Spoilers Alien: Earth Spoiler Thread

[Nikosandros]

The cat was no Jonesy!

 

[Larnievc]

Saw the first two episodes. Rock solid so far, I'm engaged and intrigued. The characters are interesting, the new aliens pretty cool and interesting...I'm in!

The big thing that struck me is....honestly Earth doesn't look too bad. When your used to the sterile existence of space travel in teh alien universe it can be easy to think that Earth is just a complete and total garbage heap by this point. But....the old girl seems to be holding up well 100 years later, actually looks pretty clean from the few scenes we have seen. Not Star trek levels of optimism but hey I'll take it.

I know it deviates from the RPG lore but Earth is supposed to be not too bad as they used terraforming tech to fix some of the earlier problems.

 

[Larnievc]

All the "hybrids" (i.e. child + terrifying robot body & brain) are literally renamed after Peter Pan characters, and we're literally shown scenes from Peter Pan and read (amazingly terrifying) excerpts of Peter Pan, which is just screaming "DO YOU GET IT?!?!?"

The cyborg with the hook hand, sorry I mean the blow torch.

 

[Swanosaurus]

Still not sure after the first two episodes. I like how it plays with the themes of the series - humans as prey creatures, and of course the whole "crew expandable" thing. I like how it plays into the series canon - I imagine WY won't get their hands on the aliens in the end, but quite accidentally, they have a freighter near the planet where the magenot found them, so they re-route the nostromo there and send no instructions to its synthetic.

Other stuff, I don't like that much. The alien itself feels weirdly unspectacular; sometimes it's a one-man army, at other times it takes its time to let the important characters get away ... anyway, it has never felt less scary somehow than in this series. I'm also not to keen on the on the nose Peter Pan references, and I don't get why the Lost Boys and the Cyborgs should have that degree of super-strength/durability, which fits neither with the depiction of Ash nor with that of Bishop or call.

I kind of like the other creatures, though that eye jellyfish thing seems a little to cheesy - what kind of alien ecology brings forth a creature that seems to specialise in posing as the eye of a creature with human-like eye?

Also, emotionally, some of it is just too inconsistent, like Hermit getting over the whole nearly having his face eaten by the alien so quickly, musing over a baseball and reconnecting with his dead sister, when everyone should be in absolute terror and fight for survival mode.

Also, why do they send in all of the Lost Boys? Why not Kirsh, Wendy and a few special forces? Why put all your precious eggs in one basket that might explode any minute?

 

[Larnievc]

Also, why do they send in all of the Lost Boys? Why not Kirsh, Wendy and a few special forces? Why put all your precious eggs in one basket that might explode any minute?

These are all good questions but it’s nice to watch something where there are some genuine questions that may well yet be answered in subsequent episodes.

 

[Swanosaurus]

These are all good questions but it’s nice to watch something where there are some genuine questions that may well yet be answered in subsequent episodes.

I think that particular question already has been kind of answered (the boy genius wants to see their reaction and actually doesn't care that much whether they live or die), it's just an answer that doesn't quite ring true to me.
Still, I do think you're right; most of the first two episodes seems pretty consistent in itself and with the general mythology of the series, and I think they'll come up with answers that make sense (as they have already answered the question of how WY obviously knew about the aliens before the events of the original movie).

 

[Swanosaurus]

Which makes me think: I'd love to see the big corporate f*-up that must have taken place between Alien and Aliens. I mean, even before Alien, people at WY knew about the creature and were ready to do a LOT to get their hands on it. Then the Nostromo is lost in space/blown up, WY has lost a megatons of assets and no Alien to show for it ... and someone must have just said: "Oh well, it's not worth pursuing this further. It's usefulness is highly speculative, anyway. Let's just forget about it." Or maybe there was a powershift at WY and the people behind the alien project got fridged. Anyway, for sixty years they do nothing, even though they know where to get their alien - nothing but send in a terraforming crew, which seems to have been done in honest cluelessness about what lurks on that planet.

Only when they find Ripley, someone (maybe even Burke himself) remembers to dig up the old files about that alien project and puts 2 and 2 together - "hey, that planet with the prospective bioweapon? We have colonists there. Maybe it's wort checking out after all ..."

I'm convinced that the whole bioweapons project simply got lost in between the red tape beween the two movies - it's the only logical explanation.

 

[wicked cool]

Awesome first 2 episodes and we have 1 more monster reveal. I am curious if the other aliens will play a bigger part in the show. And I want more flashbacks on how the crew captured all the aliens plus there were several chest buster victims?

 

[wicked cool]

What I don’t understand is why Wendy is so much more advanced than the rest ?