Also, Isolation is canon as well. The Nostromo black box was recovered by the Anisiadora. The company likely used that to narrow down the search zone for the Nostromo wreck.
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"Out of the Shadows" being canon makes my head want to explode. It means between Alien and Aliens, Ripley encountered another planet with another crashed ship of the same origin filled with eggs that she can't remember because people used a medical bay to lobotomize the memories of the event out of her. ......
It's a nice addition, but I know what you mean, it's kinda BS. Same with this movie, it's nice, comic too, but the story, total BS with forced Member Berries that just aren't neccessary.
I remember reading somewhere that it was theorized that the xenomorph’s acid blood interacted with its other organs to generate electrical energy it needed to sustain itself to complete its life cycle. The fact that Big Chap survived decades of hard vacuum and still massacred the personnel of Renaissance Station seems to confirm this.
@@XX-121 The "Disney-SW Nonsense-Bullshit Non-Canon Sequel-Trilogy" is just diabolical. A massive, Kaiju-sized, steaming-hot pile of nuclear dogshit poisoning everything & everyone around it, even miles away, that stinks so fucking bad it makes your eyes burn & creates brainfog, because it's so above & beyond stupid, it's not even funny in a HAHA way. Even "The Asylum" would've done it better.
When you first mentioned this comic, I kept hunting the release at the comic shop. Got one! Thank you for covering it. Always a great day when a new AT video drops.
If they hadn't tempered with the rig nothing bad would have happened. I would like to see a whole crew of competent WY employee one time, at that point in the timeline it ain't hard to handle a Xeno the only problem would come from outside factor like sabotage or a raiding party.
Sci-fi history rule states that any time you have a secret lab working on dangerous organisms, it MUST be raided or sabotaged or suffer some influence to let loose the dangerous organisms and create a massive threat.
Lol naming your station after two brothers who betrayed each other founding rome is key when betraying each other causes everything to spiral out of control.
Thank you for the review of this piece, I can rarely leave my home and money is tight so there’s no chance I could have gotten my hands on it. I rely on Alien Theory for all of the Easter eggs and inside info! ❤
The Weyland Yutani never learns. You can't contain the Xenomorph specimen it will always find a way to escape and kill whoever feels is a threat. This would make for a great directors cut of Alien Romulus
Another great video ! If you've not already covered it, I'd love to see a video that goes further into the details of why the Narcissus was docked to the station in Alien Romulus. We see it at least twice in the film. Once at the end of the corridor when Kay is begging to open the door and Andy refuses, and then later it can be seen tumbling away as the station is destroyed. But why is it there ?
They are setting up the plot that Ash downloaded himself into the narcissus and undocked the Narcissus, which will later be found in Alien 2. Its all so predictable. Zero imagination. Idiocracy in art is the final nail in the coffin of a civilisation.
Rook certainly held contempt for humans, but I thought emotions were unique to the David generation which also shows how goated the Walter & Bishop models were.
Rook seems a bit more like Call. He dislikes humanities constant weaponizing of things, not unlike how Call and other automatons work to subtilty assist humanity to stop them from destroying themselves.
15:23 Extreme eardrum blowout warning. That was an extremely abrupt and high pitched sound effect, especially considering that there are either none or only subtle sound effects to that point. Perhaps next time, you could compress it a bit and run it through a level limiter. Otherwise, great breakdown, recap and narration.
This film should have been called Alien: Renaissance. I'll explain... At the end, as we see the station crashing into the planet rings, we'd see the lab sections Romulus and/or Remus separate as they are meant to do in catastrophic scenarios, allowing for the next film: Alien: Romulus. We know a sequel is coming.
It was a space station that fell in a similar way to how Sevastopol Station fell to a Xenomorph outbreak, back in Isolation. The only difference between the two situations, Isolation and Romulus respectively, is the fact that the one in Isolation showed an infected host with a facehugger attached first while, in Romulus, the Xenomorph in question was in an already mature state by the time it was found and the events of Romulus started. So far, two Alien titles have since taken place on spaceships, four on planets, and now two on space stations.
While I enjoyed Alien Romulus, I genuinely had a hard time accepting that Weyland-Yutani would just leave that station with invaluable scientific data to rot in the mining colony planet's orbit for years. That bothered me throughout the entire movie.
