Quote from: Voodoo Magic on Mar 09, 2019, 04:55:06 PM
Obviously the thermal image is just creative license, especially after hearing the director explain the dry ice was used to simulate a "hot environment". Plus Anna said in Predator that Predators only come to Earth "in the hottest years", and the City Hunter came to LA during a heatwave.
The image is what it is. It's demonstrating a totally cold environment, devoid of
any heat.
Predators coming to Earth during particularly hot times might not necessarily be a temperature preference for them. It might be them responding to
human behaviour which occurs more during those time. More people likely to be driven by anger and frustration, more likely to engage in violence and such.
Could also be something to do with our location in the solar system during those times. Who knows?
Point is, their ship in the sequel is most definitely cold and they don't seem to care, at all.
And you know what? That makes a
lot of sense. Because if they evolved somewhere hot, they wouldn't perceive things in terms of thermal imaging - their environment would blind them! Predators evolving in a naturally
cool environment, however, would mean thermal sensitivity allows them to be attracted to the heat sources of prey.
So, it might well be that they're more used to cool temperatures and hotter environments are what they perceive as more of a challenge. We just assume otherwise because their skin makes them seem reptilian, but they could easily be warm-blooded. Or even have metabolism which causes them to radiate a lot of heat (which, in turn, might further help to explain them evolving thermal vision, in order to better locate one another) and, thus, prefer to retire somewhere cool.
