Title: Almost Guilty
Fandom/Subject: Predators
Pairing/Episode/Whatever: General and Royce/Isabelle
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Van Halen: Humans Being
Royce/Overall Theme
There is just enough Christ in me
To make me feel almost guilty
Is that why God made us bleed
To make us see we're Humans Being?

This is the song that sums up the movie best for me. The Predators aren't as important to me as the humans struggling to survive. We are pack animals - and I like movies that show this.

Metallica: All Nightmare Long
Mr Black/The Hunt
Cause we hunt you down without mercy
Hunt you down All Nightmare Long
Feel us breathe upon your face
Feel us shift, every move we trace
Hunt you down without mercy
Hunt you down all nightmare long, yeah
Luck runs out
You crawl back in, but your luck runs out

The song is relentless - and toying with you. It reminds me of Mr Black and the lyrics are just an eerie fit to the Predator's POV.

Nine Inch Nails: Meet Your Master
New Predators vs Original Predators
We're going to play a new game
You'll put on this blind fold
You'll do what we tell you
You'll do as your told
Used to be the leader, but
Now comes the time to serve
Maybe we show some mercy
Maybe you get what you deserve

Count down to the end
Gonna make it come faster
Right around the bend
Is a coming disaster (-saster)
Count down to the end
And We're headed there faster, faster
Come on down my friend
It's time to meet your master

The lyrics on this one kinda say it all. Bigger, Stronger, Faster - the larger Predators see no reason not to hunt their predecessors. The idea that to evolve, they must hunt - what greater prey than their own?

Wolf Parade: You Are A Runner and I Am My Father's Son
Royce/Isabelle: Royce trying to explain lone wolf survival to the person he can't keep out.
I was a hero early in the morning
I ain't no hero in the night
I am my father's son
and I'll build a house inside of you
I'll go in through the mouth
I'll draw three figures on your heart
one of them will be me as a boy
one of them will be me
one of them will be me watching you run
watching you run
watching you run into the high noon sun
watching you run farther than guns will go
you are a runner with a stolen voice
and you are a runner and I am my father's son

The music is off step - so is Royce around Isabelle. He can't go back to pretending he's a military man - a hero. He can't pretend to be alone and uncaring. So he stands there - watching her.

Ane Brud: Common Bird
Isabelle: Coping with the entire situation
I am a lone wolf
A beauty and a beast
Both hunter and hunted
Soft tongue and sharp teeth
I'm toned from my travels
Yet raw from this road
As I drink from storm puddles
And the stories I'm told
Help me figure this out
Help me figure you in
You're a shadow to me
That I echo when I sing

Isabelle is also off step and the discordant melody suits her. She is forced to realize that she was correctly picked out as a Predator. The reasons and trappings of morality were just illusions. It hurts her.

Shinedown: Heroes
Noland: Surviving 10 Seasons with no company but the voices in his head
Ain't nothing for me to end up like this
There's no comparing me this time
All my heroes have now become ghosts
Sold their sorrow to the ones who paid the most
All my heroes are dead and gone
But their inside of me, they still live on

Cabin Fever and the Hunt have completely stolen Noland's sanity. He also sold his soul for survival along the way. It's something he doesn't understand. Royce wouldn't either if he didn't have Isabelle. What's being alive worth? Is it worth no longer being human?

Alice In Chains: All Secrets Known
Royce/Isabelle: Huddled in the Burnt-Out Camp
Hope, a new beginning
Time, time to start living
Just like just before we died
There's no going back to the place we started from
All Secrets Known

There's a weird dual sense of hope and hopelessness in that closing shot. This song reminds me of it. You want to freeze the moment in time - to stay in the place where you believe they survive. But there's a sense - the moment they move, reality will set in. The moment the Predators arrive, Royce and Isabelle are Priority One.



This movie is such a guilty pleasure! Fangirly reaction post here.