Actually, the ship failed to make that left turn at Albuquerque.

@xDeath35

4 жыл бұрын

Frieza intercepted the ship

@christopherdougherty9832

4 жыл бұрын

And wound up in Hoboken. Ripley then said, "Hoboken! OOOOHHHH I'm dying"

@beringstraitrailway

4 жыл бұрын

Welcome to Pismo Beach!

@jeffreyjeziorski341

4 жыл бұрын

@Brian....Is that a quote from a Bugs Bunny flick?

@ghramsey1681

4 жыл бұрын

@@jeffreyjeziorski341 Yup. It is a common thread from Bugs Bunny cartoon(s).

You know, I always assumed that Ripley drifted in space for 57 years because she used the engines of her ship to burn up the Alien in the original movie. With out proper course correction, a single instance of acceleration would send Ripley's vessel adrift in such away that she would just fly right past her intended stop.

@tonyking7714

6 жыл бұрын

Good point

@DeathBYDesign666

4 жыл бұрын

I awalys thought some of the xenomorphs blood got inside or it was just damaged when she opened the airlock. They said they found no evidence of the creature she described, but they could have been lying.

@nodak81

4 жыл бұрын

It was capable of travelling for several parsecs of space. That quick blip of the engines wouldn't have made much difference. It had a navigation system and should have easily been able to correct its course. Her drifting is just bad writing imo.

@DreadDoom

3 жыл бұрын

@@nodak81 No not true at all. In fact, at such a massive distance even a 0.0001s burn at 1% power could put her billions of kilometers off course. Of course it would probably be just as easy to correct for the burn, assuming the ship could still steer.

@AdmiralPureBlood

2 жыл бұрын

@@tonyking7714 u

The explanation from "Aliens" was always sufficient to me. Space is big and the Narcissus is too small to show up on long range scans. Even if a rescue mission was launched, they were looking in the wrong place, as they would search along the original official course. Ash secretly re-routed the Nostromo to LV-426 as per Special Order 937. Without knowledge of this deviation, nobody knew where the Nostromo was headed and neither wreckage nor survivors were ever found. Understandibly, the people behind 937 kept it a secret, avoiding any liability for the loss of ship, crew and cargo. Ripley surely did program the Narcissus' computer with a correct course, but after decades of floating in space the navigation systems simply might have ceased to operate. They were probably not designed to function over that long period of time. This, however, can also be said about Ripley's hibernation chamber. It's a mystery to me, how she could be alive after 57 years in that pod.

@chris8669

2 ай бұрын

In the novel of Aliens, it's said the freezers can work for a maximum of 65 years.

The problem with the plot development of ASH uploading himself into MU/TH/UR is that if he had done that from the beginning , the could have shutdown the Nostromo's life-support systems and carried out the Company's orders right away.

@lawrencetalbot8346

Жыл бұрын

Yeah this book was one massive plot hole. Seriously why set a story in between Alien and Aliens while Ripley was supposed to be asleep for 57 years. To keep it remotely canon, Ripley would have to forget about everything that happened during this magical time awake. So unbelievably stupid.

@jordan.crawford

8 ай бұрын

@@lawrencetalbot8346 they did wipe her memory in the end as a PTSD treatment

Ash, fucking things up in the name of science both before and after his death.

@PrivateSlacker

6 жыл бұрын

I blame the corporation that programmed Ash. Ash is just a product of his creator. And while I don't believe any single person in the corporation wakes up each day intending to do evil, their prime directive to maximize shareholder profits results in making everything else, including morality, secondary.

Because its common sense guys. If sailors on earth can get lost for 5 months in the Pacific Ocean then in space it will be even more difficult to locate one of these life saving shuttles.

@scsi_joe

5 жыл бұрын

I know, right. Don't get why people are skeptical of being lost in space. In space you're dealing with 3 dimensions, not just 2 - as in the case of sailors on the ocean.

@scsi_joe

4 жыл бұрын

@Viscous Shear that's right, and even with all our fancy tech we still have a lot of difficulty finding people on the ocean and even on land.

@t_k_blitz4837

4 жыл бұрын

"Space is big. REALLY BIG." -The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

@JP-uk9uc

4 жыл бұрын

"... His eternal power having been clearly seen, being perceived through what has been made so they are without excuse."

