ALIEN Timeline Explained

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[@will_cashgrow2294]

Thanks for putting it all together for me. I've seen the movies and liked them but never really understood them. Because of you. Ok I get it now ❤

[@FirstClass44]

I just got it thanks

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[@Mike-vz6xg]

The scariest thing about this franchise is David! He’s still out there experimenting!!!

[@weebzone00]

That's what i was thinking too

[@rainbowdragon1872]

thanks to this review especially, im expecting to see him in Romulus. even if just a cameo

[@myplatformdiaries]

A menace 🗣

[@Souchi-ito]

No he's just cancelled.

[@luxuriouswatera9532]

​@@rainbowdragon1872he didn't even appear 💀💀

[@JGreez]

I just rewatched Prometheus. I still find it funny that when Millburn encounters the snake like creature with the cobra-esq hood on it, he decides it’s a good idea to get near it and interact with it like it’s a puppy.

[@MrPooh18]

I still wonder how the snake thingie evolved all by itself from the black goo.

[@bobajeb]

​@@MrPooh18Was it not from the worms?

[@feltfrog]

and he’s meant to be a biologist 😅 pretty terrible at his job

[@brandanvaquerano5809]

Facts

[@saschaberger3212]

Even Isolation. Finally a definitive timeline. Well done

[@greggobbi859]

I definitely agree

[@nerdoutreachprogram5358]

Right?? Alien Isolation is such an important part of the lore of the Alien universe.

[@interstellar_duh7431]

lol I did a literal sigh of relief when he said that. every video I've watched leaves it out and I just completed the game last week.

[@a.nobodys.nobody]

​@@interstellar_duh7431 I have it downloaded on my switch for years but never got around to playing it.... should I skip the isolation segment here ? How long did it take you to finish? Thanks

[@interstellar_duh7431]

@@a.nobodys.nobody I would skip that part of the video, yes. It’s a great game and I beat it in like a week and a half and that’s with going for all achievements and collectibles plus DLC. Parts of it are extremely challenging which is refreshing for a single player campaign.

[@tonymorales2161]

Just because the planet has a breathable atmosphere doesn’t mean you shouldn’t use PPE.

[@AnakinIHateSandSkywalker]

Porta potty extraordinaire ?

[@AbbasYawari-pi8bf]

Fuckin A bruh

[@dezfromwest]

yes this is a known fact on the inter galactic buisness, what a bunch of idiots huh!!! (i’m making fun of you)

[@jaykelley103]

Really wish people would shut up about this. It's been 12 years

[@eddie5484]

Yup. Quite the opposite. A breathable atmosphere pretty much guarantees the locals are infectious.

[@chavlaz]

"42 million dollar space ship" wildest part of this video, that low low low price tag

[@kishorgartaula1446]

I think it portrayed two theories 1) it was based on quite a while back since the dollar actually had a lot of value. 2) In the near future, space travel would be comparatively cheap, but the economy wouldn't get doing so good, hence just that price tag.

[@wadwad1222]

Of course it's cheap. It's made in the future duh. It would be very expensive if it were in our time.

[@dot2562]

​@@wadwad1222things get more exspensive over time 🙄 duh

[@truckerduck85]

​@dot2562 not necessarily. The Nostromo was hauling 20 million tons of ore. Increased supply with lower demand would definitely lower the cost.

[@CPS2]

The actual wording is "42 million in adjusted dollars". The word adjusted makes everything OK 😊

[@timw2007]

These films have taught me never answer a strange signal. Just ignore it and carry on as normal 😂

[@CPS2]

You hereby forfeit your shares!

[@SuppaCyan]

Tell that to the crew of Icarus 2 in Sunshine

[@IsaacHarvison-mt5xt]

​@@SuppaCyanDavid didn't create them there was scenes of xnemorphs eggs before David discovered it all he did was reverse engineered the DNA in the black goo and created his own xnemorphs Queen it's because David a psychopath android so no avp does not contradict the story line predators are a rival race of their own engineers didn't create them and David didn't destroy the engineers it was another planet they seeded with life

[@papirooster6236]

3 body problem also thought me that lol

[@Monicalia]

It's like getting a phonecall from an unknown number. Never. Answer. 😁

[@rakhuramai]

Man the trauma for Ripley just never stops. Even after she dies, she's somehow resurrected as a half alien of all things and made to go through shit again lol

[@RedTail1-1]

It's not like it's the same person. Her consciousness didn't magically transfer over. Otherwise she would be alive in a dozen bodies at the same time.

[@omarslayz]

@@RedTail1-1 it’s not her body either

[@smokey2425]

Nope

[@heisafraid]

@@RedTail1-1she has memories of herself before she was cloned though so she might remember who she is

[@legoy0da]

⁠@@heisafraidyeah but its not the same consciousness

[@dekillafied]

Prometheus is SUCH an interesting movie lore'wise. I wish they continued to expand upon that idea and kept in the whole 'Jesus was an engineer' plotline

[@joshuab3715]

It wasn’t that Jesus was an engineer, but rather he was a human who the engineers brought back to their home world and educated as to how their culture should work.

[@Billabongbabalog]

😂😂😂😂

[@evilcatghost307]

It's theorized that when Jesus was crucified was when the engineers decided humanity was not worthy of life. I forget the evidence of this but I read a essay on the two movies and there's interviews from the director hinting at this ​@@joshuab3715

[@kenji444]

the "Christian " audience would not have liked that, lol

[@georgepalm1998]

@@kenji444 as a Christian I thought it was cool

[@krisblaxter123]

I don't think the planet they visited is the Engineers' homeworld. I would assume it's a similar creation of the Engineers', like humans on Earth. After Covenant, there was supposed to be Alien: Awakening, which would have presented us with their actual homeworld. But Disney stepped in and shut it down... So now, I guess we will never know for certain because there's a 99% chance they will never go back to the David story, even Ridley confirmed this. It's really sad because I was so invested in this story.

