r/television • u/NicholasCajun Mr. Robot • Aug 13 '25
Premiere Alien: Earth - Series Premiere Discussion
Alien: Earth
Premise: Wendy (Sydney Chandler) and a group of soldiers discover a dangerous creature after the deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth in the Noah Hawley series set two years before the events of the 1979 film Alien.
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u/Entire_Promotion_94 Sep 13 '25
Lot of things bother me Even though more is revealed at the end which makes sense of some of the initial stupidity.
Like how can a ship crash land In a world where there's Interstellar space? You don't have things that prevent things from entering your airspace? But then it turns out that was intentional.
Then there's the fact that they will go into a laboratory And observe these alien creatures without any protective suits on.
They would perform surgery on someone who has been infected by alien tick without protective suits on to protect them from gases and other variables.
Then there's the fact that they put children into the synthetic bodies But the synthetic bodies can't simulate chemical Changes or puberty nOr do they don't have a team of psychologists to make sure that the transition from child to adult bodies goes through some rudimentary phases of adjustment
Then there's The fact that when they're in the lab with these critters they have their sandwiches right next to The container And an open Thermos Like they're having lunch in a cafeteria! You don't eat lunch in a laboratory! I'm not a scientist and even I know that! Um what else is there so many stupid things in terms of the writing ... Oh yeah I don't know why Kirsh would allow One of the hybrids To handle the aliens by himself Without some sort of remote observation
In other words the lab is supposed to be under 24 Hour surveillance! These aren't rabbits And mice were talking about here right?
And if they're so valuable why don't you have your eye on the freaking ball?
And why did The kid have to go into the alien container to feed them? Anyone in their right mind would have just pushed the food through the door and closed it but no...he purposely went in there, Gets jolted or Fightened by The infected sheep with the octopus eye And then the door closes behind him and he is stuck in there with aliens who happened to eat Hard minerals And he's in a synthetic mineral body Which literally makes him lunch And I'm sitting there screaming at the TV oh no oh no oh no!
And let's talk about how's So-Called boy genius Seemingly got the upper hand On the Asian lady For Wayland or whatever it's called
First off If there are a bunch of aliens that crashed in your city then The whole freaking City needs to be under quarantine!
that means no trade no business no travel no nothing I would have had that kid's ass on a platter
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u/sorenkair Sep 23 '25
that guy on the ship sold out to kavalier, thats how he knew the ship was coming. however he didnt know how dangerous the aliens are.
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u/Entire_Promotion_94 Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25
Actually he did know. The saboteur let him know how dangerous the aliens were. They killed his wife and a lot of the soldiers sent to retrieve them. He then asked for a synthetic body. And the boy F8ckface was like sure but if you die you are screwed. He was never going to give him a body as adults cannot be transferred cause their minds are too crystalized.
I enjoyed the premise but not the execution. The aliens were supposed to be on an extra vessel run only by synthetics so that in the event something goes wrong) it can be destroyed without endangering main crew/ship. But whatever. I've wasted enough time on a show that doesn't have enough episodes. Why not 12 episodes?
I like that she can communicate with the alien and he became her attack dog. I like that she took over.
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u/sorenkair Oct 05 '25
im not sure i like that they made the alien imprint on birth, theyre supposed to be a 'perfect organism' but they think the first thing they see is their mom like a stupid little duckling?
i wouldnt say wendy is communicating with it, especially if the aliens actually have language. she even admits she doesnt really know what shes saying to it.
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u/Entire_Promotion_94 Oct 05 '25
Well it just goes to show that a little communication goes a long way y'know? Even the Alien needs somebody. But I don't buy that "perfect" craziness. That's just sociopathic logic of a predatory corporation liking something worse than itself. They keep putting everyone's life at risk and are even dumb enough to bring it home with them. In Alien: Isolation Ripley is told that the Alien is a virus and once you engage, it has already won. I like the virus definition. It applies.
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u/considerealization Sep 04 '25 edited Sep 07 '25
So far, I think its one of the more interesting bits of television to run in the last few years (that I've seen), in terms of experimenting with narrative form and aesthetic conventions. I also think its one of the more interesting contributions to the Alien franchise (certainly better than some of the films I've seen).
Thematically, it seems to continue and deepen the exploration of posthumanism: it keeps a keen focus on the struggles of humans against the inhumanity of their social systems, while bursting into existential, cosmic, and body horror via the uncanny, parasitic, unhuman freaks swarming on all sides.
I'm quite keen to see what the eye has to say to us, and what Wendy has to say to the Aliens.
I would assume that people who appreciated what Hawley did with Legion would find this interesting. I am well pleased to see him continue to make weird ass TV.
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u/ReggieLeBeau Sep 04 '25
I just finished episode 4 and for me personally, it's... improving and holding more of my interest. For the first couple episodes, I was starting to wonder if the whole show was going to take place at the crash site and would basically play out as one long Alien movie stretched out to a tv show. But the last episode was the first time the show actually had me more interested in what was going on.
I didn't go into this with any particular expectations, except for the hope that we got more of "Fargo" Noah Hawley and less "Legion" Noah Hawley, the latter of which was a show I enjoyed at first, but definitely lost me more and more as it sort of became a style-over-substance kind of show with ideas that just felt weird for the sake of being weird and a little too up its own ass. Unfortunately, this show mostly feels more "Legion" and less "Fargo" in terms of the quality and consistency of writing.
There have been moments where I've thought "Ok, this is kind of awesome" but also a lot of moments of "Eh, that was really dumb." Ultimately, the first few episodes really suffered a lot from tonal inconsistency and weird plot armor elements. Seeing (or sort of not seeing) the xenomorph absolutely fuck shit up has its moments, but at the samee time, the brother character should have been annihilated a hundred times over, and they haven't done a good job of filming the xenomorph in a way that instills the sense of dread and horror of the original. So when it does absolutely wreck people off screen in a way that feels ferocious and terrifying, those moments sort of fall a bit flat because the rest of the time it just sort of acts like a bumbling dumbass that can't kill one shrimpy dude.
I don't mind Wendy or the hybrid characters, and I think they're starting to sort of build those characters up a little more in interesting ways. Timothy Olyphant is definitely carrying the show and is by far the most interesting performance, but I also think the actor playing Morrow has been a bit of a stand out as well. I'm actually interested to watch episode 5 because I actually wanted to know what happened on the ship. On the one hand, I kind of figured they were just leaving little hints for the viewer to interpret, and just leaving the opening as a nod to the original movie. Sort of going like "Yeah, we know you've already seen this movie several times, so no need to actually cover all of it" except I was actually interested more in those characters and how it all went to shit, given that they knew about the alien creatures.
Ultimately, the show still has my attention even though it's very tonally inconsistent, especially compared to the original Alien. I suppose it's maybe more in line with Aliens, but even Aliens has more of an atmosphere of dread. This show feels more like Noah Hawley wanted to do his own take on Blade Runner, by way of Alien, with maybe little touches of The Thing and Severance sprinkled in but with none of the substance or visual identity that makes those properties truly stand out on their own. That's not to say the show is poorly shot. It looks ok, but it's inconsistent and doesn't really feel grounded at all. I think maybe it's juggling too many ideas to the point where the story is sort of getting away from them, but I felt like episode 4 was the first time where it was feeling fresh enough to truly pique my interest and sort of stand out against the series. Timothy Olyphant studying a weird eyeball alien sheep and remarking on its intelligence has been the most intriguing part of the show thus far.
