Op ed: Terry Crews and Arnold should star in an M rated Predator TV show

Feel like this line in particular could be a bit better on execution but I like the premise of the joke.

Your a genius

How far in the future is this?

Dutch works with the OWLF, not FOR. Big difference. I doubt he’d be officially in charge at this point.

The predator See’s humans as better prey now because of OWLF. They probably like the challenge.

Not a fan.

How big is this squad that they’re even capable of even being decimated :P

Eh no.

While I love the idea of predator human tech, not like this.

Also how’d they get back in the first place?

WHY WOULD THEY LOOK FOR SOME RANDOM COP THAT KIlLED A PREDATOR ONCE LET ALONE CARE OR KNOW OF HIS EXISTENCE

at this point your just pandering.

I like the idea but it has some problems

lol leave old man arnold alone you’ll give him a 3rd heart surgery

what is he R2D2?

I can’t imagine how much agonizing filler would be forced into hour long episodes.

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@Eshtion

The events of The Predator never happened according to this story. Dutch could’ve been running the OWLF since 97. Or whenever. The point is to negate The Predator.

In this story the OWLF under Dutchs command has killed far too many Predators. They are now becoming a legitimate danger to their entire purpose on this planet.

Arnold is old AF. Getting 8 more hrs of him in a Predator project should be plenty.

A good dozen at least, when at full strength. Dutch knows better than to go into a scenario with no backup after the first encounter. Decimated could mean 3 or 4 survived and have injuries.

Cobbled together much like Nolan had done. Certainly not some Machiko bullshit. I said that a pod lands. Clearly, they managed to get aboard a ship on the game preserve planet.

To be discovered in season 2, clearly… Gotta have that cliffhanger… but in my head, Isabel and Royce have encountered a captured member of the Lost Tribe (I’d use Shaman) from P2. After some time, they’ve deciphered the written language, not the spoken language. They manage to bargain with him and steal a ship. During all their time together they learn about CH and Harrigan. Just before Shaman punches the warp drive or whatever they use, Royce and Isabel kill Shaman and steal the ship. They navigate it to earth and use an escape pod just as another ship arrives to blast the stolen ship to bits. Clear enough? Season 2 finds Harrigan long dead from old age, but he’d done extensive research on the Predators, specifically the lost tribe he encountered. Using that and the knowledge the OWLF has and the experience of Royce and Isabel with the super Predators and Shaman etc., they get enough tech and resources together to locate a Predator ship on earth, invade it, kill the unsuspecting Preds with poison gas or something, steal the ship, fill it with nukes and set off for the Predator homeworld to hopefully destroy the Yautja once and for all. But thats season 3. Season 2 ends with them stealing the ship and taking off.

And it should be noted that everyone would get their Dutch payoff. He sacrifices himself while fighting Egyptian Predator to a standstill. She realizes too late that he’s baiting her the same way she drew him out with a Youngblood earlier in the season, so she decides to detonate, rather than be captured. Dutch barely seals the immense blast doors onnthe exterior of the compound theyre in and the explosion is contained, but all inside the compound is lost.

Could be shorter, but I’d be adding lots of lore and character development, so thered be no need for fan fiction.

I’m speaking of an 8-9 episode season. Each episode being around an hour long. Lots of room for real character development and lore. 3 seasons in my head. Thats between 24 and 27 hrs of Predator that has zip to do with global warming, autism powers, woke garbage, hybrid predators, stupid ass dog preds that turn good when shot in the head… back to the good stuff.

The Predator never set anything up for Dutch so IDK why your mentioning it. It was stalking shadows and PHG that continued his story.

And stalking shadows is a good book so don’t you dare retcon that.

Their entire purpose is too find worthy prey. How does prey being worthy become a bad thing. At most, humans would stop being young blood prey and become prey for elders and other more formidable predators.

Doesn’t mean we have to kill him. Remember in the story he’s half predator (however you want to count it. It doesn’t matter.) So while he may not be perfect for live action. His character can still be used.

That was a joke because technically decimated is one tenth dying or all but one tenth it was a grammer nazi joke.

A. Did you just insult Machiko’s story?

B. Maybe Isabelle’s gear but Royce has Pred gear designed specifically for him.

Fair enough

Cliffhangers in general are bad

But why would Harrigan be worth mentioning? Why not this legendary warrior that’s been hunting predators? Instead we get Harrigan who killed one Predator. And what makes him so special that he’s the one they need to find instead of literally any government. They literally popped up in front of people who hunt predators for a living but Harrigan is special because???

How would he know more about Predators than the OWLF. And how would the Predators know this?

Preds have gas masks. Their bio mask.

That’s a dumb idea for them to do.

A. They have extremely advanced technology it’d be impossible even if they tried

B. Congratulations you destroyed the Yautja’s homeworld. Now you just have to kill every other Predator that isn’t there. Which is a lot.

C. Wouldn’t setting up a defense be a bigger priority

D. Waging war with the Yautja.

There’s hunting Predators. Then there’s war against predators.

PHG, Stalking shadows, Predator hunters, those are all stories of people who hunt Predators. This is straight up war and takes away from what the series is…

A hunt

Why does it always have to be nolstalgia bait? These characters had their stories told already. For all the hate shane black gets atleast he didnt BAND ALL THE CHARACTERS FROM THE PREVIOUS MOVIES TOGETHER TO CREATE - THE PREDAVENGERS! WHOA! NEAT! RADICAL! TOGETHER WITH THE HELP OF THEIR PREDATOR ARMOR AND SUPER-ARNIE THEY WILL BRING THE FIGHT TO THE SUPER ELDER AND KILL HIM AND COMMANDEER THE MOTHERSHIP IN A STRANGE REHASH OF INDEPENDENCE DAY AND SKYLINE 3

Worse than star wars where half the characters are related and go fight the newest newborn death star 5.0.

