Aliens Bishop

[skhellter]

lately it feels that whoever wants a quick buck via a ride in the IP train, can just do a pitch to Titan.

[Local Trouble]

lately it feels that whoever wants a quick buck via a ride in the IP train, can just do a pitch to Titan.

When he was writing Star Wars novels in the 90s, Kevin J Anderson referred to it as "flipping burgers."

[Slutty Badger]

lately it feels that whoever wants a quick buck via a ride in the IP train, can just do a pitch to Titan.

When he was writing Star Wars novels in the 90s, Kevin J Anderson referred to it as "flipping burgers."

It showed in his writing.

[[cancerblack]]

Somehow I get the feeling that "actually interesting" is beyond Titan's purview right now.

I'd like them to at least try. Young Hudson learning to cope with his parents divorce by being the class clown and Dillon Rapes A Bitch aren't compelling at all, and crucially, don't feature the titular creature or any real link to it.

[BlueMarsalis79]

Based on the hit films from 20th Century Studios:

"Alien: Predators"



"Hey Dillon my man, do you have the time there?"



"Yeah, it's five o'clock, why?"

[[cancerblack]]

Posts like this are why I love ya <3

[SiL]

I'd like them to at least try. Young Hudson learning to cope with his parents divorce by being the class clown and Dillon Rapes A Bitch aren't compelling at all, and crucially, don't feature the titular creature or any real link to it.

I'm frankly depressed by the number of people who think having an Alien in an Alien story is more or less optional these days.

[[cancerblack]]

There's ways to do it (have the shadow of the thing cast large against the narrative - although no more relatives, Isolation got away with it the once despite not because of that), but those should be the rarest of morsels in a huge creature feature buffet.

[SiL]

There's ways to do it (have the shadow of the thing cast large against the narrative

Nah, if it's not in the bloody thing don't call it Alien. Prometheus had the right idea.

[[cancerblack]]

Again, it's fine once in a very long while. Although I'm not opposed to the naming convention, if that's what you're hung up on specifically.

[SiL]

Again, it's fine once in a very long while.

Again, hard no.

[BlueMarsalis79]

If Prometheus was a perfectly well written commercial and critical darling I wonder if you would still feel this way.

[SiL]

If Prometheus was a perfectly well written commercial and critical darling I wonder if you would still feel this way.

Yes, because Prometheus has nothing to do with what I think, and my opinions aren't founded on box office takings or what other people like.

Again, super depressing that saying "I think Alien stories should have Aliens in them" is somehow a contentious point.

[BlueMarsalis79]

No way, now how, that you could like it then?

[HuDaFuK]

One of the shorts in Bug Hunt that had no capital-A Aliens in it wound up being perhaps my favourite in the book.

But I get where SiL's coming from.