Alien: Romulus' has the same problem as 'Prometheus' and 'Alien: Covenant' — and it's bad news for the franchise

[Admin]

The magical black goo introduced in "Prometheus" is holding the Xenomorph back.

Alien: Romulus' has the same problem as 'Prometheus' and 'Alien: Covenant' — and it's bad news for the franchise : Read more

 

[Classical Motion]

I was beginning to think it was my browser but I went to some other older posts and the links work fine. I get a blank here like with the radio circles.

 

[Wolfshadw]

Ditto. Blank page here as well.
Also confirmed on the radio circle article as well.
Win 10/Firefox

-Wolf sends

 

[COLGeek]

Ditto. Blank page here as well.
Also confirmed on the radio circle article as well.
Win 10/Firefox

-Wolf sends

Saw same behavior trying to search from the main site. Something is amiss.

@shaines @CParsons

 

[CParsons]

Saw same behavior trying to search from the main site. Something is amiss.

@shaines @CParsons

Issue with the blogs, it should be resolved now.

 

[Seamurda]

I don't think the space transport in Alien is particularly realistic if just has a realistic feel.

How the ships move is just never explained because it's not the focus of the story. They certainly have FTL communications in Aliens and Newt survived for a few weeks before her rescue indicating that they can cross interstellar distances in a few days.

They also have anti grav....

 

[teachmehowtodougie]

Hard disagree I like the goo

 

[slee]

Slight offtopic tangent:

There is a small typo in the article:
damning with faint phrase
->
damning with faint praise

This expression was a nice discovery for me, that I had to look it up, and in the Wikipedia it reads as "praise", which makes sense.
Or was the author doing a tongue-in-cheek here? ;-)

 

[Pleiades]

A "perfect organism"!? That always makes me laugh

No, just no.

 

[miblan]

You know you're allowed to enjoy something right? You don't have to be nitpicky or be overly critical of media to be cool. The movie is good and fun to watch. Prometheus and Covenant are fine movies. The goo is an acceptable plot device that doesn't ruin the Alien lore at all. It really sin't that deep.

I swear. People these days are tryharding to be negative about entertainment. It's sad. Nobody profits from this and only get miserable. You are allowed to enjoy stuff.

 

[Alienbishop]

What a pretentious article, devoid any real
substance.

 

[twitch758]

I completely disagree with the author of the article. The "origin story" for the Xenomorph from Prometheus and Covenant has never seemed illogical or nonsensical. And the black goo with "seemingly magical properties" also makes sense. If we can all look back at what Arthur C Clarke said, which was, any technology that is far more advanced than our own would be indistinguishable from magic. And why does the black goo have to effect everyone that comes in contact with it in the same way? David straight up said that the goo was extremely mutable. Everyone's DNA has differences. So it makes since that it may do one thing to one person and something different in another. The author just seems like they have a very inflated outlook of their own opinion and they were just complaining to complain.

 

[AnnaMoscow]

Can we all just agree that Ripley died in Aliens and the movie concluded with 2 great films? Aliens 3 and Resurrection were not necessarily bad, but I'm not considering them sequels even though they were. AVP and Prometheus were simply kinda fun to watch, but they are whole different stories to milk the one and only story of 1979's Alien and the great sequel Aliens.