Honestly, if you google “Alien: Engineers” you can actually download the original script in PDF format. It’s a surprisingly fast read and it makes a hell of a lot more sense. In my opinion a more satisfying film. You can also google and download “Alien: Paradise” and “leaked Prometheus script” and see how Lindelof changed the entire story premise into the mess we saw on screen. The most surprising (or not) difference between the scripts is the style used to write them. Spaihts writes in a fast paced straight forward manner that delivers, regardless of what Lindelof and Scott claim after the fact, a solid Alien prequel. Lindelof writes in a bombastic and pretentious manner that is over complex and ooozing with “dig me, I’m complicated and edgy”.

Download,read, and decide for yourself, I think you’ll agree.

You’re “why this….., because that” section was spot on. it is the closest thing yet to really begin to give these writers the hiding they ought to get!

it’s a game you retard, it’s supposed to be unrealistic
that’s why it’s called a GAME. not REAL LIFE. FICTION.
i thought i knew some retarded people, but then i found you, the most exceptionally retarded of all
fucking faggot

On a purely symbolic level, the script is actually quite coherent. Themes and metaphors all gel very well, it’s just that Lindelof can’t seem to combine his obsession with subtext with an actual text, so the script turns into an extended dream sequence about the nobility of self sacrifice and the hubris of overreaching. With a more surreal treatment, it might even have worked. After he did such a fine job of outlining a symbolic, mythical journey, the script should have been handed over to what is commonly referred to as a “screenwriter” to bring this journey into focus as a story.

What I think you missed here is how completely and utterly this film fails as science fiction. The central sf conceit is the evolution accelerant, gene splicing, meta virus, black goo. This means that the science we are fictioning here is biology, which in turn means that all non fantastical biology in the story needs to be at least somewhat grounded. You can go free wheeling through impossible land in all sorts of ways, just not with biology. Without verisimilitude in the biology, there can be no verisimilitude for the biological science fiction, and this movie is a near constant face palm experience for anyone who knows anything about that subject.

After watching this, I honestly get the impression that Lindelof is a creationist, which should have disqualified him from a project of this sort, or at least gotten a warning label on it. In addition to hiring a screenwriter to fix his work, they maybe should have run it by one of them “scientist” types.

Braid’s storyline is almost exactly like those old video game manuals that try to give a deeper meaning and atmosphere to your on-screen pixels that vaguely resemble a person.

Oh and well done; the article was long but it was damn good. Plinkett would be proud.

The last time Bioware made an outstanding game was back in 2005 with Jade Empire, an eight year old IP they decided to shelve for no apparant reason. Only to give us Mass Effect two years later. And in case someone decides to respond with “Dragon Age”, It’s not a good game. The story is shallow, more than a few items are flat out broken, namely the % to health items (which were never fixed) and Dragon Age itself is a huge leap backwards where RPG’s are concerned.

Mass Effect is a good game, but it’s nowhere near what Bioware is truly capable of. Yet gamers, especially the PC crowd, will sing Mass Effect praises and flat out ignore the vast amount of flaws the game has because they would rather have bad western CRPG than nothing at all. If they acknowledge any issue with Mass Effect, it’s Microsoft who gets the blame.

Bioware will fall, it’s not a question of if, but when. I guess Jade Empire fans should be happy, at least Bioware stopped when they were ahead then ass up one more IP.