Quote from: SiL on May 02, 2010, 12:31:05 AM
There are so few Alien fan scripts, though - and of them, Harvest is one of (if not the) only prequels.
Fan stories have used Scott's ideas for ages - Bio-engineered Aliens to clear out planets, etc.
As for these fan stories,
Are they really on the same par with the HARVEST author. If so please show me some of these sophisticated stories.
You have to just be logical about it.
In Detective work, rule #1 is always '99% of the time, the most obvious solution is usually THE answer.' The Butler did it, the boyfriend stole the wedding ring, your wife is cheating on you, 95% of 'fans' don't like the script with homosexuals, ant-sized aliens and SJ BBQ's, so there is only a 5% chance that it was actually written by a fan.
That may seem abrasive at first, but please take those odds into consideration for a moment. When I haven't liked a fan script it's almost always been because it lacked a certain sophistication and professionalism, that this script simply does not lack. Even when fan fiction is riddled with cool, good ideas...(IE: Someone mentioned a Female Synth Villianess should run Weyland Yutani on Earth...Good idea but NOT on the same scale as tying the ALIEN's biology to the way the SJ's don't understand the mating habits of humans and thus naively force human slaves into homo-sexual relations for purposes of procreation, all the while to make a larger political statement about Capitalism and enslavement within the Company..? = Not FAN FICTION).
Consider when you think about this that it's possible some of those things in the H script most didn't like, have changed by production BECAUSE fans won't like them.
So,
Here we have one of the only scripts for a Prequel to ALIEN that has ever popped up on the internet and fits in with everything Ridley has said about the Prequel, before AND after the script was commissioned. It is not some H.S. fanboy jargon but rather a sophisticated SCI-FI tale with a depth uncommon in fan-fiction. It is very well written and somewhat philosophical. It appears right around the time that would be logical if we were to believe we are now on the 4th draft. There were C+D letters. Ridley's interviews and details underscore the scripts content so far.
Yet, you are all citing these disjointed history of info as explanations to show how anyone could have randomly picked the necessary particular ingredients and come up with the same soup. To show how easily someone can gel all the right elements together at the right time, because there was demand, and all just to shed doubt upon the content and suggest that it is POSSIBLE that the script is NOT a draft, when the OBVIOUS assumption to make at this point is that the script is legit.