I came back from vacation and started watching Alien Earth out of a sense of duty as a fan of the universe. I began watching with the attitude:
Okay, this probably won't be a typical ALIEN, but there's no point in complaining, you can also see some new concepts in the universe (it doesn't have to be a horror movie and the characters don't always have to be adults), there's no point in being negative.
But even with this attitude, the series is difficult to watch for someone who thinks a little, here are a few examples:
EXAMPLE 1
What really bothered me was the PLOT ARMOR... every time the alien fights minor characters, it's like a wild boar on a truffle hunt:
- a group of people playing dressed in period costumes (no problem, it comes in and everyone dies in the blink of an eye)
- a group of soldiers, the moment the alien breaks free from the bag (no problem, it bursts in and everyone dies in the blink of an eye)
but every time he is about to attack a character important to the plot, it looks completely different: the alien either retreats (the moment with the container) or approaches and very slowly bares his fangs (so that, of course, at the last moment something could save the poor wretch, e.g., the doctor). We see this pattern repeatedly
and it's terribly weak. After a while, we feel that certain characters are much safer than others, you just feel it, and I consider it a major flaw (the Game of Thrones series, for example, did not have this flaw).
EXAMPLE 2
Someone rightly pointed out another stupid thing about the series, namely:
"99% of children would die of fright after encountering a 5-meter monster. Here, the children seem scared, but they're basically chill—nothing unusual has happened. The level of absurdity is gargantuan, the character's behavior is ridiculous—okay, he's a child, let's move on, everything is fine. How low has blockbuster cinema fallen that on such channels the creator is satisfied with such trash (well, it's disgusting, but you get your fill, so it's all good)" (end of quote)
and I agree with the above. Of course, "experts" immediately appeared who wrote:
"These are children's minds in bodies incapable of human-like emotions. Synthetic bodies can only simulate emotions. That's why there's such a dichotomy here. On the one hand, the mind feels it should be afraid, on the other, the body is not afraid." (end of quote)
Really? Then why, for example, in the scene where two children hide behind Kirsh's back during the encounter with the cyborg (Morrow),
so what? The sight of a stranger does not make any impression on them (you could say it's child's play, they can even fight him in hand-to-hand combat), but talking to a cyborg terrifies them "in bodies incapable of emotion"?
It's clear that the series is ill-conceived and the script is a total mess.
EXAMPLE 3
There is an egg containing a dangerous organism, and a group of volunteers cuts it open with a circular saw without any protection except for ridiculous goggles (they didn't even have face protection). I would understand if the series was set in the Middle Ages, but it's the year 2100-something. The egg should be separated from its surroundings, and all operations should be performed on it by robotic arms (even taking retrofuturism into account, this is easily doable). And I don't buy the explanation that "they don't need to protect themselves because they're not human." That's just stupid.
EXAMPLE 4
Why has no one in the series yet raised the issue that these sick children are actually dying and not being transferred to new bodies? Their consciousness is being copied, but this is not a new life, just a copied mind. The series constantly emphasizes that these new children are very intelligent and have modern brains and a lot of data in them, but none of these children, including the main character, have ever considered for a moment that they are not the same people, but copied minds, and that the other people (the sick children) were simply deceived and died. I don't understand this at all. Even the main character and her brother don't talk about it. The brother asks her a few simple questions when they meet "again," and then assumes that "okay, this is really my sister" and boom, everything is fine XD, and this is a medic, a person with some medical knowledge, so for me it's totally absurd that no one talked about it or questioned it. Even if, by some miracle, it turned out that this technology really transfers the soul to another body (let's assume), such doubts should still arise, but instead there is nothing, complete silence, everything is okay.
I could give more examples, but I don't want to go on and on. I think you get the point. The series was probably made in a great hurry because the amount of nonsense is overwhelming, and the biggest flaw is that all these idiotic things completely destroy the immersion while watching.
