Ask A Genius 1097: Aliens, Xenomorphs, and Retconning
Author(s): Rick Rosner and Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2024/08/22
Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Are the Alienmovies good or bad? What do you think?
Rick Rosner: It was good. The first one I also thought the second one was good. I have yet to see any of the subsequent ones. I had high hopes for Prometheus throughout it, but it was not very pleasant, too. I’ve always wanted them to expand the story’s scope, particularly concerning the aliens. An alien was designed by some other race, right?
Jacobsen: Yes.
Rosner: So, I want to see that race—the one that designed these creatures—or see the aliens get loose on Earth. I don’t need to see Earth 300 years from now. I don’t need to see them sneaking around another spaceship. It’s the same movie again and again.
Jacobsen: They retconned it, or whatever the term is, by making the beings that invented the aliens an AI. The original aliens who tried to create these creatures thought it was too evil. So, an AI named David from a human ship rediscovered the method and created what we now know as a Xenomorph.
Rosner: Is this the plot of the current one, building on Prometheus? So, Prometheus was a bad sequel. Maybe I saw some of the sequel to Prometheus, but I need to check. Also, there was a movie called Alien vs. Predator. I didn’t see much of that either, but the idea was to cheer for one or the other. I assume we allied with the Predator to fight the Alien. That was another low-quality movie that wasn’t great. I wouldn’t mind seeing humans allied with the aliens from Aliens to fight something else. If that’s even physiologically possible, I wouldn’t mind seeing a human consensually engaging with an alien.
Jacobsen: But they have acid blood, Rick! What are you talking about? They have acid for blood!
Rosner: Yes, but that would impede a relationship, though it wouldn’t necessarily prevent one. How often do you come into contact with your partner’s blood? Only sometimes.
Jacobsen: “Impede” may be a euphemism of the week for me there.
Rick Rosner, American Comedy Writer, www.rickrosner.org
Scott Douglas Jacobsen, Independent Journalist, www.in-sightpublishing.com
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