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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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Roids said:
Appropriate casting and characters is sort of a vital component of film/tv. They need to be believable.
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I get where you are coming from. I did not buy into Romulus because the entire cast looked far too young. But with this new show, I think they get around that because they have the whole kids being put into robot bodies angle. So far, it is working for me. But I will admit, I'm a little iffy on the dude playing Wendy's brother. Maybe I'm giving his casting a pass because he is a meek looking medic, lol. But I do wish they cast someone a little older for his part.
 
JackWhite said:
I get where you are coming from. I did not buy into Romulus because the entire cast looked far too young. But with this new show, I think they get around that because they have the whole kids being put into robot bodies angle. So far, it is working for me. But I will admit, I'm a little iffy on the dude playing Wendy's brother. Maybe I'm giving his casting a pass because he is a meek looking medic, lol. But I do wish they cast someone a little older for his part.
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I liked the actor from the End of the Fucking World but I am hating him in this show so far. I don't know if it's his acting or if they directed him to act this way, but the character feels so disconnected from the rest of the world. Dude's in a search and rescue mission in a space ship that crashed into a building, and he looks and sounds bored lol.

The choices of the characters are also peculiar.
Why is Wendy taking a sword to a search and rescue mission and why is it allowed? She doesn't know there are hostile aliens at this point.
The brother sees a bunch of people get wiped out by a xeno in the middle of his mission, get's knocked out, and then after he wakes up, decides to check out a baseball? The scene is set up so weird here.
On Ep2 the writing is starting to show cracks.

I think this is the first time they show Earth in the entire alien franchise, and it was such a mystery. I don't know how to feel about it. Bangkok 100 years into the future looks like Bangkok now with a few more giant sky scrapers.
 
JackWhite said:
I get where you are coming from. I did not buy into Romulus because the entire cast looked far too young. But with this new show, I think they get around that because they have the whole kids being put into robot bodies angle. So far, it is working for me. But I will admit, I'm a little iffy on the dude playing Wendy's brother. Maybe I'm giving his casting a pass because he is a meek looking medic, lol. But I do wish they cast someone a little older for his part.
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Romulus was better than Covenant and Prometheus I thought. Especially returning to the drab color palette of the cinematography
 
Hearing good things about this show, but I thought Alien: Romulus sucked ass.

This show actually decent?
 
ezikel315 said:
Also, is it an unwritten rule that every Alien story has to have a female protagonist? It's not really a complaint but it's like they keep trying to copy Sigourney Weaver. I guess this time it's a bit new since the protagonist isn't really human.
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it’s keeping in line w/ the themes & motifs intrinsic to the Alien franchise since the first movie
 
Glad to hear this show is reviewing well. Going to wait until all the episodes come out first. Between this and foundation I have some shows lined up finally.
 
method115 said:
Glad to hear this show is reviewing well. Going to wait until all the episodes come out first. Between this and foundation I have some shows lined up finally.
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Granted I’ve only watched the first episode so far, but the new season of the Foundation ain’t it.
 
The Clinch said:
Granted I’ve only watched the first episode so far, but the new season of the Foundation ain’t it.
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Yea 1 episode isn't enough to make that decision for me. On top of that Foundation isn't a show that blows me away as it is. It's like just good enough to keep me hanging on. The story line of those three clone dudes is all I really care about.
 
Another thing I gotta add is that I like how dangerous they made the xeno. Incredibly fast and rips through people like nothing. One of my main gripes about Aliens is how easy it was for the marines to kill them which undermine the threat for me. It seemed like with enough ammo and men, humans can take care of a xeno infestation. This series shows how dangerous just one xenomoprh can be.
 
Madmick said:
Came only because of Timothy Olyphant.

Did not leave disappointed.
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Timmy O playing a stiff weirdo is the best. i hate when he’s just playing the stiff straight man.
 
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 feel like Raised by Wolves handled this well.

With your run of the mill work synth vs an anti-personnel synthetic made to slaughter mob uprisings.

Too bad HBO cut that show it was just starting to really take off.
 
How does this show fit into the timeline? I just realized this show takes place before the events of the first Alien movie. Would it mess with the canon at all?
 
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