@brutallyhonest123

4 жыл бұрын

If you have galaxy traversing technology a simple gps ping shouldn’t be that hard

It's much simpler an explanation that she was simply blasted off course by the detonation of the Nostromo and due to her systems being offline to save power, was simply drifting on a ballistic course. Doesn't need any villainy for her to be the most unlucky woman in the universe.

@nodak81

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, but a distress beacon would use virtually no power at all (for a ship with a 9 GigaWatt fusion reactor) and she should have been broadcasting it the whole time. Not to mention that it wouldn't have been "blasted off course". The shuttle was capable of FTL travel and landing on planets, it could handle a simple course correction.

@DreadDoom

3 жыл бұрын

@@nodak81 How do you know it was capable of any of those things? They both seem extremely unlikely for a life shuttle (landing on planets *maybe*, but FTL travel on a life shuttle?). Also if it was capable of FTL travel why not just FTL travel back to earth?

She said she needed some luck in being detected when she left her final report at the end of alien. It was never explained in aliens why she was out there for 57 years, because it didn't need to be explained. This is a non-theory. Because it's just following what Ripley had already stated in the original movie, that she knew she wasn't automatically going to be found.

Never made any sense to me that in Alien, Parker and Lambert were gathering "coolant" cylinders for their trip in the shuttle. Yet Ripley ends up leaving without any extra coolant at all and the ship sustains her for 57 years. So....what was the coolant for again? The slushie machine? lol

@thesimslover82884

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, who wants to go on a tiny shuttle in the vastness of space without any sweets, HEHE! I always thought it was so the hibernation machine could handle more people, that needed to hibernate. It was only designed for one person, not three.

@minidolly77

17 күн бұрын

For the strawberry milkshake ! 🥤

For me it's just a fun fiction. They should stop recycling the same characters over and over again. Alien: Isolation's story was just okay with Amanda in lead, but novels like Labyrinth were much better in my opinion. New characters, new locations and situations. The universe is huge it can't be just about Ripley and LV426

@kertsang2053

5 жыл бұрын

I agree, I love Alien Isolation to death but I would have preferred if 1: The alien infestation originated from the alien that was blasted out of the Narcissus, rather than a bunch of explorers going down into the derelict for the umpteenth time, and 2: If the main character wasn't related to Ripley. It's just too implausible for both mother and daughter to experience such similar events.

@roostercogburn8700

5 жыл бұрын

wedgeGTX yes. It can.

@mrcontroversy222

5 жыл бұрын

@James Millership i 100%agree but who would play arnold?

@shitchops

4 жыл бұрын

@James Millership I always thought a moofie about the future war by james cameron is what i had always hoped for as a kid in the 90s. It could be set in the time of when the T-600 with rubber skin is the standard issue before the new T-800(arnie) shows up as kyle states the T800 was a new design with living tissue.

@ArtofLunatik

4 жыл бұрын

Alien isolation had a decent story and to be honest it feels like the kind of sequel people probably expected after the first movie.

Is this canon? It doesn't seem to line up with the dialogue and events of Aliens. It seemed to me Ripley had been asleep the entire 57 years. I could definitely see Ash attempting to do this, but also in the films we've never seen a Synthetic transfer its mind to a computer

@lordfury18

6 жыл бұрын

i believe part of the book hints that the guy tried to erase her memory of these events because of the mental toll it had on her

@creatoruser736

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I can't tell if this was meant to be canon or just a story. If its continuity can be addressed in a future video, that'd be great.

@AlienTheory

6 жыл бұрын

Tim Lebbon's novel is officially in line with continuity.

@SlyRy

6 жыл бұрын

Out of the Shadows is canon.

@Xenomorphine

6 жыл бұрын

Allegedly, it's canonical - but as the 'Colonial Marines' debacle proved, that's a very malleable concept and liable to reversal at any time. There are things in the novel trilogy which simply don't match up with what was shown in the films and, honestly, they're not exactly greatly written.

Thanks for the audible recommendation! I just got it and I love the story and sound effects, it seriously feels like it deserves a spot in the franchise

Such a great video, it really shows that you put a lot of time and effort into videos. Many thanks and here's to the next one!

I listened to the novel on Audible. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Great stuff.

You make great videos. Please keep it up. Narration, background music, layout and pacing.... all great.

Nice videos man! Keep it going!

