because its marvel trash. they hadn't manage to make one single alien or predator comic that is not a waste of time and money for everyone involve. that why you never hear about it. the first whole series was pure art tracing and they even got into an art stealing controversy.
@@Assasin2 oh it has trash.. but that doesn't mean you should embraces it and roll into a spiral of self destruction. it bad enough that hollywood has to sink every good story they made or come across into the trash cause everything has to be a never ending cash machine .. But the Superhero comic book industry is slightly worst .. marvel in particular.. for every good series there is 20 trash ones that only survive cause their audience has no sense of taste and will keep consuming it The darkhorse Aliens and predator stories where never always great but they understood way better what the stories where about and they put way more effort than marvel is doing right now.
I'm still a little sad that Disney bought the rights to the movies and pretty much buried them... Course, with their track record of date, I wouldn't have much faith in anything they put out at this point... Once bitten, twice shy and all that lol.
I wonder why no one in this universe have created a medicine, pill, serum...whatever... that would neutralize and kill a Xenomorph egg in case the crawler jumper latches on......Seems like a plausible thing. =)
Removing the text from all the parts of the comic that you guy’s showed was such a brilliant way of negating spoilers! There’s enough information left on the table that I could still enjoy the narrative of the comic if I ever chose to read it. Again I love this seemingly simple, but still brilliant move.
The arc prior to this, "Bloodlines" features an entity the characters refer to as "the one in the dark," who is strongly implied to be the "goddess" and end goal of the Xenomorph evolutionary cycle. She haunts the nightmares of those incapacitated by facehuggers and it seems as though all Xenomorphs, even Queens and Empresses answer to her. It is strongly implied, based on Lee's transformation, that she is the One in the Dark.
Had the Zerg Swarm ever managed to integrate the xenomorph - that entire series would have ended in the annihilation of both Terran and Protoss civilizations.
Freakin guy ruined everything and got his fellow synths killed all due to his need to fuck over the human but not telling her about the insect. Karma at its finest.
Nah they actually had it coming because the humans betrayed them first to take their ship and leave. If they had left without the girl getting infected, the ship wouldn't have crashed, the synths would have been stuck there, and humanity would have died to the radiation.
Weyland Yutani was screwing around with those Black Goo Pods from the Prometheus movie as can be seen the bottom right panel of the comic being showcased and read at 6:20.
@@shawnanderson466 how about a Disneyfied Species movie. A female alien sings and dances about finding a man she can mate with, so she can produce more alien offsprings that can cause humanity go extinct.
A xenomorph can run at top speeds of 50-60 mph. Imagine how cunning and fast the goddess can run at top speeds plus posses a high level of intelligence. There would be no where to hide.
Awesome i am a strong believer in the value of the alien's and there ability to show us the human race's weaknesses and strengths while producing some of the best motion picture greats
Hollywood producing . Money issues. Also making it open for a General public sensibilities. Comic Artist/Writers have MUCH more freedom to do what they want.
Same reason why dredd is always better as a comic. And when we actually got a good dredd movie they thought it was a sequal yo Stallone. When it was a better movie.
Are you claiming this better than aliens where Ripley is connected with alien DNA? Because who would thought a comic where you can draw and series out compared to a limited time movie might be better? But the only concept here are sync droids used as they are supposed be?! Then we get lazy boring land once again of human hybrid alien.....
8:25 I thought synthetics were programmed with the whole "It is impossible for me to harm or by omission of action, allow to be harmed, a human being" So why'd he allow this?
They always have to get stupid with it. Xenomorphs are already hybrids, it’s in their design. The infant in Resurrection always made me crazy for that reason too. It’s just a lamer version of a xenomorph with more vulnerabilities.
I agree and she has already played the queen alien on V which unfortunately only got one season people didn’t like it very much but it had good parts to it.
I like your sense of humor in some of the narrative. When you said however what they didn't know was this was a six issue comic. I laughed out loud😂😂😅😅 and honestly for a comic series and subject as dark as the Alien story arc, we could use some humor.
I see this title and I think the Monster Girl Encyclopedia finally created a human-like xenomorph and a xenomorph queen(also human-like). Hopefully that will happen eventually.
