In an effort to temper my expectations for Alien: Earth, I’m trying to remind myself of some of the weirdest/worst/oddest Alien lore decisions that were revealed in official Alien universe installments, including:

Any others? I seem to recall there being a humanoid Alien queen, but iirc she was just a nightmare vision.

  • JayleneSlide@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Hackneyed: Overused, repeated too often.

    Ever since Cameron’s “Aliens,” there was almost always a boss fight with a queen xeno in the 4th act of plots. The books and comics became too formulaic for me. Weird crisis > oh no, drones are on the loose > people be all crazy in a crisis > climax > ostensible resolution > oh noes! a queen alien!

    So once Scott took back control of the franchise, the themes and motifs changed to be more allegories based on Scott’s original premise: bad ideas corrupting our minds and bodies; metaphysics and the nature of creation; creation myths; the pitfalls of technology and especially drive for machine intelligence; unchecked capitalism will gladly destroy everything for a few dollars more*; how humanity will be its own downfall; the male fear of male pregnancy.

    *to be fair, unrestrained corporate power and the moral hazards of capitalism was were always a theme from the start (I can grammar)

    In the Dark Horse Xenoverse, stories that radically broke with formula were always my favorite. “Cyberantics” (https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Cyberantics:_A_Little_Adventure) leaps to mind. I mean… an Alien children’s book?! Winning!

    If you’re in the mood for some Xeno brain bleach after all the WTF, the new books are mostly a good, worthwhile ride. And I just noticed that Philippa Ballantine published a sequel to “Inferno’s Fall” in January. Got that on hold at the library!

    Warmly, A Fellow Xenomorph Media Junkie