Television ALIEN: EARTH (Premieres August 12, 2025)

If you have finished season one of ALIEN: EARTH, how would you rate it?

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Halifax said:
Well, he's a confessed recovered drug addict. Its not like they got the cream of the crop to volunteer for a 65 year mission.

Teng is a fucking sex offender probably working off his sentence lol. He lowkey admitted he found a way to get chick out of cryo to bang her without security being alerted and that he is likely the one who stole the drugs from the infirmary to keep her sedate once he took her out of cryo.

That's why he knew it was possible the suspect security was looking for was not one of the known awake crew.
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Honestly I’m impressed at his ingenuity. Imagine that determination applied to something not evil
 
Halifax said:
I don't understand the logic of avoiding a thread because some people don't like the show when you can still discuss it with folks who do like the show.
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It's a figure of speech, he's not referring to the thread we're posting in. If you pull at a thread it unravels
 
Still trying to figure out which way Kirsch is going to lean to, when shit begins. Or what's he's planning ahead for.

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ezikel315 said:
It's the absolute idiocy in which these people operate that gets me. The fact they were able to catch these things is a complete mystery. It must've been a bloodbath. Yet despite losing people, they still continue to be idiots on the ship.

Or they were caught these things with proper protocols, but decided to turn off their brains once they got on the ship.
Still none of that explains how Yutani gave them such shit equipment for a project that is so important for them. Sure you can say the crew is expendable, but you really want things to be so lax that these creatures are running around free in the ship when it lands on earth?
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not sure it’s possible to get more lax than having most of your crew in cryo during the return journey… which is where they all were before shit went tits up on the ship, courtesy of a disgruntled employee turned saboteur

ezikel315 said:
The fact they deliberately sent out on a 65 year mission to look for them means they had some idea of what they're trying to retrieve.
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not necessarily.

ezikel315 said:
The containment room should be in a separate wing of the ship that can be quarantined off instead being connected to a regular hallway.
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alright, captain nitpick.

ezikel315 said:
It's just poor writing. They couldn't think of a better way for the creatures to escape without the characters being total retards. I can think of one right now: have the saboteur guy release them. Or maybe they get free during a shootout between the cyborg and saboteur.
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he basically did. the fire he set led directly to the containment breach where two facehuggers got loose.

ezikel315 said:
That makes a lot more sense already than the science officer and doctor being idiots.
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fwiw, the actual science officer of the Maginot had a xeno larva pupating on his face.
 
Loiosh said:
I have enormous confidence in Hawley.

I'm one of the few people who loved Legion but I never thought anyone could pull it off, and he did. In my opinion.
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His work post-Legion has been so-so though. Fargo past season 3 (which was already a big step down from the first two seasons though still good) and Lucy in the Sky haven't been up to par.
 
One thing that's fucking with me is the use of Ice Age and Peter Pan clips a century into the future.

Is this because:

A) cinema peaked in the 20th and early 21st century?

B) working class kids only have access to public domain cartoons while anything new is only available to the rich?

C) film industry collapsed entirely around the time corporations took over the planet so the only thing left is present day propaganda and old media?
 
shunyata said:
One thing that's fucking with me is the use of Ice Age and Peter Pan clips a century into the future.

Is this because:

A) cinema peaked in the 20th and early 21st century?

B) working class kids only have access to public domain cartoons while anything new is only available to the rich?

C) film industry collapsed entirely around the time corporations took over the planet so the only thing left is present day propaganda and old media?
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A) based on the past 5-10 years?

Yes
 
This show has crossed the threshold into “insanely stupid” territory with the plot contrived mistakes and missteps everyone seems to make.

Sad. It started strong.
 
This show gets dumber every episode.

Billion dollar prototype hybrid human-robots and extraterrestrial species, and they can’t afford to have entire teams monitoring each around the clock?

They just put one child-minded android in charge of taking care of the alien species with zero supervision?
 
I’m enjoying this series immensely. Big fan of Hawley. More of a casual Alien fan in general, so I’m not too precious about the lore. Having said that, I’m enjoying the world building.
 
Aegon Spengler said:
This show has crossed the threshold into “insanely stupid” territory with the plot contrived mistakes and missteps everyone seems to make.

Sad. It started strong.
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This is fair, but despite all of the roughshod oversights of security safeguards that would obviously be in place at the facility-- particularly with the hybrids-- considering the expense, I'm still enjoying this series immensely like the poster above. I choose to forgive the credibility issues as a sacrifice for more interesting narrative choices & harmony. Yes, truly great writing can manage both, but oh well, I'm just enjoying my viewing experience, and that's so rare for me these days, especially since I'm so anal retentive about whether or not characters behave logically, usually, that I'm more than happy to hypocritically savor this show despite that I couldn't tell you why. I just don't care how the rabbit is getting pulled out of the hat, and I'm not going to ruin it by being too curious to figure out why.

The only thing I do not forgive is the atrocious, immersion-violating use of 90's alt-rock music. The music they're choosing is the soundtrack of my adolescence. I adore it. But it DOES NOT BELONG where they're putting it. It's so jarring. This is the worst soundtrack supervision I've encountered in a show in years. Off the top of my head, I can't remember the last time I felt this violated.
 
MDoza said:
This show gets dumber every episode.

Billion dollar prototype hybrid human-robots and extraterrestrial species, and they can’t afford to have entire teams monitoring each around the clock?

They just put one child-minded android in charge of taking care of the alien species with zero supervision?
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you shut up
 
That was the most satisfying creature kill I've seen in... decades.

I also like how its the psychologist who is the manipulative one and the robot-scientist who is the empathic one. Its a neat twist.

Madmick said:
This is fair, but despite all of the roughshod oversights of security safeguards that would obviously be in place at the facility-- particularly with the hybrids-- considering the expense, I'm still enjoying this series immensely like the poster above. I choose to forgive the credibility issues as a sacrifice for more interesting narrative choices & harmony. Yes, truly great writing can manage both, but oh well, I'm just enjoying my viewing experience, and that's so rare for me these days, especially since I'm so anal retentive about whether or not characters behave logically, usually, that I'm more than happy to hypocritically savor this show despite that I couldn't tell you why. I just don't care how the rabbit is getting pulled out of the hat, and I'm not going to ruin it by being too curious to figure out why.

The only thing I do not forgive is the atrocious, immersion-violating use of 90's alt-rock music. The music they're choosing is the soundtrack of my adolescence. I adore it. But it DOES NOT BELONG where they're putting it. It's so jarring. This is the worst soundtrack supervision I've encountered in a show in years. Off the top of my head, I can't remember the last time I felt this violated.
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I don't really mind the music since it only kicks in during the credits.

But it could be the most unsuited soundtrack since... In The Mouth of Madness.

 
ezikel315 said:
Throughout the alien franchise they always made the synths a bit stronger than humans, but nothing crazy. Now they made them super human so I wonder if we're going to see a xeno fight a synth fight hand to hand. I kind of hope not because it looks goofy in my head.
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I might be wrong but wasn't the synth in the first movie insanely strong? I remember he was killing Ripley and the big black dude couldn't do shit to the Synth. He had to hit him with a fire extinguisher to kill him basically. Unless you mean Synth's are slightly stronger than the strongest person in the world then that makes more sense.

I rewatched the scene and yea Synths are way stronger than humans. He was holding a news paper in Ripleys mouth and she couldn't get it out. The position Ash was in, is a very weak position a normal person would never be able to hold a person down like that without extreme strength. Then he literally starts crushing the black dudes chest with his other hand.
 
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