[@prodigy455]

youre right on that , it was just another variant of life that looked similar and that was kinda the road it was to take as trying to find you maker would just be an endless search. id be interested in seeing the evolution between tyrell and weyland or more on David.

[@johnkonde1975]

why did Disney shut it down?

[@krisblaxter123]

@@johnkonde1975 Short answer: Covenant flopped on the box office. Longer answer: The majority of people doesn’t want a story that is complex and misterious. They want action, horror a thrill and that’s it. 90% won’t watch the movie ever again and just move on. Us minority who care for a good story are ughhh… minority 😅 And also the whole point of Scotts idea was to link the Alien to the creation with the Bible and historical refferences. It was something Disney just couldn’t be a part of. It upsets a lot of religious people and upsets are notorious for cutting the present and future profits. They want to appeal to as much people as possible. Guess why the Fast & Furious franchise has 10 movies. This principle applys to a lot of things in life sadly. Money is the gear of the world.

[@lasskinn474]

I don't think ridley ever really had made up what would be on the homeworld etc. the next one wouldn't have been there either, you see tying the threads together would need someone to actually make some decisions about what was what and how it's supposed to make sense - as long as you don't go there, you don't need to make it make sense. just like you don't need to try to make sense for how during covenant the nostromo is already out there ferrying rich people around for fun before it's refit as a freighter.

[@antone1976]

The story is amazing but extremely convoluted. In order to follow certain aspects I came here to read everything and still there's just too much going on and too many different types of aliens that it makes the original Alien seem like a completely different story. I still don't completely understand the many things that went on in Prometheus even though it's a great movie.

[@Reese_eseeR111]

I saw the Alien: Romulus trailer in the cinema yesterday, was planning on refreshing my knowledge on the series. Guess the algorithm just wanted me to fast-track it. Thank you for the thorough summaries, watched it from start to finish in one sitting! 🎉

[@OneTakeVids]

Thank you for watching! 🙏 And thank you algorithm 🤖

[@BrodyFails]

WATCH THE MOVIE! WORTH IT

[@nekonapper]

algo does 'sneak' on us thru mobile phone or pc... scary, yet convenience

[@adriankuban2904]

​@@OneTakeVids​Great video but you have forget add it in timeline Alien Blackout mobile game about Amanda Ripley

[@tros_725]

lmao a week prior i watched every predator/alien movie before i watched romulus, for example sunday : prey/predator monday : predator 2/avp tuesday : avp2/predators wednesday : predators (finished)/the predator/prometheus thursday : alien covenant friday : alien/alien romulus/aliens saturday : aliens (finished) sunday : alien 3/alien resurrection

[@edwin4625]

My issue with prequels that come out after the original(s) is that they often feature more futuristic equipment. It's like during the original Alien movies, technology somehow went backwards and then forwards. I wish they had stuck with the technology from the original Alien series because it breaks the immersion. Yes, I'm aware that in Star Wars, they did everything they could to maintain the same technological consistency in the prequels, both before and during Disney's ownership. You guys get where I'm coming from.

[@sykune]

The way i see this is the waylan company kept the most advance technology for itself and a slect group of employees, while everyone else had last gen tech. As i could see such a corperation doing such a thing

[@pocketz2202]

@@sykune yeah like how steve jobs managed to keep the smartphone tec to only apple? xD this is the first things humans do, we acquire the tech, pick it apart, put it back together again and modify it.

[@daniaaal]

I mean, Star Wars ep 1 to 3 had a similar issue.

[@screanme9240]

Another way to thinks is: Yes you can drive Tesla Model 3 right now, but you could also be driving 1993 Ford Mustang

[@midgematic8659]

Yea totally get it, but also consider this: accidental prediction to space craft now. You got national space station and then you got the Boeing space station that’s rn stranded for the next two years in space. And we dont even have cryo-stasis 😭

[@zachenderson3032]

I can see now why Ripley is one of most badass female main characters of fiction 😊

[@LizzyTheVampireSlayer]

Ripley is Legend

[@b1bbscraz3y]

nah feminist woke agenda

[@b1bbscraz3y]

nah feminist woke agenda

[@1001johny]

Only now?

[@darthrubik8384]

Don't you know? Badass female protagonists never existed until Disney did it 🙄

[@KawaiiNancy]

Bill Paxton is the only person to be killed by an Alien, Predator and Terminator. 😅

[@herbertrobertson5524]

Arnold is the only person to kill a terminator and a predator

[@anunabhadutta1436]

Bill Paxton is the only person to be killed by an Alien, Predator, Terminator and an old biatch's bs story

[@jasonsaenz8959]

​@herbertrobertson5524 need to put him in an alien movie

[@markot8927]

Arnold could've been a perfect engineer

[@jeremiahfisher9033]

Sean Bean: "Hold my beer"

[@God-k5b]

I dunno why sci-fi movies give such early dates for crazy advancements 10 years from the release date. It’s 2024 and Wayland has not given a ted talks.

[@im_aleey]

A time traveler altered the timeline

[@erikbishop7]

Well, as it is, and early date was given that was less early in 1979, so they had to make it the 2090s when Prometheus happened.

[@TransformationalScientist]

December.

[@urjnlegend]

Not yet...

[@urjnlegend]

Wayland or Elon?

