Plot Bunnies are everywhere!

[missmiah]

I seriously considered calling in sick (or dead) today and staying home to write as I have several stories that are in various states of completion and even more plot bunnies running around begging for attention (including shiv5468's Detention Challenge, which I think I'm going to attempt).

Then I realized that I actually get more writing done at work than at home, so I gave up and drove to work.

Re: Alien Vs. Predator Movie - I've only seen the trailer once but I have several questions. Did they really screw up the time-line for the alien movies or am I missing something important? When is the movie supposed to take place? Why is Bishop running around looking for pyramids? The man designs androids for crimeny's sake.


Oh, Karen - Kevin P. got engaged this weekend. Thought you might like to know.

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[sigma7.livejournal.com]

AvP apparently takes place a few years from *now*. Lance plays Charles Bishop Weyland, half of the founders of Weyland-Yutani, aka the company Ripley ends up working for. (Dunno how true this is, but there were rumors of Peter Weller playing the other half of the duo at one point.)

And despite the fact that it *could* and *should* be cool, I'm still thinking it won't be. Call me a pessimist.

[missmiah.livejournal.com]

But didn't Bishop design the Bishop series android. When did Alien take place, has that time already passed? I really need to pull out the DVD and check.

Because the Bishop Android didn't show up until Aliens when Ripley had been asleep for over fifty years, and then the supposedly "real" Bishop arrives on the prison planet in Three.

See why I'm getting confused. I guess I'll have to look for a date on the first Aliens and see if I can pinpoint when the time-line began.

Possibility

[alex-shultz.livejournal.com]

How about this:

Very soon from now Bishop and friends start the Company. Bishop starts designing an android and gets all the hard work done like figuring out how to make it think, designing the brain, etc. Any old engineer can figure out the rest and the company begins working very hard on miniaturization, nanotech, and everything else needed to make the android a reality. So, Bishop is considered the "father" of the android.

Oh no! Alien vs Predator happens and the Company makes a movie to finance the android research. After movie Bishop doesn't want to get old and die waiting for technology to catch up to his dream so he goes into cryo-freeze until all the underpaid engineers and scientists finish the niggling details on making the android work. Movie merchandising alone pays for Bishops cryo freeze power bills.


Company figures out where to go to try to capture the cute little Aliens.

Along comes the first Alien movie. Bishop gets out of cryo - but too late! He's missed the action. Oh, well. Bishop models for the android sculptors and downloads his brain patterns to the new androids so Bishop can live forever.

There's a new movie coming out. More Aliens. Better make the trip to see what's going on. Thaw to see the carnage from the second Alien feature film. Now have to make the trip to go to see the _third_ one. This is getting old. Good thing Bishop's staying young from the cryo. The Company starts packing Bishop in a double-layer of plastic baggy _and_ aluminum foil to avoid freezer burn. Eventually Bishop catches up to where the action is and gets to be in another movie.

This would allow Bishop to be in the very near future and still show up later. Hundreds of years later that would be required for the Alien stuff to take place if the ships are sub-light (aren't they?).

I haven't seen the movies in a long time so I probably forgot some key things or got something mixed up and the scenario wouldn't work.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

'Course, I was figuring it was a descendant of Weyland's who was named Bishop who created the androids....

#&$#@!

[alex-shultz.livejournal.com]

Oh.

Well, that would be simple.

Shoot.

Yeah, I think that would be a better solution.

Shucks.

Why do I always make things so difficult?

I suppose

[missmiah.livejournal.com]

Although that seems a little farfetched. I mean, Alex's idea seems way more plausible. Or not.

*headdesk* I don't know why I didn't think of that.