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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9754718" data-attributes="member: 7035894">K, I'm caught up. I'm quite enjoying this series, except that the writing consistently falls back on the lazy, if very typically Alien, trope of scientists behaving incredibly stupidly, which takes me out of my suspension of disbelief.Like, "here's a lab containing a number of horrifically deadly, even extinction threat level alien lifeforms, and we'll leave it in the care of children without so much as an actively monitored security camera." Or in the most recent episode, "Oh no, one of the children has been partially destroyed by extraordinarily deadly aliens. I'd better leave the door wide open and get right in there with him. What could go wrong?" It's "I'd better go down to the basement alone to check the fusebox" levels of horror movie idiocy, except worse because these are supposed to be extremely intelligent adults.The acting is great, the visuals are spectacular, and there are some wonderful thematic elements. But the plotting is consistently lazy.Edit: also, why was the cyberkid having so much trouble dragging the body of the prone scientist with the facehugger? The series has been very explicit about how incredibly strong the cyberkids are (e.g. Wendy easily hanging all of the human kids off her extended arms and so on). Again, seems like lazy writing: "okay, we need dramatic tension, like he's struggling to get the body into the vent before the alien gets him." "Why can't he just pick the guy up and trot over there?" "Because it needs to be scary, so for this scene he no longer has super strength."</blockquote>

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