It's because everybody on the station died and couldn't contact anyone. Space is also very big so messages would take months to send and receive then take even longer for anyone to arrive.
I realised something after watching Romulus the other day. Big Chap is throughout the movie because all of the xenos, facehuggers are literally clones of big chap. The xenos are all drones also and their entire existence is acquiring hosts to keep the hive alive. The drones were all in hibernation when Rain and the crew came, hence why they weren't completely agro off the bat. Had they stayed on that station longer and had the Corbelan not knocked the station closer to the rings none of them would've made it out alive because those drones would've become aware of their presence and grabbed them. ie; like 60 of them climbing the elevator shaft once Corbelan crew went in the hive shooting up the place.
Yup. Like how in SPOILERS Alien isolation there was only 1 drone until Amanda destroyed the nest and the surviving drones spread throughout the station. It wouldn't be surprising if there was a queen on the Romulus station too.
Excellent content around the lore incorporating the Remus/Romulus portions of the larger story. Out of the shadows was an incredible story with many great characters and the returning characters of that novel. I listen to it often.
Thing is, ASH couldn't have sent information during Out of the Shadows. The comms array on the Marion had been totalled. They were stuck with short range only. Though it's likely Muther was sending information continuously from the Nostromo.
Given how the Weyland Androids almost always have hidden directives, is it any wonder some folks choose the Working Joe models from Seegson Industries?
Pretty sure the Ash/Rook model is manufactured by Hyperdyne Systems, Model 120A2. Carter Burke and Bishop reference this in Aliens during the cafeteria scene
I really don't understand how writing has become a dead art in Hollywood. Romulus was a serviceable enough film but that entire opening sequence was some Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom tier BS. Even if the scuttling procedure had failed to prevent the Nostromo from becoming a hazard to shipping by leaving a massive debris field after the explosion, Big Chap had no business being anywhere near that debris. How hard is it to come up with a beginning that actually fits with the end of the film set before it?
Some guy explained it on reddit, the xeno was pushed toward the location of the destroyed Nostromo and the field was caused by gravitational pull of the debris onto themselves over time as they drifted in space. It would take a long time to form a decent sized field but not impossible. Nothing to ah, they made the movie to much around references, some of them hit the breaking point of suspension of disbelief. The simple fact they had a hard time finding the Xeno should be enough
Nice movie, nice comic, but the story is still BS. Forced connections to the 1st movie by using "Big Chap, the Narcissus & Ripley" without realy doing anything with them, is ridiculous. Should've just do something fresh, like they found a dead city beneath the colony, a biopunk nightmare with some "dead" xenos, they take 1 to the station for research, and then the movie happens, without any forced Member Berries. And at the end, when the survivors leave for another system, it's hinted the dead city awakens.
Over reliance on fan service and under utilization of new or creative ideas. This is not actually the writers, I think, but the general culture of the entire industry (and games and comics too). The goal is not art, it's selling you something, so, like any business, the way to profit is to give the least that the majority are willing to pay for at the highest price they are willing to pay.
So from AVP we know that xenos don't show up in thermal spectrum, so they must have the same body temperature as ambient, which contradicts with stated "unique xenomorph body temperature".
They could start the next film as Alien: Remus, starting with the flashback of the Renaissance station crashing into the rings but now showing us how the Remus and/or Romulus lab has ejected from the destruction for more mayhem to ensue...
Good morning. Thank you always for your team & the incredible professionalism you all put forward for us who love the franchise & more. Please continue on. Thank you 🚀
Even corporate greed couldn't be so indifferent to the costs incurred in the loss of seemingly. Every. Single research lab, spaceship, colony that comes in contact with xenos. Why do they keep going?
Great job with the recap! The added sound effects are a really nice touch 👌 That being said I would have preferred seeing at least some of it on screen. Fede Alvarez should have heeded the adage "show don't tell". Another nitpick: the way the big chap gets discarded doesn't really do justice to the creature that started it all
9:34. Yep, like the idiots of Weyland-Yutani they are, they cloned more of it instead of never bothering with Big Chap in the first place, picking him up in space. Thereby effectively increasing Xenomorph threat to the station that Rain and her group would later encounter. Nostalgia! 😱👽☠️
The alien from the first movie should not have stayed alive as long as it did. Not even the lack of food or oxygen but the life cycle of the creature has previously been suggested to be like that of a fruit fly.