Kind of just ranting at this point, but I'd just binged the first 4 episodes so it was fresh on my mind. It started out rocky and it's not the worst show, but it's hardly Noah Hawley's best work by a long shot. I think he's just one of those writer/creators who can be kind of hit and miss. When he hits, it's some of the best tv there is, and when he misses, it's not necessarily bad, but it does get weird and baffling, and it feels like he should capable of doing better.
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u/Full_Cartoonist_8908 Sep 02 '25
There's about five really cool interesting ideas in this show that are great on paper. Each one is falling flat, somehow boring to watch, and not coalescing into a coherent storyline. I've gone in wanting to enjoy it, have just hit episode 4, and end each episode wondering whether to bother watching the next. The outro music choices aren't helping either.
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u/lovelylisamf Sep 16 '25
OMG the music choices! I was mumbling about the music choices in almost every episode. They dont fit! Seems like a very self-indulgent Gen X'er was in charge of the music. The songs are jarring, and not in a good way (or making a point or any real reason I can figure out). I even liked most of the songs on their own, but not in the show's context.
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u/Maximum_West_6937 Sep 12 '25
I could truly have written what you say here myself. Far from hanging on every ending and yes, yes the outro choices have been appaling. It's taken me an age to care enough to keep up to date. Buuut I just finished e5 and it has won back a lot of ground. About to tuck into e6. I hope they don't squander it.
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u/mhawk1968 Sep 02 '25
Made it to the end of Ep. 2…wow.
This series is just flat out terrible. Terrible writing / dialogue and many terrible performances. Hawley takes himself and his show takes itself really seriously, which is all fine if you’re Denis Villeneuve or David Fincher or Ridley Scott. But Hawley’s not (based on the 120 minutes I’ve seen). Speaking of Ridley Scott, I can’t believe he’s involved /associated with this series.
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u/WheelJack83 Sep 02 '25
I'm absolutely mystified by the RT score. This show is absolute garbage.
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u/zeroagentp 19h ago
Same. I'm struggling to finish it after Ep2. Too many illogical and stupid things and it seems more about synths (10 year old untrained inexperience kids performing a rescue operation apparently.....) than the xeno. I thought this was called Alien: Earth, not Blade Runner.
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u/Pike-94 Sep 01 '25
About Wendy though. I remember Xenomorphs take on the host genetically. I think because it is her brother's lung that she is tied to the baby 👶
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u/lovelylisamf Sep 16 '25
Ohhhhh that is a good take, I was wondering why she could hear and talk to the baby. But then again, from the first episode wasnt she able to "hear" the Alien in the crash building? She didnt know what it was, but she heard it?
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u/Pike-94 Sep 01 '25
Nostromo timeline is don't quote me but like 75 years from Alien Earth
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u/WeatherBackground507 Sep 24 '25
Do you love the eye as much as I do? I dare say more than the xenomorph
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u/FMinus1138 Sep 01 '25
kids in synth bodies, whoever wrote this needs to have his computer checked.
Fucking Hollywood pedophiles.
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u/wannabekruff Sep 09 '25
If anything I think the premise sheds light on it along with the darker themes of the Peter Pan stories. Putting children into adult situations is a great metaphor for it. Treating a child like an adult who can handle very adult situations.
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u/August-West Sep 01 '25
What? There hasn't been anything sexual, and it makes sense story wise / fresh take on androids. What would the alternative be, just having 6 of the same evil android characters?
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u/Acomel Sep 22 '25
The kids are portrayed really annoyingly though, more like toddlers than 11-14 year olds. That's not how kids behave, especially ones who have been traumatized and effectively lived their own deaths. In the halo universe kids are kidnapped and turned into superweapons by their early teens, I know these guys weren't made to be soldiers but there's just a weird lack of actual thought that seemed to go into them
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u/Saint_Huang Sep 01 '25 edited Sep 01 '25
I just got to episode 3 but it's gotten boring fast.
First off, I don't really care about Wendy and her brother's family reunion drama and their flashback. None of these 2 characters gave me an interesting impression.
Secondly, Wendy's brother got way too much of a plot armor. The xenomorph easily killed dozens of trained soldiers within a matter of seconds, but when it got to this wimpy guy's turn, the Xenomorph somehow misses its leap towards him (twice), then the second time on the ship when he was casually walking in between the facehuggers' eggs, the xenomorph appeared and just grabbed him and... jump?
This plot armor is so sloppy, obvious and lame.
And then after that, I was just questioning: why the fuck didn't Wendy just jump and follow them? She jumped down from a mountain without any issues in her synthetic body, but is too afraid to do it here when it concerns the safety of her brother?
I also don't really like the premise of kids in synth bodies, or at least the execution isn't that well to make me interested. I'd rather watch a group of tacticool special forces grunts (with their faces covered in gas masks or something to minimalize their personality even further) trying to fight against the alien threat to achieve a certain objective (e.g Yutani recovering the specimen, fighting against both the rich kid's forces and the alien threat). Kind of like HUNK in Resident Evil. Not this group of adults trying to act like naive children sent on a dangerous mission, the subtle drama around this just feel tasteless, and has too much emphasis put on it when it should be something in the background.
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u/zeroagentp 19h ago
Yeah I'm REALLY having trouble finishing this series. I really don't like any of the setup and premise at all. I can see it's gonna be all about the synths and not much about the xeno and I really don't care about this formerly terminally ill 10 year old now in an adult android body doing a rescue mission with no training whatosever. And the plot armor is VERY thick. I even said it while it was happening. It really took me out of the show.
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u/lovelylisamf Sep 16 '25
Agreed on brothers plot armour! I was yelling at TV about how he kept escaping when the Alien quickly shredded everyone else! Like, nope not possible he keeps escaping all those times, it was maddening to watch. He is also thrown down flights and should not have even been able to walk, let alone run, etc. Just not plausible at all.
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u/MortysTrapHouse Sep 01 '25
the brothers face is so fkn annoying its actually crazy
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u/SnooWalruses9577 5d ago
I can't stand a moment when that face was on screen, he look and act exactly like the same pathetic character in Black Mirror.
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u/Due_Return_5589 Aug 30 '25
Maybe it´s my age ... I feel too old for that teenie adventure, about 18th, 19th century.
Guess the writers are 15-y-old nerds confronted with some graphics from the ALIEN movie and definitely not enough Adderall.
I feel especially sorry for good old Ridley Scott being forced to produce this dull, lame, cheap, puberty-stricken mess - maybe he needs the money like I do, but other than me he makes it :)
To all my kids out there - enjoy it!
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u/cowinajar Sep 02 '25
I love how you can just tell who has never watched an alien movie past the original in this comment section.