Ive been waiting for this 2022 took a while. There is an rts that realy goes in deph about waylon yutani etc, but you play as the aliens, build hives, really kick ass game. I forget the tittle
The "Queen of Blades", maybe including "Sexy Sil" from the 90s "Species", nothing new, but if done well, why not. It's still Disney/Marvel, so they'll probably fuck it up, but let them try...
i mean she deserves alot of crap, but lets not give her crap for shit she doesnt deserve. i mean how else are supposed to quote something? in the video its 100% clear that she is quoting something ... you know ... from the quotation marks around the quote.. and she did list it in her sources
So humans created FTL travel but somehow cannot deal with radiation? Why would there even be radiation on every single planet across multiple solar systems? The plot makes no sense.
This would actually be a good movie, if Disney doesn’t make this about our culture (black) being empowered and sending messages that we’re better through out the whole movie lol
So that whole black thing seems to really trigger you. So are you black, nergo, African American , African? Just asking since you said your culture. And no this would be trash movie,concept........
We are all humans while different, our traits and abilities were meant to compliment one another, not dominate and I totally agree with you! Diversity has somehow become 1 inclusive, not all inclusive and THAT type of thinking creates and strengthens racism! Good on you to see things for what they are and not go along with the narrative! It's people like you that give me hope still in ALL humanity!
Sad we won’t never get a sequel to the Aliens movies or anything else for that matter Disney will ruin this as well no faith in them doing this franchise justice
You say that as is Fox treated the series great. What a weird revisionist history you people have. There hasn’t been a good alien film since 1986. It can’t get any worse than those awful prequels. Given how awesome PREY was, I’m cautiously optimistic for the new film that recently wrapped filming.
I can't believe what I just saw, its the best thing I ever seen. #1 reason is, No lame actor's. #2 reason is the artwork is amazing. #3 reason is the great story line.
It foes look good, it does seem interesting... but it's still Disney/Marvel, don't realy trust it, but the android-stuff still seems to work here (pretty sure there's woke-stuff there)
Aliens came out before species, but species follows same art work. Yes species is just as dumb as this comic book was, but watch all the species movies and prepare for cringe....
@@Googleisstupid-sk3hm a what?!! I don't remember ever seeing an Alien/ Human Queen, just the mix of Ripley's DNA from a bunch of clones and Aliens. Produced a very cool nightmarish mix. But, where did you see the Alien xenomorph and human mixed creature?
"Marvel seems to be doing a great job..." What the fuck! Did you read the Marvel comic books of Alien???? They use image tracing of action figures for the drawings 😂😂😂😂😂
Ah yes, hUmAns bad, poor synthetic good, the alien franchise really loves that trope. Why would humanity make super power robots that they cant control and have a constant track record of turning on them, why not just make an exo suit that can do all that the synthetic can do, why does a weapon even need a mind of its own, why even get steal team help when they could just make combat Droids that they could remote control. The why list can go on forever, lets be honest, the concept of the synthetic in the alien franchise has always been stupid, we just roll with it and try to ignore it.
@@Googleisstupid-sk3hm yes, and it's worse because the comic is trying to vindicate that basterd even though he is acting like the petty human man child. Everyone in this comic act either cartoonish stupid, cartoonish evil, or both. It feels like the writer is a edgy 12 year old that has never interacted with people beyond a keyboard.
Thank god somebody finally said it, i was starting to lose my shit when nobody else pointed out the stupidness of this plot. They expect us to believe those synths are in anyway special because of their training???? It's a fucking synth it came with the training already inside their synth brains damn it. Just make more synths ffs. It makes no sense to have an elite group of combat synths with seemingly free will, you get taught to obey orders in the fucking military so why do the fucking synths get to not obey orders when you can program them to do w/e the fuck you want them to do. Also why would you make a human shaped synth with human like behaviour/senses when designing a clearly battle-made robot weapon. Synths were not made for warfare in mind clearly
I'm confused so Weapons never advise still shooting bullets no laser Technology no Robotics Mechanical suits. Just make it Stupid and plain and leave your brain at home
The idea of agri worlds is unfeasible. I doubt the cost of transporting food across system is more than the cost of building self sustainable vertical farms, food processors or other method of in in situ food production on the colonies.
I get that this could never be a movie since Hollywood only wants blank, wooden, every-man leads. But a video game with this storyline in the vein of Tomb Raider with some Metroid elements? Take my whole bank account.
