Interview with author of Original Sin

[Corpral Hicks]

http://avp.gamegossip.com/community/interviews/friedman_interview.php

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Oh well, it was nice you could interview him.

I wonder how he came to the conclusion that the 'jockeys" were involved
with the setup, going by the first film, if he actually did


Dom

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Actually, I would have gone along with the idea that the Jockey's were
alive many thousands of years ago and could see into the future and
could have time capsules placed on various planets, and well they could
see the outcome of their actions through seeing into the future and
through this method they managed to come to make a deal with
Weylan-Yutani to give them bioweapons in payment for assisting with the
continuation of the Jockey's own species in the human's time frame
because the Jockey's species died many thousands of years ago. maybe
almost wiped out in a war against another alien species, and they were
able to realise what was going to happen as a result of something else,
but there is a chance that the jockey's in the past could finally get
another colony of theirs in the human race's timeframe, and then slowly
plan to take over the human's race's planets. But looking at the way
things are going through the series, their plan might not be working so
soon, in terms of hundreds of years.

So the derelict might in a way be a time capsule for me, and the ship's
pilot was secondary in terms of the plot, but his own memories might
have been carried off by the chestburster before it grew up, died and
maybe transformed into a spore or left them behind containing DNA
information from it's "parent" that would in some alien way contain all
it's memories.

So that would have been an idea that I would have merged with another
idea of mine

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I think that this idea of mine might have been attempting to be in tune
with the idea of the pre-historic intergalactic wars talked about in
the Lovecraft novels

[Corpral Hicks]

Post by w***@yahoo.com
I think that this idea of mine might have been attempting to be in tune
with the idea of the pre-historic intergalactic wars talked about in
the Lovecraft novels

Interesting. I like how you came to that conclusion. I havent read it yet
but I mean to get it.

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Post by Corpral Hicks
Interesting. I like how you came to that conclusion.

by not taking a blind bit of notice of the film

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Hicks said: Interesting. I like how you came to that conclusion.

Wmm replied: by not taking a blind bit of notice of the film


actually, by following the interviews with Ridley Scott where he talks
about the SpaceJockey possibly being involved in some kind of warfare,
and well linking that with the O'Bannon's Lovecraftian point of view
about the Alien film that he talked about in some of the interviews. So
taking those ideas, it takes me that direction, but that's not
neccessarily my final conclusion though about the nature of the
spacejockey. For me to develop the whole picture, I'll need to have to
find several different ideas to merge together taking the whole thing
of understanding the spacejockey as something a bit beyond our human
way of thinking, but the technology that they using, while alien, is
old.

I suppose maybe that his Alien:Original Sin novel might be a book to
read while in a bookshop if one is curious. The only interesting thing
about it for me is that the author came up with a few ideas about the
SpaceJockey that were just different from the usual Dark Horse Alien
mythos and I think half tied in almost in with UFO mythos about the
Greys and the US Government. But his Jockey's were really never more
evident in the book other than references to these entities being made
in explanations. Possibly the less I say the more interesting it might
seem. It depends of course on what the reader wants to read.