[@tonymorales2161]

It was pretty dumb of Shaw to go out and seek the engineers. Considering the fact that the engineers were on the way to earth to wipeout humanity, what made her think that she could either persuade or force anyone of those creatures to give her an answer? She should’ve gone back to earth explained that the engineers are hostile in order to give her a chance to develop counter measures against a possible future invasion

[@SirKemodero]

It was to late for that. First it is not the archelogist mission Second she got infected Third she aint got no ship to travel back Zero "to go out and seek the Engineers" well she didnt know they were going to annihalete their creation until SHE GOT THERE. Also if the last thing you gonna do in life is to see your creator of your human race that s like God or Godess emerges in front of you, that can mean a lot for so many people even pain and probably death since Gods can be vengefull and so on. The counter measure against someone on God level I will say it s better to destroy on there terrain specially if you already know then some have abandon or got killed there is only one soldier and ship and you know there weapon stash. Shaw could hardly have done more heroic stuff until the SPOILER ALERT getting facked by the android Daniel. Not everyone can be as cool as Ripley. Also dont trust an android unless who coded it.

[@TheRealCoon420]

it was dumb, she could have flown back to earth showed everyone the crazy ass alien ship, told everyone she was right, and they probably would have sent her on a mission to go where she wanted

[@mjbinon]

@@SirKemodero You completely misunderstood the post you are replying to. OP was talking about Shaw's mission at the END of Prometheus, not her mission at the beginning. IE... she knew the Engineers were hostile, she should have returned to Earth with David instead of going to the Engineers alone.

[@AchillesofOblivion]

Learn English before you ramble ​@@SirKemodero

[@a.nobodys.nobody]

And the nerve to ask 'why' they wanted to eradicate humanity! helloooo dumb-dumb, really?? The fact that you'd sooner take a trip to a planet full of super-beings that want to exterminate your species rather than go back home to earth should be telling you something 😂

[@ericmcmanus5179]

Shaw wants to know why the engineers changed their minds...and so did we. But we never got that answer. Thabks a lot Ridley.

[@tacobeartaco7140]

I think it was shared that the engineers sent a messenger: Jesus. But, we decided it was a good idea to kill him. So they thought humans weren't worth saving.

[@ericmcmanus5179]

@@tacobeartaco7140 really? I don't remember hearing that. That's pretty cool. But I don't think that was said in any of the movies.

[@tacobeartaco7140]

@@ericmcmanus5179 Yea, certainly not in the movies. I believe is was an interview. I'll try to find it for you when I have a chance.

[@mrsmaul2010]

I have a feeling Ridley caved into pressure to show the Xenomorphs from fans possibly the studio.

[@ArcherV]

@@ericmcmanus5179check the cut scene of the engineer talking to David in Prometheus, it’s all in there.

[@SalDays]

The fact that we don’t know what David’s been up to till this day is scary 😭

[@CaseyUnderwoodkd]

whatsinmy AI fixes this. Alien timeline explained with Romulus.

[@BDOT310]

How to quickly defeat a xenomorph? Be next to an airlock….

[@OneTakeVids]

If I ever go to space, I will NEVER leave the sight of an airlock.

[@CPS2]

I carry an airlock with me at all times, just to be sure.

[@eddie5484]

I hear antacid works a charm too.

[@reedm7619]

Why is Bill Paxton the first thing I think of and remember whenever Alien comes up? Game over man! R.I.P. absolute legend

[@CPS2]

"Whaddya mean THEY cut the power?! How could they cut the power, man?! They're animals!"

[@mateelek3914]

anytime anywhere

[@LeedleLee457]

My introduction to the Xenomorphs was in Alien vs Predator. The first film I saw them in, they were getting slaughtered left and right by the Predators. So I had no idea that even just one Xenomorph was such a big threat in their movies lol

[@SvenSon44]

Partly the reason why AVP is somewhat poorly received by fans.

[@optimusnoprime2071]

even before an on screen match up its clear through their own stand alone movies predators are more intelligent and basically have super strength so.. + the alien still infected him at the end giving us one of the craziest xeno/pred to ever rampage a screen

[@themythbigpumagang]

@@SvenSon44nah they just dumb down the predators in they own movies so I could see why it makes no sense that they would be rivals

[@mohdzikriza4065]

@@themythbigpumagang so it was all started from freddy vs jason...

[@alkhemiss]

Any time there’s more than like two xenomorphs the story becomes “gun them down” rather than “run and survive”

[@ryanh.739]

💯🙌 Thank you mentioning Alien Isolation!!!!! It doesn’t get enough credit. Alien Isolation is the true Sequel to Alien 1979. Same vibes, same atmosphere, same music, hell even all the actors actually came back! Not an action game/film… instead it’s truly Horror.

[@sharksurvivor]

One of the best games I’ve ever played. It stressed me out so much I had to take a month long break before finishing the rest of it lol. So good.

[@ludwiglanestudios]

Such a masterpiece. I played it again last year for a refresher. Still holds up 10 years later. They need a VR version stat!

[@sharksurvivor]

@@ludwiglanestudios there’s a VR game coming out in December that looks really good!

[@isitreallyyouuuuuu]

the best horror game of all time ngl

[@democard1199]

​​@@ludwiglanestudios Nuh uh!!!! I don't want to shit myself when that thing reaches me again and put his tongue inside my mouth

[@OzymandiusMox]

THANK YOU! This was so good. I just saw Romulous and had some questions on how things connected. This was great! Thank you Opera for sponsoring this.

[@jombeemeanstroke6426]

I'm not a big Alien fan, but this is the best explanation of everything in that universe that I've ever seen. Great job! Now I'm going to rewatch the ones I like and see for the first time everything after Aliens 3.

[@Animei9]

Fun fact, if Blade Runner is in the same universe, then so is Soldier. That seems like it could turn into quite a rabbit hole

[@LiquidSnake1988]

Is that a fact? or just an Imagination?

[@ragnathebloodedge8299]

Im not sure is a fact or not but i do remember reading an article somewhere that ridley scott trying to link that bladerunner and alien is in the same universe but again i found that sounds stupid tho the idea of having replicants VS synthetics sounds pretty cool idk im just yapping out of my ass now😂😂

[@travisbrown6814]

I read a long time ago that Pitch Black is in a different part of the same universe too

[@mojojojo9458]

@@LiquidSnake1988 A bit stretch. People need to really stop trying to make MCU style multiversal links between films. Before you know it, people will talk of a Ridley Scott cinematic universe including Gladiator and Robin Hood too

[@lemming9984]

If Blade runner is the same universe, then so is The Sound Of Music and Ferris Bueller's Day Off!

