Did you see the first episode of Alien: Earth? (sh.itjust.works)

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I was looking forward to it, but the first episode was meh.

Spoilers follow.

I like the set up: the trillionaire, the Weyland-Yutani ship crashing in Prodigy territory, the experimental hybrids, and the aliens.

But it didn't come together. The rescue peeps carrying pulse rifles seemed incongruous. The medic didn't really medic (except for the sticker on the fridge, I guess). The main hybrid sticking a paper cutter blade on her back was goofy. And the soliloquy from the synth seemed a few episodes too early.

The adult actors playing kids seems like a recipe for cringe.

But I'll give it a few more episodes.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think we've been ruined by Prestige Television and you're honestly just expecting too much from it.

Where both episodes failed for me simply was lack of any tension and feelings of horror. The original films were defined by a feeling of the aliens being completely inescapable and being stuck in tight confined spaces without much hope of escape. The first one everyone stuck on the Nostromo, the second being stuck in an abandoned planetary settlement, third inside an inescapable prison... The rest, well, that's where we begin to lose that sense to begin with.

I mean, I kind of expected it to fail on horror fronts due to it being on earth. Lots of places to escape to.

I still found it pretty fun, despite failing that, but maybe I just went in with lower expectations.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I haven't seen it and I won't, because almost every time they do these TV show reboots of film, it ends up being the same relationship drama shlock you see in every other show nowadays, basically universe flavored Danielle Steele novels.

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