Never knew about this. Damn glad I’m subbed to this channel now.
because its marvel trash. they hadn't manage to make one single alien or predator comic that is not a waste of time and money for everyone involve. that why you never hear about it. the first whole series was pure art tracing and they even got into an art stealing controversy.
@@PK-MegaLolCaTyou say this as if the franchise doesn’t make plenty of trash on its own.
They own NASA aswell the greatest production company and biggest liars ....ONELOVE
@@Assasin2 oh it has trash.. but that doesn't mean you should embraces it and roll into a spiral of self destruction. it bad enough that hollywood has to sink every good story they made or come across into the trash cause everything has to be a never ending cash machine ..
But the Superhero comic book industry is slightly worst .. marvel in particular.. for every good series there is 20 trash ones that only survive cause their audience has no sense of taste and will keep consuming it
The darkhorse Aliens and predator stories where never always great but they understood way better what the stories where about and they put way more effort than marvel is doing right now.
Such an awesome idea but nowadays it would called woke.
Love finding little gems like this on UA-cam. Let's me know my favorite genres are still pumping out content and people still enjoy it.
I'm still a little sad that Disney bought the rights to the movies and pretty much buried them... Course, with their track record of date, I wouldn't have much faith in anything they put out at this point... Once bitten, twice shy and all that lol.
I sadly agree
Definitely agree with you on that sad to say this franchise is on the shelf
Amen.
I D-Know, Disney can't naff up the franchise anymore, just look at the prequels or AvPr 😂
How did disney bury aliens a new show is being filmed right now and they have the comics that is not buried
In her final form in the comic she looks almost exactly like the goddess of xenomorphs
Ripley 8 slash Ripley 88 became a Human Xenomorph. She built herself a Xenomorph exo-suit and took control of a group of Xenomorphs.
"However, they didn't know that this was a six issue comic" That line is totally for the win.
Yeah... It's the best lil 4th wall break In a bit--this cats narration is spot on.
Someone keep a eye on this dude....
I wonder why no one in this universe have created a medicine, pill, serum...whatever... that would neutralize and kill a Xenomorph egg in case the crawler jumper latches on......Seems like a plausible thing. =)
Rick Sanchez did, the alcohol killed the facehugger
Removing the text from all the parts of the comic that you guy’s showed was such a brilliant way of negating spoilers! There’s enough information left on the table that I could still enjoy the narrative of the comic if I ever chose to read it. Again I love this seemingly simple, but still brilliant move.
You right 👌
it's not about spoilers, its about copyright here.
who cares abuot spoilers anyway?
@@Xingmey I do
Um... this doesn't make her a 'queen' she is just a hybrid who can communicate and coordinate with the aliens...
The arc prior to this, "Bloodlines" features an entity the characters refer to as "the one in the dark," who is strongly implied to be the "goddess" and end goal of the Xenomorph evolutionary cycle. She haunts the nightmares of those incapacitated by facehuggers and it seems as though all Xenomorphs, even Queens and Empresses answer to her.
It is strongly implied, based on Lee's transformation, that she is the One in the Dark.
Finally, Kerrigan is making her debut!
Had the Zerg Swarm ever managed to integrate the xenomorph - that entire series would have ended in the annihilation of both Terran and Protoss civilizations.
Would be if it was Freya not Lee.
Freakin guy ruined everything and got his fellow synths killed all due to his need to fuck over the human but not telling her about the insect.
Karma at its finest.
Not really, now a fucking new threat n heafache.
Nah they actually had it coming because the humans betrayed them first to take their ship and leave. If they had left without the girl getting infected, the ship wouldn't have crashed, the synths would have been stuck there, and humanity would have died to the radiation.
Weyland Yutani was screwing around with those Black Goo Pods from the Prometheus movie as can be seen the bottom right panel of the comic being showcased and read at 6:20.
Sad the Redhead got destroyed... It woulda been first time a Ginger survives in Aliens.
Disney should make a Disney Princess with Xenomorphs.
Haha...The Disneyfied Xenomorph Queen...Sings, throws dinner parties, & plays ring around the rosies with children...
That sounds like an cursed idea.
I'm down
@@sacredpower7530 We need an AI video on the subject. 😂
xenomorph are misunderstood because of there skin color
#xenomorphlivematters
@@shawnanderson466 how about a Disneyfied Species movie. A female alien sings and dances about finding a man she can mate with, so she can produce more alien offsprings that can cause humanity go extinct.
