I actively dislike this nomenclature even existing, since it only came about after Prometheus appeared and sodomized the setting due to it being responsible for Covenant existing. In my experience, almost every single time this term comes up, it's solely to point out the black goo.
It also only exists due to SD Perry's Weyland-Yutani report. Don't get me wrong; I've liked some of her books, since I've read several of her Resident Evil novelizations, but I much preferred what the comics cooked due to being less tied to that film.
Linguafoeda acheronsis works just as well.
And A:Isolation is a great game and a love letter to the original movie so that's not wholly a bad thing.
Games have different requirements to movies, so borrowing without any form of retrofitting or understanding the different design is a massive failure on their end. In Isolation, having to find your way around to a terminal or to activate a robot works since the environment and fear makes you experience the horror.
It's idiotic to port that without serious refitting and thinking "this happened due to that" rather than "I need X to happen so Y". That's why the pacing is so clunky in those segments.
It really does come off like writers or the director are too retarded to do their jobs if the best they can do is recycle other people's work.
and the hybrid looked like a Perfected
Nope. It's clearly based on rejected ideas for the Newborn from Ressurection. The RPG rooted through the concept art dumpster. Several of the monsters are based on zombie man from Prometheus' many redesigns for example. I think specifically the UPP's program has them look exactly like Fifer's redesigns.
Also not kidding on the Offspring being a reskinned design, probably only being made cheaper for simplicity. The novelization genuinely describes many of the traits that the bootleg had.
It's a big reason I'm being so hard on the film, since there's playing it safe and then there's having ChatGPT write your movie for you.
I do like the different levels of budgets for these movies, but the world "Alien: Earth" shit has me worried. It's meant to be the FIRST in the entire story, yet has xenos on earth? That were unknown in Alien 1? So what, xenos fucking dinos?
Nope, because that would've played into a pretty cool comic that existed that played with them being a cosmological leveler and almost eldritch horror due to it going after races that spread to far into the stars...
It's instead taking place in a closed circuit city that's going to blow up so no one can talk about it, where the main protagonist is the most current year of ideas, a supersoldier capeshit bootleg who has a ghost girl in her brain and is a hybrid, and it's going to be made to shitpantsingly explain why The Company wants them.
