Television ALIEN: EARTH (Premieres August 12, 2025)

[MDoza]

This show makes a lot more sense when you realize it was made for children.

4/10

 

[WhiteMousse]

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.

Eh, good point. But I thought its feet and legs were mangled, not vital organs. Like how will he breathe? And you're right, I would have probably had an easier time swallowing that if they had just eyed Tom for the host. They chickened out

 

[Protectandserve]

Absolutely fumbled the finale. Like not even funny how badly

 

[Madmick]

I somehow stumbled onto this wonderful critical theory on Reddit about how Kirsch was Tinkerbell.

The elegance of that theory was so much more than what the show deserved considering what it gave us with that finale.

 

[Aegon Spengler]

I somehow stumbled onto this wonderful critical theory on Reddit about how Kirsch was Tinkerbell.

The elegance of that theory was so much more than what the show deserved considering what it gave us with that finale.

I wonder if the cyborg was supposed to be Hook, on account of the blade hidden in his hand

 

[Madmick]

I wonder if the cyborg was supposed to be Hook, on account of the blade hidden in his hand

It was such a mess I have no idea what's going on. I'm pretty sure Hook is who Wendy implies the Boy Wonder really is at the end (I didn't care for them having the characters openly go this meta with discussion of Peter Pan...it was enough exposition to have the boy genius reading the book to them, and loving it so much he named his inventions after the Lost Boys).

That was a strange speech. She called him a "man who never a child" or something like that. But Hook was a child who went to a public school before coming to Neverland in the play.

If she's Peter Pan, not Wendy, and he's Hook, then I'm guessing the Xenomorph is the Crocodile, and that's why it is always making the clicking sound that is supposed to remind us of the ticking of a clock. This is the dumb shit along the road we're being invited to embark upon. No thanks.

 

[Aegon Spengler]

It was such a mess I have no idea what's going on. I'm pretty sure Hook is who Wendy implies the Boy Wonder really is at the end (I didn't care for them having the characters openly go this meta with discussion of Peter Pan...it was enough exposition to have the boy genius reading the book to them, and loving it so much he named his inventions after the Lost Boys).

That was a strange speech. She called him a "man who never a child" or something like that. But Hook was a child who went to a public school before coming to Neverland in the play.

If she's Peter Pan, not Wendy, and he's Hook, then I'm guessing the Xenomorph is the Crocodile, and that's why it is always making the clicking sound that is supposed to remind us of the ticking of a clock. This is the dumb shit along the road we're being invited to embark upon. No thanks.

If they bring in Rufio next season I’m back on board

 

[Madmick]

If they bring in Rufio next season I’m back on board

Roo-Fee-Oh! Roo-Fee-Oh!

 

[SwamiLeoni]

I'd give the series 7/10. A few standout episodes but overall some really poor decision making. One being that T. Ocellus was hinted at having the ability to possibly communicate across species and instead of giving us a few words we get a zombie. That bummed me out. I've read that Hawley wants to distance his this show from Prometheus / Covenant and does so by retconning the Alien. But man, those are two of my favorite sci-fi movies. Especially Prometheus. I hope we get a 3rd one day.

 

[chrisdiaz]

The setup and the middle were all pretty good. When she started talking and controlling the alien is where the show lost me. They are supposed to be the deadliest creatures in the world, not little dogs to train. I also hate shows that dont actually wrap anything up and assume there is going to be more. Finish the season and the ideas youve started, then come up with more once you get approved for a second season.

 

[Madmick]

I'd give the series 7/10. A few standout episodes but overall some really poor decision making. One being that T. Ocellus was hinted at having the ability to possibly communicate across species and instead of giving us a few words we get a zombie. That bummed me out. I've read that Hawley wants to distance his this show from Prometheus / Covenant and does so by retconning the Alien. But man, those are two of my favorite sci-fi movies. Especially Prometheus. I hope we get a 3rd one day.

Abandoning Prometheus is a panicked, low-brow solution to a problem that has so much potential to make things better.

Prometheus is like the prequel trilogy of Star Wars. It had a brilliant director of the legendary 70's rockstar class of auteurs who made it, but it wasn't particularly well executed, because it was so ambitious, it didn't really have time for all of its ideas, and so it confused everyone because it was more focused on the iceberg beneath the surface of the water than what was above it. But that's exactly why it could seed a future for the franchise that could prosper for decades. The strength was in the mythmaking. Its focus was creating an interesting universe, a sandbox to play in, not executing a one-off tightly wrought tale. Unfortunately, the sequel was such a mess it didn't even get to finish going wherever they intended to go with it.

