's not a get rid of the evidence plot device it's a preserve continuity plot device.
Same thing.