[@thomasmartinez8388]

I hope we get to see Winona Ryder as a human in one of the next films to see from whom her synthetic is based

[@ludwiglanestudios]

Resurrection sucked so hard.

[@montanamike7948]

​@@ludwiglanestudiosyeah right it was epic

[@supremeleader7863]

@@ludwiglanestudiosi still prefer it over Prometheus and covenant

[@theakspud]

It's my theory that the goo wasn't perfected. It could make life like them, but it also could go haywire and make the aliens. Every time they used it, it was a roll of the dice if it made life like them or horrible monstrosities

[@bradleye660]

If I’m not mistaken, the Engineers chose one of their own specifically to be the sacrifice. Based on that, there probably has to be a very suitable host in order to create life akin to the Engineers. 🤔 me thinky.

[@SvenSon44]

I think its like driving a car, its supposed to work in a certain way, but if you operate it in dangerous conditions or unresponsibly, that is when shit goes awry

[@frfras7]

The liquid seeding life is not the same as the black goo

[@MR3DDev]

IDK where I read this but sounded to me like it would marry the prequels better: The engineers found the Xenomorphs and tailored them as a weapon. David replicated this.

[@CPS2]

Agreed. I HATE the notion that the greatest alien threat ever, the perfect organism, was created by a pissy android with daddy issues.

[@DanCR8]

It was also replicated by the scientists on Romulus who extracted the black goo from the xeno they found in space. How else did they get the goo? Once having it they were able to incubate face huggers

[@ericmcmanus5179]

If David turned out to be the one who created the xenomorph. Than there is no explination for why the engineers would have statues and murals of the same xenomorph in Prometheus. That doesn't make sense.

[@alexitocr1989]

not mentioning the bunch of xenomorphs in alien vs predator, which are basically in current time lol

[@ericmcmanus5179]

@@alexitocr1989 yeah, that too. Hahaha. God. They really messed that up. And the mystery prior to Prometheus and Covenant was so good. The theories were endless. Yet they went with the lamest one. Smh

[@MattD402]

@@alexitocr1989 Alien vs Predator is not in the same continuity of the Alien timeline.

[@TheGiggles1989]

I don't think he did. It seems like the Engineers created them originally and he recreated them later using the same black goo

[@TK1129]

I see anything after Aliens as high budget fan project. Not cannon in my mind. The more answers they give the more questions we have.

[@Valyn]

Small sidenote. In Firefly, the AA gun Malcolm fires has a Wayland logo in the HUD...

[@CPS2]

ZOMG! Firefly and Alien in the same universe! And don't forget that the a Firefly type ship was seen in the Battlestar Galactica miniseries as well. So that's Alien, Firefly, Galactica.

[@ljdamann54]

prime 1am KZbin content here sir

[@Juniperfruitsnax]

I believe that the engineer ripped David's head off and killed Weyland because at first he was impressed that humans had Advanced far enough to be able to understand their alien language but when the engineer touched David he realized David was a synthetic, something that humans actually created instead of evolving themselves.

[@Datttsnake]

That makes alot of sense.

[@carybrown851]

The timeline is really simple. There's "Alien," then "Aliens," then Ellen Ripley has a couple of nightmares during the hypersleep back to Earth. "The end."

[@baileycarter5141]

You forget that Amanda Ripley experiences almost the same thing, and is no longer talked about

[@carybrown851]

​​@@baileycarter5141 No, that's not true. Amanda Ripley, in the films, is almost unknown, so there's no help there. All we know is that she was almost eleven when Ripley left Earth, and had died in as an elderly woman (though not tremendously old, which raises a few questions), with a different last name (presumed, but not established, as a married name) and had no children. That's everything we know from "official" sources. Now, I love "Alien - Isolation" as much as anyone (though the hospital levels were terribly frustrating!), and in my own personal "head canon" they're part of the timeline. But technically, no game and no comic and no novel is "official." They're all "what if" stories. That said, nothing in "Alien Isolation" interferes, at all, with my view of the latter two movies (A3 and A-R). "Alien - Isolation" takes place in the middle of the period between the first and second films (Alien and Aliens). By the time Ripley is awakened and taken to Gateway Station, Amanda has been dead for some time. So my view, that "Alien 3" and "Alien - Resurrection" are both "fever dreams" Ripley experiences in the way back to Earth from Hadley's Hope/Achernar/LV-426/whatever. I suggest that she has a bad reaction to the hypersleep process, in part related to her trauma and in part due to her previous extended hypersleep. That's far from unheard of. People can eat a ton of bread products, and one day suddenly can no longer tolerate it. Same with peanuts, or dairy, or many other foods, drugs, etc. Maybe Ripley is now "hypersleep intolerant." Or maybe she needs to "detox" a bit, and get all the residual hybernation drugs out of her system. My point is that it's certainly plausible for Ripley's hypersleep home in the Sulaco to have not been as "dream free" as she'd hoped. That she might even be in some form of distress. There are a lot of issues between Aliens and A3. First, no matter how hard people try to justify it, there's no way the queen was able to lay an egg on Sulaco in the time she was there, much less not have it be detected. That's something that only makes sense in nightmare logic. Second, the hypersleep capsules seen at the beginning of A3 are NOT THE SULACO CAPSULES. They are the design seen in the first movie, not in the second one. This is an unbelievably sloppy error on the part of the production crew if you treat that as "real" but it makes perfect sense as part if a nightmare. We blend memories all the time in our dreams. Then, there's the fact that Sulaco somehow changed its external appearance between the two films. Including, but not limited to, changing the printed name on the ship side from black to white. This is the sort of change which reflect either "not caring" on the filmmakers' part, or the inaccurate "filling in the memory blanks" which often happens in dreams. If course, everything that happens in A3 is exactly what you'd expect her to have nightmares about. If you wanted to write a script entitled "Ripley's nightmares," the events of A3 and A-R are exactly what you'd write. See, in my mind's eye, the Sulaco makes it home safe. But Ripley doesn't wake up... not for a while, anyway. She's in a nightmare-filled coma. Meanwhile, Hicks returns to the service, and his acid scars are a "badge of honor." He is granted a promotion into the officer ranks (a combat "field commission") and he gets promoted to the rank of Colonel eventually. Rebecca "Newt" Jordan grows into an adult woman, and eventually becomes the new "lead character" in future stories. Bishop is repaired, and ends up as aide to Colonel Hicks. And the two eventually reunite with Newt when another infestation is eventually discovered. And at some point during that, Ripley awakens from her coma and comes to the rescue in a "dire straights" situation. That's the version I accept. And the latter two films only exist as Ripley's nightmares. They're too illogical, two inconsistent, too "nightmarish at the expense of reality" for me to accept them any other way.

