Quote from: HuDaFuK on Jul 15, 2019, 03:21:38 PM
Quote from: Samhain13 on Jul 15, 2019, 01:12:54 PMIts like some writers don't even bother to watch the movies.
Some of the film-to-novel goofs in River of Pain struck me as especially egregious, because there were moments when it conspicuously recreated scenes from the film and then got them wrong. I mean ffs, I'm not talking about really picky stuff that only nerds like us would jump on, I'm talking about things that would be abundantly obvious from watching said scenes even once, which you'd think would be par for the course if you're actively trying to duplicate them.
It just makes the whole thing feel sloppy and careless.
Yeah, sometimes the authors seems make very simple errors, which could have been easily avoided by simply watching the movies and paying attention. There has been moments which Predators kill unharmed humans in books, and it seems some authors weren't even aware that's a thing they don't tend to do.
But then sometimes they still want or have to change stuff for whatever reason, River of Pain and Out of Shadows had of lot of retconing of course, well the Ripley and Narcissus stuff, then they had the Jorden find bodies of Engineers and Aliens that killed each other on the Derelict, and automatically mentioned how they knew right way the Engineers were wearing suits.
Maybe Fox also asked to try to tie in with what we saw on Prometheus. Another thing I noticed as I'm reading stuff, both Original Sin and Sea of Sorrows mention the beacon from the Derelict as being a distress call for help while its clear on Alien it was actually a warning signal to stay away.
Quote from: Corporal Hicks on Jul 15, 2019, 01:55:06 PM
I believe that got fixed in later printings? I remember seeing mention of it somewhere.
Never heard any mention of this. Only the changes in later printings of Bug Hunt.