Based on the ending of Alien 3, I always assumed that Ripley was deliberately left to wander aimlessly in the Narcissus by the Company as a sort of punishment. They probably always knew where she were because hey, the Narcissus is surely a "substantial dollar value investment" and might have carried traces of the alien. As Bishop says in Alien 3, everything on the Sulaco was logged and sent to the Network, so there's nothing saying that the same wasn't true for the Nostromo. Of course, the randomness of her being lost and accidentally found is also an option.

@havareriksen1004

Жыл бұрын

Given that Wayland-yutani didn't know that Ripley got rid of the xenomorph and all traces of it, they would have wasted no time to rescue the Narcissus if they had the chance. Getting the specimen and info on it was of great importance to them.

Good stuff bro! Very enjoyable presentation.

These are so informative and I really enjoy all of these, keep up the great work.

Legends say that the great Alien Theory hunts predators with nothing but a sharp stick.😆

@AlienTheory

6 жыл бұрын

can't confirm or deny this

@BulletTooth504

6 жыл бұрын

And sonic electronic ball breakers.

@MrPiccolop

6 жыл бұрын

theres actually a dark horse comic with a primitive alien who has to survive an alien being brought its planet by crashed human vessel .. I think they did one episode and left it... if not can someone let me know what series it is? cheers! Poor alien just had a spear!! hahaha

@gabemcknight8933

6 жыл бұрын

I heard he can kill one with a single thought,that's powerful!

@BulletTooth504

6 жыл бұрын

+Paul Alexander That was a one-shot story simply titled "Alien". It's pretty good. Those interested in reading it can find it in the Aliens Omnibus Volume 5.

I found it interesting that the Wayland corporation had really good record keeping. For 57 years Ripley was drifting in cryo sleep . Then she gets picked up and is then standing in front of the Wayland board of directors they show the crew of the Notromo’s pictures. A lot of those people wouldn’t have been born yet.

@williamlydon2554

2 жыл бұрын

Still the entire lose of a ship like the *Nostromo* is gigantic profit lose, and a mystery that needs to be answered. If in 1968 the Captain of the USS *Cyclops* landed in a life boat at Norfolk naval base, you'd better blieve heads would role, extreme circumstances or not over the lose if such a large ship

@michaelmcfarland1716

Жыл бұрын

why not? over a hundred year and we still know who the majority of people were on the Titanic. few pictures, but that was back in the day.

@NormanStansfield1

Жыл бұрын

James Cameron kind of screwed up on that scene. The CEO or the guy at the head of the table tells Ripley that the Nostromo costs $44 million dollars! Maybe money did a reverse split of 1000 to 1. The Nostromo was this gigantic ship and it would have cost tens of billions of dollars. Her paycheck for 57 years plus interest would have been $44 million. $44 million will not buy an F-18. Maybe an A-10.

@jeffpriestley499

Жыл бұрын

@Frank L Good point...but in that scene does he actually say Dollars??...edit Yes he does say Dollars...my mistake. Still 42 million dollars for massive starship does seem a bargain lol

"Ash uploaded his conciousness into the NOstromo computer....and the Narcissus shuttle." No. No. This is basically saying Androids in Alien are omniscient but somehow choose to act completely pedestrian, even when their lives are in danger. If the Nostromo was compatible with and capable of absorbing ash's conciousness and allowing him to run it's operations undetected, why the hell, would Ash need to be aboard as a physical being? Why couldn't he shut down the auto-destruct, why couldn't he compartmentalize the Alien and vent the crew quarters to space? Why did he have to divulge anything to the crew when he was reconnected? If he was operating on WY special order 937, why not contact the company directly with the lifeboat's position after the evacuation? Why did he try to Kill Ripley with a magazine, why did he try to choke parker? These decisions impelled Ripley to blow up the ship-how could they have possibly fit into Ash's plan going forward? Why would Ash need Ripley? Ash knew more about the Alien and it's origins than anyone else? Why would he keep alive the one person most inclined to fight further attempts to acquire one? See, if the androids are omniscient or capable of evading death this way, all of the motivation for their actions goes out the window. If David showed anything it's that the Androids weren't infallible and emotionless-they had fears, they acted out of desperation, they had neuroses, they were mortal, their thinking was distorted and fucked up because they were the product of distorted priorities and fucked up values. Ash, died in impotent rage and his last words were pathetic because his cause and quest were empty: fullfillment of ambition without entanglements. He disdained human bonds and attachments and yet was completely sexually frustrated by his inability to secure them. Besides, Neither Ash nor the Nostromo could plausibly be part of this plan. The Nostromo was a Lockmart CM-88 and Ash was a Hyperdyne Systems 120/A2-niether of these were Weyland Yutani designs and Nostromo was old and in disrepair. It'd be like installing Call of Duty on an gas pump. That leaves two possibliities, all ships have this AI transfer integration-which the crew would know about or ASH's personality was a meaningless adjunct layer to his true nature as a starship control system which would make his involvement in this backstory pointless. You could execute the same story by saying the MU/TH/UR 6000 computer system did all that. It was in on the plot to contain the Alien, it deliberately withheld information from the crew. Ash wasn't needed as a computer resource unless he provided a function it could not emulate. Ash was an air-gap interface system, designed to work with humans and machines. The second part of the story is also problematic, because Ripley wakes up from hypersleep exactly the person she was when she went into hypersleep. She shows signs of initial trauma, she recalls only events aboard the Nostromo. If she'd been woken in the interum and was made to deal with an Alien infestation again, she'd have evolved coping mechanisms, personality changes and insights on the creatures which is exactly what happened in Aliens and subsequent movies. This is a couch job and an even less reputable one than Colonial Marines.

@ptonpc

6 жыл бұрын

You put it better than I could.

@mrdev9843

5 жыл бұрын

nailed it 👍

@shdwfx40001

5 жыл бұрын

Except Ripley did have her memories erased at the end of the book. You goofed a bit.

@shdwfx40001

5 жыл бұрын

And Ash himself notes without a physical body his actions are limited. Maybe synthetics can only operate on one system at a time? Sacrificing the Nostromo to trap Ripley with the Alien in the shuttle is more advantageous. Ripley cannot go guns blazing in her only escape plan. Without a body to affect these events, Ash can only hope for the proper outcome.

@matchesburn

5 жыл бұрын

@Ferrus Manus Primarch of the Iron Hands _"Except Ripley did have her memories erased at the end of the book. You goofed a bit."_ "It All REALLY Happened, But the Character's Mind Was Erased So It Doesn't Violate Canon" Thank you for further proving that this is some of the shittiest writing to ever be conducted and this shit-tier book should be ignored.

You’re videos are so good! I am a fan of the Alien franchise and your content is so incredibly addictive to browse through

@AlienTheory

6 жыл бұрын

+James C thank you so much I'm glad you're enjoying! :)

I think they said in the director's commentary that they picked 57 years because the number "fifty-seven" just sounded cooler. They knew they wanted her to have been gone a long time for the story and 57 just sounded cool.

you love xenos, I love xenos

@alphacrusaders6535

6 жыл бұрын

Everybody loves Xenos (some of us)

@Pvaeerener

6 жыл бұрын

Ha, ha, ha, ha... You know? When you say "I love xenos" it sounds funny since in Spanish the name for "boob" is "seno", which sounds just like "xeno". And when you write "I love xenos" it sounds like "I love boobs". That being said, so do I! 😄

@stoniecad7805

5 жыл бұрын

Heretic

@ironstarofmordian7098

5 жыл бұрын

Hunting them?

@ironstarofmordian7098

5 жыл бұрын

@@alphacrusaders6535 all Xenos must be purged. For the Imperium.

As I told you before on facebook, I absolutely love your voice when reading parts of a novel. I was unaware about where exactly the timeline had been for this book, having just bought it recently. But now I'm more into wanting to liseen to the audio! I didn't know there was a good cast for it!

Sounds too much like fan fiction. More reasonable that Ripley was just adrift for a really long time.

@luthermcgee432

4 жыл бұрын

Well, you're right: Burke put it this way, " 57 years. That's right you've been out there for 57 years. What happened was that you drifted right through the core systems. And it was blind luck that a deep space salvage team had picked you up..." That's what really happened as far as the plot goes.

@alexscott730

4 жыл бұрын

@@luthermcgee432 That was in a dream sequence tho...

@luthermcgee432

4 жыл бұрын

@@alexscott730 , got it.

@WALDENSOFTWARE

4 жыл бұрын

57 years was in a dream sequence too. Maybe it was just a couple of years, bit she landed in a different section near earth?

