"A Quiet Place II"

*Andrew NDB* · 07-14-2021, 07:04 PM

My biggest problem was with the rape gang/cannibals. I get that it's PG-13 so they couldn't really serve either side (are they a rape gang? are they cannibals? are they both? we don't know)... but the whole lot of them never even paid off. I thought for sure at least some of them would end up following the main cast to the island and then we'd get a "the people are worse than the aliens" and then maybe the aliens could even show up to kill them and "save the day"... but there ended up being absolutely no point to their involvement. It's like they needed another couple of drafts to figure out what they wanted to do with this story.

I don't hold this as a gripe but just a personal thing... I was hoping to see other kinds of aliens. Or their equivalent of a queen, as much as that might be a trope by this point. Some Starship Troopers-like variety of alien types would have been something new.

07-14-2021, 07:04 PM	#8
Andrew NDB Weed Whacker Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Auburn, WA Posts: 34,558	My biggest problem was with the rape gang/cannibals. I get that it's PG-13 so they couldn't really serve either side (are they a rape gang? are they cannibals? are they both? we don't know)... but the whole lot of them never even paid off. I thought for sure at least some of them would end up following the main cast to the island and then we'd get a "the people are worse than the aliens" and then maybe the aliens could even show up to kill them and "save the day"... but there ended up being absolutely no point to their involvement. It's like they needed another couple of drafts to figure out what they wanted to do with this story. I don't hold this as a gripe but just a personal thing... I was hoping to see other kinds of aliens. Or their equivalent of a queen, as much as that might be a trope by this point. Some Starship Troopers-like variety of alien types would have been something new. __________________ [ ODYSSEY \| ORIGIN \| THE IMAGE/VOL. 3 CONCLUSION \| THE SHELLSHOCKED PODCAST \| ON FACEBOOK ]