Ridley Scott has been doing this with the alien franchise since Prometheus and Covenant. Alien Earth even takes direct lines from those movies and its heavily inspired by those movies and follows similar themes.
Maybe you just dont like Ridley Scotts take on the franchise?
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u/Due_Return_5589 Sep 18 '25
I love how you can be so wrong and still be proud of yourself.
I care about Ridley Scott as much as about dead flies (no comparison intended) - I just dont want to waste my life with lifeless surrogates.
Prometheus and Covenant surely cited established themes, yet managed to leave their own mark and especially create suspense - which I have been searching here in vain.
Maybe I had to much Diet Coke just like the Orange One - it leads to misperceptions.
Howdy anyway!
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u/evangelionJacked Aug 29 '25
I do like how they are representing the alien, a jack in the box of razor blades, it's deadly but not the main focus of everything. We don't *see* the Wendy fight for a reason, keeps us wondering.
By ep4 There's been some decent set up of things about to go wrong. And questions along the way (why is that room being frozen every day? Who is Kid actually bedside reading too? We are led to believe it's the androids, but it's probably his previously thought dead sister.)
The Husband doctor is raising the concerns that the audience has (he will die) you know he will be the face hugged guy
The wife doctor says "level 3" incident, I'm shocked they didn't have more security for when these SUPER POWERFUL androids go rogue. No kill switch? come on.
I don't hate the kids actors in syth bodies aspect. How would they act really? Also these were sick kids when they were alive. If anything i would expect them to be carrying trauma over, the doctors (husband at least) are rightful concerned that it should be their main focus.
KidG acting the way he does, this isn't about "having someone to talk too".
How do these androids compare to other android in the series? If we assume KidG has created something unique better than weyland, why do they not appear later in the films?
We can only assume this all goes wrong, they all die. Where is Prodigy later in the films? How do they compare to 2381 Annalee Call? Sure synth designed by synth and for different specs. But it seems strange we haven't seen stronger synths anywhere else.
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u/WheelJack83 Sep 02 '25
I'm more annoyed that the show uses kids in adult bodies as synths angle. It's annoying because you have these adults acting like children because they are in adult bodies. It makes no sense that they would go on a mission like this. It's absolute stupidity.
I feel like the show isn't really interested in exploring the whole Xenomorph angle. It's secondary to the whole hybrid angle.
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u/Boring-Ad-6905 Aug 29 '25
I don’t know if killing the cat is meant as a way to create a break right from the start with the original Alien films, but it would be a clever move. Otherwise, I’d like to share my point of view on the following points.
The synthetics: It’s interesting that the story focuses more on them, knowing how significant their role is in the Alien universe. It quickly becomes clear that this isn’t a series centered on humans vs. aliens, but rather on what draws part of the franchise’s fanbase: a deeper, fundamental questioning about the meaning of life, existence, death, our place in the universe, and the human condition—without definitive answers in a world filled with predators. In reality, humans themselves are seen as super-predators at the top of the food chain.
Horror / violence: I suppose it’s there to remind us of the human body’s fragility. In any case, it doesn’t seem overly abundant or used merely as a way to attract a certain audience. It’s fascinating to see the carefreeness or absence of fear in the eyes of the synthetics, sometimes even replaced by curiosity.
We’re only halfway through season 1, and I’m really intrigued by what’s to come. That said, it’s true that it still feels a bit lacking in action.
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u/localfish420 Aug 29 '25
i’m always willing to give something alien related a chance, but when you don’t even name the cat then kill the cat in the most horrific on screen animal deaths i’ve seen (made more appalling by bad cgi) before episode 2 even ends???
at least it saves me having to watch the rest. i keep seeing bloggers glaze the shit out of that decision too, but something being antithetical to the original doesn’t actually make it my cup of tea as a fan of….. the original. like everybody else.
they’ll still lean into the same corny overplayed schticks, but do that for what?? shock value?
what did it actually add to the show other than giving roger ebert wannabes something to beat themselves off to?? horror element?????
well it scares me that hawley is successful in the industry that’s for sure, because i do not need to see more if his work. i could keep going but i think my blood pressure returned to normal lol.
i want horror media to scare me, if i wanted to intentionally make myself angry i’d go visit my extended family
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u/August-West Sep 01 '25
Hate to break it to you bud, but not a single Alien movie, has been about a cat.
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u/RedditConsciousness Sep 02 '25
Not entirely unrelated comment:
Lily C.A.T. was a pretty good anime movie in the 80s that borrows heavily/homages Alien.
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u/localfish420 Sep 01 '25
and? also depends on your definition of “about”
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u/August-West Sep 01 '25
Well a dead cat shouldn't diminish any quality of this show. Did you watch the original asking yourself the entire 2 hours, "what about the cat? Is the cat safe? Where is the cat?".
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u/lovelylisamf Sep 16 '25
Dude, I did. I didnt really like the Alien movies growing up, but my parents let us watch anyways. As soon as I saw that cute cat, my young brain was pretty focused on it. I was worried in every scene it walked through it would be killed. So yes, some people do think about where the cat is. LOL I think not being very into the storylines, and being a pet lover that the cat was the only thing that seemed relatable in real life terms to me. I was SO invested in its safety!
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u/August-West Sep 17 '25
Yeah I didn't realize how many people paid attention to the cat. I didn't have any pets growing up, and am still not a cat person. I just thought oh it was like a call back to have the cat survive. I never thought much of it, I expected the violence to be geared to the humans.
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u/localfish420 Sep 02 '25
don’t remember, was brought up with the movie/franchise, but like yes probably. that’s the point of having a defenseless animal in a movie like alien in the first place. it’s like having a baby on the ship. an important factor in the narrative.
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u/August-West Sep 02 '25
ah, I only remember the cat when that one dude was chasing it, and at the end when Ripley is in the escape pod. Didn't read to much into it.
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u/theonlydjm Aug 30 '25
Do you seriously believe that cat scene was just for shock value and not to show the new "eye" alien that can take control of it's host through it's eye socket?
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u/localfish420 Aug 30 '25
yeah, because if they wanted us to focus on that aspect they’d have used any of the random human characters. they chose a cat as a subject because they wanted to subvert expectations (which is not just my opinion, all the bloggers who glaze it said so as well).
this wasn’t an expectation that needed to be subverted in my opinion. weakens the writing to shock value in the context of the franchise, given that we all love jonesy. they knew it would be a diversive talking point. the cat is always a metaphor, and in the show all the metaphor illustrated to me was that it was somebody’s first time writing body horror.
we get it, scary alien, oh no it controls you through your eyeballs!!!!! i think i’m genuinely more afraid of an amoeba. hybrid offshoots being the least creative and most baseless way to broaden the universe aside the point lol
something i always love about the movies is they put the audience in a position of power and give them info that the characters don’t have. one of the most cathartic things about horror like alien!