@Zelousmarineinspace

4 жыл бұрын

Ryan Marquez I mean sure, but hearing the audio drama with Rutger Hauer it didn’t feel like fan fiction, it might as well have been Alien 2.

I want to see an "Alien: Out of the Shadows" and "Alien: Sea of Sorrows" movie

@yrooxrksvi7142

3 жыл бұрын

Or better yet, as a game in the vein of Alien Isolation.

@madnatty

3 жыл бұрын

The 3 audio dramatisations by Audible are SO good, They wouldn’t even need to write a script as it’s basically done.

@mrbubbles8743

3 жыл бұрын

Isolation movie or phalanx tv series.

@BerryNiceToMeetYou

3 жыл бұрын

@@madnatty have you listened to the Alien 3 audio drama? It's very different to the film. Lance Henriksen and Michael Biehn reprise their roles as Bishop and Hicks.

You guys effin ROCK!!!!! Please, keep doing what you do.I had no idea audio books existed on the Alien Franchise until you. I love you guys!!!!

Just listened to out of the shadows. And I agree top notch production. Thank you for your hard work and keeping the horror alive :)

I really enjoy your videos please make more

@alanlee1355

6 жыл бұрын

duane farnsworth same here.

@daviddevan2102

6 жыл бұрын

duane farnsworth I concur :-)

I'd love to read/listen to this! It sounds like a great piece of the puzzle!

Interesting. Nostromo was diverted by the company to investigate a signal and bring back lifeform, priority one and then a few days later it exploded. You'd think the company would have sent another ship to the area to investigate. You'd expect the lifeboat to be sending out some sort of distress or tracking signal. I suppose it was done for the sake of the story, more than for realism.

Since I am a big Aliens franchise fan I decided to check out the audiobook through Audible. I enjoyed everything about it from the action packed sound quality to the character voice overs. It does a great job to continue the Aliens storyline, other good audiobooks to follow up are Aliens “River of Pain” & “Sea of Sorrows”👍🏾🤓

I only discovered this audio book exists because of your channel, I've listened to it twice now, good stuff, thanks.

I absolutely love your content.

It was an amazing audiobook. I've listened to many here on KZread but book of shadows is my favorite

Great content, Thanks!

LOVE EVERYTHING YOU DO!!!! YOU AER GOLD ALIEN THEORY

The whole Ash ghost-in-the-machine narrative seems to have been lifted, call Sal from a number of old Larry Niven books (fir example: The Smoke Ring 1987) with Kendy in the same position as Ash. Kendy’s consciousness has been transferred into the computer, and he continues to pursue his primary mission, manipulating events from the background.

Your voice has that hopeless humanity will destroy itself feel totally works with this series 👍great vids

I'm not really into audio books, and I read "Out of the Shadows" a long time ago, but now that you tell me that Rutger Hauer performed in this... I'll buy it week after next when I can afford it! Thanks for telling me about this!

I enjoyed the audio drama a lot more than I expected. Of course it's "shoehorned" in between ALIEN and ALIENS, but it's very well made and enjoyable. My gripes are: 1. Rutger Hauer does a fantastic job, but I think that getting a hold of Ian Holme would have made this an 11/10 production. 2. The idea of the surviving crew using the Narcissus to escape the Marion, even though it was established towards the end of ALIEN that the shuttle couldn't handle more than three crew. Still a very enjoyable story and performance. From the ending of 'ALIEN: Covenant' I take it that David has transferred his being/program into the body of Walter. In 'Out of the Shadows' it is explained how Ash transferred his being/program into the Narcissus. I suspect, in the long term, that it will be revealed that David eventually inhabits Ash in ALIEN. It ties some pretty little details together nicely.

I just assumed that because Ripley failed to get the cooling that Lambert and Parker gathered in the last part of Alien and then she did something to the Alien on the shuttle by blowing all the pressure on it to get it out in the open before blowing the air lock she had used up something necessary to keep the ship on course. That is why she drifted so long.

I gave "Out of the Shadow" and the other two audio dramas by Audible a listen and I liked all three of them. really well done and really great stories. Part 3 even had a decendant of Ellen Ripley as the protagonist, who *SPOILERS* is an empath, so he can feel the Xenomorph's thoughts, as is the Ripley clone in the fourth movie

'Why was Ripley lost in space for 57 years' Ripleys phone ran out of data so her GPS wouldn't work

@kyliefan7

6 жыл бұрын

Brendan Stanley Her ship had T-Mobile data.....soooooo.......

