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So we just got done watching Alien Romulus.

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Oh, and like he's going for a shit.

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So oh.

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It is Friday night, what's the time? 10.37.

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I'll sit at the top of my garden, let my dogs wander around whispering a little bit because

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I don't really want every single person that is around me to be listening to me, but there we are.

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Right, yeah, so, Alien Romulus, wow, absolutely bloody brilliant.

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Absolutely brilliant. Just in every single way.

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The effects in it, both the practical and the CGI were just incredible.

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Like, it just shows like what we've said on the show before, like, the practical effects are just so much better.

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Sorry, this is going to have some spoilers in it for those who haven't seen it, but like,

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the xenomorphs themselves were just incredible.

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And the offspring character at the end, where the character's called Kay, she's pregnant and she gets,

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she shoves the vial of xenomorph goo in her, and quite predictably gets babyish mutated into some weird fucking human alien hybrid.

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But yeah, that's all practical effects, and you can tell because it looked so real.

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And like, when you see the xenomorphs kind of like stood up, you know, they looked, I guess they're people in suits,

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because it kind of looked like people in suits, but not in a bad way, if that makes sense.

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It looked real, like, you know, these were creatures that could really exist.

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And the only negative I really had about the whole thing was just the first bit where you see Ian Holmes's,

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what are they called?

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Some sentient things, whatever the fucking robot things are called.

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Synthetics, that's what they called you.

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So when you first see the kind of reimagining of Ian Holmes is synthetic, I think that's a little bit ropey,

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a little bit, you know, on Canoe Valley.

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But you get used to it after that very first bit with him.

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You actually, it actually looks quite good.

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And I wonder after the cover, I wonder if they actually made a, you know, an actual model of him,

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because later on it works fine, particularly when he's on the little weird computer screens talking to them.

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He looks great there.

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But yeah, well, what a film.

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That is up there, second or third, best of all of them.

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I still really like Hylian, but this has got to be either second or if it's not second, it's third,

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with Hylian as second place in my tier rankings of Hylian movies.

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But yeah, I think it's all snobby, the cinematography, the different scenes of seeing the ship flying through space

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and particularly like right at the end where she's ejecting the offspring come about of the cargo bin.

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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.

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And you've got this beautiful wide shot of the main character just hanging on the cord with the asteroid field below,

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zooming past and the cargo bay section of her ship, you know, getting destroyed.

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Wow, just brilliant.

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And there was just scenes in that, like the first chest exploding, you know, that was like cover your eyes moments

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when the case giving birth to the offspring that was just like, oh my God, you know, retro and all,

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just like, oh my God, oh my God.

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When do you shout out in films?

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You don't particularly see your own ones, see your own ones, I'm not there going, oh my God, oh my God,

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because you just, it's kind of annoying, you know, you can tell.

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But this is like fucking hell.

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I was literally, I was covering my eyes, I was like, oh my God, this is fucking gross, oh my God.

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Yeah, brilliant.

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Now, other than just wanting to actually recall about this for a little while, I'm going to talk about it with TJ

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on the next show a little bit before we actually eventually will do a kind of watch of Alien,

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because obviously we're doing Fresh Gordon, whether this comes out before that, hopefully it will.

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Fresh Gordon's next and then I'd quite like to do the thing after that.

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And I think it'll probably be Galaxy Quest maybe after that, get a little bit of fun in before then doing Alien.

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And the reason I'm pushing Alien back is because there's actually a VR game coming out on the Quest,

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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

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and kind of having that in conjunction or just be able to play and talk about it at the same time.

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I thought it'd be quite cool.

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So yeah, that's later.

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Anyway, one thing that came to my mind, obviously it's not going to work at this stage.

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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.

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But those face hugging things, oh yeah, seeing the little face hugger, fucking cock coming out

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and just trying to wiggle into that dude's mouth, just giving him a fucking facial.

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That was so gross, makes me want to gag now just thinking about that scene, that was so gross.

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I was thinking like, well how can they protect themselves from this?

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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.

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Which for a lot of them that's not really a problem, you just don't put your mouth near cocks.

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But in the Alien films it is a problem.

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Like, you know in like James Bond films, or like even if you've been scuba diving and you have the mouthpiece,

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just a circular piece of, you know like a vent thing so you can breathe the oxygen out of the tank.

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Just something like that that you can hold in your mouth.

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I thought well, the alien's cock might be able to rip that off or just break through it.

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So you want to have like a Hannele Lecter style mouth guard and then have like a mesh around your face.

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I was thinking, oh well still the thing could grab hold of you and get around your neck.

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Right, so you have the Hannibal Lecter mask thing and then you have like a bigger mesh that's electrified.

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Now, I know what you're saying, Rob, why do you want to have an electrified cage around your head?

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You can electrocute yourself. Well, you have like this, can I compare a cage, isn't it?

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You're not going to be touching it, you're inside it.

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Well, the dog's a sport or something.

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Yes, you're not really, you're not touching it, you're kind of safe from it.

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Anything that touches it from the outside is going to get electrocuted.

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I understand that's not what a Farag Day cage is, but you get my drift.

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Yes, you just have, you have this cage around you, you're insulated from it.

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Maybe you've got like a rubber pads or something, I don't know.

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And then, yeah, and it's electrifying.

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When the face-hugger tries to jump on you, firstly, it can't get cock in your mouth

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because your mouth guarded by the Hannibal Ectomask, which you can still breathe through.

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And then secondly, you have this cage around you.

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And the reason you have a cage, you don't want to have a glass or plastic

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because they always smash through that stuff and you get a shot of glass in your face.

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So you have to, or mesh.

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Yeah, okay, the creature's going to be able to grab hold of it.

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But I suppose actually then maybe it's pincers be able to go through the mesh.

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It has to be like a sieve, a fine mesh, like a sieve, so it can't get its legs in,

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but made of like really strong stuff and it's electrified.

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So yeah, even if you could get his cock in, in your mouth, he's going to get it.

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That's it.

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And now you're safe from the face-hugger.

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Electrified sieve with a scuba, air mouth guard thing, whatever they're called.

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I should really know a little respirator, I do scuba diving, I should know this.

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That, in your mouth.

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And there you go.

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Now you're protected from them.

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I can't really protect you from the xenomorphs.

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You're on your own there.

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Sure about that.

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Anyway, love you.

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Bye bye.