At 2/27/15 01:12 AM, NippleManOfMilk wrote:
I grow weary of retcons, can't people just stick to a fucking continuity? I mean, if you have to reboot or wipe a piece of the plot out of existence for new stuff then maybe the series isn't worth continuing. Yeah, part of it is to appeal to a current generation but c'mon, fuck those guy. I know we're all thinking it.
No, we're not all thinking it. I don't see why different directors should be forced to consider the work made by previous directors on a series when creating their own movie. It's not like the series was ever the property of one director, and that all of a sudden a new director came up and decided to ignore parts of the work of his predecessor. Not to mention that Alien 3 pretty much begins with a massive "Fuck you!" to Aliens, by killing ALL the crew survivors of the previous movie, and basically ignoring most of what was previously established in the series just because he doesn't like it.
If anything, the new director could just do the same. Act like this is the 5th installment of the series, but right at the beginning, have something stupid happen, like a huge black hole swallowing a ship, and sending it back at the very last second of the second movie, making it possible for Ripley to change the future and make the 3rd and 4th movies just "disappear", because in that new timeline, "they would have never happened". I mean, if Fincher pretty much did that... why wouldn't you "allow" Neill Blomkamp to do the same? But in the situation we have here, Blomkamp is honest enough to say that he's making a sequel to the second movie, and not the 4th, instead of just destroying everything that happened in the latest installment right at the beginning of his movie.