Great music volume, perfect narration, gripping transitions and comments 👍🏾
Reminds me of Sil from the Species movies another creation of H.R. Giger.
Hit it on the Nail. That was there intention. 🥂
It really does now that I think about it 🤔
Smart hybrid sends dna to Earth, the source of the Human infestation.
Destroy the nest and mop up the stragglers as you find them.
Did anyone ever notice the human ships in the alien franchise look like guns?
That was a deliberate creative choice made by James Cameron....he's a tree loving hippie so anything remotely phallic is a gun
@@m.l.5230 Guns are inherently phalic in nature, that's why people with small peepees collect them.
This was a good video! I liked the story and narration.
A xenomorph can run at top speeds of 50-60 mph. Imagine how cunning and fast the goddess can run at top speeds plus posses a high level of intelligence. There would be no where to hide.
Awesome i am a strong believer in the value of the alien's and there ability to show us the human race's weaknesses and strengths while producing some of the best motion picture greats
Another hybrid. Wayland-Yutani’s arrogance and madness knows no more bounds than the Engineers themselves.
why do comics always have better stories or versions than the live actions?
Hollywood producing . Money issues. Also making it open for a General public sensibilities. Comic Artist/Writers have MUCH more freedom to do what they want.
@Spotted Slash Also, there's the simply you're using your imagination. It goes a long way when filling the gaps.
Same reason why dredd is always better as a comic.
And when we actually got a good dredd movie they thought it was a sequal yo Stallone. When it was a better movie.
Are you claiming this better than aliens where Ripley is connected with alien DNA? Because who would thought a comic where you can draw and series out compared to a limited time movie might be better? But the only concept here are sync droids used as they are supposed be?! Then we get lazy boring land once again of human hybrid alien.....
Anything can happen on a page. Logistics go into shooting a film lol idk how that isn't obvious but
8:25 I thought synthetics were programmed with the whole "It is impossible for me to harm or by omission of action, allow to be harmed, a human being"
So why'd he allow this?
These are military Synthetics , Which i guess that programming doesn't apply to them
and look what david did in prometheus
Giger's alien is all about the orgasmic relationship between the organic and the mechanical(synthetic).
Thanks for bringing this hybrid to my attention.
New xeno species unlocked
Xenohomosapien?
Some really interesting lore here
You're on point with. I thought star wars lore had alot of back stories, but i forgot how good the aliens series was at least in the comics.
StarCraft looks at how stupid you are to call it "lore" lol, smh!!!
Bro... This is the channel i wanted for years. I'm really glad to met your content and your video editing. I'm a new suscriber btw.
They always have to get stupid with it. Xenomorphs are already hybrids, it’s in their design. The infant in Resurrection always made me crazy for that reason too. It’s just a lamer version of a xenomorph with more vulnerabilities.
Facts!
It has no mention on Marvel Fandom database. But That's LI 1st appearance in an Alien comic book. It is also one of H.R. Giger's painted character
Yessss now we are getting closer and closer to monster girls xD
I always thought that this was something like wat David was trying to do with shaw or her dead body kinda looked alienish. But idk.
Well at least this one doesn't look like the newborn -Jack
This is the perfect blue print for a great alien movie. Make it
“But they didn’t realize this was a six issue series…” lol
Absolutely outstanding video many thanks 🙂👍
I notice my two favourite Weyland Yutani guns. Type 95 Combat Pistol and Type 88 Heavy Assault Rifle.
Man Humans in that verse deserve a Xenomorph apocalypse on their main worlds.
Oddly in the comics they lost Earth! Because of stupid crap like this.
No, they don't. Especially, when all those things will do is kill every living and none living thing.
@@Googleisstupid-sk3hm You talking about the experiments done with the xenomorph DNA?
if they ever make this into a film, Melissa Barrera would be great as Freya
I agree and she has already played the queen alien on V which unfortunately only got one season people didn’t like it very much but it had good parts to it.
I like your sense of humor in some of the narrative. When you said however what they didn't know was this was a six issue comic. I laughed out loud😂😂😅😅 and honestly for a comic series and subject as dark as the Alien story arc, we could use some humor.