I just wanna know how the Alien resin capsule ended up back in the Nostromo debris field. I know, I know it was on oversight. I'm surprised it happened though.
Naah, they don't care to realy expand/explain this franchise. They want this to be a mystery-box for, like forever & ever, which is the laziest way to handle this.
It's always arrogance that breaks down these movies into survival situations. Whether it's company driven or not, it's always someone thinking they know better than everyone else. You think someone would learn. On a side note, I really wish they would do an xenomorph autopsy. Acid blood aside, it would be absolutely fascinating to see full grey style anatomy graphics of the xenomorph.
If I had a nickel for every time an alien movie had a synthetic named after a chess piece that was bisected by a xenomorph I’d have 2 nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice right?
Romulus was an unnecessary rehash of the first 2 movies. The dialogue was childish. The call backs to the sequels was cringe worthy, and now the continuity of the franchise is in disrepair. The only thing that the movie did well was the set design, but over all it was just another memberberry. They brought back the big chap, just to kill it off screen.
Awesome content as ever. I have most of the recent novels. I contacted Titan as they usually produce the art of the movie books which are excellent however I haven't heard if they have plans to create a Romulus one. Do you know from your sources if they wll?. I would def preorder it. Currently waiting on the release of the 'Aliens What If?' graphic comic and the 'Alien Film Franchise Encyclopedia' which I have had on order since Aug 2023. It's not going to be ready until April 2025. I'm hoping the delay means they'll add Romulus to the book.
The artwork in this comic prequel looks terrible! Like really bad. Still, I love your work on this channel my friend. Your videos are always exceptionally well done, keep up the amazing work! 🫶
Hyla seems like a cool character. Too bad she didn't reach a shuttle and escape or something. Eye patch wearing former Marine with a grudge against XX121? Come on, that could've been an all new comic series right there.
So, one unprofessional would be girl boss with emotional issues, having first screwed up her own career with incompetence, then got everyone else killed by blundering in and turning stuff off? This whole situation could have been rectified with better staff choices.
Let's be clear here, it wasn't just her incompetence. This comic addressed none of the actual writing issues of Romulus and honestly makes it worse. It is absolutely absurd they had essentially ZERO lab safety protocols like back up redundancy on the cryopods for the suspended deadly parasites they had exposed to the scientists with ZERO safety glad or other methods of isolation of any kind. Hell, most of them weren't even wearing any damned PPE! If anything this comic just makes an already bad movie worse.
The problem is that a greedy corporation tried to gain control of a creature with little care and understanding or forward thinking. Enough about Disney, clearly Weyland Yutani has a terrible employee screening process.
I didn’t find this movie to be that bad. I actually liked the old school setting and atmosphere. Alien and Aliens are still the best in my opinion. But this one was alright in my book😊 Edit. The movie Romulus I mean.
Thanks for doing the recap and narration! I'm actually glad this wasn't in the film as the story is incredibly weak, sadly, and unfortunately, it creates some odd plot contrivances to have things locked up by the beginning of Romulus. Big Chap basically dies to an oversized M16 with exolosive-tip, careless, rounds? Feels a bit lackluster compared to the reveal and head-canon one could create from the film. How did they even get there? An ex-marine with a god-complex gets her partner killed and the station fragged... This feels like a story that just didn't need to be told. The mystery was much cooler than the reveal
@ramzamboguitars my point was that the film shows him completely devastated and not simply riddled with bullet holes. There also seemed to be more than just his acid tearing a hole and venting the station. The comic, granted its a short form and visual media, just does not allow for the proper exploration and condensed things down unsatisfactorally. Doesn't matter if Drones are less aggro than warriors. The set-up, payoff, and characterizations were just poorly executed. Eliminated the mystery and the project feels rushed.
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Also, Isolation is canon as well. The Nostromo black box was recovered by the Anisiadora. The company likely used that to narrow down the search zone for the Nostromo wreck.
Where does it officially say that it's canon?