@mr.suicide1632

6 жыл бұрын

BRUH

@ironstarofmordian7098

5 жыл бұрын

Boah

@ahrenwofford9278

5 жыл бұрын

not one dislike on this comment XD

@pip12111

5 жыл бұрын

When she fired the engines to kill the Xenomorph it blew the Narssisus off coarse

New sub here, your channel is great 👍

Your vids, knowledge and narration are TOP NOTCH ! Voice print is COMPLETE PROFESSIONALISM ! You seem as if YOU'RE a previous employee of Weyland Corporation, doing a tell all and exposing them for what they are/were. That's how knowledgeable you are. And with that, please continue to enlighten us ALL ! You're the MAN ! ! ! :-)

@AlienTheory

6 жыл бұрын

+cirethgr8 you've made my day, thank you so much! :D

Very interesting! and fed in well to the story ( conspiracy ) 👌👍

I really like your videos , you do such a good job and your voice is very soothing even if your talking about acid blooded aliens

I quite like the theory that OotS is a hypersleep nightmare. When you've been through an event that leaves a negative impact on you, you have dreams that create an amalgam of it and other images in your memories.

I never knew there was another novel. Let alone an audio drama based on Out of the Shadows. Eager to find it and give a listen.

Enjoy your videos keep them coming. The dramatized audiobooks of Out of the Shadows, River of Pain and Sea of Sorrows are absolutely stunning additions to the Alien universe. I've thoroughly enjoyed multiple listen throughs. These would have made much better films to have added instead of the Prometheus timeline. It sticks to the story that started with Alien and ties everything in nicely. I highly recommend them.

Would love to hear more of these style audiobooks.

Seriously? This needs to be answered? I'll save you 8 minutes. Because space is very, very, very, very, very, vast.

I have listened to it and thought it was terrific!

Once again top notch I dig it

“Star Beast” was the original name of “Alien”, thank goodness they changed the name.

This was very informative and I will find that out of the shadows.. audiobook on you tube.. thanks

From where did you get all this info and clios i want to watch them too. I'm really admire your passion with which you follow the movie and explain every detail. A lot of thinks i understand because of your clips, thank you for that. I wish you all the best and keep up the work.

I really enjoyed your review. I wish you'd cover more of the books and comics in the future. Another option could be the scenarios in the tabletop rpg by Free League (adventures by Andrew Gaska--same author in the backs of nobels such as ALIEN: Enemy of My Enemy). Thanks again!

If you actually listened to the end of the audio the mechanic put Ripley in the med pod cause she got injured by a xeno in the mines and not only did he program pod to repair her but also to wipe her memory of this certain event that happened here in out of the shadows, thus her having no recollection of the event when she was on gate way station. Also another great audio is RIVER OF PAIN. Tales what happened on lv426 at Hadleys Hope.

@themonkeyhand

6 жыл бұрын

That explanation just makes this story even more idiotic. Selective mind wiping by a mining mechanic, gtfo!!!!!!!

@michaelwhichelow8133

6 жыл бұрын

Well the mind mechanic didn’t do it, the medical office suggested it, but ash had already infiltrated every system on the ship and decided to let the wipe go ahead. Ash then rigged the mws pod to rip apart the medical office when she tried to repair herself. Ash made it impossible for hooper to leave with Ripley by forcing him to release the shuttle manually, he gets away in the drop ship but he knows he has little to no chance of surviving. Ash is wiped from all the systems except the main ship which burns up in the atmosphere anyway. I have listened to the audio drama about 10 times plus the other two in the series which I highly rate.

@dylanmcconnell2723

5 жыл бұрын

IMO.... River of Pain was a way better novel than Out of the Shadows (but also liked Sea of Sorrows). Of course any story about Xenos get my blood pumping.... I’m such a nerd... but a proud one.

@lawrencetalbot8346

Жыл бұрын

Which makes this story all the more stupid. Author need an ex machina to conveniently make his story canon without violating the lore established by the movies. Oh good news, here’s this magic machine to fully heal Ripley head to toe of all broken bones, burns, and giant gaping wounds, and bonus points it’s a literal mind wipe. Come on, that’s just lazy writing. Should’ve done the story without Ripley. Being trapped in mines/an ancient alien city with xenos was very cool and terrifying. The dog aliens and their unique ship/.tech also very cool and very nice break from throwing in Predators or the Engineers. Keep the same characters minus Ripley and it still could’ve been great.