I see this title and I think the Monster Girl Encyclopedia finally created a human-like xenomorph and a xenomorph queen(also human-like). Hopefully that will happen eventually.
a fellow man of culture i see
Well there is Eloise, which is basically the closest thing to a xenomorph monster girl in the comics.
How many different pronunciations of "Eli" were there in this video?
Dark horse knew the Alien, disney marvel will be the death of another franchise.
Ive been waiting for this 2022 took a while. There is an rts that realy goes in deph about waylon yutani etc, but you play as the aliens, build hives, really kick ass game. I forget the tittle
So Disney is reusing Starcraft IP...how original, Disney? 😒
In the alien franchise never trust humans.
I thought it was the other way around.
@@madking1485 have you seen the whole franchise?
Or synths remember david
@@joshuamckay9561 he was programmed to be an asshole.
Both but to be fair, Xenos make it quite clear they don't like us so it leaves synths and humans.
Cool! They really should make this to a Movie!
So in other words, another Sarah Kerrigan situation then?
The "Queen of Blades", maybe including "Sexy Sil" from the 90s "Species", nothing new, but if done well, why not.
It's still Disney/Marvel, so they'll probably fuck it up, but let them try...
There's been a human xenomorph hybrid in the Darkhorse comics
So they chose to to make the new main villain of the Alien franchise being a strong, black woman?
That’s would make a very good movie!
Amazing plot!
But still no answer on what happened on LV-426!!!!!!!
Someone should've warned the synthetics that this was a six issue comic
Ok that just reminds me of queen myrrah from gears of war now i want to see gears of war vs alien
These comics are fantastic! Thanks. Id like to read this and the follow ups.
i mean she deserves alot of crap, but lets not give her crap for shit she doesnt deserve. i mean how else are supposed to quote something? in the video its 100% clear that she is quoting something ... you know ... from the quotation marks around the quote.. and she did list it in her sources
Fascinating!! Loving it!
Wonderful and extraordinary 👌🏼❤️🎉
I just noticed the synths weapons, look like the Weyland Yutani weapons, from Alien Fireteam.
Yeah, I wonder what's considered canon in Alien and AvP these days
WE ARE HOPEFUL AT WHAT MARVEL CAN DO FOR THE FRANCHISE?! IS THERE A TRUE WONDER?!
I wonder when Disney will put this on ice
maybe we can get xenomorphs dancing with a (modernized)mickey mouse
So humans created FTL travel but somehow cannot deal with radiation?
Why would there even be radiation on every single planet across multiple solar systems?
The plot makes no sense.
You think they are that smart, or understand any of those concepts or did resreach before written or creating......😅 hell no
so disney is moving towards what starcraft did with a kerrigan copy
They didn't know this was a six issue comic 😂
Random RA 2 tesla coil sounds took me by surprise
Its starcraft story. How original
. Here I was thinking gears of war2
That’s so jacked up. Disney buying the franchise. I want to say take out the competition.
What? This story is excellent
AvP3 is coming soon
God I would love a AVP3, I would even love a remaster of the first 2. Scratch the 3rd one getting one.
i need to read these in order
This would actually be a good movie, if Disney doesn’t make this about our culture (black) being empowered and sending messages that we’re better through out the whole movie lol
So that whole black thing seems to really trigger you. So are you black, nergo, African American , African? Just asking since you said your culture. And no this would be trash movie,concept........
We are all humans while different, our traits and abilities were meant to compliment one another, not dominate and I totally agree with you! Diversity has somehow become 1 inclusive, not all inclusive and THAT type of thinking creates and strengthens racism! Good on you to see things for what they are and not go along with the narrative! It's people like you that give me hope still in ALL humanity!
Soon as I see this I thought this was a follow through from alien resurrection and Ripley met a bloke and got preggers and had a baby...
That is cool but i perfer real Xenomorph Queen she is true Queen to me😏
The only time I saw such a diverse group was on Captain Planet .
What if all species inevitably evolve into Xenomorphs on a long enough timeline?
Sad we won’t never get a sequel to the Aliens movies or anything else for that matter Disney will ruin this as well no faith in them doing this franchise justice
It will be strong and independent!
@@tiergeist2639 And female played by a male.
@@funkyweapon1981 awomen
You say that as is Fox treated the series great. What a weird revisionist history you people have. There hasn’t been a good alien film since 1986. It can’t get any worse than those awful prequels. Given how awesome PREY was, I’m cautiously optimistic for the new film that recently wrapped filming.