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Or John Wick. Actually, given how incompetent some yautja have been shown, it probably doesn’t help 😂
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"Out of the Shadows" being canon makes my head want to explode.
It means between Alien and Aliens, Ripley encountered another planet with another crashed ship of the same origin filled with eggs that she can't remember because people used a medical bay to lobotomize the memories of the event out of her.
......
It's a nice addition, but I know what you mean, it's kinda BS.
Same with this movie, it's nice, comic too, but the story, total BS with forced Member Berries that just aren't neccessary.
@@eldritchmorgasm4018 about as nice as the star wars sequel trilogy
I remember reading somewhere that it was theorized that the xenomorph’s acid blood interacted with its other organs to generate electrical energy it needed to sustain itself to complete its life cycle. The fact that Big Chap survived decades of hard vacuum and still massacred the personnel of Renaissance Station seems to confirm this.
@@XX-121 The "Disney-SW Nonsense-Bullshit Non-Canon Sequel-Trilogy" is just diabolical.
A massive, Kaiju-sized, steaming-hot pile of nuclear dogshit poisoning everything & everyone around it, even miles away, that stinks so fucking bad it makes your eyes burn & creates brainfog, because it's so above & beyond stupid, it's not even funny in a HAHA way.
Even "The Asylum" would've done it better.
@@eldritchmorgasm4018 The comic wasn't "nice". It's all over the place.
This channel is awesome. One of my favorites.
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When you first mentioned this comic, I kept hunting the release at the comic shop. Got one! Thank you for covering it. Always a great day when a new AT video drops.
This chunk of missing plot is a very welcome addition.
Great work, as usual.
If they hadn't tempered with the rig nothing bad would have happened. I would like to see a whole crew of competent WY employee one time, at that point in the timeline it ain't hard to handle a Xeno the only problem would come from outside factor like sabotage or a raiding party.
Sci-fi history rule states that any time you have a secret lab working on dangerous organisms, it MUST be raided or sabotaged or suffer some influence to let loose the dangerous organisms and create a massive threat.
Lol naming your station after two brothers who betrayed each other founding rome is key when betraying each other causes everything to spiral out of control.
Weyland-Yutani and Seegson are big fans of hubris 🤷♂️
I've missed these type of AT videos. They're always my favourite. You need to do more.
Thank you for the review of this piece, I can rarely leave my home and money is tight so there’s no chance I could have gotten my hands on it. I rely on Alien Theory for all of the Easter eggs and inside info! ❤
The Weyland Yutani never learns. You can't contain the Xenomorph specimen it will always find a way to escape and kill whoever feels is a threat. This would make for a great directors cut of Alien Romulus
Another great video ! If you've not already covered it, I'd love to see a video that goes further into the details of why the Narcissus was docked to the station in Alien Romulus. We see it at least twice in the film. Once at the end of the corridor when Kay is begging to open the door and Andy refuses, and then later it can be seen tumbling away as the station is destroyed. But why is it there ?
They are setting up the plot that Ash downloaded himself into the narcissus and undocked the Narcissus, which will later be found in Alien 2.
Its all so predictable. Zero imagination. Idiocracy in art is the final nail in the coffin of a civilisation.
This was really enjoyable, well done and oddly cozy. Hopefully, we can expect more quality content such as this whenever it strikes your fancy!
”Relax guys, this time we can controll it.”
Thanks for posting this recap of the comic, friend!
Rook certainly held contempt for humans, but I thought emotions were unique to the David generation which also shows how goated the Walter & Bishop models were.
They can at least simulate emotions but they have inhibitors that doesn't let them harm any human.
Rook seems a bit more like Call. He dislikes humanities constant weaponizing of things, not unlike how Call and other automatons work to subtilty assist humanity to stop them from destroying themselves.
Ridley Scott has screwed up the timeline of aliens sequel
Ridley Scott screwed up a lot alien related 😂
15:23 Extreme eardrum blowout warning. That was an extremely abrupt and high pitched sound effect, especially considering that there are either none or only subtle sound effects to that point.
Perhaps next time, you could compress it a bit and run it through a level limiter. Otherwise, great breakdown, recap and narration.
