Paul Farquhar
Legend
I don’t think we know where the Mangetout collected its specimens. It may have been back to the Prometheus world and to LV-426. Then, assuming these specimens are lost, the Nostromo is diverted to try again.
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Paul Farquhar
Legend
The spaceship crashed into a tower block does feel very like a dungeon bash. You open the door and see: a suspicious pod plant; a room full of partying nobles etc.
John R Davis
Legend
Very good indeed
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
The time issues for travel in Alien are a big problem once you start working out the timelines. I've been planning a Mothership campaign and yeah, once you start thinking about the time involved, missions have to all take place over generations. So either the megacorps c-suites have to have some sort of life extension (which we saw in Prometheus and they're talking about here) or there has to be AI involved, or something.
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Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
We don't have trillionaires yet, but we absolutely have super-rich people who care nothing about wanton destruction in pursuit of their goals, even if those goals could be accomplished much more safely at the cost of minor delays.
Boy Kavalier effectively saying "it's fine, we can get more kids and more synthetic bodies" feels completely believable to me.
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Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
I've seen people elsewhere objecting to there being a fifth megacorp, when we know in the future, there are four. Yeah, guys, that's foreshadowing.
We know that, by the end of this, WY will know about the xenos, but probably not have one, and we know that there won't be five megacorps.
Honestly, WY is the only active participant in this show that we know survives in some form. Everything else is up in the air, since so much of this is blank slate. (Which is great, to be clear. Star Wars has shown us very clearly that having too many known entities in their prequels robs most of the suspense from the affair.)
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wicked cool
Hero
Questionso n the ship and crew
Did the crew capture all the species, tang? Involved in the species being released and the cyborg reliving the events before the crew died or when they were dying
Tang appears to be a synth and the cyborg are part of the same crew but didn’t the opening scrawl say they were competing models?
Did the crew capture all the species, tang? Involved in the species being released and the cyborg reliving the events before the crew died or when they were dying
Tang appears to be a synth and the cyborg are part of the same crew but didn’t the opening scrawl say they were competing models?
Laurefindel
Legend
Finally got to see it. Episode 3 is about to come up soon too I think (tomorrow, Tuesday?)
I loved the grain and camera filters on the Maginot scenes; very 1979.
Once again, people are shockingly lax about any kind of safety protocols or precautions of any sorts, from people who should know better… At this point it’s so deeply ingrained in the series that doing otherwise would feel wrong I think.
I’m wondering why the xenomorph is so violent, whether the xenomorph is in « secure perimeter for the queen » mode, or totally panicked and confused, or whether it is a juvenile queen clearing a nest for herself?
As for the lost children, I’m sure that Boy Genius knew they’d be rubbish, but I don’t think efficiency was the point. He’s got other (more competent) agents for search and rescue on site already. Sending them was first suggested to him by Wendy, who seemed to reeeeally want to go, and he probably told himself « screw it, this is as good a field test as any, and it will give me eyes on the site » (literally speaking). He’s obviously not concerned for their safety (though I’d still be worried about a skyscraper collapsing on my trillion-dollars machines) and he’s bored and this is something. Then it turns out to be more exciting than anticipated…
I loved the grain and camera filters on the Maginot scenes; very 1979.
Once again, people are shockingly lax about any kind of safety protocols or precautions of any sorts, from people who should know better… At this point it’s so deeply ingrained in the series that doing otherwise would feel wrong I think.
I’m wondering why the xenomorph is so violent, whether the xenomorph is in « secure perimeter for the queen » mode, or totally panicked and confused, or whether it is a juvenile queen clearing a nest for herself?
As for the lost children, I’m sure that Boy Genius knew they’d be rubbish, but I don’t think efficiency was the point. He’s got other (more competent) agents for search and rescue on site already. Sending them was first suggested to him by Wendy, who seemed to reeeeally want to go, and he probably told himself « screw it, this is as good a field test as any, and it will give me eyes on the site » (literally speaking). He’s obviously not concerned for their safety (though I’d still be worried about a skyscraper collapsing on my trillion-dollars machines) and he’s bored and this is something. Then it turns out to be more exciting than anticipated…
Clint_L
Legend
Just watched the first two shows. I like it, with some reservations.
First, I agree with Snarff that this feels almost as much Bladerunner as Alien. It's taking some big swings at heady concepts (what is a person?), and I like the ambition. The claustrophobic visuals, especially in the second episode, are on point for the franchise, and they do a good job of keeping the xenomorph mostly concealed, and thus scarier. I like that there are other scary aliens, as well - Alien death scenes tend to be repetitive, but these new creepy critters are adding new, nasty flavours to the mix. It looks good, though it is shot at a high frame rate giving it a kind of soap opera effect on my TV - I usually have that handled but for some reason it isn't working here so I will have to figure out the setting it needs.
The cast is mostly good so far. I think the "boy genius" character is not very convincing, but I like the lead. The children in adult bodies plot device is...weirdly handled. The writing in general is kind of sloppy; I can forgive a certain amount of exposition given the world building they are doing, but still. And a lot of the decisions are inexplicable, like sending all the priceless hybrids (the Lost Boys - Disney/Fox product placement much?) into the crash site - sure they have super bodies, but that should just make a bunch of kids running around a disaster area exponentially more trouble. Or narrowly surviving the xeno attack only to be mesmerized by a baseball, and then meet two rescuers, discover one is your long lost sister, and at no point mention the giant freaking monster running around killing everyone.
Also...the wig-wearing folks who are so into their party that they haven't noticed a giant freaking spacecraft has just split their building in two? Seriously? What the hell was the scene about?
So...plotting is kinda dumb, but the other elements are strong enough that I still enjoyed it, even though my suspension of disbelief was being sorely tested, especially in the second episode.
Edit: Also, it is weird that 100 years in the future all of the past references are to our era.
First, I agree with Snarff that this feels almost as much Bladerunner as Alien. It's taking some big swings at heady concepts (what is a person?), and I like the ambition. The claustrophobic visuals, especially in the second episode, are on point for the franchise, and they do a good job of keeping the xenomorph mostly concealed, and thus scarier. I like that there are other scary aliens, as well - Alien death scenes tend to be repetitive, but these new creepy critters are adding new, nasty flavours to the mix. It looks good, though it is shot at a high frame rate giving it a kind of soap opera effect on my TV - I usually have that handled but for some reason it isn't working here so I will have to figure out the setting it needs.
The cast is mostly good so far. I think the "boy genius" character is not very convincing, but I like the lead. The children in adult bodies plot device is...weirdly handled. The writing in general is kind of sloppy; I can forgive a certain amount of exposition given the world building they are doing, but still. And a lot of the decisions are inexplicable, like sending all the priceless hybrids (the Lost Boys - Disney/Fox product placement much?) into the crash site - sure they have super bodies, but that should just make a bunch of kids running around a disaster area exponentially more trouble. Or narrowly surviving the xeno attack only to be mesmerized by a baseball, and then meet two rescuers, discover one is your long lost sister, and at no point mention the giant freaking monster running around killing everyone.
Also...the wig-wearing folks who are so into their party that they haven't noticed a giant freaking spacecraft has just split their building in two? Seriously? What the hell was the scene about?
So...plotting is kinda dumb, but the other elements are strong enough that I still enjoyed it, even though my suspension of disbelief was being sorely tested, especially in the second episode.
Edit: Also, it is weird that 100 years in the future all of the past references are to our era.
Older Beholder
Hero
I liked it, definitely looking forward to more episodes.
I wasn’t expecting to see Adrian Edmondson.
I wasn’t expecting to see Adrian Edmondson.
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