Television ALIEN: EARTH (Renewed for Season 2)

[deviake]

We had the alligator guy for years

True, but I'm talking about things like people's freeze responses to danger, dumb decisions, that kinda thing. It's weird when you see it in real life

 

[cincymma79]

True, but I'm talking about things like people's freeze responses to danger, dumb decisions, that kinda thing. It's weird when you see it in real life

I have seen people freeze just not every time something happens. Gets annoying. Also everyone sticking their care over the egg…dude. Why? It’s moving.

When they had to jump down a flight of stairs I asked out loud how are you getting back up dumbfuck and then technically it was solved for them I guess

 

[deviake]

I have seen people freeze just not every time something happens. Gets annoying. Also everyone sticking their care over the egg…dude. Why? It’s moving.

When they had to jump down a flight of stairs I asked out loud how are you getting back up dumbfuck and then technically it was solved for them I guess

The egg thing bothered me too but that was in the first movie as well and I've seen people not take things like bears cereally in real life so I don't feel super strongly about it.

The stair jump was incredibly stupid.

 

[lowlife]

I don't expect this franchise to make much sense anymore, but I absolutely love it nonetheless. I actually thoroughly enjoyed Prometheus and Covenant, Romulus less so. I've enjoyed the episodes so far and will continue to watch.

 

[HenryFlower]

Was pumped for this, but having browsed this thread it doesn't seem to be hitting the mark as expected.

but positive feedback has the clear majority in here?

 

[Halifax]

Man, Timothy Olyplhant's character is really feeling like David from Prometheus, and I'm pretty sure he's got his own agenda. It felt like the Aliens universe immediately. Like many others, I'm getting a little tired of the female-protagonist lead in this franchise, but Alien: Romulus and AE are as big of a turnaround as Prey and Predator:KoK was for that franchise.

Liking it a lot. I want to see a lot of death.

Alien Romulus fucking sucked.

This show however is great so far

 

[WhiteMousse]

I really like that show. I'm not sure how much of that is the quality itself and how much is just the fact that I had zero expectations, given Alien has had tremendous struggle for a long, long time. Probably a little of both.

Discounting my shattered expectations the characters are great, pacing seems to be really good.

Some of the characters have plot armor which annoys me. The show also has what I call plot lubricant-- like the fact that when they investigate the crashed ship, the first point of contact has a convenient beam for them to cross into the ship. That would basically never happen. Add a point of realism- like they find the ship but have to figure out how to get in, and you 1) add a ton of interesting story nodes and 2) make the world more believable which will make the audience invest more and be more anxious about the fate of the characters.

 

[HenryFlower]

I really like that show. I'm not sure how much of that is the quality itself and how much is just the fact that I had zero expectations, given Alien has had tremendous struggle for a long, long time. Probably a little of both.

Discounting my shattered expectations the characters are great, pacing seems to be really good.

Some of the characters have plot armor which annoys me. The show also has what I call plot lubricant-- like the fact that when they investigate the crashed ship, the first point of contact has a convenient beam for them to cross into the ship. That would basically never happen. Add a point of realism- like they find the ship but have to figure out how to get in, and you 1) add a ton of interesting story nodes and 2) make the world more believable which will make the audience invest more and be more anxious about the fate of the characters.

yeah man, i’m all set w/ watching an entire episode of a show revolving around tertiary characters trying to crack the case on how to get into a ship

 

[cmw43]

3 episodes in & dig it.
Bleached/Bishop Olyphant is solid as expected.
Wendy is cool.
Edit;
Amelie was predecessor to Ripley I guess.

Funnily enough the guy who directed Amelie did it as his next film after he'd directed Alien Resurrection.

 

[Long Dark Blues]

Another very good episode. I could really feel the tension in that scene in the office with the redhead girl.

I want the Prodigy CEO to bite it.

 

[Aegon Spengler]

I enjoyed this episode.

Spoiler

However the ending…. With her able to talk to them I keep getting space balls vibes. That glass was hella easy to break and didn’t cut the little critter at all. I didn’t know they could gestate inside something as simple as a single lung.



