Quote from: Perfect-Organism on Apr 11, 2016, 02:44:27 PMWilks and Billie simply have no style. It's poor second-hand fiction.
But it just isn't though. It's
the exact same characters with different names. If you're saying they're badly developed rubbish, then you're basically saying the development of Hicks and Newt in the EU stories was rubbish, because nothing else was altered about them beyond the names printed on the paper.
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The fact that it is so glaringly transparent that they are those other characters and we have to play pretend the whole time is insulting to the reader's intelligence. The stories cease to make sense when they are faced with a Ripley-Bot. The development of Hicks and Newt was good because it was based on the original Aliens film, but the story of Wilks and Billie is flawed because it asks the reader to accept that the exact same story as Aliens happened elsewhere and the only survivors were a little girl and a marine. It's a stretch, and It's trite.
It's like saying that we are going to discover derelict juggernauts on all these planets now. It was innovative in Alien, but then we had it happen in Prometheus where the juggernaut became a derelict, and now we seem to be having it happen in the Life and Death series. We'll see how that one goes.
Then there is also the River of Pain novel where yet again we see a marine with a little girl escape LV-426. Are we really doomed to keep repeating this story? Either continue the actual original tale with the characters who survived, or let it go I say.