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Alright - but then why don't the Engineers look like giant white mice on steroids?

Alright - but then why don't the Engineers look like giant white mice on steroids?

"What happened with Alien 4 was totally not Joss Whedon's fault. Will there be a Firefly sequel?"

"What happened with Alien 4 was totally not Joss Whedon's fault. Will there be a Firefly sequel?"

MIB3 with brother & nephew. Prometheus with brother; he thinks the Romanoid panicked & was running to Earth to hide from the Graboids, which had infected/invaded their world & were hiding out as worms. Then: "Lifeforce" ('85) on my own, via interwebs… classy trashy one about space alien vampires that zombify London.

MIB3 with brother & nephew. Prometheus with brother; he thinks the Romanoid panicked & was running to Earth to hide from the Graboids, which had infected/invaded their world & were hiding out as worms. Then: "Lifeforce" ('85) on my own, via interwebs… classy trashy one about space alien vampires that zombify London.

Very well spotted:

Very well spotted:

Here, I made an AV Club Ray Bradbury mix-tape, just for you:

Here, I made an AV Club Ray Bradbury mix-tape, just for you:

Now that the man can't give retaliatory press conferences, I guess the Michael Bay reimagining can't be long away.

Thanks: that managed to be both witty and classy

… and to it. But we are all the dust of dead stars, reborn.

"Aroop Gooptah!"

"Aroop Gooptah!"

I have to include Phillip Klass aka William Tenn amongst the greats, who passed away a couple of years ago; he may not have been as widely known, but if you want e.g. a sci-fi short story that rivals the satire in Candide, check out "The Liberation of Earth". His work deserves to be better known than it is - luckily

I have to include Phillip Klass aka William Tenn amongst the greats, who passed away a couple of years ago; he may not have been as widely known, but if you want e.g. a sci-fi short story that rivals the satire in Candide, check out "The Liberation of Earth". His work deserves to be better known than it is - luckily

I did not know that.

I did not know that.

Let's keep the terminology within the "Alien" universe: "Quadrilogy"….