Negativity!
rob clayton
MemberOvomorphJune 09, 20176592 Views35 RepliesNot sure what is going on with the forum at the minute however it seems that every other topic I click on is filled with a fair bit of negativity and trolling. I come here on a daily basis, sometimes just to read and sometimes to participate and have found all the members ( bar from a couple whom I won't name ) to be genuinely nice and intelligent people. Being a gay man myself it saddens me to see in 2017 the word ' homo' being used a couple of times! sorry for the small rant, just wanted to get this off my chest! That aside, Still great work and updates form you guys!
Frankly, I LOVE classic pre-80's sci-fi, because it all had to be done old-school, like how they did the Flatscreen displays in 2001, as example...they faked-it-up and it looked Beautiful.
The Black Hole had some pretty cool ideas, and some great visuals, a Transparent starship, pretty cool idea, gotta say.
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Well, who knows with movie-rumors, right? We'll just have to wait and see, as always.
The scene in The Black Hole that always gets me is the asteroid rolling down the core of the ship and them scrambling to get out of the way. :)
That movie had some fantastic visuals and great concepts, like mechanically-enabled telepathy between VINCent and Kate. The dark horror of what Reinhardt did to his crew, and of course Maximillian, who is the absolute personification of Menace, always liked that and how they hinted that Reinhardt was NOT the one truly in control, but Max was. :D
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They really could make a genuine horror with it yes, just accentuate some points more, it wouldn't take much really!
And you'd stiill be able to keep the action in it, also.
Heh, Max vs David...if David thought getting his head torn off was bad, he'd be in for a real wake-up call with Max's wirling blade arms.
Cute pun also ;)
Thinking about it, I'm gonna give a 'nod' to that movie in ALIEN: Manticore. The Palomino was a good, no-nonsense design of an exploratory vessel, pretty realistic, and fits the aesthetic of 'used-universe' that ALIEN is built upon.
There's a convo between a pair of characters and it'd add some detail about when a fairly important star system was investigated historically-speaking.
Might even tool up a short-story about the first expedition to Shadowfall by the Palomino.
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Yeppers, that's a very good summation of what went wrong with ALIEN: Covenant.
The holes and disconnects are things that any movie or book must strive to eliminate as it's really just a point of antagonism of the fanbase.
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Just finished writing it in, and have an early-stage rough-out of it's story with regards to it's mission to the Lakota star system to investigate signs of habitable worlds. :)
As for it landing tail-first, well if Elon Musk can do it with conventional rocketry nowadays in the real-world, there's NP with such with advanced tech. :)
...gotta do some picture searching for ground vehicles that 'fit' the ALIENverse aesthetic, which isn't too hard, and also plausibly fit aboard albeit with VERY little garage-space, and can be deployable via an extensible cable-crane-lift system.
How the crew gets down to the ground, well the central shaft below the main body could plausibly have an elevator system for personnel and small/light cargo items.
The Palomino flies again!!
THIS time with a happier ending. :)
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