I ain't got time to fic.

[stillsostrange]

The (new) Thing was much better than I feared, mainly suffering from a bad case of not bringing anything new--with one exception. Rewatching the original, I will now find the opening sequence with the dog and the crash of the Norwegian helicopter poignant, having seen Lars with the real dog.

Mostly I'm left intensely curious about the crash. The ship doesn't seem to match its occupant. Was the Thing its pilot, or is this a Space Jockey situation? If so, I want some good Alien-Thing (I'll consider Alien/Thing depending on who's writing it) fic right away. And that leads into a remake of The Thing set in a Yautja camp. Someone write that for me now!

I need a Yautja icon. I need to find just the right still from AvP2 to encompass the world of "I wasn't even supposed to be here today!" contained in that film.

ETA: Also, points for hilarious use of thematic 80s music. Certainly the best since Doomsday.

Comments

[mmaresca.livejournal.com]

I had read somewhere that the idea the filmmakers were working with was the original occupant of the ship was an alien biologist of some sort, collecting samples on different worlds, and one of his samples got out. They had planned to do a scene where the main characters find evidence of the other samples and such, but decided it would be too much of a tangent.