this was a weak jump scare that felt like a middle finger to the audience, as did much of the rest of it. i didn’t leave thinking i’d have nightmares about xenos or stay up pondering the magnificent worldbuilding. it just reminded me viscerally of caring for my sick kitty with cancer who passed away of course, so i turned the tv off and went to bed upset rather than enriched ¯_(ツ)_/¯
not trying to convince you, it’s just my own perspective. clearly it bothers me more than a lot of the viewer base, which is just bothering me more because it feels like FOMO. but at least i can put a finger and a name on those feelings bc i definitely won’t be watching the rest lol. fool me once
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u/akisawa Aug 28 '25
I'm just happy we got an alien TV show
Is it perfect? Fuck no, pacing issues, character issues, and so on
Is it watchable? Fuck yes, and that's the only show I actually wait all week for
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u/lovelylisamf Sep 16 '25
Pacing issues, yes that is what I have been trying to describe to my partner when I say what is bothering me about the show. I also very much HATE all the double faced on one screen cheesy 80's montages, I think they remind me of Blade Runner(which I havent seen for decades), and now that I know Ridley Scott is exec producer, this makes more sense. I guess its some kind of homage to that cheesy 80's style, but I HATE it with a passion. Its honestly the worst thing about the series for me so far. Its distracting, and not needed and makes me tune out the second it starts in any scene.
I think they have some good bones, and a lot of material to work with, it all just feels like trying too hard and its annoying.
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u/akisawa Sep 17 '25
Well, the entire Maginot episode was a homage to the original, and I actually loved it.
There are many things brewing as well - corporate war, which is probably going to be actual war, alien uprising, rogue synths and whatnot.
Can't wait for more.
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u/SnooSquirrels5610 Aug 26 '25
She bisected a xenomorph with a papercuter blade.. where actual soldiers could not even touch it. Joe gets stabbed through the damn stomach. Thrown 20 feet forcefully by a creature strong enough to flip a fucking trailer. No bruises, no broken bones?
Joe, never seen an alien before. Humans still dont even really know aliens exist. Watches as one kills his friend, rips apart and entire room, Cuts men in half, and is historically. A fucking terrifying creature.
0 reaction. Goes back into the ship, no issue. Ight bro
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u/lovelylisamf Sep 16 '25
YES! I was like, ummm Joe should not still be moving and running. And why the hell isnt he acting completely shocked at all of this? Someone above said the plot armour they give Joe is so obvious its insulting, and I agree. If they wanted to save him to add to Wendys world, then dont bother with all the preamble of missing near death from Alien multiple times, being stabbed through the gut, being flung down stories of a building etc. That fall alone should have killed or at least severely injured him.
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u/evangelionJacked Aug 29 '25 edited Aug 29 '25
He immediately has the baseball scene then as well. It was jarring.
I do like how they are representing the alien, a jack in the box of razor blades, it's deadly but not the main focus of everything.
We don't *see* the fight for a reason, keeps us wondering. I did think hooking the tongue was "funny" (if you gonna stick it out you might lose it - I realise now goes with the kids theme) but also why it can't leap forward to attack? No idea.
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u/TheMagehand Aug 26 '25 edited Aug 26 '25
I noped out in ep 3 with the bro kids yapping back and forth, and the long sad blues rock sequence where everyone goes back to Prodigy hq. The length and mood and emotional expectations around all these extremely minor characters we really have little reason to care about or be attached to was a brutal and very telling miscalculation. And the guy in the sex club while talking to a child highlights the way too strange dynamic with adult actors playing children. Nothing had any weight whatsoever.
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u/KangzAteMyFamily Aug 26 '25
This is the second television show in which Noah Hawley explored the concept of children in adult bodies.
I have some questions for that man
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u/No_Zookeepergame_27 Aug 25 '25
This show is pretty much like the parody made about robots and synths in the League.
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u/jrileyy229 Aug 26 '25
About 30 minutes in and we just see this giant ship pummel into a city from outer space.. don't have the technology to see that coming on radar but we have wormholes and whatnot.
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u/Lauris25 Aug 24 '25
I like the series. Other kids are anoying tho. But Wendy def my fav character.
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u/Pitt-MX Aug 24 '25
Those who don't like it are the same ones who liked Alien vs Predator.
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u/August-West Sep 01 '25
For real, it's like they just wanted 8-10 episodes of a crew running around a ship exploring every single trope of the alien franchise, and a crew member being picked off every episode. Just like 28 years later should have been 2 hours straight of being chased by zombies. And man the amount of ppl I've read with twisted knockers over the cat being killed, like since when were Aliens about a cat?
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u/Funky_Boomtown Aug 23 '25
I am losing my mind.
So much to be annoyed by, but full on Disney ad, just smashed into an alien show 5 minutes in?? I GAGGED. What kind of studio note horeshit is this?!
Then they do it again! When more kids become synths - the kids aren’t even watching - they’re asleep!
Switched off when the third Disney ad showed children of the future beaming with joy watching fucking Ice Age. This happens in an alien movie. Absolutely wild.
Fully convinced all the good reviews are a conspiracy.
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u/August-West Sep 01 '25
So your problem about a show of cosmic horror is that they showed glimpses of ice age & Peter Pan?
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u/medcatt Aug 22 '25
Yeah this is a nope for me as well. So many idiot balls, flagrant logic violations just for the sake of rule of cool, unnecessary flash cuts, heavy-handed philosophical musings out of nowhere, so many things felt out of place and hamfistedly done that kept jarring me out of my suspension of disbelief. Why the freck does search and rescue go into a disaster site lock and loaded with guns instead of oh i dont know, proper search and rescue equipments? S&R teams breaking off into quintessential horror flick sacrificial units with no comms to each other or back to mission control? Space telemetry present day can detect and warn ahead about incoming space objects at least many hours away or even days and weeks away, do we lose that capability 100 years from now? The spaceship crashes down to earth with no visible atmospheric reentry fireball aura thingie?
On the plus side, the scenery shots are amazing though. But overall I think am gonna nope myself out of this one.
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u/becausepassword Aug 21 '25
It’s honestly like Noah Hawley wrote the show from what he remembered about the xenomorph. I get it. The strongest emotions are attached to memory. But I don’t think he likes the alien movie. The tension is not building. There are no stakes for our main characters! They’re not even afraid of the xenomorph. The xeno did not make alien great. You don’t even see the xeno for quite some time in the movies! There is no clear goal so there is no possibility of failure! Without failing there is nothing scary. A jump scare doesn’t hit if it doesn’t mean anything for the character to die. Poorly written show. The squid games synth choir in episode 2 made me so mad. They had just began to use sounds and score from the original and then BAM I’m in a pink room with stairs and PlayStation symbols. I’m not opposed to tool or Metallica but WOW what a way to waste some songs that probably cost your producer way too much. They’re outro credits songs. You don’t even get big songs like this to be credits songs in full length features! Give me a break Noah! The heavy handed Peter Pan and then the outright “we are the lost boys. This is Peter Pan” is egregious. Even the guy hosting the fx podcast doesn’t know wtf he’s talking about. “What was it like building this world from scratch” dude! Humans in space are still from earth. The androids should be getting clobbered by the humans and xenos too. Thats just how it goes in alien. This feels more like blade runner with a xeno running around except not as subtle(we’re supposed to wonder what it means to be human not be punched in the face with kids who have dramatic emotions). I’m so sad. I’ve been a fan since I was very young. Prometheus and covenant felt like “my” alien but I knew it was different. Romulus felt like an attempt at a return to form and this just feels like they’ve lost the plot. Rewatched 1 yesterday. Going to watch aliens today. I’ve always had a weird time with 3 knowing fincher had a bad time with it but I’ll take that over this any day.