[@MasterJunior93]

​​@@carybrown851this is now canon to me, I will accept no other.

[@bigboy4137]

@@carybrown851there is a definitive canon layed out by 20th century Fox, the films, isolation, and select comics are canon

[@carybrown851]

​@@bigboy4137 Why do people like you always insist on saying stuff like that? Especially when you're not actually correct. The dtories written by Dark Hirse Comics are licensed stories, but they do not belong to the erstwhile 20th Century Fox (which remember is now part of Disney). Dark Horse and its writers own those stories. They used 20th's IP with permissions, and for a fee, but 20th (now Disney) does not own that content. Disney would have to buy the rights to that content from the owners on order to use it. Yes, we know Disney likes to pretend otherwise... see how they refused to pay royalties to Alan Dean Foster after the purchase of Lucasfilm, until forced to do so through legal action. Disney has become a TERRIBLE company which behaves as if their "partners" have no rights. But this is simply untrue. So, Disney owns no rights to "Alien - Isolation," nor to the novels, nor to the comics, nor to the "Audible Originals" productions. Nor, for that matter, do they own the rights to William Gibson's original story for Alien 3 (which is why they required him to sell them the rights to do comic and "radio play" performances of his original story version.) Yes, Disney owns the primary IP... the "universe"... so they can "cancel" anyone's rights to do stories they disapprove of, and must always be paid a fee anytime anyone plays in their IP, but they do NOT OWN any works not explicitly created by them or which are not part of the package they bought during the Fox acquisition. And if Disney does not own it, Disney does not recognize it as "canon." This was at the core of why Disney eliminated the Star Wars "Expanded Universe." Too many "grey areas" where Disney could not use some element without owing the creator of that element. Use Mara Jade? Pay a royalty to Timothy Zahn. Use Anakin Solo? Pay royalties to Dark Horse Bomics and to Veitch and... I forget other guy's name... who created the "Dark Empire" cycle. And so on. By declaring all of that "non-canon," they can still occasionally borrow concepts (with "25% tweaks") and avoid paying royalties at all. Disney declares anything not owned, wholly, by them to be "non-canon." And apart from the films themselves, and any content solely derived from the on-screen content, this rxcludes, and thus "decanonizes," everything else. What 20th may once have agreed to is irrelevant now. Unless it's explicitly defined in a contract, Disney doesn't care. And even then... if a contract exists, and is ironclad... they'll still try to avoid doing what they're legally committed to fo. Again, see Alan Dean Foster's residuals payments for the various novelizations he wrote for properties Disney later purchased, and their continued sales of his novelizations while refusing to pay his legally required payments. No, sorry... nothing not seen on-screen, or produced under the Disney banner AFTER the Fox acquisition, is "canon." Not according to Disney, the current owner of the IP. GIVEN THAT, and also given how generally terrible Disney has become since Eisner left and Iger took over, I fetl oergectly gine having my own oersonal "head canon" which can (and udually does) reject anything Disney does to any intellectual property they now own. EVERY AUDIENCE NEMBER has that right. This is not "history." This is ENTERTAINMENT. And audience members have every right to accept, or reject, anything which they wish. Or to interpret things however they like. Disney doesn't get to tell us what we "have to accept." We get to tell THEM (or any other provider of entertainment) what WE ACCEPT and what WE REJECT. They work for us, no matter what Bob Iger, or anyone else, WISHES were the case. In my case, I reject the "Alien prequels." Ridley Scott dorsn't have the right to redefine even his own published works... much less redefine the joint wirks of many people, including some more talented than himself. The "space jockey" was NOT an "engineer." And so on. And I can reject "Romulus" on msny grounds... not the least of which is that it's just a terrible movie with terrible characters. But I can still accept A3 and A-R... as long as I see them solely as "Ripley's nightmares while in hypersleep."

[@CPS2]

Fun fact in case anyone didn't know: When the very first chest buster makes it's debut appearance courtesy of John Hurt's chest cavity, the effects guys used real intestines and blood that they procured from a butcher. They also didn't tell the actors what to expect, so their reactions are genuine. 😂

[@danielfaw4652]

Gil has one tone, and it hits every time! You crank that volume up! You are hearing a perfect narration voice! The video is spot on! Gil-tone is what I'll call it!

[@OneTakeVids]

I feel OFFICIALLY vindicated for that time in AP Lit when it was my turn to read the that class begged my teacher to skip my turn because my voice was too "monotone" Thanks for the kind words! 🙏

[@WilliamFisk-nf9qy]

25:51 - You make a mistake here. In Alien they don’t leave the ore refinery or ‘rig’ in a ‘smaller craft’. They leave the ore refinery and land on LV426 using The Nostromo. That is the name of the towing craft. There is the ore refinery, the huge cathedral looking craft, and towing that is The Nostromo. There is no other smaller craft besides the life raft used at the end.