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I’m still keeping my fingers crossed for a Predator movie/show focused entirely on the Yautja

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Alien-focused movies are a big no-no or something. Like playable nonhumans in games.

The CEO overlords declare them risky and unrelatable, the less human the worse their odds. Look at transformers and they speak perfect english.

That sucks

It really does, pretty shallow. Like people can’t enjoy things without self-inserting into them. People immediately pick humanoid classes, MMO stats are funny. League of legends doesn’t even make playable monsters anymore just swordsmen, catgirls, and kpop.

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Maybe they dont want to demystify the Yautja

Or simply can’t come up with anything worthwhile

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I’m down for a Predator TV show, even if it is half as good as Cobra Kai.

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Complete with cliffhangers and misrepresentation of the lore

@Eshtion

I haven’t read stalking shadows. This is me purely spitballing a way to be rid of The Predator and get Arnold back on film in a meaningful way and get Terry Crews to dip his feet in.

Well, I thought, given what Dutch and Keyes talked about in the tapes, perhaps the OWLF had begunnto successfully kill Elders etc at an alarming rate, thereby raising the threat level from hunt to battle. Again ,just a way to get a story rolling. I don’t work for Fox or anything.

In much the same way Harrison Ford thought about Han Solo. If there’s no real risk to the main characters, the villains are taken far less seriously. They become a joke. And Predators should never be a joke.

I did. Machiko is garbage. Nothing like or about her should ever be written into canon.

That followup comic to Predators was also garbage. It would be struck from the record.

They are? Have you seen the Mandalorian? Thats how to do them correctly.

Bear in mind that Royce, Isabel and Shaman never actually met Dutch. Isabel had only heard stories about him. I figured that while the 3 were kinds stuck with each other, they’d talk about their own experiences and those of the Lost Tribe, which JH was not of, presumably. Shaman would know about Harrigan, having witnessed him kill CH on his own ship etc. Like swapping war stories, except Royce and Isabel get the idea that Harrigan may be of use, not knowing anything else about him. I would put it that they managed to zero in on some signal given off by Egyptian Preds detonation or something like that to know where to aim their pod. Could be fleshed out more, who knows.

Not so much thatbhe would know more, but that he’d gone into hiding and written his own notes on them for years. Royce and Isabel have no clue what the OWLF had or has or even exists. The Preds don’t know shit about what Harrigan been up to. They never bothered him again after Elder let him go with his gift.

Again, another spitball. Could be anything sneaky. Maybe they remove their masks while at leisure activities.

They’d be flying in a Predator ship, albeit a slapped together one, or managed to cloak some other craft. The point is, they get by undetected. Or maybe it could lead to a big space battle, whatever. Spitballing.

I never said the plan succeeded. Maybe they crash and are stranded on Yautja prime and have to try to find a way off. Maybe they stumble upon the planet at war between the regulars and the super predators and just have to find a way off, etc. Lots of ways to go.

This would be considered a last ditch effort since the OWLF would be on its last legs by now, after the previous events.

Like I said, this is just one guy, who despises The Predator enough to make up an entire series to get the stench of it out of his nose and keep moving the franchise forward, while keeping the good stuff from the films, not comics etc intact.

Read it again, slower this time. The whole point is to be rid of the Predator-killer armor canonically. To be rid of the events of the 4th film entirely and have a fresh start while not trouncing the other films.

Also, Arnold would die, heroically. Harrigan would never be shown on screen. He’d also have passed on from old age. Who knows? Maybe Royce or Isabel would die in battle too. Anything could happen. No avengers. More like the Colonial marines in Aliens when they got marooned on LV-426. They wouldn’t be in great shape.

The second one. Definitely the second one.🤣

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They killed Predators but not elders.

If that happened…

Everybody is dead Dave

You mean Han solo? And the dude who killed him is a joke?

No that’s writing. Kylo killed Han he’s a joke. No one in Firefly died but that show is amazing.

You don’t need characters to die in order to get good tension. Especially since I just want Dutch to survive everyone else can die.

When was the last time a Digimon character died. And adults still herald that show as amazing writing. (Kids show as well. Which is funny because according to Star wars sequals fans kid shows don’t need good writing)

How? You do realize that she is the star of one of the most beloved comic books? Also again how please explain.

Also she is canon.

How many retcons are you going to do here?!?!

A good story should be able to last on its own while also leaving itself open to sequals.

Cliffhangers don’t do that. It’s strictly worse. Especially the one you wrote. The more in your face the worse they get and let me tell ya it doesn’t get more in your face than Isabelle and Royce outfitted in Predator gear (retcons on Royce’s side btw) dropping in from a Predator pod asking for Harrigan.

That makes perfect sense.

So they think Harrigan is some sort of Pred slayer? Otherwise it wouldn’t make sense for them to do that at all other than “there’s a Pred there”

They literally landed in front of a bunch of OWLF members they wouldn’t need Harrigan anymore.

They’d get one nuke at most

Dead

You telling me the OWLF have one base?

Well if you don’t write it well all you get is Terminator Dark Fate.

Both featuring Arnold…

Leomon dies every single time he appears onscreen.
Infected digimon get slaughtered on principal and killing eachother to get stronger was a plot point in Tamers.

Just the more you know

Meant main character

I watched the show and enjoy the mature theme they take with it.

It takes them seasons for a main character to die

My mistake for not being specific on what I meant.