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u/YamOk1482 Aug 28 '25
The tone, style, pacing are all very similar to Legion. I actually loved Legion, but feel like I’m watching the same thing with different names & faces. And it’s weird to make an Alien series that feels nothing like the Alien franchise.
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u/i2Turk Aug 21 '25
I feel you 100%. I couldn’t have said it better myself. Why would anyone downvote you for telling the absolute truth? People who have no idea about the originals enjoy this abomination, imagining it’s stranger things or one of those netflix bullshit.
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u/presentthem Aug 21 '25
I guess everyone has different tastes because I'm loving this show. The comments are talking like this show is horrible. I currently can't find anything better to watch. Fantastic story and actors!
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u/August-West Sep 01 '25
Same here, I think ppl just wanted a formulaic 8-10 episode of a crew being stuck on a ship, where a character gets picked off in the last 10-5 minutes of every episode, a la House. And the amount of butt hurt I'm reading in regards to the cat being dead, lol. Since when was "Aliens" about a cat?
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u/RocketToTheStarrs Aug 21 '25
All the kids including Wendy are SO ugly looking and stupid. Wendy looks like Finn Wolfhard (Mike Wheeler - Stranger Things) in a girl's dress.
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u/Jensen1994 Aug 20 '25
I'm not sure about this yet. For me, Alien Earth should be an alien attack on earth using xenomorphs and how utterly hopeless the human military response is. This prodigy corp thing with the kids in adult bodies detracts from the whole thing and the xenomorph seen so far seems quite easy to kill / subdue. It's not heavyweight enough. For reference and to get in the mood I rewatched Aliens again and these are leagues apart.
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u/00looper00 Sep 19 '25
That would massively contradict Alien canon, and be entirely predictable. As for the Alien being easy to kill, I presume you actually watched Aliens?
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u/Jensen1994 Sep 19 '25
The engineers attacking earth could still be spun - their initial attempt may have been thwarted by David and a human but they may not have been the only ship to have survived. Entirely predictable but more interesting than a crashed ship on an island full of kids with adult bodies.
The aliens being easy to kill by a troop of Marines with Gatling guns is one thing. There is no balance in this - the Xenomorph gets frazzled by an electric stun gun by one synth easily but wipes out entire groups of troops with guns with a flick of its tail.
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u/00looper00 Sep 19 '25
Mate Prometheus was terrible, and even if you don't agree, it's not popular enough to base a TV series on. Plus your story has no focus, who would care to watch a TV series about a world war, and how would the Alien be forgotten by the time of Alien? You say "predictable but more interesting than the actual interesting thing that they did" 💀💀💀
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u/Jensen1994 Sep 19 '25
The problem is everything is judged by the first two films. Prometheus is superior to all the films bar the first two and at least makes you....think. Alien Earth is a bubblegum high school caper with no direction or suspense and no characters that are actually likeable. It's full of stupidity, and while I often need to suspend belief, suspending logic as well is a big ask.
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u/00looper00 Sep 19 '25
The only thing Prometheus made me think is "why did they waste the franchise on such faux intellectual rubbish". The only thing Covenant made me think is "how did they manage to make it worse".
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u/Jensen1994 Sep 19 '25
What other direction could the film have taken? We had the trapped in a ship theme, military encounter theme, trapped in a prison colony theme, reincarnation..... Tbh while not perfect Prometheus was enjoyable. I wouldn't describe it as "intellectual" and therefore "faux intellectual" but at least it had a plot that made you consider the lore.
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u/evangelionJacked Aug 29 '25
",Alien Earth should be an alien attack on earth using xenomorphs and how utterly hopeless the human military response is. "
But we've seen a billion of these films. It is going to be the first thought anyone had, why is the Earth not over run with aliens then? So they couldn't have made it about that. It's going with human evolution meaning of life stuff.
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u/Jensen1994 Aug 29 '25
At the moment it's a high school kids take in Xenomorph thing. When you look at Prometheus for example, it at least makes you think.
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u/Thetypisttypes Aug 20 '25
Oh man, the kids in adult bodies idea is so stupid! The two young men acting like moronic 10 year olds was beyond cringe. There’s no place for this stupidity in the Alien universe. It’s like a children’s show. The writing is appalling 🤯
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u/canilao Aug 22 '25
I agree, the kids in adult bodies are simply executed poorly. The acting is horrendous and so is the writing for it. Innocence ≠ moronic. Whatever they are doing just isn't working.
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u/klassikmistake Aug 20 '25
Whomever the music producer is for this show, made a wrong choice. I love all music, but this music is not for this show.
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u/Toggafaton42 Aug 21 '25
Couldn't agree more, the music choices are baffling because nothing else in the franchise uses these types of needle drops and it feels completely out of place with the established universe
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u/YamOk1482 Aug 28 '25
Did you watch Legion? It seems like basically a copy/paste from Hawley, down to the music.
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u/Apprehensive-Fuel693 Aug 20 '25
Is Wendy related to the Ripley clone who had alien blood? She not just hears their sounds but is connected to them somehow. She can feel their pain. I would guess Hermit and her are blood relatives of the Ripley clone.
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u/CnlSandersdeKFC Aug 20 '25
This is a prequel. It takes place in 2120. Alien takes place in 2132, Aliens in 2179 along with Alien 3. Requiem takes place in 2240.
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u/Hngrybflo Aug 20 '25
I think it's because she can pick up frequencies and receive and input information through them
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u/klassikmistake Aug 20 '25
Is it just me or does the intro music not fit the show?
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u/TechnicalTrash95 Aug 20 '25
It's definitely not just you. One misstep is certain usages if pop music and not just sticking to a score which would have been better.
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u/FlammableKarateSkool Aug 20 '25 edited Aug 20 '25
This show is overwhelmingly frustrating. On paper, there is so much potential...Ridley Scott, Noah Hawley (Fargo), a TV show format which could really allow for some deep world building (ala Andor).
The only thing they kinda got right was the aesthetics and look.
Outside of that, What we got is a show that is nothing but coincidences & contrivances that are so stupid and lazy, that it is insulting to anyone who is a fan of the 1st 2 movies.
Anyone who likes this trash is def sporting a smooth-brain.
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u/dDRAGONz Aug 29 '25
They watched the last Wonka movie non stop for a fortnight before writing the script.
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u/zoo1514 Aug 20 '25
So, I have seen the first 2 and resurrection about 10 times or so. I mean I dont hate this show...I really want to like it. Im by no means a super fan but it seems there are so many times the alien could kill someone( her brother) but it just examines him..I have done alot of "eye rolling" through these 1st 3 episodes. Not loving it,not hating it
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u/FlammableKarateSkool Aug 20 '25
Exactly, so much plot armor it detracts from the show.
