Alien TV series (Alien Earth) : 2025

Gray2233 said:
That said, by far the best episode thus far, it's actually giving me Foundation vibes in that it almost feels like two shows made by totally different people that have been glued together.
Click to expand...

Issue with Foundation even the empire part couldn’t turn that **** show around. Atleast this is actually watchable without forwarding large parts.
 
TonTom said:
Issue with Foundation even the empire part couldn’t turn that **** show around. Atleast this is actually watchable without forwarding large parts.
Click to expand...

I enjoy the Empire parts and became invested enough to continue with it, but I totally understand why someone might not bud.
 
I love the aesthetic of these spaceships, but otherwise I thought the episode was a bit 'regressive' tbh, it lacked any 'plot suspense' because we knew the outcome. To me, the xenomorph stuff just felt a bit tired as it did in Romulus. Otherwise, I found the cast a little grating other than 'main engineer' (especially the "I don't know what an apprentice is" apprentice and the bumbling scientist). I mean, it was fine, but there was nothing very intriguing to me.

I much preferred the previous episode which had more going on in respect of plot and character development.
 
I quite liked that the alien appeared more like a humanoid, a bloke in a suit like the original alien. There's been some dodgy cgi ones in the past.
 
Liquid_Entity said:
but we'd never watch any sci-fi if the human race wasn't stupid 99% of the tme.
Click to expand...
Or Horrors, I mean come on, we all know , you dont drive down that unmarked dirt road, we all know you dont go in the creepy house, we all know you dont go into the cellar, we all know you dont split up and we all know that you dont "just stay the one night and wait til the next morning" before you leave, you leave right now. Makes for very short films though :D
 
ivrytwr3 said:
They are on a mission for decades, you aren't going to get the elite signing up for that. Space bums, dregs of society and those with no lives back home - they take what they can get.
Click to expand...
I get that in this universe, space has become so normalized that they're essentially rough truckers, but it's still stupid that a corporation would spend multiple trillions of dollars and decades of time on building a ship and exploring and needing to see a return on that investment, and the best crew they can find on a planet of what's likely 15 Billion+ at this time is an engineer that doesn't know the difference between Geology and Biology (and all the other screw-ups too)
Hahah !!
 
I went into a small rabbit hole earlier because memories coming back from the prequels too raising some questions as in those it was alluded to that David created the Xenomorphs, but this created a problem because the Engineers were shown to maybe in a way worship the Xenomorphs based on wall murals etc, so how could David create them if they are seemingly older than even humans?

I found this video which delved into it and explains why this new series solves that plot hole:


This now actually makes the series much more interesting.
 
Tea4two said:
I quite liked that the alien appeared more like a humanoid, a bloke in a suit like the original alien. There's been some dodgy cgi ones in the past.
Click to expand...

Personally find the awkward movement or bloke in a suit look from Alien immersion breaking, personally think Aliens is the best depiction, some of the dodgy CGI ones since are just as immersion breaking as the obvious bloke in a suit.
 
I interpreted the apprentice being a bit thick as a consequence of him essentially growing up on the spaceship as a child. He must have been recruited very young. Maybe I'm giving the show too much credit as and they just wanted a near retarded English guy/actor.
Cryosleep doesn't age you does it so I'm dumb?
Just another what?why? :p
 
I just took it that he was the equivalent of an electricians apprentice in our world, possibly straight out of school and they can be thick as two short planks. Shown also when he didn't even think about how Michael smileys wife was going to be an old lady, when he asked him what he was going to do with his share.

I guess if you wanted to pick nits - Not physically checking the cryo pods (there weren't that many) and not waking up the "chief engineer" when the ship was sabotaged would have been unlikely (at which point you would have seen his pod was empty)
 
mrk said:
I went into a small rabbit hole earlier because memories coming back from the prequels too raising some questions as in those it was alluded to that David created the Xenomorphs, but this created a problem because the Engineers were shown to maybe in a way worship the Xenomorphs based on wall murals etc, so how could David create them if they are seemingly older than even humans?

I found this video which delved into it and explains why this new series solves that plot hole:

This now actually makes the series much more interesting.
Click to expand...

David might have created the Xenomorph as we know it from Alien 1 - 4. On the mural in Prometheus we see the "original" creature known as the Deacon, same as the one that popped out of the engineer at the end of the film.

In Covenant we see different creatures known as Protomorphs. Again, just another variation of the creature, because of infection by spores.

David then experiments with this, the spores and parts of Elizabeth Shaw to create the Ovomorphs, which is the Alien eggs we know from Aliens onwards. This then gives us the first actual Xenomorph at the end of Covenant.
 
Last edited:
Gray2233 said:
I'm actually wondering if it came out a bit messed up due to the host dying not long after it was infected. The facehuggers keep their victims alive for a reason surely? It would explain the erratic murder-hobo behaviour planet-side too
Click to expand...
It would be nice to think like that, but I just assume it’s the look they’ve gone down. Personally I think it looks naff when walking like a human, doesn’t look to bad when on 4 etc
 
Gray2233 said:
I'm actually wondering if it came out a bit messed up due to the host dying not long after it was infected. The facehuggers keep their victims alive for a reason surely? It would explain the erratic murder-hobo behaviour planet-side too.
Click to expand...
Not sure what you mean, the captain who died due to acid didn't birth an alien...

The one that did emerge was from the cryo tube, and one of the crew theorised that if the xenomorph can survive in the vacuum of space then maybe the freeze doesn't affect them in stasis.
 
Last edited:
VincentHanna said:
The one that did emerge was from the cryo tube, and one of the crew theorised that if the xenomorph can survive in the vacuum of space then maybe the freeze doesn't affect them in stasis.
Click to expand...

That's exactly what happened and to reinforce that we see the facehuggers tail move when the crew member was frozen in the crypto tube.
 
keenan said:
David might have created the Xenomorph as we know it from Alien 1 - 4. On the mural in Prometheus we see the "original" creature known as the Deacon, same as the one that popped out of the engineer at the end of the film.

In Covenant we see different creatures known as Protomorphs. Again, just another variation of the creature, because of infection by spores.

David then experiments with this, the spores and parts of Elizabeth Shaw to create the Ovomorphs, which is the Alien eggs we know from Aliens onwards. This then gives us the first actual Xenomorph at the end of Covenant.
Click to expand...

Those movies were just nightmares ripley had whilst in cyro sleep. They never happened.

They were like the ending of Dynasty, that was all just a dream of the guy in a coma
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom