Great point: it’s going to be expensive to show the aliens so it will likely start more convo/human driven.
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wordcraeft@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Article title aside, it sounds like the show will be more about capitalist dystopia than xeno kill count. I kind of wonder how much screen time the creatures have at all, compared to a Game of Thrones style character narrative.
ryantown@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
The capitalist dystopia was always the true horror of the films. None of the terrible shit that happens in the first two films would have happened if capitalism wasn’t heavily involved.
wordcraeft@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Fair point. I think only the AvP movies skip the capitalism commentary in favor of pure action-horror, and those are now non-canon.
I may be one of the only people on the planet that enjoys every single one of the Alien and Predator movies, though.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
No, I also like pure action movies that don’t give a fuck if the plot makes sense or is even believable. At least the first two Alien movies do make it very subtle, with the main focus still being action and horror. It just they actually cared about the story and the capitalism is the glue that makes the “why are they so stupid?” stick.
Psythik@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
AvP is no longer canon? It was the only Alien movie I’ve seen and I throughly enjoyed it when I saw it in theaters as a teen.
wordcraeft@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Yeah, the events of Prometheus and Covenant change the timing so that the AvP movies don’t work. Doesn’t matter though, they’re still fun.