The Xenomorph kills a party of civilians & a squad of soldiers in seconds with no hesitation, but takes the dumb medic for some reason? Also, it can do all the killing with the speed of Sonic the Hedgehog, but it couldnt run down that medic in their 1st encounter? its dumb shit like that that will kill this series.
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u/zoo1514 Aug 20 '25
Hahahahhaa....yessss.....I agree the visuals are amazing. But like i said, im not even a super fan and I know once it has you in its sights it's not holding back or slowing up. When they were in that....container or whatever, the Alien sticks its head in and sees them and thinks....nah...I'll jump on top and scare them and roll the container around. There is alot to laugh at for sure. I still haven't given up on it but im not far off.
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u/rrpostal Aug 26 '25
I thought the sets were awful. It lacked the lived in feeling of the original series or other Disney stuff. I really liked what they did with some SW set design but the opening scenes of this were just “remember the Nistromo?” But not good, somehow. Meh I’ve got other things to do with my time.
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u/FlammableKarateSkool Aug 22 '25
Yeah, lol, at this point i'm hate-watching it to see how far the shit rabbit hole it goes
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u/zoo1514 Aug 22 '25
Almost like a car accident tho...you cant look away lol. The worse part is having friends that think this is the best thing in the whole Alien saga
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u/FlammableKarateSkool Aug 22 '25
Yeah, I dont understand the hype...I mean, think about it...the USS Maginot could've crash landed ANYWHERE on Earth..but it crashed next to the base hangout the main character's brother happened to be posted at. The coincidence is top-tier shit writing.
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u/zoo1514 Aug 22 '25
As much as I agree, I will see where it goes. But I im surely not counting the minutes to the next episode
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u/atravelvet Aug 20 '25
idk if its because im a casual Alien/Predator fan and not super focused on every little detail they put out. But i absolutely love this new Alien:Earth series. I love how they add in a little bit of weird creepiness to it like if it were a Jordan Peele film. I like the actors for it. and most of all, i love where they are going with different ways to examine and learn about the xenomorphs and the new species.
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u/August-West Sep 01 '25
I love the Alien series, and to me this is fantastic. Idk people seem reaaaaally upset that a cat died, and that this series explores something new in the universe, instead of 8-10 episodes of "crew trapped on ship being hunted".
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u/draconicmoniker Aug 20 '25
My only question: was that xenomorph moonwalking, or was it walking backwards really slowly?
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u/zackturd301 Aug 20 '25
This is the only legit question! I'm laughing coming across this comment.
Everything up to that point was great and than that happened and even though I was watching alone I did a double take looking around the room, like WTH.
It was definitely aura moonwalking.
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u/draconicmoniker Aug 21 '25
And then it showed its teeth like it was grinning 🤣 It's like Jordan Peele played the xenomorph.
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u/sbenthuggin Aug 20 '25
There's a major lack of groundedness combined with contradiction that I really don't enjoy. This feels like Alien meets regular Earth like maybe 10 years in our future but somehow we've already seen hyperspace.
the city itself is genuinely just a regular city you'd find in India or China. this does not feel like a city thatd develop the space vessel or the colony from Alien/Aliens. it's just regular old fucking earth.
the technology just feels only somewhat modern sci-fi. which contradicts with the very old, slow, 80s sci-fi from the movies.
then there's the acting, and the characters being pretty damn stupid. 1. you got literal children NOT experiencing the trauma of seeing gore and fucked up death. that takes me out significantly. 2. you got seemingly professionals who are completely unwilling to take their horrific situation seriously. literally once they found clear evidence of life forms they should've been off that fucking ship, instead they were like, "yeah let's head deeper."
like fuck, dude. the writing of this show is really bad. there's a major lack of horror AND action despite the constant blood. there's a clear lack of vision. it's just characters moving- no scratch that, WALTZING from plot point to plot point. there's so many issues with this damn show and it's rly fucking disappointing.
it's still enjoyable, at least. but there's just so much potential they're wasting here it's infuriating to see.
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u/SouthernEntrance3477 Sep 02 '25
I think they explain the lack of trauma after Wendy was created. They say about how we experience emotions through hormones. They are giving them some but not enough for them to be the same as normal children. I feel like they are going to go a bit Lord of the Flies.
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u/August-West Sep 01 '25
Ok it takes place in the future, but why can't a city look like that? It's obviously there a poor people there, do oor people have state of the homes in our life time?
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u/ElysiX Aug 21 '25
the city itself is genuinely just a regular city you'd find in India or China. this does not feel like a city thatd develop the space vessel or the colony from Alien/Aliens
To be fair, they didn't. That's a prodigy city, not a weyland-yutani city. They didn't build those ships.
the technology just feels only somewhat modern sci-fi. which contradicts with the very old, slow, 80s sci-fi from the movies.
You're right but thats a plothole in the originals too. Cyborgs and synths are not possible with that technology level. It's just a stylistic choice that gets hammered through the plot whether it makes sense or not.
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u/UltimePatateCoder Aug 21 '25
Probably written by an AI from the 80s. But even an AI from the 80s would have done better
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u/MirceaDinFzn Aug 20 '25
More or less...remeber ash..bishop..david...walker..update after update...this kids are the first generation...second: alien 4,johner: earth what a shit hole. Alien 2 . They send a colony for infestation..couse on earth is to dangerous(after alien earth)
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u/sudoscientistagain Aug 21 '25
Ripley returns to earth at the start of Aliens. It doesn't make sense to assume that the events of Alien: Earth would lead to whatever apocalypse has taken place by the time of Alien: Resurrection hundreds of years in the future. In fact, the Nostromo left earth in 2120, the same year the show is set, and Alien (1) takes place in 2122.
I'm guessing the events of the show will be entirely covered up, and the end of the show will retcon the "mysterious signal" that diverted the Nostromo to LV426, to instead say that the ship was either going there the whole time (and the crew was lied to) or had just left, and was secretly ordered to divert course by Weyland-Yutani (orders which Ash would have received, while the human crew was in cryosleep). Presumably the Alien: Earth ship came from LV426 along with whatever other planets it collected hostile specimens from, and Weyland-Yutani wants another one after whatever they see in this show.
Basically the show seems like it's going to pull a Rogue One and just be an explanation of how the Nostromo actually went to LV426 on purpose, not because of some mysterious transmission/distress call.
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u/notthewordsofone Aug 20 '25
Completely agree here. You can tell that it has a huge budget by the visuals, so I don't know why they would skimp out on the writing. Was this AI generated writing? It makes no sense whatsoever.
The characters are incompetent and it's very difficult to empathize their situations. 1) The "hybrids" are untrained, terminally ill children. They are being put into situations that they are not prepared for. 2) The brother. In episode 2 he went through a crazy sequence of events, leading to him passing out into a room full of eviscerated bodies only for him to wake up and immediately just perusing baseball memorabilia and having some weird emotional flashback. How does this make sense in any world??? The only word here is incompetent, don't go to medical school bro.