This is brilliant

I really enjoyed this audio book. The voice acting, script and sound effects were brilliantly executed and I sincerely hope we get more quality work like this again. I did have one major complaint and sadly it's against the late Rutger Hauer's portrayal of Ash. Didn't like it one bit and it was cringy. I know others like the author of this video loved his portrayal.

Very Interesting

Thank you! Now I know...I was so curious

Read this book about a year ago and was pleasantly surprised...do u plan on reviewing the 2 other books that follow in this "series"? Alien: River of Pain & Alien: Sea of Sorrows. I would love those from this channel!

this audiobook is the bomb u mention! i was really surprised!

@1:52 that's a dead space screen, either way great vid! #Subscribed!

I was a consumer of the OG Dark Horse comics, had the Jaguar for the AVP game. I have a tattoo of The Spell by Giger on my arm. I started purchasing and reading the Alien novels because of this channel and I am currently reading this one. Thank you for informing me there was so much Alien literature/novels out there. Isolation was the weakest so far in the timeline.

Loved out of the shadows, can you cover rivers of pain too please ;)

Here's something to consider: In stasis , does one still dream? And if so, consider Ripley and all she encountered-what kept her from going mad? Remember her nightmare of being infected after her retrieval in the clinic, this thought struck me when viewing Alien recently and how peaceful she looked in the shuttle. Only to be thrown into the horror again, how many of us would be mentally stable? One last note : credit for Dan O Bannon for his oringal idea and story line and of course..HR Giger the dark genius behind the creature and of it's universe.

Mother didn't want to wake up Ripley as she felt Ripley might torch her too

I listened to Out of The Shadows on audible and enjoyed it immensely.

I just finished the book today and I thought it was great. I really enjoyed the characters and I liked the idea of Ash coming back in a different form.

I always assumed that Ripley was intentionally left adrift in space by Weyland Yutani as a kind of "Fuck you" and it was only dumb luck that she was picked up by a salvage team. At that point the company were like "Fuck it - let's see what she has to say for herself."

Awesome

Very interesting video! I have to check this book or audio out, sounds like a very cool story. I’m a fan of Doctor Who and they do tons of audio plays. Its cool how listening and using ones imagination makes the stories much more enjoyable.

Try River of Pain as well it’s the story of what happened directly before Aliens on Acheron/Hadley’s Hope

The Alien toys that came with the mini comics were awesome I remember. And the Dark Horse comics too.

Solid fit!

Out of The Shadows was excellent. Expectations were low initially as I was worried about them bridging the gaps between 2 of the greatest movies ever made. Lebbon completed that task with precision and the care that he took over the franchise was noticeable and appreciated. Especially the tension filled scenes such as them trying to empty the Samson for use. This book tells an amazing story and is 100% canon. Would love to see this as a movie.

Am checkin this guy out..that was excellent..

I actually got this story as a free audiobook on Audible and didn't listen to it for a long time afterwards due to 1. I have alot of audiobooks, 2. Not a huge Alien fan (Thx Prometheus and AvP) and 3. I forgot I had it. Been listening to it and yeah it's a great listen (almost wish I'd read the book, I'm weird like that). Character performance are excellent and the story is engaging. A definite must read/listen if your an Alien fan....

I wasn't blown away by out of the shadows when I read it, the book would of been better if she wasn't included in the story at all. However I did like the interactions of Ripley and Ash throughout the novel, but I did find it overall a little bad fan ficcy. Best Alien book I've read so far had to be phalanx, fantastic book.

Out of the shadows is on youtube omg checking it now

I listened to the audiobooks. They were Great!

4:00 Where is that video from? I don't remember seeing that before.

I really enjoyed Out of the Shadows. It's worth a listen.

yeah i dont care for this theory. The life boat just wasn't meant to be out there for so long, so it just lost power to actively keep it going on any specific course. I reckon the power was left to keep power to the freezer. Or, like, whatever. You know?

@nodak81

6 жыл бұрын

I always sort of assumed the shuttle was too small and didn't have any kind of FTL drive. Nor did it have enough fuel to maintain a course, basically it blew most of its fuel when it launched and it was just drifting from then on. More of an escape pod than a shuttle. Probably had a reactor for electrical power.