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ooo I have been eagerly waiting for new Alien Theory! Thank you for the upload fellow Canuck! :)
This film should have been called Alien: Renaissance. I'll explain... At the end, as we see the station crashing into the planet rings, we'd see the lab sections Romulus and/or Remus separate as they are meant to do in catastrophic scenarios, allowing for the next film: Alien: Romulus. We know a sequel is coming.
It was a space station that fell in a similar way to how Sevastopol Station fell to a Xenomorph outbreak, back in Isolation. The only difference between the two situations, Isolation and Romulus respectively, is the fact that the one in Isolation showed an infected host with a facehugger attached first while, in Romulus, the Xenomorph in question was in an already mature state by the time it was found and the events of Romulus started. So far, two Alien titles have since taken place on spaceships, four on planets, and now two on space stations.
While I enjoyed Alien Romulus, I genuinely had a hard time accepting that Weyland-Yutani would just leave that station with invaluable scientific data to rot in the mining colony planet's orbit for years. That bothered me throughout the entire movie.
Seems like Matos and his team were some shady scientists and were probably trying to turn against Weyland at one point.
It's because everybody on the station died and couldn't contact anyone. Space is also very big so messages would take months to send and receive then take even longer for anyone to arrive.
I realised something after watching Romulus the other day. Big Chap is throughout the movie because all of the xenos, facehuggers are literally clones of big chap. The xenos are all drones also and their entire existence is acquiring hosts to keep the hive alive.
The drones were all in hibernation when Rain and the crew came, hence why they weren't completely agro off the bat.
Had they stayed on that station longer and had the Corbelan not knocked the station closer to the rings none of them would've made it out alive because those drones would've become aware of their presence and grabbed them.
ie; like 60 of them climbing the elevator shaft once Corbelan crew went in the hive shooting up the place.
Yup. Like how in SPOILERS
Alien isolation there was only 1 drone until Amanda destroyed the nest and the surviving drones spread throughout the station. It wouldn't be surprising if there was a queen on the Romulus station too.
Excellent content around the lore incorporating the Remus/Romulus portions of the larger story.
Out of the shadows was an incredible story with many great characters and the returning characters of that novel. I listen to it often.
Always great! Thank you so much for your work!
I enjoyed this very much. Well done as always sir
Thing is, ASH couldn't have sent information during Out of the Shadows. The comms array on the Marion had been totalled. They were stuck with short range only.
Though it's likely Muther was sending information continuously from the Nostromo.
Yeah the comic makes for great filler by answering those mysterious gaps, but a true alien fan already knows the possible outcomes
Absolutely brilliant video pal. Love this channel
I love this channel! Thank you Alien Theory!
This reminded me of the beginning of The Fly 2.
If you like genetic messes and birthing horrors its a great abomination film.
Given how the Weyland Androids almost always have hidden directives, is it any wonder some folks choose the Working Joe models from Seegson Industries?
Pretty sure the Ash/Rook model is manufactured by Hyperdyne Systems, Model 120A2. Carter Burke and Bishop reference this in Aliens during the cafeteria scene
I really don't understand how writing has become a dead art in Hollywood. Romulus was a serviceable enough film but that entire opening sequence was some Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom tier BS. Even if the scuttling procedure had failed to prevent the Nostromo from becoming a hazard to shipping by leaving a massive debris field after the explosion, Big Chap had no business being anywhere near that debris. How hard is it to come up with a beginning that actually fits with the end of the film set before it?
Dude shut up
Some guy explained it on reddit, the xeno was pushed toward the location of the destroyed Nostromo and the field was caused by gravitational pull of the debris onto themselves over time as they drifted in space. It would take a long time to form a decent sized field but not impossible. Nothing to ah, they made the movie to much around references, some of them hit the breaking point of suspension of disbelief. The simple fact they had a hard time finding the Xeno should be enough
Nice movie, nice comic, but the story is still BS.
Forced connections to the 1st movie by using "Big Chap, the Narcissus & Ripley" without realy doing anything with them, is ridiculous.
Should've just do something fresh, like they found a dead city beneath the colony, a biopunk nightmare with some "dead" xenos, they take 1 to the station for research, and then the movie happens, without any forced Member Berries. And at the end, when the survivors leave for another system, it's hinted the dead city awakens.