I didn’t enjoy it in Alien 4 when Ripley was a clone thingy who could sort of command and talk to the aliens and I don’t know how much I’m gonna like it here.

It does add an interesting dimension to it all if the engineers are still canon. If they are, maybe the reason they wanted to eliminate the human race has something to do with us being capable of getting up to this sort of bullshit with their bio weapons.

I mean that’s all these aliens are, bio weapons, right? They aren’t naturally occurring creatures.

Also not sure if people saw Prometheus but I thought it was implied (later changed my mind) that the engineers were trying to create themselves, rather than humans, but made us by mistake. We look sort of like them and can talk but we’re miniature versions of them, not quite right, so they planned to erase us and re-start the process. Almost like if we tried to cede life on another planet but then we made nothing but midgets, and our species was run by a bunch of Tywin Lannisters who hated midgets

 

[Fury]

I like it more as it goes on.

Funny enough, the xeno life cycle never bothered me but the eye replacing octopus thing, I found freaky in this episode.

All in all, it's an interesting show filled with strange characters.

 

[ezikel315]

This show has a lot of good going for it and does stupid shit like the last scene. I thought the xeno was going to come out half developed or something because it was only in a lung.

The eye ball monster is interesting.

Having Prodigy keep sleep Joe around so he can talk shit and fill the kids' heads with ideas is stupid.

 

[Aegon Spengler]

This show has a lot of good going for it and does stupid shit like the last scene. I thought the xeno was going to come out half developed or something because it was only in a lung.

The eye ball monster is interesting.

Having Prodigy keep sleep Joe around so he can talk shit and fill the kids' heads with ideas is stupid.

I think sleepy Joe is there because Prodigy wants to use more of his organs, same reason they brought his old team in.

I don’t think Wonderboy understands interpersonal relations. He’s fatal flaw is autism.

Loved when bearded science guy told milf that everything they were doing was crazy and non-scientific. Every horror movie needs the guy who says what the audience knows.

I do think people in real life make stupid choices that lead to disasters though. Look what happened with the Wuhan lab and Covid.

 

[deviake]

I don't know how I feel about the xeno embryo being a polliwog because then that kind of invalidates the face hugger hanging on for so long if apparently all it has to do is jizz in someone's throat.

I don't particularly like the polliwog being able to survive and grow in a lung - if it can do that then why does it need a live host? Seems like it breaks canon.

That said, I enjoyed the episode. It's far from a perfect show but I'm enjoying it.

 

[Long Dark Blues]

I don't know how I feel about the xeno embryo being a polliwog because then that kind of invalidates the face hugger hanging on for so long if apparently all it has to do is jizz in someone's throat.

I don't particularly like the polliwog being able to survive and grow in a lung - if it can do that then why does it need a live host? Seems like it breaks canon.

That said, I enjoyed the episode. It's far from a perfect show but I'm enjoying it.

I agree with your two criticisms here, it does seem non-canonical.

They are essentially beginning to remove or maybe change the lore around the facehugger.

 

[Jack Reacheround]

Watched episode 3. I’m still waiting for it to get good.

 

[Aegon Spengler]

I don't know how I feel about the xeno embryo being a polliwog because then that kind of invalidates the face hugger hanging on for so long if apparently all it has to do is jizz in someone's throat.

I don't particularly like the polliwog being able to survive and grow in a lung - if it can do that then why does it need a live host? Seems like it breaks canon.

That said, I enjoyed the episode. It's far from a perfect show but I'm enjoying it.

I suppose we never knew exactly where they gestated or what all they needed in order to gestate.

I wonder if they will try this with more organs to see.

 

[europe1]

Honestly shocked how good this series is.

One thing I like is how it continues a bunch of themes from earlier Alien movies.

--Alien-Human connection from Ressurection

--Human search for Immortality from Prometeus. Transhumanism.

--Robots finding Aliens more notable, admirable, and "better" biological lifeforms than humans from Covenant.

--Plus the usual Robot-Human relationship from... pretty much all Alien movies. Alien should really be called Alien and Robot.

Its neat how it manages to both be fairly original and still thread in the earlier iterations footsteps.

 

[TrueBias]

Without spoilers, ive not finished episode 3..

Have things gotten better or worse?