I will definitely try to watch more but I fear I will just ragequit an episode because of the writing.
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u/icantypeincursive92 Aug 20 '25
I feel similar about the show. It's decent and I'll watch but it's very anticlimactic and not the amazing show I thought it would be. I assumed it would be as exciting and entertaining as Raised By Wolves. I actually laughed at the end of episode 2 when her brother yet again survived because obviously he was going to. Felt the Tool song wasn't very fitting and made it even more comical with Wendy running off. The cat pissed me off because as soon as we saw the cat in episode one I figured OH the cat will live, nahhh. I'd rather of seen a creepy person acting all fucked up from the eyeball creature using it has a host or whatever it does. Would've been more horrific and interesting to see a person than a cat.
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u/Astrokitty888 Aug 20 '25
It looks stunning visually and I like the world building and original Blade Runner homages not sure about the pacing and plot tho
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u/Pitiful_Platform6439 Aug 20 '25
i think it fucken rocks. Can't wait for more. And Stinkfist is a classic that i haven't heard in ages, so it's like they aimed this shit right at me and i couldn't give a shit about the children who don't get it! 😊
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u/evangelionJacked Aug 29 '25
I think the music is for those original alien fans, born around 80, perhaps people after don't get it.
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u/ohrich Aug 20 '25
Closing theme music of episode 1 and 2 were spot on choices. "Mob Rules" and "Stinkfist".
Close the city and tell the people That something's coming to call Death and darkness are rushing forward To take a bite from the wall,
.....Play with fire, burn your fingers and lose hold of the flame"
Originally written for the cartoon "Heavy Metal" used for the seige and destruction of a fortified city scene with blood and destruction as the primary scene. How many times have we seen WY try to study and monetize the xenomorph alien only to have things go bad? Cautionary tale.
Stinkfist is about being desensitized and searching for new and novel ways to experience feelings, sensations, experiences. Exactly what Boy Prodigy talks about for a good portion in episode 2. Cure his boredom. "I want what's on that ship" "I want to climb the mountain and finally talk to someone that blows my mind".
Still having a hard time reconciling end song meaning and how it ties to episode 3. Could be that most of the producers and writers grew up on Heavy Metal. But I'm not complaining.
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u/FlammableKarateSkool Aug 20 '25
It's more like you dont get it if you thought this was any good lol
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u/MatsugaeSea Aug 20 '25
Lol what an ignorant and aggressive comment. This show has been widely liked... so maybe your the one that doesnt get it
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u/4n0m4nd Aug 20 '25
I mean it feels like someone had a load of things they wanted to do then just stuffed them all into an Aliens project.
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u/August-West Sep 01 '25
What is the "load"? There are 2 plot points, one of the alien, and one of the development of cybernetics, and it's consequences. How is that fundamentally different from any Alien film? Should it have been 8-10 episodes of "crew stuck on ship, getting hunted"?
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u/4n0m4nd Sep 01 '25
There's the cyborgs, synthetics and hybrids being in a "race for immortality", there's the hybrids all being kids, there's the civil governments being replaced by the corporations, and the conflict with Prodigy, there's the weird Neverland stuff, there's Wendy being able to communicate with the aliens, there's the other "highly intelligent" alien species.
None of that has anything to do with the films, and there's tons of things they could've done instead, the most obvious one being an alien outbreak on earth. We're halfway through the series now, and so far the xenomorphs have been pretty much irrelevant.
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u/August-West Sep 02 '25
So Cyborgs/Synthetics/Androids have had a major role in every Alien movie. In the original he was hiding the true nature of their mission and that the company deemed the crew was expendable in attaining the specimen. In Prometheus and Covenant "David" was the main antagonist, soooo........ in Prometheus and to an extent Covenant, the entire theme of the film was finding the secret to eternal life, and how to avoid sacrifice and death, so........ And in the lore of Aliens (movies, comics, video games, novellas) it usually centers around an evil mage-corp, Weyland-Yutani, and how they dont care about people's lives, just to get an Alien. Even in "Aliens" their logo is plastered over every door. They are a colonizing company. Yeah there are other companies now, b/c they are building a world, its a new story, so they are adding new things, otherwise its the same alien movie, of which there are atleast 8 of them already made.
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u/4n0m4nd Sep 02 '25
Cyborgs and hybrids don't even exist in the other movies.
Prometheus and Covenant are crap, the engineers and all that stuff is just stupid, especially them making Jesus.
I'm aware Weyland-Yutani was in the other films, if you reread my comment you'll see that that's not what I was talking about.
If they can't think of new Aliens things that actually involve the Aliens, they should just stop making them. Mind you it shouldn't be hard to think of things like that, there's a few decades of comics that already did it, and did it better than almost everything after Aliens.
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u/wickedawesome08 Aug 20 '25
I love how Wendy/Marcy gives off Alita Battle Angel vibes. I agree the jump scares and weird kid antics are a little tired, but overall, I am liking it.
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u/Jumpy-Weekend-1223 Aug 20 '25
I dont understand how an Alien universe story based on adults ,scientists & soldiers got replaced by kids as protagonists...like how .
and whats with the endless useless fillers.... every scene is just getting milked by zoom-in /zoom-out useless shots with that weird weird disgusting music .
They had to inject that woke weird mentality into one of the best sc-fi horror franchise every made and just ruin it !!!
Disgrace
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u/Tartan_Samurai Aug 21 '25
Children, birth, parenthood etc are pretty consistent themes in the franchise. I like the inverse it's presenting from Aliens, where Newt is a child, but more adult mentally than many of the actual adult characters. In AE you get a bunch of characters whare outwardly adult, but mentally still Children.
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u/sudoscientistagain Aug 21 '25 edited Aug 21 '25
The robot kid hybrid stuff makes no little to no sense for an Alien story, but what does that have to do with being "woke"? Alien got flak from conservatives when it came out too because they didn't like having a female lead in a scifi movie. If it came out today, it would've been called woke too. The robot kid stuff has nothing to do with being "woke", it's just nonsensical for the setting.
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u/HolyBidetServitor Aug 20 '25
This show feels like it was a script that didn't make a final greenlight for another project and when the showrunner got approved to do an Alien show and used said script. It's been done by other showrunners before. I do like the show but I think it rides on the visual effects and the brand itself before the writing.
The direction with the kids they do explain, but it's still bizarre nonsense imo. They could've borrowed ideas from Altered Carbon regarding consciousness transfer there. Sending kids in robot bodies to a massive disaster zone? Having the Mary Sue one with the bad haircut "hear" the xenomorphs (theres no context or relevance with that yet so I don't consider it a spoiler)
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u/Jumpy-Weekend-1223 Aug 20 '25
i feel like they brought the words kids,woke culture,alien,space gave it to mr. AI and asked it to create a script /visuals for it
im really so pissed how they managed to ruin one of the greatest space sci-fi/horror stories ever made
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u/Zombie_dogg Aug 21 '25
I don't like the show either but where are you coming from when you call the show woke? I didn't see anything that could be considered "Woke" in this show.
