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Just watched ep1. Thought it was brilliant. The track playing through the end credits was a rare treat too. Admit I'd really been looking forward to it (and with some trepidation in case they stuffed it up) but what great bit of telly!
Funnily enough my mate just recommended it to me... He's a top skeptic and I figured it would be rubbish, but if he's saying it's good it must be worth a punt
It's bloody brilliant.
Wendy is a bonafide badass.
What channel/streaming service is this on please?
Being drip fed week by week - will wait for it to complete the first season before bothering myself with it.
Not watched yet. Looks great. 🤞🏼
It is great, in fact excellent and probably the best thing currently on the box.
Though I am a big sci-fi fan, especially this franchise.
Criticism - Gets attacked by 8' tall alien that kills at least a dozen around him, then wanders about like none of it has just happened.
Personally I'd be shitting myself and certainly wouldn't be closely inspecting any other alien egg things.
But other than the super blase attitude, its well worth the wait.
Watched the first 2 episodes last night and thought it was absolutely bloody brilliant!
The Tech Bro’s as Masters of the Universe narrative is interesting and entirely plausible
Off to a very good start.
How annoying were the Maginot crew though,got everything they deserved 😉 🤣 🤣
Oh, and it was good to see the Tracey Island launchpad being used again 😀
Really good. They do need a few stupid humans to make it work !
One episode in and I quite like it. The atmosphere is good, tension is there and the acting is not bad either. At this point, I am going to recommend it.
Watched both episodes last night, one of the best first episodes of TV in recent memory...
I watched the two available episodes last night.
Production seemed excellent. The early scenes were a wonderful homage to the original film, and it seemed full of ideas that were new but meshed in to the world nicely.
Let's see if the writing holds up through the series, or runs out of steam.
Certainly worth sticking with at the moment.
Yup, watched the first two eps yesterday, pretty solid start.
Yup, watched the first two eps yesterday, pretty solid start.
One thing that's confusing me tho is that this is set before the Nostromo mission, so how did the crew of the Nostromo not know about a ship carrying dangerous alien species crash landing on earth? I guess we'll find out as it unfolds...SpoilerSlight spoiler below
only 2 years before. I’m not sure what comms speeds are like over huge distance, how long hypersleeps are, whether Ash just keeps news from earth from them
Also, series isn’t being bound by all alien stories. But I’m guessing the ‘2 years priorhas a specific logic.
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/alien-earth-set-timeline-explained/
Maybe hide stuff like that behind spoiler tags, @fasthaggis
Why? It's a thread about Alien Earth. It's bloody obvious that it will contain discussion about Alien Earth...
Looking forward to watching it but I'm relauctant to jump in when there are only 2 Episodes out. Might wait a few weeks
PS these are hour long episodes, so two hours was about right last night !
So yes, that was good (just watched the first episode so far). And I was impressed with the Outro Music too \m/
Good but I can't see past "the end of the ****ING world" atm
P.S. does every exploration ship have a Jonesy?
Sorry, I didn't think what I posted was spoiler(ish), as there was a lot of detail given in the trailers.
I did make up the bit about Tracey Island though,they didn't message Thunderbirds (yet)
From B33k34's link.
The writer Noah Hawley has decided to ignore key events from previous films.
So ,I feel it would be best to watch it without getting too bothered about Alien era timelines,or if the technology being used fits .
I am looking forward to seeing what other creatures they brought back though.
...apart from those tick things as I've just begun a course of meds for Lyme disease !
Impressed with Episode 1 (One).
Question: Why does a rescue team have 1 medic and 9 heavily armed troops? Would have thought that a ratio of 9:1 would be more effective than 1:9 when it comes saving lives during an event in your own city.
Yer I'm watching it, I'm enjoying it.. but I am full of criticisms
The science ship, full of all the sights and sounds of the Nostramo is great
The score is excellent (i read someone criticize it elsewhere..) from the tension music...through to some excellent outro music, looking at you Tool
Again, audio is great, the pulse rifle sounds... even sounding very much like the mono sounds of the Aliens pulse rifles
Also, It feels off that in this world, everyone is somewhat familiar with alien life, no one is shocked by any of it really, which feels very different to the franchise that I am familiar with.
I like the fact we have met Prodigy / Yutani but we still haven't seen Peter Weyland, I haven't searched it out but i have no idea who, if anyone, is playing him in this
Like the mega corp power play, owning entire cities etc
Wait. the room has just been dismantled by an 8 foot alien, including a squad of marines.. and i have just been stunned..but I shan't mention any of it to my sister who I thought had died a few years ago...
