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A review by krzykot
Alien: Out of the Shadows by Tim Lebbon, Dirk Maggs
There are so many mentions, quotes or other reminders about movies it's not just nods or easter eggs but whole slaughter of easter bunnies. This is why you don't let fake-ish fanboys write your novel, guys, they will smother you with their superior knowledge to show you they are the Real Fan™.
I stopped noticing after about 1/4 of the book, so it either stopped (slowed) or I just got used to it. You don't make the "Alien atmosphere" by recycling cool lines.
The insta love and subsequent damsel-in-distressness of Ripley made me want to gouge out my eyes.
Like, I know it's not her story, more like a Mad Max type of situation, but jfc there were so many times she had to be rescued by the manliest of manly men Hoop, who's just a natural leader and so strong and so, oh only one touch fires up Ripley's engines and oh so...
frghrgfrhgfrhghrghfrghrf
It's monkeying the Ripley-Hicks (Hicks/Hoop very subtle) relationship but without understanding anything that made them so sweet. "Wow, Ripley so sexy, gonna jump that" is not the poetry the author thinks he's creating.
Also, Jonesy is randomly hissing at people in this book and it's waved away as "he's just like that". Well, NO, he's not. Jonesy was only hissing when he felt the xenomorph nearby and he was in danger. Otherwise he was a perfectly nice and snuggly cat the whole crew liked (well, in novelization it's made more clear, but still, in the movies, too). How can you miss the point of his behaviour on screen this badly??? Fucking Burke was holding him with his bare hands and he lived through it, if Jonesy was "just like that" there'd be meat in stripes coming out of Burke's face after that offence, ffs.
I stopped noticing after about 1/4 of the book, so it either stopped (slowed) or I just got used to it. You don't make the "Alien atmosphere" by recycling cool lines.
The insta love and subsequent damsel-in-distressness of Ripley made me want to gouge out my eyes.
Like, I know it's not her story, more like a Mad Max type of situation, but jfc there were so many times she had to be rescued by the manliest of manly men Hoop, who's just a natural leader and so strong and so, oh only one touch fires up Ripley's engines and oh so...
frghrgfrhgfrhghrghfrghrf
It's monkeying the Ripley-Hicks (Hicks/Hoop very subtle) relationship but without understanding anything that made them so sweet. "Wow, Ripley so sexy, gonna jump that" is not the poetry the author thinks he's creating.
Also, Jonesy is randomly hissing at people in this book and it's waved away as "he's just like that". Well, NO, he's not. Jonesy was only hissing when he felt the xenomorph nearby and he was in danger. Otherwise he was a perfectly nice and snuggly cat the whole crew liked (well, in novelization it's made more clear, but still, in the movies, too). How can you miss the point of his behaviour on screen this badly??? Fucking Burke was holding him with his bare hands and he lived through it, if Jonesy was "just like that" there'd be meat in stripes coming out of Burke's face after that offence, ffs.