Kerrigan came far🔥💪🏼
lol 😆
damn id love to see this story on the big screen why don't they try adapting the novels or comics
The diversity synth team is here to save the day!
I can't believe what I just saw, its the best thing I ever seen.
#1 reason is, No lame actor's.
#2 reason is the artwork is amazing.
#3 reason is the great story line.
Except it isn't
It foes look good, it does seem interesting... but it's still Disney/Marvel, don't realy trust it, but the android-stuff still seems to work here (pretty sure there's woke-stuff there)
@@eldritchmorgasm4018 Define woke?
I need to read this book!!!!
Isn’t the first xenomorph was the sPeices movie. She basically turns into one
Aliens came out before species, but species follows same art work. Yes species is just as dumb as this comic book was, but watch all the species movies and prepare for cringe....
I really wanna see what David does to the covenant passengers
Aliens is gonna be a "kids show" under Marvel.
Aliens used as a McGuffin to save earth? That is so disney.
this was good content...
THIS NEEDS TO BE MADE INO A FILM!!!👍👍
They already made it? This just a modern rip off and spin, nothing wring with being a alien casual.
@@Googleisstupid-sk3hm a what?!! I don't remember ever seeing an Alien/ Human Queen, just the mix of Ripley's DNA from a bunch of clones and Aliens. Produced a very cool nightmarish mix. But, where did you see the Alien xenomorph and human mixed creature?
Since Marvel is now owned by Disney I don't have much hope for anything that they publish!!!
If it is the marvel right now they're going to probably screw it up.
Whos bright idea was it to built an experimental reactor on your breadbasket planet?
"Marvel seems to be doing a great job..."
What the fuck! Did you read the Marvel comic books of Alien???? They use image tracing of action figures for the drawings 😂😂😂😂😂
You do know this comic series came after that horrible issue
Ah yes, hUmAns bad, poor synthetic good, the alien franchise really loves that trope. Why would humanity make super power robots that they cant control and have a constant track record of turning on them, why not just make an exo suit that can do all that the synthetic can do, why does a weapon even need a mind of its own, why even get steal team help when they could just make combat Droids that they could remote control. The why list can go on forever, lets be honest, the concept of the synthetic in the alien franchise has always been stupid, we just roll with it and try to ignore it.
Facts, and that are stupid! The one male synthetic just let the whole team get compromised because of his "feelings".
@@Googleisstupid-sk3hm yes, and it's worse because the comic is trying to vindicate that basterd even though he is acting like the petty human man child. Everyone in this comic act either cartoonish stupid, cartoonish evil, or both. It feels like the writer is a edgy 12 year old that has never interacted with people beyond a keyboard.
Thank god somebody finally said it, i was starting to lose my shit when nobody else pointed out the stupidness of this plot. They expect us to believe those synths are in anyway special because of their training???? It's a fucking synth it came with the training already inside their synth brains damn it. Just make more synths ffs. It makes no sense to have an elite group of combat synths with seemingly free will, you get taught to obey orders in the fucking military so why do the fucking synths get to not obey orders when you can program them to do w/e the fuck you want them to do. Also why would you make a human shaped synth with human like behaviour/senses when designing a clearly battle-made robot weapon. Synths were not made for warfare in mind clearly
What in the Gears of War is going on here?
I thought the same. 😂
Awesome story. I love it
I'm confused so Weapons never advise still shooting bullets no laser Technology no Robotics Mechanical suits. Just make it Stupid and plain and leave your brain at home
Proof that the it should've stopped after the first movie
Species or Star craft 2 IDK man it's all the same to me.
The idea of agri worlds is unfeasible. I doubt the cost of transporting food across system is more than the cost of building self sustainable vertical farms, food processors or other method of in in situ food production on the colonies.
Sounds like AI dubbed, using the voice of that guy.
Really want to return to this literature.. is there a list somewhere that chronologically tells you what to read/watch (well I watched all)?
I get that this could never be a movie since Hollywood only wants blank, wooden, every-man leads. But a video game with this storyline in the vein of Tomb Raider with some Metroid elements? Take my whole bank account.
Dude’s bank account is $60 😂
Story is terrible and basically just reconing the movies. Don't like the concept