Yeah, this was a bit odd, I've been chased around this building by a huge killing machine, I was then stunned by someone, but yeah sure, lets go back into the ship and explore it further without mentioning it or even protesting
of course, this could be part of a bigger plot.......
If we're doing criticisms/plot holes, mine was that they all seemed surprised that a huge spacecraft was crashing into the city: this in a way more advanced time than now so you'd thought theyd be a bit more ability to identify and then prevent a massive crash like that into a busy city or at least have the ability to plot the likely crash site and then evacuate the area.
But anyway, a promising start (1 episode in)
Maybe hide stuff like that behind spoiler tags
TBF, anyone that had seen any of the trailers will have assumed that had happened, given what then happened (trying not to give any further spoilers).
Watched Ep1 and it feels (like every other Alien spin-off) derivative and forced. I understand the choice to ignore all the prequels - right decision, but putting this where they have also (like all the other spin-offs) presents more issues than it solves.
But also; its own plot holes, the truly laughably clunky dialogue, the terrible acting, and lord preserve us: Ade Edmundson...
Oi, nothing wrong with Ade, he's in Star wars too !
Okay, so I shouldn't be picking issues with it already, but the bloody opening text intro is incorrect:
'The race for immortality will come in 3 guises'
It should be *three guises*.
FFS
Exposition before the series even starts would suggest that it's going to be crap.
Then:
Question: Why does a rescue team have 1 medic and 9 heavily armed troops? Would have thought that a ratio of 9:1 would be more effective than 1:9 when it comes saving lives during an event in your own city.
The crash and rescue scene was illogical and poorly thought through. It was in simply for the visuals.
And then we have the 'hybrids' jetting off like sub-Marvel Avengers, because what you want in every disaster is a bunch of untried child superheroes.
It's crap.
Seeing as the writer was also responsible for the fab Fargo TV serieseses, I reckon this is worth a watch. 👍
and lord preserve us: Ade Edmundson...
Of course! I was trying to work out who he was (for a moment I thought it was Claude Littner from The Apprentice). I have just watched the second episode and am still enjoying it.
Loved both episodes. The PP stuff should have annoyed me, but I was swept along with it, even down to the sword held magnetically to Wendy’s back. Pace is good.
Oh, saw Samuel Blenkin in Hamlet this year… great actor. Some great casting all around. Going to be a fun romp hopefully.
I'm a fan so far, though the frequent fade to blacks I find odd and the closing music doesn't fit IMO
Presumably all the extra fade to black bits are where more adverts can go. The few we currently get are jarring enough.
Presumably all the extra fade to black bits are where more adverts can go. The few we currently get are jarring enough.
ive had Disney+ on and off over a couple of years. This is the first programme that’s had me upgrade to ad free. I can only assume disneys incessant trailing of cartoons and children’s shows at a middle aged child free adult who has has only ever watched “adult” content is intentional trolling.
Breaking a high tension alien scene to show me a trail for a cartoon version of iron man was the final straw.
Just finished Ep2. I can see why critics like it. It's still shit though.
Presumably all the extra fade to black bits are where more adverts can go. The few we currently get are jarring enough.
I'm back on the high seas for the first time since the naughties. CBA with half a dozen streaming services that I only use when theres a specific thing I want to watch, and paying for things that still have adverts in can get in said sea
Just watched first episode last night. It's fine as it goes but some of premise is really clunky
The idea that a huge spaceship would crash into a planet let alone earth and into a city, unless it was completed disabled, is ridiculous. The crew would primarily be there to monitor and repair any systems. It would be flown by an AI and I'm sure capable of flying itself even if all the crew were dead. And if the AI was broken then remotely controlled. The Alien films emphasise how much the corporations value their physical assets more than people.
Even if it was out of control I'm sure it would have been intercepted and destroyed.
The "search and rescue team" make-up of just one field medic was a bit jarring but I guessed it is that the corporations are in a cold war and so it was more a hostile salvage crew.
The children superhero bit seems out of step - something that would be in a programme for a younger audience. Also ripping the blade off a paper guillotine as a weapon - just bizarrely contrived so she can have a sword I guess
Yeah, the guillotine sword would be a crap weapon - they don’t have a sharp blade.
I've enjoyed the two episodes but I'm not sure it's quite as good as critics have made it out to be. I also wondered how everyone just seems to take alien life for granted when IIRC in Aliens it's made clear that nothing has been found up to that point. It's all very well saying you're not taking the other films into account but that can only go so far IMO.
Mostly enjoying it, but my plot-hole/gripe was...
Mostly enjoying it, but my plot-hole/gripe was...
My view on that (being generous), was that this series may explain at some point why, in the future, different knowledge exists (ie, will lots of knowledge be wiped out at some point, maybe specifically from one of the Corporations – ie, that specific scene was with a synthetic that may not exist in the same way in the future).
