New "Aliens" Series?
A few years back, a series of 3-minute episodes appeared on Cartoon Network. Called Star Wars: Clone Wars, there were 20 episodes chronicalizing the events between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith (there were also five "Volume 2" episodes, each lasted about 12 minutes).
Anyway, now in the same idea as Clone Wars, there is a series of episodes being put together in the Aliens universe. Now, anyone who know me knows my love for that series. I have the Alien Quadrilogy 8-disc DVD pack of the four films. I actually just watched Alien last night. Aliens is probably one of my top five favorite films of all time. In high school, I devoured the Aliens series of books, and some of the comic books. I saw Alien3 and Alien Resurrection in the theaters, and bought the original Joss Whedon script of Alien Resurrection (I think the film would have been better with a different director and being more faithful to the script). I never really got into the Alien vs. Predator series, and was severly underwhelmed by the AvP movie, to the point that I still haven't bought it (I mean, how can you make an Aliens film PG-13?).
Anyway, the new series concept is called Aliens: War Games. It takes place in a future where the aliens menace is widespread, and is about the training of a newbie in the Colonial Marines. The first season is supposed to be about Newbie's hot training programs. HOT means not simulated. For example, the first episode is the start of a training program where Newbie is send into a terraforming installation to find a single alien and kill it.
The first episode is now on YouTube, and the video is below. To view the high-resolution version, click on this link.
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