Over reliance on fan service and under utilization of new or creative ideas. This is not actually the writers, I think, but the general culture of the entire industry (and games and comics too). The goal is not art, it's selling you something, so, like any business, the way to profit is to give the least that the majority are willing to pay for at the highest price they are willing to pay.
@@Xainfinen That sounds a lot like someone trying very hard to make excuses for lazy writing.
So from AVP we know that xenos don't show up in thermal spectrum, so they must have the same body temperature as ambient, which contradicts with stated "unique xenomorph body temperature".
sick! thankyou so much dude, love your work
They could start the next film as Alien: Remus, starting with the flashback of the Renaissance station crashing into the rings but now showing us how the Remus and/or Romulus lab has ejected from the destruction for more mayhem to ensue...
The "whump" literally got me 🤣
Best alien RUclipsr I wish you will do more of the comic run do a great job narrating
Good morning. Thank you always for your team & the incredible professionalism you all put forward for us who love the franchise & more. Please continue on. Thank you 🚀
Even corporate greed couldn't be so indifferent to the costs incurred in the loss of seemingly. Every. Single research lab, spaceship, colony that comes in contact with xenos. Why do they keep going?
Great job with the recap! The added sound effects are a really nice touch 👌
That being said I would have preferred seeing at least some of it on screen. Fede Alvarez should have heeded the adage "show don't tell".
Another nitpick: the way the big chap gets discarded doesn't really do justice to the creature that started it all
They should have filmed this as well.
Excellent video 🫶 Thank you and God bless 😇
Keep the videos coming I love them
This would be a brilliant opening to the Romulus sequel.
I love how the Alien story highlights the doom of man in an honest way. This is exactly what we would do with a xenomorph.
I love the comedy fan edit of the movie (alien+aliens). Where it turns every scary part funny with a pre-existing spoof scenes.
Oh No, Not again....
9:34. Yep, like the idiots of Weyland-Yutani they are, they cloned more of it instead of never bothering with Big Chap in the first place, picking him up in space. Thereby effectively increasing Xenomorph threat to the station that Rain and her group would later encounter. Nostalgia! 😱👽☠️
Just got a copy of the comic. Very nice! Great video as well.
if the company had been looking for the Xenomorph for 20 years, Did they find RIPLEY's escape pod, but abandon her?
thank you very much for reading that comic :) that's all I have to say about this
You're such a great commentator. Thank you for all your work sir.
Great video. I love Romulus ❤ I love anything Alien
Love the sound effects!
The arrogance and ignorance of W-Y, "drones" knows no bounds.
They never explained how in the vast of space they found the Alien, instead going to the planet on the first place.
A big slap to our intelligence!
I wish Big Chap wasn’t killed offscreen. When Isolation came out I thought maybe the sevestapol drone was the big chap but it was just a sibling.
Great vid!!! Thanks for posting!
Well done and thanks for sharing!
i would love to see a 3d animation of these pages, so much cool backstory!
I liked the gunfire sound effect :)
He only explained why they were too stupid to have it, not why they needed it.
Always a pleasure 😊
The Romulus book was amazing.
The alien from the first movie should not have stayed alive as long as it did.
Not even the lack of food or oxygen but the life cycle of the creature has previously been suggested to be like that of a fruit fly.
I just wanna know how the Alien resin capsule ended up back in the Nostromo debris field.
I know, I know it was on oversight. I'm surprised it happened though.
This should be in the director's cut or extended version of the movie.
yeah that's a great idea, it would also help the new fans get the idea and probably check out the other movies.
Naah, they don't care to realy expand/explain this franchise.
They want this to be a mystery-box for, like forever & ever, which is the laziest way to handle this.
F that movie.
I gotta say.. I expected a bit more meat from that comic book. You make it sound a lot better than when I read it. =P
Great video Alien Theory!
This is what the movie should have been about what happened on the station is what the movie should have been about
It's always arrogance that breaks down these movies into survival situations. Whether it's company driven or not, it's always someone thinking they know better than everyone else. You think someone would learn.
On a side note, I really wish they would do an xenomorph autopsy. Acid blood aside, it would be absolutely fascinating to see full grey style anatomy graphics of the xenomorph.