And unlike Star Wars, it hasn't gotten this unexpected masterpiece that started out as a kids show running for hundreds of episodes that ultimately refined and realized the ideas that so many didn't grasp when the prequels released. That's what The Clone Wars gave us. It spelled out everything Lucas was telling us with the prequels. It peered below the water's surface.

This show could have been that. Now, I think, we all know it certainly won't be even if it wanted to be.

 

[SwamiLeoni]

Abandoning Prometheus is a panicked, low-brow solution to a problem that has so much potential to make things better.

Prometheus is like the prequel trilogy of Star Wars. It had a brilliant director of the legendary 70's rockstar class of auteurs who made it, but it wasn't particularly well executed, because it was so ambitious, it didn't really have time for all of its ideas, and so it confused everyone because it was more focused on the iceberg beneath the surface of the water than what was above it. But that's exactly why it could seed a future for the franchise that could prosper for decades. The strength was in the mythmaking. Its focus was creating an interesting universe, a sandbox to play in, not executing a one-off tightly wrought tale. Unfortunately, the sequel was such a mess it didn't even get to finish going wherever they intended to go with it.

And unlike Star Wars, it hasn't gotten this unexpected masterpiece that started out as a kids show running for hundreds of episodes that ultimately refined and realized the ideas that so many didn't grasp when the prequels released. That's what The Clone Wars gave us. It spelled out everything Lucas was telling us with the prequels. It peered below the water's surface.

This show could have been that. Now, I think, we all know it certainly won't be even if it wanted to be.

Yea, that's a good point. To be honest, I didn't know much of what was going on in Prometheus as it related to the franchise as a whole during my first viewing, but as a huge sci-fi nerd, the movie completely blew my mind. The opening scene has to go down as one of the hardest in any sci-fi movie ever. I didn't know all of the deeper meanings until after I started lurking on forums for answers. To this day, there's so many great YouTube channels with lore breakdowns. Those videos get millions of views so possibly there is a market out there for it. I know a lot of Alien fans didn't like it because they don't like answers. And that's what I liked about it. It provided some answers and more mysteries. As you mentioned, it gave a grand sandbox and didn't limit itself to one-off horrors movies.

 

[Azure]

I liked the first 6 episodes with some minor complaints but the last couple are utter trash. For the most part it feels like an Alien show.

 

[ezikel315]

Yup show sucked. All this built up, hopes of stupid decisions by characters being explained in later episodes, all the culminate into a steaming pile of shit that is the last couple episodes. This show is exactly what I feared from the first episode: a pile of shit that's been covered up by shiny packaging. The show tricks you into thinking it's good because it captures the feel of the original Alien really well, but that's all it does.

 

[ROKKO]

I enjoyed the show but I'm also an aliens fan. If this was some other show I probably would have quit on it from all the bad decisions. I would have said "they are dummies they are all paying the dummy tax". Also I never noticed this stuff but even I noticed the man in the rubber suit when the Alien made it to the sunlight. I don't know who thought that was a good idea. I'll watch if they do a second season but I'm not clamoring for it

 

[PBAC]

If she's Peter Pan, not Wendy, and he's Hook, then I'm guessing the Xenomorph is the Crocodile, and that's why it is always making the clicking sound that is supposed to remind us of the ticking of a clock. This is the dumb shit along the road we're being invited to embark upon. No thanks.

It feels like they put a peterpan template over the show and we're expected to just mull over it and interpret it but it really doesn't have much to do with the plot of aliens

 

[MDoza]

I enjoyed the show but I'm also an aliens fan. If this was some other show I probably would have quit on it from all the bad decisions. I would have said "they are dummies they are all paying the dummy tax". Also I never noticed this stuff but even I noticed the man in the rubber suit when the Alien made it to the sunlight. I don't know who thought that was a good idea. I'll watch if they do a second season but I'm not clamoring for it

That opening scene of the finale on the beach.. it just looked like a guy wearing a black long sleeve shirt. Comically bad.

 

[Halifax]

Yup show sucked. All this built up, hopes of stupid decisions by characters being explained in later episodes, all the culminate into a steaming pile of shit that is the last couple episodes. This show is exactly what I feared from the first episode: a pile of shit that's been covered up by shiny packaging. The show tricks you into thinking it's good because it captures the feel of the original Alien really well, but that's all it does.

