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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1671102" data-attributes="member: 2205">I think we got off on the wrong foot when you started interpreting things I was saying as personal attacks and insults.  If you reread my statements, I've made neither, I've merely stated my opinion, backed up by a little bit of research.Although I still stand by my assessment of most of the novels as the works of hack authors.  Not that I've read all of them, by any means, but I read the first three or four of the alien movies with Bille and Willis, or whatever the character's names were, and I've read a few of the Predator novels, including the movie adaptations.  In fact, I still have one kicking around in a box in my basement; I just saw Concrete Jungle down there a few weeks ago while I was looking for something else.Without fail, all of the ones I've read have been out and out hack jobs of novels.  They're formulaic, with weakly developed characters and motivations, and either bland plots, or worse, plots that are completely inconsistent with the way things would work if the authors were actually paying attention to the movies.  They're like game fiction; they may be somewhat entertaining, but they are the very definition of hack.  I'm not as familiar with the Dark Horse comics, but I'm not a huge fan of what they've done with very hit and miss Star Wars material, so I'm not confident they have done anything great with Aliens or Predator either.  Some of the Star Wars stuff is great -- the Darth Maul trade paperback where he takes down the Dark Sun crime syndicate is absolutely brilliant, while all the Sith Wars stuff doesn't even feel like it has anything in common with Star Wars at all with the exception of a handfull of proper nouns.I did misinterpret you, though -- I had thought you were bemoaning the AVP script as not looking very good at all.  I certainly can understand that fans would have wanted or expected something, and then not gotten it; my own wants and expectations of the Prequel Trilogy to Star Wars has been sorely let down, for example.</blockquote>

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