[@armandh4705]

Fede built on the pre established lore in a beautiful way, I love the concepts of Prometheus and Covenant but I did not enjoy them as films, but Romulus manages to take inspiration from all previous films and incorporate fun new details

[@Markus-xm4zv]

Thank you Giger for your concepts and the most remarkable Alien concept. RIP

[@CPS2]

I'll second that. Giger is a long time favourite of mine. Never to be replaced.

[@ezragilliam9647]

It's people like you that make complex timelines so much easier to understand. Thank you so much for this.

[@DunjeeTime]

I love that this entire movie franchise was started (both in the original and prequels) by people being too stupid to not put their faces within inches of an alien organism. People know better than to just reach out to a dog they don't know, but these people are practically fondling alien organisms

[@Supervandal]

The only unbelievable thing about this entire plot line is that an intergalactic spaceship is only $42,000,000.

[@karitradchdch749]

Some boats cost more than that 😂😂

[@KateeAngel]

In reality intergalactic ships would cost so much that they would bankrupt a civilization. That is why idea of colonization of whole galaxy is science FICTION, not SCIENCE fiction

[@dee_1016]

They need a movie based on David’s whereabouts

[@CPS2]

They need to retcon that sucker and all the damage he did to the franchise.

[@nawwafhusein6702]

Came here after watching romulus. Minor spoiler, lore wise. Turns out they mentioned prometheus and it really made me happy! Just like star wars, I watch alien in chronological order, and man was the prometheus leave an impression on me. I hope they continued on the prequels bc David is still out there being a literal god making creatures god knows what.

[@thankthetrees]

hey man i really appreciate this explanation NOT including things about yourself and how much you may know or not know.... very informative and straight to the story..... thanks..... just what i was searching for

[@frantheman1287]

The way I understood the movies is the Deacon/Alien on the mural was an advanced form of the Aliens we know. Much more intelegent, and it seemed like the Engineers worshiped it. The creature offered it's blood so that the Engineers could replicate life with the black goo that looked like eggs in the cup during Prometheus, but after a few decades/eons, the creature eventually died. The black goo we see now is the Engineers version of the blood in hopes of creating a new Deacon to lead them once more. The goo is so degraded it no longer seeds new life but it just mutated it into grotesque lifeforms. The planet David and Shaw land on that gets destroyed by David is just another planet the Engineers had seeded life on and not their home planet. They looked smaller in stature and were probably an earlier iteration of the Engineers creating life before humans. Perhaps earlier humans worshipped the Engineers but recent humans no longer do thus the Engineers sought to destroy us and start anew. David's version that we see now is his own variation meant to be ruthless killing machines not what the Engineers had wanted. I really wish we could get a movie to focus on David during his 45ish years between Prometheus and the OG Alien movie.

[@ggalaxy89]

i love the way you pronounce the sentences: "they even become intimate... then prisoners starts dying. no one knows what's doing it... ACID BLOOD..."

[@Knives79]

You killed me at, " Hudson in particular is disappointed"! Longest effective lead in ever! Epic!!! By the way that original scene was so amazing! Super suspenseful at the time.

[@thewolf5191]

Aliens was the best movie out of all of the. Rip Bill Paxton. It will never be game over for you.

[@MisterK-YT]

I thought the people David dropped the black goo on weren’t actually Engineers, but likely another civilization created by the engineers? And tbh they don’t fully look like engineers even.

[@Thomasiscrazy]

As a huge fan of ALIEN, this was very pleasant to listen to.

[@xSavedSoulx]

*Alien Resurrection* had a unique and interesting aesthetic with cool cinematography. It was different and probably not as strong as the other films, but the late '90s vibe gave it its own distinct feel.

[@pocketz2202]

its my fav out of them all.

[@Shakeitupcreationsmia]

This is hands down the best timeline explanation of the alien series I have ever come across. Thank you for your dedication and effort in creating this.

[@iancowan3527]

I just love how there's not one, not two, but three openning going forward from Romulus! And thou "Mother" comes back into play ~ she/it was how this all started! And took a very very wild left turn! Which opens yet another story to be told...

[@ODST88]

Thank you!! Predator timeline next?

[@OneTakeVids]

That's for sure coming, either as a stand-alone or as part of an expanded Alien vs Predator timeline. Haven't decided when I'm tackling that yet though! Will keep you all posted

[@rakhuramai]

This please!

[@BALDOGON]

Definetly looking forward to this one😃😃💯💯💫

[@kennywilkinson913]

That's only 2 films tho.

[@OneTakeVids]

@@kennywilkinson913 The expanded timeline would add not just the two AvPs but also the five other Predator movies.

[@DOC_951]

As soon as you said 0:50 “you know what else is cool?” I knew there was an ad coming 😂 immediately skipped ahead

[@k.s.nichols4060]

The facehugger took control of that guy. But you know what helps me keep control? MadeUpVPN...

[@loopymind]

Thank you for using the Assembly cut for Alien 3

[@mikegleed5842]

💯👍

[@Frenchylikeshikes]

Editing my original comment so no one feels offended and so it is more accurate: Alien Isolation is so amazing that it is one of the very few games that become part of a storyline. That game really, truly, is the best Horror ever made. No question.

[@vengarlof7033]

Ghostbusters ps3 video game is considered the true sequel to the original movies So not the first

[@rezekblaz]

Could not agree more. It is one of my favourite games and I really hope they release Alien Isolation 2

[@sykune]

There is also a terminator game tgar ties all the movies together as well.

[@whyask...becauseyoucan3012]

0:24 no life on the planet? I see grass and i know there's microbes everywhere.....you almost got me there sir but not today 😁

[@ImmortalAbsol]

Weird timestamp for this comment.

