If they're deleted, they're deleted.
They're not in the final product. AvP never showed any of these things I mentioned - nor implied them.
The novelization differs from the film on these points - and everyone that SiL mentions in the post I quoted -, when, in-universe, it's
supposed to represent the same event, with the same characters and same events. We can't have two versions of a thing.
Quote from: SM on Mar 24, 2011, 03:32:13 AMDeleted scenes and concepts are 'plot points'?
Storyline events/story details then?
Quote from: predxeno on Mar 24, 2011, 03:57:22 AM
If it's in the novelization, it's a deleted/alternate/extended scene in my book, not concepts.
You can't delete two Predators completely from the film. From the start we know that they are three. Three pods land on the Surface of Antarctica. Three Predators attack the mercenaries in the camp. Three Predators run in the Pyramid. Three Predators are seen in the film. Where are the other two? Simple answer: in
Alien Vs. Predator there are not five Predators. Just three.
Same with the full-grown Predalien - no fourth Predator to be facehugged, no Predalien.
Quote from: Sharp Sticks on Mar 24, 2011, 04:13:24 AM
But that means making a judgement that would render one half of the events non-canon.
Meaning it's not all canon, and not all of it happened. Or maybe my logics are not strong enough.
Precisely. You either take one thing, or take the other. And films have priority.