...and I'm done with it at Ep3. I really really hate the android as children thing, I hate the brother/sister storyline, the musical choices are stupid - there's a part where they come back to the Stark building* in a sort of procession so the music choice is of course - Procession by Jeff Russo even though it's an incongruous jarring mis-match, but y'know guitar rock seems to be the theme they're going with, so what the hell.
Of all the things they could've done with a reset of the Alien franchise; this pile of effluent is what we get?
*yes, I know, but it may as well be.
I'm a bit disappointed that Tyres was only in it for one scene.
Also, I really wish sci-fi movies and shows would stop having every. single. alien creature/monster emit the exact same clicky-squeaky sound when it's about to attack it's latest victim!
It's OK, not much else on. Enjoying watching on 4k on my OLED telly though (after our old HD LED flat screen developed bright spots earlier this year) - only a small 43" but it looks fab (black blacks and full brightness even to the edge). At least Disney give us 4k for a reasonable amount per month - not got any other subs in 4k.
A *small* 43’’? That’s pretty huge IMO
Some dislike the outro guitar-based music.
ironically, you’re more likely to encounter a synthetic, a cyborg or an alien xenomorph than hear those tracks on daytime radio. Especially bbc 6music.
have they ever played one single Tool track in their entire existence?
anyway, I’m enjoying alien earth.
The synthetics are unique in the way that their consciousness interacts in an exponential manner with whatever artificial neural web is inside their new bodies.
By contrast, morrows been plodding around in the same limited brain his entire life.
...and I'm done with it at Ep3
Yup,I felt the same after watching it.
I am holding out that everything will kick off massively on Tracey Island 🤣
I think some of you are overthinking things here. It's a story about space alien monsters. It's not 2001 A Space Odyssey. If they explained every detail and potential 'plot hole' about why a spaceship would crash or why they have paper guillotines in the future etc. Theres loads of possible explanations for all apparent stupid things, but if you put them all in it would get quite tedious or be full of exposition.
This 'boy genius' isn't half stupid.
EP3 (MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS)
I'm loving the modern/retro technology, for example the camcorder used in the lab, that looked a bit like a shrunken VHS camcorder from the 80's
I found the whole "grooming" conversation quite creepy, when Morrow was manipulating Slightly? through neural communication, i liked that, was very well written and performed.
I didn't like Morrow uploading/downloading to the ship through big flashing light cables... why? why? why?
I am still not sure...
I am still holding out for an overarching plot that hasn't emerged yet (we still have heard nothing from Weyland)
I'm enjoying it. Would prefer it to be a bit more Alien horror like than Aliens thriller but it's good fun.
I like the fact that all the man babies hate it like they do the Star Wars content.
PS the actor who plays Wendy is like 30 years old my mind was blown when I learnt this. As the character was complaining about being a women yet looked like a teenager at most to me
Having not seen it and not going to see it, I'll suggest a plot twist that is totally made up -
Could Wendy be a synthetic but with slightly wonky programming and thinks she is older than she is? So trying to act like an older person...
As said I'm not going to be watching it but could she end up turning out to not be what she appears to be?
I think some of you are overthinking things here.
Argh, I hate this. I'm supposed to overlook all the shitty [lack of] plot and characters because "it's just a bit of brain out fun" It can be done; see Terminator, The Thing, Mad Max...etc etc, Christ even the last Predator movie had an internal logic that was consistent, and that was a pretty bad film.
This is stupidly bad, even for a pop-corn movie.
bear in mind that Wendy, along with the other synthetics will experience accelerated neurological growth as a result of the interaction with their artificial bodies.
still think they’d be better off carrying lightsabers 😂😂😂
well I really enjoyed episode 3. I’m into this.
Well it has Timothy Olyphant in it, so that's a big plus, as it reminded me to go and watch 'Justified' again. One of those quirky Fargo like series based on an Elmore Lenard story.
Highly recommended and on Disney+.
‘Neural Matrix’ may be a better way to describe the mind in which the human-synthetics inhabit.
Well it has Timothy Olyphant in it, so that's a big plus, as it reminded me to go and watch 'Justified' again
Which also has Walton Goggins playing the villain, along with a generally excellent supporting cast. Fair bit of suspension of disbelief required, but very entertaining.
I think some of you are overthinking things here.
Argh, I hate this. I'm supposed to overlook all the shitty [lack of] plot and characters because "it's just a bit of brain out fun" It can be done; see Terminator, The Thing, Mad Max...etc etc, Christ even the last Predator movie had an internal logic that was consistent, and that was a pretty bad film.