@donarktos6400

5 жыл бұрын

@Jimmy De'Souza Well, not exactly. Space may be a (near) vacuum, but there are more concerns to plotting a course through space than just: Point there and accelerate. You may not need fuel to maintain your speed, but as soon as you have to correct your course and have no fuel left to do so you're fubar. This is what actually may have happened. The gravitational pull of one bigger Asteroid or Planetesimal crossing the path / coming near the Narcissus may actually have altered its course enough to miss the targetted sector entirely. And maybe Ripley was blowing away the last fuel reserves when she roasted the Xeno outside. Or at least there was not enough left for the autopilot to correct / maintain the course in case of an interfering astronomical object.

@donarktos6400

5 жыл бұрын

@Jimmy De'Souza Sorry mate to dissapoint you on that. ;) While that may apply to most oft the regular and bigger objects, there are billions of trillions of rogue objects that may have not been charted simply for the fact they never appeared before - because of their vast trajectories. Heck, we probably don't even know a fraction of all our irregular AOs in our own solar system and the near vicinity, despite monitoring it for decades. Turned out space isn't that empty at all, but indeed quite busy with objects flung out of their system and roaming around. Absolutely possible (albeit not very likely) to come near one when travelling long distances through space. And given the enormous distances in space, even quite small objects may alter your course enough to give you a new trajectory. Having a small object on a near parallel course for some time should do the trick. Both, the ship and the AO, would alter their course by just a tiny bit. Heck, even coronar outbursts of a nearby star you're passing could accomplish that. And even going off your course by 0,001% may have you ending up lightyears from where you wanted to go. Cf: Asteroid impact avoidance -> Asteroid gravity tractor.

@trapscancreate5760

5 жыл бұрын

@@donarktos6400 except if you launch from space in such a small craft the amount of fuel you would need to correct your course and maintain your speed would basically be nothing. Literally a short burst to account for any unforseen objects, which would be astronomically unlikely to be encountered in unpopulated sectors of space, would be enough to maintain course. We do this daily with space stations we have in orbit. We have to refuel semi regularly but seeing as the nostromo has to tow a large mining rig several light years away from earth it it reasonable to assume that the fuel it uses is way more efficient than the fuel imployed now. This means they need less of it not only because it was engineered in space but because it creates more thrust and less heat as a byproduct meaning more energy is transferred into pushing the ship. This means that the life boat could probably steer itself indefinitely as long as it has something intelligent enough to steer it indefinitely, aka an onboard ai. I just don't see fuel being the crippling factor in the Narcissus, especially because it was built with suvivability in mind.

I am gonna get this audiobook!

Out of the Shadows is No. 2 on my list of favorite Alien books. Sea of Sorrow is my No.1

Out of the Shadows is an excellent story. I return to the dramatization as often as I re-watch Aliens. The very least. And there aren't very many movies I re-watch. Or books that I re-read. The rest of the dramatizations are also nice!

great content, bro. keep it up. i hope you get more famous with your vids and eventually become rich. i watch all ads on your vids to contribute with some shekels.

I finally got around to reading it.. It was beyond words beautiful..To me That Was Ripely.! All the way.. Puts River of Pain to shame.. And i loved River of Pain.. And still do.. So many references.. All shaped and formed into beautiful canon.. Ash's Arc was fascinating.. Very David Esqe.. The Engineers References were so good.. I just wanted to know what that Derelict Ship looked liked in the mine.. Amazing! Royal FaceHuggers Eggs! .. Royal FaceHuggers.. Were the Engineers giving birth to Queen Aliens? The Sacrifice? It sets up the events of River of Pain and Aliens so well.. Absolutely Love It! 5/5

I've also listened to the 3 books from the Rage War series by Tim Lebbon. They're excellent. IMO.

I always thought it was due to Ripley roasting the Xenomorph with the shuttles engines.

as a kid i listened to radio play/drama once in a while. nothing but nothing beats imagination

I enjoyed reading the book, but I actually like the audio version more. I agree they did a great job on it. Also, Mac Macdonald who was in Aliens as Al the Hadleys Hope administrator, provided his voice to it :-)

i always thought or figured ash had preplanned ripley’s course as a fail safe in the event she survives and uses the shuttle to escape...that guy was so greasy but 57 years was low...im glad ripley got her revenge...sadly in 3 she got paid back