Hawley wanted to tell his own story. He says only Alien and Aliens, plus Romulus, are canon in his mind.
Spoilers Alien: Earth Spoiler Thread
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Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
There's canon and then there's canon. The Combine has never been seen or even mentioned on screen.
I can't think of a case where a filmmaker has ever felt beholden to the extended universe of a genre franchise, even if they aren't as explicit as Disney was about the Star Wars extended universe.
(This show probably did make Free League a little nuts. They just updated the Alien RPG to reflect Romulus and now have to be wondering if they need to revise the setting even more.)
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Reynard
aka Ian Eller
I rather like the idea of Alien: Earth has a soft reboot of the whole thing. Rather than worrying about where it cotradicts, I mean.
Canon is the stuff you like.
I find this is a much better way to approach the question, "what is true in fiction?".
Well, it’s important when you’re making a show, because it informs what happens in your show.
Jahydin
Hero
Same as me. Neat!
Jahydin
Hero
Good enough that I finished the season (rare for much to hold my attention these days), but overall disappointed. I found Erik Kain's take pretty close to my own:
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‘Alien: Earth’ Review: A Disappointing Mess With Great Visuals And A Bad Script
Alien: Earth has potential, but a lot of that potential feels squandered on a weirdly dull story.
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Swanosaurus
Adventurer
I just realized that I have a weird little nitpick with the series: As we have seen, at least the Xeno doesn't really sleep in cryo. So did they have all of their specimens in Jars for 30 years? And they all survived? On whatever they've been fed?
I'm fine with the xeno eggs staying fresh, but the ticks, the eye, the flies ...? Are they fifth of tenth generation? How would that have worked? Shouldn't the crew know a lot more about all of them by then? And who took care of them?
It's another problem created by this long cryo-sleep scenario , and by now, I'm wonderung what's gained by it. I mean, the Nostromo was supposed to be out there how long - two or three years, right? Ripley drifting around in Space for 60 years was an accident, and she was shocked when she learned about it.
I'm fine with the xeno eggs staying fresh, but the ticks, the eye, the flies ...? Are they fifth of tenth generation? How would that have worked? Shouldn't the crew know a lot more about all of them by then? And who took care of them?
It's another problem created by this long cryo-sleep scenario , and by now, I'm wonderung what's gained by it. I mean, the Nostromo was supposed to be out there how long - two or three years, right? Ripley drifting around in Space for 60 years was an accident, and she was shocked when she learned about it.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Well, we don't know if the critters other than the xeno sleep in cryo. And we know from the movies the eggs can apparently stay viable seemingly indefinitely.
Reddit has a good thread about FTL in the Alien universe that I am going to completely yoink for my Mothership game.
Assuming Hawley respects the logic spelled out in the thread, the fact that the Manginot was out there for years suggests that they had a lot of stops at a lot of disparate planets much further away from Earth than we've seen otherwise in the series. (Aliens takes place "only" 33 light years away from Earth.) The Milky Way is big. Current thinking is that it's 200,000 light years across, end to end.
