Comment on Do you consider Alien to be cyberpunk?

• ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So even though they don’t particularly like or trust the corporation, the fact that they’re employees of a major corporation is enough for you to say no?

  I mean, the world/setting could absolutely have cyberpunk stories, but the movie is centred on corporate staff, and followed up by a story about the military response to the loss of corporate assets. That’s a story you can tell in a cyberpunk setting, when the main characters are dealing with that shit, not part of it

  When you’re inside the machine, you’ve got the cyber part, but not the punk part

  So if they owned their own ship and were hired as mercs by the corporation to pick up some unknown artifact would you consider it cyberpunk?

  Potentially. Cowboy Bebop could be considered cyberpunk. A small shift in tone, and Firefly could be cyberpunk, so yeah, you could absolutely tell a cyberpunk story with that setup in the alien universe.

  You could also tell a cyberpunk story if they start as corporate employees, but end up outside the system and on their own as part of the story…

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