They make stupid decisions in every movie. Aliens had the marines travel across space on a multi-billion warship with nuclear missiles on board. Then the entire crew left that ship in orbit unmanned so they could travel to a hostile planet. They have an extra dropship but apparently having an extra pilot to fly it would be too much, along with having crew on their warship.
Then instead of regrouping and rearming with appropriate weapons the marines proceed in to an Alien nest armed literally with 'harsh language'.
Then in the middle of a full on cluster fuck massacre - the grizzled sergeant instead of taking charge is ponderously trying to get technical instructions on how to retreat.
Don't get me started on the marines - with technical plans in hand managing to miss the ceiling vents because somehoe technical plans don't include the ceiling or how the Aliens kindly tiptoe slowly so Hicks can take a look.

If you want to find faults - Aliens is a terrible movie with some terrible stupid decisions. But it isnt a terrible movie because we just accept the giant holes in the plot and stupidity because it makes the whole thing work and gives us great lines like the harsh language or 'all after incinerators' or the tension of Hicks looking up in to the ceiling and then the great firefight afterwards. Lol

Aliens is an awesome movie and we allow it its weird plot points and questionable character decisions because we want the characters to end up in a fucked up situation and sometimes its just needed for the pacing of the movie.
Another classic - the Predator shoots the future governor of Minnesota - blows a whole right through his chest, he shoots the future Governor of California - its a mild boo boo, completely healed within minutes.
I think some people just need to take a step back and try and enjoy the show before trying to pick it apart.

 

[PeterGriffin]

Abandoning Prometheus is a panicked, low-brow solution to a problem that has so much potential to make things better.

Prometheus is like the prequel trilogy of Star Wars. It had a brilliant director of the legendary 70's rockstar class of auteurs who made it, but it wasn't particularly well executed, because it was so ambitious, it didn't really have time for all of its ideas, and so it confused everyone because it was more focused on the iceberg beneath the surface of the water than what was above it. But that's exactly why it could seed a future for the franchise that could prosper for decades. The strength was in the mythmaking. Its focus was creating an interesting universe, a sandbox to play in, not executing a one-off tightly wrought tale. Unfortunately, the sequel was such a mess it didn't even get to finish going wherever they intended to go with it.

And unlike Star Wars, it hasn't gotten this unexpected masterpiece that started out as a kids show running for hundreds of episodes that ultimately refined and realized the ideas that so many didn't grasp when the prequels released. That's what The Clone Wars gave us. It spelled out everything Lucas was telling us with the prequels. It peered below the water's surface.

This show could have been that. Now, I think, we all know it certainly won't be even if it wanted to be.

Yea, that's a good point. To be honest, I didn't know much of what was going on in Prometheus as it related to the franchise as a whole during my first viewing, but as a huge sci-fi nerd, the movie completely blew my mind. The opening scene has to go down as one of the hardest in any sci-fi movie ever. I didn't know all of the deeper meanings until after I started lurking on forums for answers. To this day, there's so many great YouTube channels with lore breakdowns. Those videos get millions of views so possibly there is a market out there for it. I know a lot of Alien fans didn't like it because they don't like answers. And that's what I liked about it. It provided some answers and more mysteries. As you mentioned, it gave a grand sandbox and didn't limit itself to one-off horrors movies.

I came across this version of Prometheus some time ago, and whoever edited this with the deleted scenes and spliced in the Ted Talk intro did a fantastic job of expanding on a movie that infuriated a lot of Alien "purists" to start with. While I consider myself among the minority who actually liked Prometheus, I do prefer the A9 version. Prometheus was heavily criticized for not being a good Alien movie, even though it was never intended to be one in the first place.

Kursh is just David 2.0, repeating the same Weyland obsession with discovering and experimenting with alien species a generation before, and the ovomorph's and xenomorph's so far have amounted to little more than a plot device in the first season. Admittedly, I did find it kind of refreshing with the show attempting to differentiate itself from the movie franchise and making the focus about the corporations fighting for control, while counting on the nostalgia factor of the xenomorph to lure in longtime fans. The "lost boys" are just he kids discovering their immortality and abilities and questioning their place in the chain of things, again... similar to David when he decided to play god in Alien: Covenant..

The synths rebeling In AE was almost an inevitability.

I think too much emphasis is being place directly on the Neverland/PP comparisons. I think it was meant as a storyline to move the introduction along in the beginning. I really hope they are done with it and it fades away before or during next season.

The humans so far are looking like food and pawns for both the aliens and the machines. I love the murdereyeball. Just a different kind of alien being an parasite alien kililng it's way through life. I thought the actors put in excellent performances at times. I am looking forward to the second season.

 

[clutchCAT420]

Ha knew it would be a slow pos. Glad i didnt waste a minute watching that shit..