I haven't seen Predators yet, but while recently re-watching the first Predator film a thought occurred. The Predator society isn't comprised enitrely of hunters, is it? There's obviously scientists, otherwise they couldn't have starships capable of travelling interstellar distances. Likewise I'm sure they probably have politicians, plumbers, teachers, and fire fighters and so on in that order.
So, the Predators we see in the movies, they're obviously hunters. Could they be the rednecks of Predator society? Maybe their ships are just a space version of a pick-up truck? Their armour is to them what a flannel shirt and jeans are to us? Are there alien rights activists on the Predator homeworld protesting the brutality the hunters show when hunting their prey? Maybe that's why the Predator in the movie was limiting himself to military targets, to avoid the accusations of attacking a defenseless primitive. After all, he was going for people capable of fighting. Perhaps at the end of the first AvP film when the other Predators show up in fancy robes to pick up the dead Predator, maybe they were in fact just wearing bathrobes, and could have been drunk as fuck, thus explaining why they didn't bother scanning the corpse to make sure there wasn't Alien inside him.
I realize these issues have probably been covered in various novels and comic books, possibly in Predators itself. But still I thought it would make a fun thread.
So, the Predators we see in the movies, they're obviously hunters. Could they be the rednecks of Predator society? Maybe their ships are just a space version of a pick-up truck? Their armour is to them what a flannel shirt and jeans are to us? Are there alien rights activists on the Predator homeworld protesting the brutality the hunters show when hunting their prey? Maybe that's why the Predator in the movie was limiting himself to military targets, to avoid the accusations of attacking a defenseless primitive. After all, he was going for people capable of fighting. Perhaps at the end of the first AvP film when the other Predators show up in fancy robes to pick up the dead Predator, maybe they were in fact just wearing bathrobes, and could have been drunk as fuck, thus explaining why they didn't bother scanning the corpse to make sure there wasn't Alien inside him.
I realize these issues have probably been covered in various novels and comic books, possibly in Predators itself. But still I thought it would make a fun thread.
