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Television ALIEN: EARTH (Renewed for Season 2)

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

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Is it too much to ask that this show stay true to Alien 1 and not acknowledge the prometheus bullshit in any way, shape, or form?
 
Adamant said:
What's a memberberries?
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Member Ash from the first movie?
Member the pulse rifle from Aliens?
Member "get away from her you bitch?"
Member the black goo from Prometheus?

Typically these types of sequels for series there's a few references to the others, but the entirety of Romulus was overloaded by a Copy-from-an-old-Alien-film & Paste... & Paste... & Paste from the beginning of the script until the end.

It was impossible to ignore and was actively distracting to the point it seems like this 'new' movie was 70% of old movies.
 
GearSolidMetal said:


Member Ash from the first movie?
Member the pulse rifle from Aliens?
Member "get away from her you bitch?"
Member the black goo from Prometheus?

Typically these types of sequels for series there's a few references to the others, but the entirety of Romulus was overloaded by a Copy-from-an-old-Alien-film & Paste... & Paste... & Paste from the beginning of the script until the end.

It was impossible to ignore and was actively distracting to the point it seems like this 'new' movie was 70% of old movies.
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I see. I hate when movies do that. It was one of the many things I hated about Romulus. For some reason Hollywood thinks copy & pasting or constantly wink-winking older films is a recipe for success. It can be cool if done right, but Hollywood usually overdoes it to the point of absurdity, or just plain does it wrong.
 
Adamant said:
I see. I hate when movies do that. It was one of the many things I hated about Romulus. For some reason Hollywood thinks copy & pasting or constantly wink-winking older films is a recipe for success. It can be cool if done right, but Hollywood usually overdoes it to the point of absurdity, or just plain does it wrong.
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It reeks of condescending pandering and laziness by the producers & writers.

"Hmmm, we have 30% of an original script but we're out of ideas...
Alien fans love ALL of the other Alien movies, even the ones that were complete shit, so they'll love this too because we're copying 70% of the movie from the other movies."

Yeah, we sure loved it.
Good luck with that sequel.
 
Adamant said:
No, it's a legit thing. Look at the cast of Alien and then look at the cast of Alien Romulus.
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sure, but they’re different plots—Alien is about a seasoned crew of space haulers who have been traveling across space between two planets & Romulus is about a young group of of laborers w/ no space exploration experience. i don’t see the problem here tbh. & fwiw, Sigourney in Alien was the same age as David Jonsson in Romulus.
 
How does an alien movie on earth before the original even work canonically? It doesn’t. Nobody knew about Aliens on earth before the first one. So it will fuck with that. And that always goes badly
 
SuperAlly said:
How does an alien movie on earth before the original even work canonically? It doesn’t. Nobody knew about Aliens on earth before the first one. So it will fuck with that. And that always goes badly
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This is a common point of contention, but its honestly pretty easy to get around. You can have a small outbreak that was contained quickly and only a few people, say Weyland Yutano officials, know about it. And then thats why they diverted the Nostromo in Alien, since they were actively looking for it. It also gives the actions of Ash from the first movie a bit more context. Why a secret mission for the company android where the entire crew is expendable for a life form they know nothing about? If they knew what it was and its capabilities, it makes more sense to allow killing the entire crew. Plus Ash has further insight in the threat of the adult Xeno ("its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility"), which he couldn't have from a face-hugger autopsy.

Even as a kid, I always assumed Weyland Yutani must have known what it was, otherwise killing the whole crew seems a bit over the top. My guess is that's what the show is about. How Weyland Yutani discovered the life form and started devoting their resources to capturing it.
 
Adamant said:
I see. I hate when movies do that. It was one of the many things I hated about Romulus. For some reason Hollywood thinks copy & pasting or constantly wink-winking older films is a recipe for success. It can be cool if done right, but Hollywood usually overdoes it to the point of absurdity, or just plain does it wrong.
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Hollywood stopped trying decades ago. Now it's just remembrance and political overtures.
 
HenryFlower said:
it’s literally been like that since the dawn of hollywood
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Perhaps, but there was parity back in the day. Yin and yang interconnected with cultivated talent.

Where are The Thing's, The Bridge Too Far's, and the Star Trek II's of today?

It doesn't exist anymore.

We have Mission Impossible 10, Star Trek Section 31, and Super Hero movie number 37.
 
Adamant said:
No, it's a legit thing. Look at the cast of Alien and then look at the cast of Alien Romulus.
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It's a deliberate plot point that the protagonists of Alien: Romulus are all young people desperate to escape a life with no future in a Weyland-Yutani run company planet.

It also makes the plot work better, because we don't have to suspend disbelief so much when they do stupid shit, because on top of being barely adults, they're glorified shuttle drivers whose only training has been on how to take ore from the surface of a shithole planet to an orbital refinery waiting to be filled and towed to Earth.
 
Bob Gray said:
This is a common point of contention, but its honestly pretty easy to get around. You can have a small outbreak that was contained quickly and only a few people, say Weyland Yutano officials, know about it. And then thats why they diverted the Nostromo in Alien, since they were actively looking for it. It also gives the actions of Ash from the first movie a bit more context. Why a secret mission for the company android where the entire crew is expendable for a life form they know nothing about? If they knew what it was and its capabilities, it makes more sense to allow killing the entire crew. Plus Ash has further insight in the threat of the adult Xeno ("its structural perfection is matched only by its hostility"), which he couldn't have from a face-hugger autopsy.

Even as a kid, I always assumed Weyland Yutani must have known what it was, otherwise killing the whole crew seems a bit over the top. My guess is that's what the show is about. How Weyland Yutani discovered the life form and started devoting their resources to capturing it.
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There are ways to do it

But Hollywood has a strong record of f'in it up in recent years (decades) when IP mining
 
Bob Gray said:
Noah Hawley doesnt fuck shit up.
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"That's Hawleywood baby"

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