[@jellyTurfsJelly]

Really well put together video sir. Very easy to understand what you’re saying, there’s no extra fat on any info, and the way you read your script like a screenplay is great.

[@cheekster777]

Thank you so much Gil. Perfect timing! 👍🏻🙏🏻

[@OneTakeVids]

Tried to get it out as soon I could! Hoped for sooner but hey, got it out before the new movie haha

[@cheekster777]

@@OneTakeVids You LEGEND! 🤩

[@NicholasIrvin]

​@@OneTakeVidsOh I got a question for you.Could you do?Let's say the timeline about the Die hard universe like Now, that would be interesting to see if you could do this.Oh and I believe I mentioned before about doing the Ace Combat timeline. Any updates?

[@RedTail1-1]

​@@OneTakeVidsGood job!

[@Kaayuu]

One thing I've learned, the safest place in the whole Alien universe is standing behind Ellen Ripley.

[@DoubleDsp]

How could the original team come across an engineer fossilized in a crashed ship with eggs that david engineered 20 years prior?

[@DanCR8]

David didn’t create them. He replicated them. The black goo is extracted from xenomorphs. Which is how the engineers and scientists on Romulus got it. How else did those scientists get the black goo if not by extracting it from the xeno they found in space? Once having it they were able to incubate face huggers in a synthetic womb, while David managed to grow eggs that grew the face huggers.

[@Slashwowftwftw]

Thank you so much for this video!! Can't wait to see the new one when it come out this week.

[@OneTakeVids]

Same, so hyped!

[@mangana215]

The hole alien saga can be resumed in: A woman telling someone NOT to do something, them doing it, and everything going crazy after that

[@jamesabernethy7896]

I really like the Alien Franchise... well the first 3 anyway. I recently found your channel with your older Exorcist video and I really liked it and was hoping to comment on a newer video. I'm relatively new to watching what I would term pure horror and was lucky to see the original The Exorcist at our local cinema last Halloween. I'm subscribed to your channel now and will be checking out more in time.

[@OneTakeVids]

Thank you for the kind words! And good news if you liked that Exorcist video; gearing up for a lot of similar content for the upcoming Halloween season (my favorite season haha). Also, so cool you got to see the original in a theater!

[@shawnthompson940]

THIS WAS FIRE!! Ive always loved the Alien series!!

[@mallwilliams8695]

I love it, i love the fact that its lodged inbetween the 1st and 2nd movie ...i love the references and the design from 1979 being able to be upheld in 2024 !!!! Its beautiful

[@jelv.4142]

"Hudson in particular is disappointed" lol 😅😆

[@skippytheghost]

Never got the bio weapons idea for 40 years. Thought it was dumb story idea, doing the 'it was us all along' idea. But after watching this i've warmed to idea. Good work.

[@paulszki]

You somehow used the word "idea" a total of four times in three sentences.

[@skippytheghost]

I have no idea how I did that

[@AntonShields]

I am a massive fan of the Alien series and I was skeptical of your timeline at first glance, but I have to say you did a really good job for especially people who aren’t massive fans but might wanna get a good cursory knowledge of the franchise. Thank you.

[@TomFemia-f5e]

Outstanding timeliness full of great info. My favorite part is Noomie Rapace having to yank a creature from her abdomen.

[@Shystichu]

My favorite part is seeing her thighs after said removal 😅

[@Heretic44]

I’ve never watched a full alien film but after watching this I’m now watching Prometheus. This is an excellent video and definitely got me hyped for watching the series properly

[@SuspendedLogic]

*Darwin has left the chat. It's ashame Ridley Scott doesn't believe in Evolution since he once started the most terrifying cosmic horror movie about the dark possibilities of evolution... and then tried to rewrite it as a movie about creationism and ruined it.

[@pocketz2202]

i don't care how many movies they make, they will never convince me that the apex predator Aliens were "man" made.

[@SuspendedLogic]

@@pocketz2202 exactly!

[@SandroneEko]

​​​@@pocketz2202Xenomorphs could be "man" made, but it would be most likely in field of generic engineering and genetic engineering strictly operates on mechanisms that drive evolution. Evolution is natural effect of these genetic mechanisms existing so cherry picking genetic engineering while denying evolution is such bad stance. Like viruses are best example. There are man-made modified viruses used for killing antibiotic resistant bacteria (bacteriophages), but that doesn't mean that these man-made viruses can't evolve, because they do evolve. If something can mutate, it can evolve if mutation is passed down by offspring. The idea that something like xemomorph, an organism with fast life cycle and that mutates a lot, can't evolve, is so stupid. In my opinion what makes xenomorphs scary is that they are not only extremely resilient, but also that their offspring adapts to new environments and mutates a lot which makes so scary creature even more horrifying

[@10secondsrule]

33:57 Alien isolation is such a perfect game still to this day. There are several amazing mods available for it vastly improving both graphics (alias isolation, hires textures, even some RT light improvements via reshade, etc.) and the gameplay (unpredictable alien, various stats mods etc.). I play it every few months just for the sheer atmosphere. It’s amazing.

[@izabelasiczek3547]

Love your videos! Thank you perfect timing

[@OneTakeVids]

Thank you so much for watching!🙏

[@AshishAgrawal30]

this is the best replay of the Alien franchise.... Kudos to OneTake

[@marcusmiller5443]

Very thorough, and well done. Thank you.

[@blakeloper2285]

The clone Ripley character storyline continued in a dark horse comic that was titled Aliens vs Predator vs Terminator. I think the predator yautja recognized Ripleys strength and alien dna and teamed up with her. Its been awhile since ive read it, but the story is out there.

[@chrishopkins5651]

Missed a trick by not referencing the Prometheus school of running away from things. But other than that great video!

[@RedTail1-1]

That's cinemasins? I honestly can't remember. Haven't watched that channel in a couple years.

