Quote from: irn on Jun 04, 2016, 05:04:27 PM
Do we all at least agree that nobody really cares about Alien Resurrection being retconned?
Alien 3 on the other hand is just too controversial. We need Middle East peace talks levels of discussion to resolve this.
'ALIEN: Resurrection' has a surprising number of fans. They'll disagree with this idea. They may not openly object; but they do exist.
A retcon is just not necessary. Rather than bring back these characters and damaging the series
even further, Blomkamp would be wise to make an holistic 'ALIENS' movie that regards all the entries to date as legitimate and doesn't step on anyone's toes. It can be done. Making Ripley, Hicks and Newt's return the major point of the movie clearly isn't the way to go about it.
It's bad enough that those 3 characters were killed in the third movie; but the spiteful path of vengeance that Blomkamp's proposal is pushing us towards can't be considered a fair compromise by any means.
I'd love a new 'ALIENS' movie. I think Blomkamp is a good choice to do it. I can also see problem after problem after problem easily avoided by removing these 3 characters from his proposal and taking on a completely fresh cast from the outset. I want to see another Great 'ALIENS' movie - not one that's divisive, damaging and shackled to fickle fan service.
-Windebieste.