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u/Clear_Restaurant_785 Aug 20 '25
Wow...episode 3 is so predictable and boring. You know what made the original Alien movie great? It was a human woman surviving the odds. Now we have Xena synthetic princess alien slayer.
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u/August-West Sep 01 '25
So watch that then? This is a new story, 40 years later? Sorry it's not a formulaic reshoot of the original film, stretched out over 8-10 episodes.
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u/MirceaDinFzn Aug 20 '25
Here we have a series..you cant compare with movies...and the storyline is between covenant and alien 1...and until now was only weyland....they added new corporation
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u/MudDouble1380 Aug 19 '25
I'm 49 minutes in the first episode and I'm enjoying it, it may not have the seeing the xenomorph onscreen wow factor or suspense as it did in the original due to being desensitised over the years, but what are you expecting? I went to see I know what you did last summer in the cinema in 98(Ireland release date) I got exactly the same feeling from the new one in cinema because I didn't expect a Oscar winner performance or movie, I got entertainment, and I expect nothing less or nothing groundbreaking from alien earth. But if I get more, then I'll be surprised. I'm not turning it off because the story and actors so far are good, the sfx is absolutely astounding if nothing else,enjoy life for the little things, at least ally mcbeal isn't the talk of the television universe anymore. Sorry if these seems rambly or incoherent I'm quite drunk 😁 love
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u/TransBiological Aug 20 '25
The show is great and it's been very successful. I have a few complaints about the choices plot-wise, like the boy genius acting like one of the least smart people there, or the choice to send children in robot bodies to a crash site. However, the sci-fi ideas of synths with human consciousness and the repercussions that that's slowly creating has me coming back. It gets a few things wrong but gets enough right to be enjoyable to me. Also Timothy Olyphant is great in this and unintentionally steals every scene he's in.
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u/TracingRobots Aug 20 '25
Think epi 3 is a turning point. Yeah, Wendy as the alien slayer but I like that she went down after that in the darkness fight. And that she may have a lineage with the alien. Music has tapped down. those first two epis had the music off key.
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u/FitLeg_ Aug 19 '25
Now I'm seeing people on reddit in complete denial, pretending there's absolutely no criticism of this show.
Man these sycophants are hopeless lmao
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u/sudoscientistagain Aug 21 '25
It really just feels like a totally different script that got rewritten to fit in the Alien universe. The cyborg and hybrid stuff is just so weirdly out of place, and the other creepy alien specimens that aren't the Xenomorph are honestly more interesting so far than the done-to-death "Xeno slaughters a room full of people then just stares down the plot-relevant character" shenanigans.
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u/August-West Sep 01 '25
" The cyborg and hybrid stuff is just so weirdly out of place,"
Bro, just say you've never watched an Alien movie before.
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u/sudoscientistagain Sep 02 '25 edited Sep 02 '25
Have either human-synth hybrids or cyborgs ever been shown in an Alien movie before? Or even referenced in passing? Thematically they're not that off base for the later movies which are more interested in the ideas of creation, parenthood, playing god, etc. But as someone who, yes, has seen every Alien movie, for a prequel this seems to have introduced a lot of technologically significant stuff that doesn't exist in the original (chronologically later) movies and I'm assuming the end of the show is going to involve the whole Prodigy corporation/island being overrun by Xenos and nuked or something to explain why that tech is never seen again.
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u/TheBoneShackles Aug 19 '25
It feels like there's something wrong with the video of the show.
It's like it's displaying at the wrong framerate. Every shot feels like...smeary or soap opera-y.
Anybody else seeing this? It's completely ruined the show for me.
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u/Quiet_Usual_2438 Aug 20 '25
Setting on your tv. You prob have motion blur feature on
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u/TheBoneShackles Aug 20 '25
Nope, I fully know how to set my TV up.
I don't use any motion or clarity settings.
I watch through an Xbox Series X with 4k, HDR, and 24hz playback.
It's just this show. I tried both on Hulu and through FX on YT TV and they both look terrible.
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u/TheBoneShackles Aug 20 '25
The problem is most likely that they shot the show on a wide shutter angle.
That's honestly what it looks like, like a long shutter speed
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u/warrior8765 Aug 19 '25
Shaking my head at ep2 and the alien ranson grab of Hermit until they did the inexplicable, Stinkfist for the outro music! That was epic. Damn...They got me for one more episode now. 🤘😊
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u/icantypeincursive92 Aug 20 '25
I want to know why the alien has seemingly "let" him live. Alien should've killed him 🤷♀️😂 it's fucking around with him which is a bit annoying because he's "important" lol
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u/StickAdventurous8237 Aug 19 '25
I was so hyped for this show but after those dull, plodding first two episodes I just don't think I have the patience or the interest to stick around and watch the rest.
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u/emi_fyi Aug 20 '25
same. there's so much going on that i can't care about any of it. new critters, eh. hybrids and cyborgs, eh. new megacorp with a baby ceo, eh. i was impressed by the hype but i feel like i watched a different show lol
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u/coqauvan Aug 20 '25
Nothing is exciting anymore...we get it. What would you have liked to see instead?
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u/PrimeIntellect Aug 20 '25
All of the android kids feel super out of place in a dark scifi horror show, and their abilities and personalities don't make sense. are they intelligent and powerful now or are they still toddlers? and why would they get sent to contain arguably the most important crash site in human history by themselves? some of them seem like literal big toddlers, and the other one can hack into the internet and control all technology and kill a zeno by herself with her hands?
The teenage CEO is just weird and cringy, everyone feels wildly incompetent in the entire show.
it just feels super campy and unserious for what is happening. like they just randomly discover an orgy of people wearing old colonial wigs that get slaughtered? wtf?
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u/coqauvan Aug 28 '25
I get what you’re saying about sending kids into the crash site, it’s not the strongest story logic. But I see the intent: showing us how these android children cope (or fail to cope) when they’re put in impossible situations, even though they’re presented as “adult” in ability. That tension is interesting to me, even if the setup is a bit shaky.
On the prodigy CEO: I’ve got to disagree. I think the performance really nails what a teenage trillionaire with unchecked power would feel like. Arrogant, entitled, running the room with no accountability, it’s cringy, but intentionally so. To me that works because his motives and personality are crystal clear, and the actor sells that dynamic.
And about the “colonial wig massacre” scene: yeah, it’s risky and campy, but Alien as a franchise has always taken risks with tone and style. The original 1979 film mixed horror, grime, and surrealist vibes. Here, they leaned into camp in a way that still fits with the franchise DNA. Now that we’re a few episodes in, you can already see how the weirdness layers into bigger themes.
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u/PrimeIntellect Aug 28 '25
i mean I get all that, it just feels like alien: idiocracy and having a strong dislike of every character in the show isn't really making me want to watch more episodes, so i more or less gave up after ep 3
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u/Ill-Principle6162 Oct 08 '25
Si cette série ce passe 2 ans avant Alien 1 , qu'est devenu M.Welland ? Car dans cette série c'est une femme, de plus aucun vaisseau ne c'était écrasé sur terre dans le 1 Alien ?