If I had a nickel for every time an alien movie had a synthetic named after a chess piece that was bisected by a xenomorph I’d have 2 nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice right?
I love that marvel is going back to movie stuff like how it was when I was a kid in the 80s getting comics.
The comic that back fills the plot holes?
They still do comics…I ran home from school to get the dark horse ones. Amazing stories.
Great video bro
Romulus was an unnecessary rehash of the first 2 movies.
The dialogue was childish. The call backs to the sequels was cringe worthy, and now the continuity of the franchise is in disrepair.
The only thing that the movie did well was the set design, but over all it was just another memberberry.
They brought back the big chap, just to kill it off screen.
The comic has a better story than the movie
If indeed Ash did upload the data to the Narcissus, why would he miss out the rather crucial bit of information about it's acidic blood?
Morning all…
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morning mate. Tea?
Good morning peeps 😊
Late night research I see.
Awesome content as ever. I have most of the recent novels. I contacted Titan as they usually produce the art of the movie books which are excellent however I haven't heard if they have plans to create a Romulus one. Do you know from your sources if they wll?. I would def preorder it. Currently waiting on the release of the 'Aliens What If?' graphic comic and the 'Alien Film Franchise Encyclopedia' which I have had on order since Aug 2023. It's not going to be ready until April 2025. I'm hoping the delay means they'll add Romulus to the book.
Great video. really enjoyed it.
The artwork in this comic prequel looks terrible! Like really bad. Still, I love your work on this channel my friend. Your videos are always exceptionally well done, keep up the amazing work! 🫶
So how does the grapple hook remain in Big Chap?
Hyla seems like a cool character. Too bad she didn't reach a shuttle and escape or something. Eye patch wearing former Marine with a grudge against XX121? Come on, that could've been an all new comic series right there.
"I don't trust these synths" - I don't trust Behringer either :)
Honestly Big Chap could have lived longer to become a queen
Brilliant work
So, one unprofessional would be girl boss with emotional issues, having first screwed up her own career with incompetence, then got everyone else killed by blundering in and turning stuff off? This whole situation could have been rectified with better staff choices.
😂 right. Girl bossed to close to the sun and now their wings have melted
Let's be clear here, it wasn't just her incompetence. This comic addressed none of the actual writing issues of Romulus and honestly makes it worse. It is absolutely absurd they had essentially ZERO lab safety protocols like back up redundancy on the cryopods for the suspended deadly parasites they had exposed to the scientists with ZERO safety glad or other methods of isolation of any kind. Hell, most of them weren't even wearing any damned PPE!
If anything this comic just makes an already bad movie worse.
@ Maybe IQs really did dip sharply in the future.
The problem is that a greedy corporation tried to gain control of a creature with little care and understanding or forward thinking. Enough about Disney, clearly Weyland Yutani has a terrible employee screening process.
I didn’t find this movie to be that bad. I actually liked the old school setting and atmosphere.
Alien and Aliens are still the best in my opinion. But this one was alright in my book😊
Edit. The movie Romulus I mean.
I haven’t read the prequel comic yet, but I wish it had been a novella.
Thanks for doing the recap and narration! I'm actually glad this wasn't in the film as the story is incredibly weak, sadly, and unfortunately, it creates some odd plot contrivances to have things locked up by the beginning of Romulus.
Big Chap basically dies to an oversized M16 with exolosive-tip, careless, rounds? Feels a bit lackluster compared to the reveal and head-canon one could create from the film.
How did they even get there? An ex-marine with a god-complex gets her partner killed and the station fragged...
This feels like a story that just didn't need to be told. The mystery was much cooler than the reveal
Big Chap was easy to take down because he was dying anyways. Also, drones aren't as agro as the hive defenders.
@ramzamboguitars my point was that the film shows him completely devastated and not simply riddled with bullet holes. There also seemed to be more than just his acid tearing a hole and venting the station.
The comic, granted its a short form and visual media, just does not allow for the proper exploration and condensed things down unsatisfactorally.
Doesn't matter if Drones are less aggro than warriors. The set-up, payoff, and characterizations were just poorly executed. Eliminated the mystery and the project feels rushed.