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[Alex11]

Plus he can stand & crouch around eggs which don't open.

The facehuggers knew about his plot armor.

Anyway, I dunno why I'm having this feeling that Wendy is gonna fight the Xeno one on one, I just don't want to see marvel style superhumans fighting aliens.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

"it presents itself as flora but could be fauna" wtf? They're just staring at that thing for 10 minutes doing nothing? The modern music kills me too. Tool is the last thing you should hear in a alien series.

 

[Ulysses 31]

 

[reinking]

I am entertained. I am just watching it with the mind set as if The CW did an Aliens spinoff.

 

[T8SC]

The facehuggers knew about his plot armor.

Anyway, I dunno why I'm having this feeling that Wendy is gonna fight the Xeno one on one, I just don't want to see marvel style superhumans fighting aliens.

Let's hope not, but it's Disney afterall.

I know there's several episodes left so it may get explained but this event of the starship crashing into Earth, with mass media coverage, seems like something people on the Nostromo would know about (And all the company bods in Aliens), yet the alien is a surprise to them. Or perhaps they're in hyper sleep whilst this is all taking place. Guess we'll wait & see how it fits into the first movie, as apparently it's going to be explained.

 

[MachRc]

Search and Rescue! [Pulls out pulse rifles]

The jump from the cliff that would have destroyed any canon synths/cyborg

The "Halo" super human kids angle.

It is fun to watch. I imagine they crashed the ship to pass containment/check that they smash through?

 

[Alex11]

Let's hope not, but it's Disney afterall.

I know there's several episodes left so it may get explained but this event of the starship crashing into Earth, with mass media coverage, seems like something people on the Nostromo would know about (And all the company bods in Aliens), yet the alien is a surprise to them. Or perhaps they're in hyper sleep whilst this is all taking place. Guess we'll wait & see how it fits into the first movie, as apparently it's going to be explained.

Yeah, I'm guessing Nostromo has already departed, as for people knowing, I think here they have a loophole. After all, the Nostromo crew, the marines, they were expendable and not very important, Ash knew more than we saw, Burke as well, Weyland-Yutani even more, they surely kept it all a secret between the higher ups and the most loyal members. I mean, this is just my understanding.

Hawley did say in an interview something along the lines that the Nostromo is going to be mentioned or contacted.

IDK, he also praises the OG Alien for the slow burn and the twists, so maybe we're in for some big surprises, still, it doesn't excuse the dumb stuff.

 

[Sledge]

I'm genuinely enjoying how bonkers this show is -- you literally never know what the next scene is going to contain: Stock member-berries, kids-to-androids, our CEO is L from Death Note let's-conduct-our-most-seriious-conversation-upside-down-with-our-tablet-between-our-feet, body horror nicked from The Thing or maybe Little Shop of Horrors who knows because forget about the weird plant for now, bizarre editing, it is retro-future oh no wait it isn't actually, SEND IN THE KIDS!, whatever you do don't quarantine the SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH SPACESHIP from the get-go like normal people, SCARLET PIMPERNEL!, there's something about being attacked by a ravenous alien that really makes me want to contemplate baseball, ICE AGE!

Alien Earth is to the Alien franchise what the 60s Batman TV show was to that franchise -- essentially random, off-kilter excess that can only have come about through the copious abuse of drugs. I don't know how the fuck this got made but I'm glad it did.

 

[kpopSuperstar]

What a fuck was his plan? lock himself in an elevator with the alien? I thought that bag would hold the alien but it was as strong as a paper bag.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

I imagine they crashed the ship to pass containment/check that they smash through?

Interesting theory. Why would Yutani crash their ship into Prodigy city? Mass destruction via bioweapon? That is kind of their goal with xenos, I suppose.

 

[Sonik]

wrong thread

 

[Kacho]

So far so good. I like it.

 

[Kitbash]

there's something about being attacked by a ravenous alien that really makes me want to contemplate baseball

Well then, you're in luck! Because the one apartment door you happened to knock on during your search & rescue efforts happens to be the home of someone with an entire room dedicated to 20th century baseball. The perfect audio/visual installation for you to find, given you were named after a 20th century baseball player and you need to be talking out loud to your dad for the next part of the scene to work.

And then the writer adds "What are the odds?" to the dialogue as if that makes it any better. So dumb.

 

[Alex11]

What a fuck was his plan? lock himself in an elevator with the alien? I thought that bag would hold the alien but it was as strong as a paper bag.

There are so many wrongs in this scene it's baffling.
- As you said, what the fuck was this plan, be with the gun always ready and stun the Xeno every time it rips that "bag" all the way to the containment cage? lol
- Not one of those - trained? I assume - security officers noticed the alien hand sticking out.
- Xeno just standing there not killing the cyborg that just attacked it and then just runs off to kill others because reasons. If the reason is the Xeno senses fear now, we obviously see the cyborg being afraid.

But hey, it looks cool and the Xeno rips through them like fucking Homelander.

 

[Kacho]

Stinkfist outta nowhere lol

The show is way more bonkers than I was expecting. In a good way. I like that they added other hostile alien species to the mix. Feels fresh. I want to know more about the eye creature.

The alien is fucking ruthless. Love that we finally get to see it being a killing machine.

I was worried I'd hate the brother sister subplot based on what I read, but it's fine. The hug he gave her pulled at my heart strings a bit, likely because I have a little sister I care about so I can relate.

Timothy Olyphant was a solid choice. He elevates the show.

 

[Revolutionary]

First 8 or so minutes of the first episode were actually REALLY good and promising... but it gets worse and worse with nearly every passing minute.

Got a good laugh out of this scene though:

 

[Alex11]

First 8 or so minutes of the first episode were actually REALLY good and promising... but it gets worse and worse with nearly every passing minute.

Got a good laugh out of this scene though:

That's some amateur level type of stuff here, it doesn't look like it's even moving, it's like it's being pulled like a dummy on a wheeled cart.
It's like those stand in props that later get replaced with CGI only they forgot to do it.