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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I thought there were some interesting elements in that episode, but as far as season finales go...
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And how many years until they make S2? If they do make an S2? Blah.

My initial rating for the season is feeling like maybe a 5.5/10 with a tagline of "Spoiled Potential."
 
JBSchroeds said:
I thought there were some interesting elements in that episode, but as far as season finales go...
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And how many years until they make S2? If they do make an S2? Blah.

My initial rating for the season is feeling like maybe a 5.5/10 with a tagline of "Spoiled Potential."
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There were elements that had huge potential in the last episode. It’s like they chickened out at the end
 
WhiteMousse said:
There were elements that had huge potential in the last episode. It’s like they chickened out at the end
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I think Hawley was TOO confident on getting a second season and refused to pull the trigger on literally anything. There was what, two character deaths the whole season?

And one of them played double-duty for both chestburster and now zomb-eye

EDIT: Ok, and what was Kirch working on in the lab? Yet another setup with zero effect on the episode.
EDIT2: Oh, and how about the ticks? Last we saw was one hiding in the skull of a corpse multiple episodes ago. More setup without payoff. The more I think about this season the angrier I get about it.
 
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After watching the entire season, I give the show a 6/10.

I agree that the finale sort of fell short. Felt like they missed something big, but I don't really know what.

I disliked very much Wendy having basically supernatural powers now, and Morrow's story turned out to be weak and ineffectual.
 
Long Dark Blues said:
After watching the entire season, I give the show a 6/10.

I agree that the finale sort of fell short. Felt like they missed something big, but I don't really know what.

I disliked very much Wendy having basically supernatural powers now, and Morrow's story turned out to be weak and ineffectual.
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6/10 ...

That's not putting much respect on the Alien name.
 
I was engaged, I enjoyed the episode, I wouldn't qualify it nor the show as "good" though. I'm an Alien fan and it's interesting and entertaining enough to keep me sticking with it but I ain't exactly singing its praises.
 
deviake said:
I was engaged, I enjoyed the episode, I wouldn't qualify it nor the show as "good" though. I'm an Alien fan and it's interesting and entertaining enough to keep me sticking with it but I ain't exactly singing its praises.
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That was the season finale. Hard to know if there will be anything else to stick with

They didn’t have MVP eyeball talk and they didn’t explain why Cyborg never brought up the traitor who made the ship crash during the negotiations
 
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Just saw that they haven't even been greenlit for a second season, and that's how they ended the damn season.
 
Aegon Spengler said:
That was the season finale. Hard to know if there will be anything else to stick with

They didn’t have MVP eyeball talk and they didn’t explain why Cyborg never brought up the traitor who made the ship crash during the negotiations
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Yeah, I didn't realize that till after I watched it. For my criticisms I still hope there's more.

The eyeGOAT not showing up at the end and then finding out it's the finale feels like a war crime
 
The show was entertaining but some of the story lines were pretty bad. Wendy’s character is just ridiculous. The eye, Morrow and Kirsch were the best parts of the show.
 
They should just make a show about Kirsch and Morrow. And only hire the writers who wrote for those characters. Good grief
 
Corona said:
The show was entertaining but some of the story lines were pretty bad. Wendy’s character is just ridiculous. The eye, Morrow and Kirsch were the best parts of the show.
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They all got a front row seat to her powers. As soon as that was revealed they would have taken immediate action to prevent what she does in the season finale. And as soon as the comms go down why is anyone doing ANYthing other than getting armed and planning evac?

And yeah totally agreed that she shouldn't have those powers to begin with. It's like having the Game Genie for the Nintendo. You can do anything, you can't die, you can't lose. It's not interesting or fun. Having the Eye take over the guy who was already dead was so lazy and scared. Just like how none of the main cast died. I don't think characters should be killed off for no reason, but there is no way that EVERYONE would have survived an event like that. They were just securing each character for the second season, which if is renewed, we won't see for two years. On a practical level it doesn't make sense that the Eye would be able to successfully control someone who's dead. The whole conceit was that it controls through the optic nerve. The brain can't work if someone's chest has been detonated.
And speaking of which how the HELL does Tom survive the Eye attack? If it got a gruff, strong engineer how does it not get a buck fifty kid? And if Wendy was going to save him it should have been before it attacked him, not after thirty seconds of him successfully fighting it off.

They just had these centerpieces in mind and then wrote lines to connect them. It's really disappointing because there were some really brilliant ideas that would have taken off with some good tweaking.

One thing I haven't seen discussed anywhere is the fact that there should be no voyeuristic shots of the Alien. I think it's in the first couple minutes of the show where they have shots of the Alien just running around in the jungle. You really shouldn't do that because it takes away from the terrifying aspect you feel when it's the characters who cross paths with it. You see the Alien when they see it. Even in the great movies it (albeit briefly) halted momentum when they did this, like when Cameron showed the Queen looking at the elevator long after Ripley and Newt left.

When I first started watching this show I was really excited because I said to myself "Alien is not dead." And after I watched the finale I said "Alien is dead".
 
WhiteMousse said:
On a practical level it doesn't make sense that the Eye would be able to successfully control someone who's dead. The whole conceit was that it controls through the optic nerve. The brain can't work if someone's chest has been detonated.
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The cat from the first (second?) episode was basically roadkill and being animated by the eyeball. Not an excuse for them bitching out and not having one of the (still living) main cast being a victim, but the ability to zomb-eye was at least somewhat foreshadowed.

Still a shite end to a middling season.
 
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