So we just got done watching Alien Romulus.
Oh, and like he's going for a shit.
So oh.
It is Friday night, what's the time? 10.37.
I'll sit at the top of my garden, let my dogs wander around whispering a little bit because
I don't really want every single person that is around me to be listening to me, but there we are.
Right, yeah, so, Alien Romulus, wow, absolutely bloody brilliant.
Absolutely brilliant. Just in every single way.
The effects in it, both the practical and the CGI were just incredible.
Like, it just shows like what we've said on the show before, like, the practical effects are just so much better.
Sorry, this is going to have some spoilers in it for those who haven't seen it, but like,
the xenomorphs themselves were just incredible.
And the offspring character at the end, where the character's called Kay, she's pregnant and she gets,
she shoves the vial of xenomorph goo in her, and quite predictably gets babyish mutated into some weird fucking human alien hybrid.
But yeah, that's all practical effects, and you can tell because it looked so real.
And like, when you see the xenomorphs kind of like stood up, you know, they looked, I guess they're people in suits,
because it kind of looked like people in suits, but not in a bad way, if that makes sense.
It looked real, like, you know, these were creatures that could really exist.
And the only negative I really had about the whole thing was just the first bit where you see Ian Holmes's,
what are they called?
Some sentient things, whatever the fucking robot things are called.
Synthetics, that's what they called you.
So when you first see the kind of reimagining of Ian Holmes is synthetic, I think that's a little bit ropey,
a little bit, you know, on Canoe Valley.
But you get used to it after that very first bit with him.
You actually, it actually looks quite good.
And I wonder after the cover, I wonder if they actually made a, you know, an actual model of him,
because later on it works fine, particularly when he's on the little weird computer screens talking to them.
He looks great there.
But yeah, well, what a film.
That is up there, second or third, best of all of them.
I still really like Hylian, but this has got to be either second or if it's not second, it's third,
with Hylian as second place in my tier rankings of Hylian movies.
But yeah, I think it's all snobby, the cinematography, the different scenes of seeing the ship flying through space
and particularly like right at the end where she's ejecting the offspring come about of the cargo bin.
And it's all dark and you can't really see what's going on, things flashing past, and then suddenly it just opens up.
And you've got this beautiful wide shot of the main character just hanging on the cord with the asteroid field below,
zooming past and the cargo bay section of her ship, you know, getting destroyed.
Wow, just brilliant.
And there was just scenes in that, like the first chest exploding, you know, that was like cover your eyes moments
when the case giving birth to the offspring that was just like, oh my God, you know, retro and all,
just like, oh my God, oh my God.
When do you shout out in films?
You don't particularly see your own ones, see your own ones, I'm not there going, oh my God, oh my God,
because you just, it's kind of annoying, you know, you can tell.
But this is like fucking hell.
I was literally, I was covering my eyes, I was like, oh my God, this is fucking gross, oh my God.
Yeah, brilliant.
Now, other than just wanting to actually recall about this for a little while, I'm going to talk about it with TJ
on the next show a little bit before we actually eventually will do a kind of watch of Alien,
because obviously we're doing Fresh Gordon, whether this comes out before that, hopefully it will.
Fresh Gordon's next and then I'd quite like to do the thing after that.
And I think it'll probably be Galaxy Quest maybe after that, get a little bit of fun in before then doing Alien.
And the reason I'm pushing Alien back is because there's actually a VR game coming out on the Quest,
I think it's reality stuff, that's Alien based and I'd like to have a recording of either Tom or I playing that
and kind of having that in conjunction or just be able to play and talk about it at the same time.
I thought it'd be quite cool.
So yeah, that's later.
Anyway, one thing that came to my mind, obviously it's not going to work at this stage.
I'm not really sure where this sits, I think it sits after the nostril, by the sound of what Ian Holmes' character is saying.
But those face hugging things, oh yeah, seeing the little face hugger, fucking cock coming out
and just trying to wiggle into that dude's mouth, just giving him a fucking facial.
That was so gross, makes me want to gag now just thinking about that scene, that was so gross.
I was thinking like, well how can they protect themselves from this?
Because you need to, obviously you need a mask, I was thinking, oh well really you just want to stop the cock gang in your mouth.
Which for a lot of them that's not really a problem, you just don't put your mouth near cocks.
But in the Alien films it is a problem.
Like, you know in like James Bond films, or like even if you've been scuba diving and you have the mouthpiece,
just a circular piece of, you know like a vent thing so you can breathe the oxygen out of the tank.
Just something like that that you can hold in your mouth.
I thought well, the alien's cock might be able to rip that off or just break through it.
So you want to have like a Hannele Lecter style mouth guard and then have like a mesh around your face.
I was thinking, oh well still the thing could grab hold of you and get around your neck.
Right, so you have the Hannibal Lecter mask thing and then you have like a bigger mesh that's electrified.
Now, I know what you're saying, Rob, why do you want to have an electrified cage around your head?
You can electrocute yourself. Well, you have like this, can I compare a cage, isn't it?
You're not going to be touching it, you're inside it.
Well, the dog's a sport or something.
Yes, you're not really, you're not touching it, you're kind of safe from it.
Anything that touches it from the outside is going to get electrocuted.
I understand that's not what a Farag Day cage is, but you get my drift.
Yes, you just have, you have this cage around you, you're insulated from it.
Maybe you've got like a rubber pads or something, I don't know.
And then, yeah, and it's electrifying.
When the face-hugger tries to jump on you, firstly, it can't get cock in your mouth
because your mouth guarded by the Hannibal Ectomask, which you can still breathe through.
And then secondly, you have this cage around you.
And the reason you have a cage, you don't want to have a glass or plastic
because they always smash through that stuff and you get a shot of glass in your face.
So you have to, or mesh.
Yeah, okay, the creature's going to be able to grab hold of it.
But I suppose actually then maybe it's pincers be able to go through the mesh.
It has to be like a sieve, a fine mesh, like a sieve, so it can't get its legs in,
but made of like really strong stuff and it's electrified.
So yeah, even if you could get his cock in, in your mouth, he's going to get it.
That's it.
And now you're safe from the face-hugger.
Electrified sieve with a scuba, air mouth guard thing, whatever they're called.
I should really know a little respirator, I do scuba diving, I should know this.
That, in your mouth.
And there you go.
Now you're protected from them.
I can't really protect you from the xenomorphs.
You're on your own there.
Sure about that.
Anyway, love you.
Bye bye.