Alien TV series (Alien Earth) : 2025

Second episode was a lot weaker than the first. Still good, but hopefully things ramp up in episode 3.

The other parasites are lot more scary than the Alien so far.
 
Moonpie2 said:
Oddly the Xenomorph might be the worst part.
Sometimes you get too good a look at it in too well lit an environment and it's extremely obvious it's just a dude in a suit :D
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Good to know there are dude-in-a-suit aliens. The all-cgi stuff is meh.

Alien 3 puppets were peak xeno though. Fight me.
 
Gray2233 said:
Scott is a bit of a spiteful bugger too, didn't like the "Alien Queen" idea that Cameron introduced in the sequel, even though it's the most sensible possible consideration to a huge ant like alien hive and was flat out awesome.
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To be fair, Sigourney Weaver wasn’t onboard with the idea initially either. I watched the awesome Aliens Expanded documentary recently and she said it took her a while to accept that choice. Her main issue was that it made the Alien more relatable, as the structure was similar to something we can all understand, rather than just being more of a mystery.

I completely get her point. We already knew there were more than enough eggs on tap in the derelict spacecraft to cause absolute chaos, so we didn’t really need something to lay more eggs, but it was a sequel, so you want to go bigger and up the stakes, so that meant the showdown at the end needed to be more than we saw in the first, hence the Queen. I like it, it works, Cameron made the Queen (to quote Hudson) 'bad ass' enough not to draw too much attention to the fact we already had the eggs so didn’t really need her, other than for pure shock and awe value.

For me, the need to explain everything away was a large part of the reason Prometheus failed, although it had some interesting ideas, ultimately the more you explain and understand the previously unknown the less scary it becomes. The space jockey in the original Alien was just another element contributing to the whole ‘there is stuff out there we don’t know about or understand’ vibe, before we even get to the creature itself. It’s a bit like doing an origin story for the shark in Jaws, it’s redundant, all you need to know is there is a creature out there that will stop at nothing till it gets you.
 
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ebilcake said:
Second episode was a lot weaker than the first. Still good, but hopefully things ramp up in episode 3.

The other parasites are lot more scary than the Alien so far.
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Aye, the slug things were tame, but that multi‑eyed creature, I'm out. Goodness knows what delights might be contained in the “upside‑down bulb”.

I really enjoyed the first two episodes; they seem pretty slick with the action. I’m hopeful for more backstories and intrigue between the companies. Oh, goodness knows how this all fits into the timelines, but you have to assume the main xenomorphs existed in one guise or another outside LV‑426 (did Prometheus indicate this?).
 
Went into this blind without looking at the trailers.

I can't see me sticking it out a full series, the visual fx are lame and the whole kid trapped in an adult body, it's cringy.

Episode 1 - 2/5

Hopefully it'll improve.
 
I agree... Its interesting so far, only seen episode 1, but it has all the chances to go either way.
As another says.... Kids in near "indestructible" Teenage looking bodies, urgh why??? could get angsty real fast......
I loved the sets and design in this episode they really went all out to mimic the original film which is cool but looks a bit like 1970s cgi too :O Felt like stargate atlantis or something.

Ill keep watching but might let a few episodes build up first.
 
Lost boys never grow old the synths never mature mentally. Yeah they really went all in on Peter Pan and her being a Wendy figure, I guess Peter is the tech trillioniare guy......probably paid a lot to use footage. Lol. Was completely OTT metaphor, in fact this whole Paradise? Corporate feels a bit off the mark.
 
I'm enjoying another show that is taking its time with its storytelling, I just hope it pays off. Most of the actors are competent but not well known which one assumes kept the budget for wages down. Whilst at first glance sending the hybrids is illogical I think the whole mercurial prodigy making impulsive decisions thing is an adequate explanation. So far they've pitched the horror aspects about right for a mass market programme. I'll keep watching I'm still enjoying.
 
Done the initial two episodes and going with 6/10 so far.

The homage to the original with Nostromo like fittings and hardware on the ill fated spaceship is good, but this is going to play even more havoc with the story canon than the two AvP movies. I mean projecting forward, they could evolve the story to tail into why Weyland Yutani diverted the Nostromo to LV426 in the first place - dang those pesky kid-robots just killed the last one, we need more specimens. But already at odds with Aliens where the corporate suits and military seemed totally oblivious to the xenomorph existence.

At times during both episodes, it seemed like the Alien element was playing second fiddle to the corporate rivalry and, as noted, what seems the main storyline about kids euthanised into android bodies. And there of course the tech looks far more advanced than the dated depiction of the spacecraft.

In Ep2, Alien running loose on a killing spree deviates slightly from the playbook. They actually attacked with stealth and ambush, rarely actually killing the victim but carrying them to the egg chamber to cocoon as hosts.

And agree, the hard rock outro score over the end titles jars with the overall feel of the show and history of the franchise. They should have gone with something dark synthwave or techno to be more in keeping with the atmosphere and original 70's/80's/90's movies.
 
Seen episode one so far, was hmmm ok I guess. Looked pretty good, but the whole kids in super powered synthetic adult bodies going on a mission thing was just dumb. Will give episode two a go, but my hopes are not especially high.
 
I will give it bonus points if all the characters I want dead, die (horribly). First for the chop, that boy trillionaire. Second would be any annoying brat under 12.
 
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Vern1961 said:
In Ep2, Alien running loose on a killing spree deviates slightly from the playbook. They actually attacked with stealth and ambush, rarely actually killing the victim but carrying them to the egg chamber to cocoon as hosts.
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I hated this scene to be fair. It seems so out of nowhere for the way all those people were literally slaughtered by the Xeno, felt out of place.
 
First episode was excellent! Although the Wendy cliff jump was very ropey CGI :( But the rest of the visuals were on point; deep space, the ship (very much in keeping with the Nostromo aesthetic!) and the island views were lush.

Then straight into the action.

Ep 2, although good, descends into comedy when the kids are on screen. And are the writers not forgetting they are kids? Bodies of adults, minds of children - they would be petrified!

The first time Hermit sees the alien and his running was a fave bit :) I'm liking Morrow the Cyborg too - very cool.
 
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