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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Swanosaurus" data-source="post: 9728833" data-attributes="member: 7044220">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?</blockquote>

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