siliconsara,
Xenomorph,
18 years ago
I remembering answering this on The Hunted, but more Predator-oriented. The story is still the same now as it was then =)
I only heard about the Predator movies once in a while and never really thought much of them...mostly because I was a young girl who was still in her girly-girl Barbie stage. After I hit puberty (around 10), I started looking at things in a different light...and I would catch a few minutes of the first Predator movie on cable television (TBS, TNT, AMC) as long as my Dad didn't catch me watching the really gory parts, but the most funniest of it all was that I never saw the scene where the Predator unmasks himself, I either lost interest in the movie (because I was still sorta in my girly-girl stage), or one of my parents switched the channel. The even funnier part of this was that I was ing SCARED of the aliens (xeno). Whenever my Dad put on HBO, they would have those "HBO: First Look" programs featuring the Alien movies (most notably, Alien 3) and I would scream and run out of the room in total fear. I was a very wimpy child, yes...my tougher sister would torment me by switching on the HBO channel at night and I would scream and hide behind my Dad's arm chair when any mention of the Alien movies came on. So, I am very happy I didn't see an unmasked Predator at this point in my life, or I think I wouldn't be a huge fan like I am today.
I finally saw the Predator unmasked in around 1998...I was taken aback by the look, and I truly thought he was disgusting looking. It's kinda funny in the span of around 8 years...a creature I thought looked disgusting I now see as a sex symbol and would like to mother his hybrid babies.
Skip ahead a whole lot of years to around 2001, when I am obviously older and have changed greatly due to a lot of factors. Alien vs Predator was discussed on a whole bunch of movie gossip webpages. So I start searching, looking around...and got interested in the idea. I only saw bits and pieces of the movie from DVD screener bootleg shots and when I saw Scar's face...I dunno..he just kinda clicked with me but since all I remember were that his kind hunted and killed people...I never thought that a Predator could ever spare a human, even if they were a threat in anyway...so I didn't think much of it.
Skip ahead to August 16th of 2005. Alien vs Predator comes onto HBO ondemand. I forgot about it and since I was bored I decided to watch it. After watching it, I became hooked. The sub-text between Scar and Lex made my heart burst with fangirl love. I immediatly jumped on my (new) computer and started scouring the internet for info on the Predators...and learned that their proper name was "Yautja" and I searched devART for fanart and saw that other people felt the same way I did and then I whisked off to fanfiction.net and saw that people started writing romantic fics on the Predators...I was in bliss!...I was so excited, and I still am!...
Up to present day. I am so glad I gave Predator a chance...I do not regret it one bit.