![]() ![]() Like the author wanted to tell a different story but sprinkled some AVP on the surface so it fits the anthology. Sometimes I loved the creative story settings, sometimes they felt really forced in. I think even the AVP movies made a more fair fight than that. Beware of spoilers cause I'm talking about the whole book.Ĭan't believe not one alien won against the predators in a single story and that so many of the predators survived. Overall I really enjoyed it, but a few details really annoyed me. I read all the stories and I have mixed feelings about this. Maybe it's not even the lack of well written action but the problem when a story introduces the action or sets it up but doesn't pay off like in Planting and Harvest. IMO the action was memorable in about 3 stories. I don't feel like the preds deserved all those wins. ![]() Not described well and the aliens are shown to be a bit weak. The reason I'm complaining about this is that the action was very poor IMO in most if the stories. And from her previous novel, I know she can write some good action, but literally skipping it the moment I thought things are about to get chaotic was quite a punch to the face. The world building was great but it felt like the story ended too fast, out of nowhere. Just really well written, and I dug the black comedy regarding people dying as a result of the seemingly innocuous work they were doing on the station I guess the complaints about the more subdued action are fair, but personally I feel like we've had a whole load of action-packed AVP stories, so I didn't mind this one downplaying that aspect. Actually think I liked this almost as much as Mariposa. But, when considering survival in the face of a Predator hunt, that’s the best deal one is going to get, as the Predator will trust any human who kills a Xenomorph.Quote from: HuDaFuK on Mar 10, 2022, 03:53:54 PM Unfortunately, killing a Xenomorph isn’t as easy as these books might make it out to be (they are the ‘perfect organism’ after all), so the idea that one has to kill a deadly creature just to avoid getting hunted by another is a pretty raw deal. While the humans in Civilized Beasts didn’t take their relationships with the Predators that far, Machiko’s story is just another example of how a human can avoid being killed by a Predator simply by killing Xenomorphs. By the end of Aliens vs Predator, Machiko was actually invited to join the Predator clan and even hunt alongside them while traveling the cosmos. In the first AvP comic book series, Aliens vs Predator, a woman named Machiko Noguchi found herself in a similar situation as the humans in this comic, and she, too, hunted Xenomorphs to ensure her own survival. These two ways of avoiding being murdered by a Yautja may sometimes work, but neither are a guaranteed way to survive a Predator–not like this other method that is tried and true in Predator lore.Īfter a few successful Xenomorph hunts on the humans’ part, the Predators started to pay them their due respect, as the humans were unwittingly participating in the Blooding Ritual and were thereby proving their worth as hunters in the Yautja culture–and this wasn’t the first time this happened. However, ‘already dying’ isn’t a great alternative to being killed by a Predator since, well, that person is already dying. With that method of safety from Predators debunked, the only other way to not be killed by a Predator is if a human is already dying of a terminal illness or injury, at which point they become unworthy prey. ![]() But, that didn’t stop the Yautja from murdering nearly every one of them, which all but disproved the Predators’ code of honor in regard to the ‘weapons rule’. This colony wasn’t, say, a guerrilla army camp being infiltrated by mercenaries (which was the setting of the first movie), so the Predators had no reason to assume these people were worthy prey as they did not regularly carry weapons. In the most recent Predator storyline, Marvel Comics’ Predator, a Yautja slaughters an entire colony of botanists–arguably the least problematic kind of scientists, especially in science fiction. As established in the first Predator film, a Yautja will not hunt someone if they aren’t wielding any weapons–but in the Predator stories that have been released since then, that rule hasn’t exactly held up. ![]()
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