This is stupidly bad, even for a pop-corn movie.
I always wonder where the line is. Would people who say 'it's only a SF show, it doesn't need to be realistic' mind if Wendy got a pen out of her pocket and drew a hole n the floor that the alien fell through? Or dropped an anvil on its head? Everybody has their own Stupid Level. (I enjoyed Sisu, for instance, because it was meant to be stupid. Struggling with this because the first Alien films were not stupid.)
Interesting that in a couple of threads I've read about Alien:Earth, there are quite a few people talking in depth about the corporation side of things, as if the series will morph from Battle Of The Planets to Dune over a few episodes. Keep saying 'Noah Hawley' and maybe it will. 😀
Struggling with this because the first Alien films were not stupid
Aliens was not perfect. Remember the 'is this another bug hunt' line? Then everyone being quite surprised at the presence of aliens?
The Sulaco was ****ing huge but had just them and a couple of drop ships?
The fa t they didn't do a full intelligence & mission brief to understand the ground in general not detail, the composition for the structures, any specialist equipment they may need. Then when there discovered it was essential a thermonuclear device?
I could go on.
Aliens was not perfect
Agreed and neither was Alien, but I'd put that (Aliens) as a general 80s/90s war film where the rules of the genre are understood and not really transgressed. Marines and their banter? Check. Big machines and big guns? Check. Fight between alien queen and forklift truck? Well, of course.
It says a lot that I think Alien:Earth is more stupid than that. 🤣
(And maybe I shouldn't have said that the first filmS weren't stupid. Of course they were if we want absolute realism. So, I'm going to backtrack here, stop making it up as I'm going along - like the Alien film makers - and hide in the escape pod with Jonesy. 😀 )
Aliens was not perfect.
But Sigourney Weaver was, and the rest of the cast was pretty good too. Classic of the genre, unless you're a hard sci-fi fan.
Aliens was not perfect.
But Sigourney Weaver was, and the rest of the cast was pretty good too. Classic of the genre, unless you're a hard sci-fi fan.
No arguments there. One of the most underappreciated female action leads ever.
Also blew my mind that Vasquez was John Connor's stepmum in T2.
Well, I'm all caught up now and I'm sorry to say that it is, officially, Very Silly.
The tone is all over the place, the dialogue is written in pure expositionese, and the plot makes about as much sense as a Weetabix lifeboat.
By the time the outro music played, I'd been beaten so thoroughly with the Stupid Stick, I was thinking "**** it, why not play Sabbath over the end credits? Why not a bit of Happy Hardcore while you're at it? Go mental.".
However, I'm sticking with it, because I need to know what the big flower-alien thing does.
every. single. alien creature/monster emit the exact same clicky-squeaky sound
and… they have computers that make a noise when data appears on the screen! Like they had in scifi before everyone had screens. Jeez.
There’s some really horrible guitar whining going on over the scene where they’re retrieving everything from the ship. I had to hit mute. And omg the kid from The End of the ****ing World… how many chances to escape does one character need?! Its hilarious.
One of the most underappreciated female action leads ever
Sigourney Weaver as Ripley? Under appreciated? u shore! Pretty much universally regarded as a classic role.
Lol - halfway through episode 2 and I’m done. It’s absolutely awful.
I thought Prometheus was bad but this takes it to another level.
I get that Stranger Things was a success but it doesn’t mean everything has to replicate the Goonies.
I’ve held off posting until I’d seen more than the first awful first episode.
episode 1 was garbage which felt forced and strangely disjointed, took 3 goes to watch it all and just wtf is going on with the credits music choice ? Is it an opportunity to include songs from the directors fantasy playlist ? It’s my kind of music, but doesn’t fit well here.
episode 2 was better and a wise move to include more aliens types, I’m intrigued to see what the upside down flower thing does.
episode 3 better again. Feels like they have borrowed from some of the predator crossover film ideas.
I’m liking it more esp if you like a space alien horror series - which I do, Timothy Olyphant as always is good in this.
it’s good fun, but it’s nowhere near as good as critics are making it out to be. It’s better than the recent aliens shite that preceded it, but that’s a really super low bar to start with.
Is it an opportunity to include songs from the directors fantasy playlist ? It’s my kind of music, but doesn’t fit well here.
the handmaids tale did it first, was popular there, tho the photography on that show was waaaaaay better
I liked ep 1-3. For me it would be better without the same old predictable alien. There is enough going on without that. The best bits are the kids, synths, evil geniuses, and world design.
Just seen episode four and still really enjoying it – there's an interesting situation beginning to develop with Morrow and Kirsh and it's going to be interesting to see what they are both planning.