Quote from: Kimarhi on Oct 12, 2021, 11:15:15 PM
Ripley could be resurrected space jesus riding a tame natural born alien for all I care.
There's this little movie that came out in 1997...
Quote from: SiL on Oct 12, 2021, 11:36:16 PM
I'm the same insofar as canon is concerned, but I still hate that so much new media across multiple franchises is sort of banking heavily, if not entirely, on cheap nostalgia and trite connections to previous stories instead of progressing. So many franchises are becoming a cannibalistic circle jerk wherever you turn.
That was sort of the fun of eu; to explore whacky boundaries, not navel gaze.
Yep, this. When I'm peeking into the EU, which I mostly do with Alien but occasionally with other franchises as well, I usually go there to see stuff that the core media can't/won't do, not to see explanations/backstories for ancillary things in the films like, say, Amanda Ripley's adventures with Aliens.
That's why, in theory, I didn't take inherent issue with the Sil-esque creature in the first arc current Marvel run. It's something that feels very in the spirit of the franchise and its recent evolutions via the prequels, but also something very at home in the realm of comic books much more so than in a film. It was a neat gimmick that I was willing to go along for the ride with. Unfortunately the "art" there was shit, and the writing was wonky, but conceptually it's in the vein of what I'm looking for in EU stories. Same with other oddball entries like
Music of the Spears or
Inhuman Condition, or books that really delve into the actual behind-the-scenes machinations of the political/corporate structure in ways that can't really be done on screen with as much technical detail, like Alex White's novels.