[@patros1801]

@@RedTail1-1That‘s a good thing.

[@frfras7]

@@RedTail1-1the reason Prometheus us hated on is that stupid video

[@frfras7]

Idiotic criticism

[@darrenma9766]

The most well spoken breakdown of these films I could have ever imagined, good job dude

[@Madstsone]

Prometheus and Alien Covenant sound really, really stupid when you do a plot summary of them

[@GLVSCOW]

Never seen all the movies, this recap is crazy. Thank you

[@Sandbarfight]

Thank you

[@OneTakeVids]

You're welcome! 🙏

[@timeobserver8220]

That. Was. Absolutely fantastic. What a well edited breakdown.

[@AgentGodzillaRP1701]

I wish the Blomkamp sequel to Aliens that ignores 3 and Resurrection happened

[@operator8014]

You've mentioned Alien Isolation. Time to play through it again. 40th time's the charm!

[@IntroducingMrLucci]

Aliens vs Predator left out but Prometheus messed up the mystery to the story and destroyed the previous timeline.

[@CPS2]

I hate the engineers. I much preferred the unanswered mystery of the space jockey and the "bone ship" as it used to be called.

[@BigDexMedia]

Thank you for completely explaining the cinematic universe of Aliens

[@wakkadakka9192]

Alien > Aliens > Alien 3 Hell in production destroys franchise > Alien 4 failed attempt to resurrect > couple silly AvP movies to milk some money > Studio still lacks money > old man makes silly stupid movies with random titles about idiots in space with a bunch of pointless religious references > Alien Romulus The worst thing is that they all now pretend that the entire Alien franchise is the personal ideas and merit of Ridley Scott alone. Like he’s some kind of George Lucas who invented and brought to life his personal project. Bullshit. Alien and Aliens, two best horror hits for all times, are the merit of screenwriters Ronald Shusett and Dan O'Bannon. They wrote the scripts for both movies, they came up with 90% of the lore of the Alien franchise, they created all beloved characters like Ripley, they made the alien such a scary and memorable monster. Of course Ridley Scott made a lot for a movie, but only as cameraman and director. His own ideas for plot and characters were almost completely rejected, fortunately. And years later, without the help of such brilliant screenwriters, he proved that all he can do is a very beautiful, very colorful story - a completely stupid story, about complete idiots, with the most idiotic monsters of all.

[@malhekuba7473]

Romulus was great

[@FTL1511]

This is the time-line I've been waiting for, the Canon cinematic + the game.

[@ArcadeMusicTribute]

I find it funny how in movied a scientist discowers something like Dr. Shaw discovered her pictagram and then it just gets accepted by everyone LOL. It would never happen that way. She would've lost her funding, her job, her PHD, her credibility and everyone would have been smearing her and branding her a nut in real life.

[@julcaos]

I was talking about this timeline with my wife one of these days.... thanks for the video it really cleared things up for me. Peace!

[@bmw.pi314]

I thought it was not the Engineer homeland that Shaw and David visited but another planet seeded by the Engineers.

[@lightdarksoul2097]

I think they were heading for the homeworld

[@bmw.pi314]

@@lightdarksoul2097 I thought that was their intention but somehow they were led to another planet. The Engineers' home world is still a mystery. I mean, the people on that planet seem inferior in comparison yet superior to humans. But, I do not know as I am far from an expert here.

[@lightdarksoul2097]

@@bmw.pi314 maybe one time that was the idea but now I don't see us ever going back to the story except seeing David one more time. I think those will just be the engineers

[@andrewah15]

Great work breaking down the Alien timeline. I’m looking forward to Alien: Romulus being added.

[@antonioavd]

I'm that person who loves Prometheus and Covenant MORE than Alien. Explanation ---- > Prometheus and Covenant are all about visual aesthetics, grand views, and landscapes. They explore large-scale questions about the very nature of the expedition, the creation of mankind, and the intense interplay between creator and creation: Android-Human, Human-God. "Why does the Creator create?"-because they can? These ideas and landscapes make you feel like you can breathe deeply. The Engineers and their minimalist aesthetic, the eclecticism of the ships, holograms as a method of organizing information, and the Android with the ambitions of a God. Prometheus asks big questions: What is a human being? What does it mean to create? Can we consider ourselves gods? I'm deeply saddened that people can't think outside the box, beyond mainstream opinions, missing out on these wonderful ideas. None of this was offered by any Alien movie. Everything happens according to roughly the same scenario, in pitch darkness, within mechanical, cramped spaces with no air. Aliens are for those who enjoy horror and violence. Prometheus is for those who care about the motivation behind dreams, cinematic aesthetics, big ideas, and big questions. These are just two different niches. I'm glad that Prometheus and Covenant exist. They provided a different perspective.

[@avagantamos3]

Perfectly said

[@hannamlal6522]

My thoughts exactly, I love the Prometheus and Covenant movies too.

[@Truethought-sh8fq]

I didn't know that there was so many alien movies. That was fascinating

[@xneurosiis]

Any chance you'll update this with Romulus once you see it?

[@OneTakeVids]

Will definitely update with Romulus, just not sure when yet. Earliest would probably be once it’s out on streaming/home media so I can grab the footage.

[@MrRACKEMWILLY87]

Amazing video. Thank you so much for making a super detailed time line that includes the video game.

[@scottessery100]

21:20 if he’s a robot how come he’s got hair that’s growing

[@OneTakeVids]

Looks like they covered him in biological skin and hair follicles to keep up the illusion of him being human!

[@RedTail1-1]

If they can make living androids with a circulatory system and all that, they can definitely make follicles that produce hair even if it's not "real" hair. I'm pretty sure they regularly add more of that milk substance androids use as blood, so it almost surely contains compounds that build hair and fingernails(if their nails grow too)

[@pcman87654]

Also he is working with and fully understand advanced AI chemicals and nanites, anything is possible at that point.