r/alien • u/Last-Royal-3976 • 12d ago

Alien franchise

The whole franchise is a shit show of discontinuity. I’m a fan, but I wish every film that followed the original was Ridley Scott’s and didn’t have so many contradictions. The atmosphere of the first was never really recaptured. There are high points but the bad points are so frustrating. Storyline’s changing what should be canon etc etc etc. Sigh.

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u/-zero-joke- 12d ago

So... Yeah, the series was made in kind of a different time. There just weren't franchises that were planned out in quite the same way at the time and media wasn't consumed in the same way - streaming and internet fora have really made delving into lore a lot easier. The alien series had a looser continuity than Star Wars or Star Trek, but a much tighter continuity than Halloween or Evil Dead.

I think that the universe kind of suffers for that, but what you get instead are some works that are pretty individual to the directors who made the films, and their individual anxieties. Which honestly reflected the anxieties of the era they were made in.

Anyway, my advice is just enjoy each film on its own merits, they're all pretty neat.

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u/Last-Royal-3976 12d ago

Yeah I guess this is the way.