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Alien: Earth



That final shot of the xenomorph is
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First two episodes are ok, but all the action of an alien film stretched out over ten hours means you get a lot of talky Blade Runner/ Westworld bits.

Also so far I don't really care about any of the characters.
 
I liked the main girl, I thought the actress was convincing as a child in a robot woman's body, and Timothy Oliphaunt makes a good Synth. The evil cyborg guy was quite fun.

I enjoy synth's talking about the nature of life so I wasn't bothered this was the main focus, really.

My complaint so far would be that the xenomorph wasn't as scary as it could/should have been, especially in the first episode. I like when it's lurking in the background and drops down on people. The cat/eyeball monster was by far the creepiest and scariest part.

You have to admire the audicity of naming your evil tech bro billionaire character "Boy Kavalier."

It's always weird when Ade Edmondson shows up in things like this and I just think about Eddie Hitler.

The cliffhanger was kind of weak.
 
Ep 1 CAPTAINWACKY MADE ME WATCH IT :rwmad:

Normally I don't like scary movies, or just the thought of watching them, but sometimes I end up liking them if I watch. Does that make sense? NO IT DOESN'T. Maybe it does.

I like the children in robot bodies, and the creepiness of it. The show did a good job of showing the chaos of a ship wrecking into a city.

I DON'T LIKE THE ALIENS.
 
I liked it, but I was pretty puzzled by how the world actually works here and how it’s supposed to fit into the bigger timeline. We’ve now got five megacorps basically running the planet. All of them are evil in the same way Weyland-Yutani is evil I guess? Prodigy is the new other big one we care about in this show. And yeah, side note, it’s kind of depressing how “tech bro with god complex” is now just a standard character type. Because, well, look around.

So OK, fine, we’re going full cyberpunk megacorp dystopia. That’s the vibe. But Alien is set only two years after this and that’s what’s confusing.

What happened to the Interstellar Commerce Commission? In the films, the ICC is this big oversight body with real authority. In Alien, the Nostromo mission was cloak and dagger for a reason. As powerful as WY was, they weren’t untouchable. They had to work around bureaucracy, which is why they slipped in Special Order 937 instead of just saying “send a warship, bring back the thing.”

Here they don’t even seem to be pretending there’s any higher authority. It’s all corporate. It feels like a pretty serious retcon unless the ICC is magically formed in the next 2 years which seems…unlikely.

If there’s anywhere you can retcon and get away with it, it’s in the Prometheus and Covenant mess because that’s already tangled. But the way the show sets things up in the first two episodes makes it hard to nod along and see the Nostromo on LV-426 as the “first” encounter in this same continuity.

That said, I like that they’re sticking with the immortality theme. It makes sense. Once you’ve got all the power and all the money, the next thing to chase is keeping yourself alive forever. We’re already seeing hints of that in the real world, and you know they’re up to some shit. The hybrids were a good addition here. They felt like kids in synth bodies. Could have been silly, but it wasn’t (I'll let the cliff jump slide).

The xenomorph was handled pretty well. A bit silly in spots, but watching it tear through the ship and the tower was good stuff. If I have one beef with Aliens, it’s that with so many of them running around they had to make them weaker just to keep the firefights going. Here, one alien felt like a genuine nightmare again, even if it did drift into pulp at times. I'm quite surprised we got as much killing spree action as we did.

The cyborg was well played and well creepy.

Anyway, setting it on Earth, I don’t know. Weird choice. I get it, the show is called Alien: Earth, BUT STILL.

I liked the first two episodes plenty enough to stick with the show though. I'm interested to see where they take it. Can't promise I won't start repeating my annoyance if they don't satisfy me with an answer about the ICC though.
 
I watched a fair few of this guy's videos when I was getting into the movies earlier this year and I think he has a pretty reasonable take on it (he doesn't mention "the ICC" at all though so I think you should probably let it go if even this big of a nerd isn't bringing it up lol.)

 
There being no regulatory body with even some nominal authority over WY undermines their behaviour in the original films pretty significantly. It's not a minor nitpick.
Probably most people don't really care, but lore scaffolding like this matters to me and always will.

There is a good chance this is going to get explained in the show, but the Nostromo encountering LV-426 only 2 years later makes that very tight.
 
One thing I really hope they explore (though I have no idea if they will) is whether the kids’ minds were truly transferred into the synth bodies, or if what we’re seeing are essentially just copies. If it’s the latter, then the kids actually died, and that is pretty fucked. (I know they were terminal, but it's still ethically weird ground)
 
Episode 2 - TOO SCARY

White hair guy is probably a robot. IMO I still like the robot children.

The cat eye was pretty funny. I STILL DON'T LIKE THE ALIEN, OR THE CYBORG.

I hope Wendy gets her brother back :rwmad:
 
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