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

submitted 2 weeks ago by sbv@sh.itjust.works to c/casualconversation@piefed.social

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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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[–] Thistlewick@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

I like the concept. I like the characters so far. I think it needs to be approached with a sense of fun that Prometheus and its ilk have squeezed out of the series. Why can’t my show with themes on the musing of the soul also include kids in super-robot bodies fighting aliens with homemade katanas?

What is irking me is that the Xenomorph is obviously pausing to check the cast list on imdb before it kills people. It tore apart the cockpit door to get to Morrow early on, but later it slowly approached him, snarling, before getting distracted by extras off screen which it murdered without hesitation. Hermit has met the Xeno on three seperate occasions in two episodes, and it takes me out of the show when the kill-machine switches from face-fucking soldiers with its toothy tongue and slicing people in half, to throwing them safely across the room or pushing them off a cliff to clearly survive into the next episode.

I don’t know how I feel about the repeated inclusion of Disney licences properties as plot points. The Peter Pan analogy was pretty on the nose before they just straight up played scenes from the animated film. And having Sid the Sloth ominously superimposed over an emotional scene sent me.

I will keep watching, because I feel like there could be some interesting developments (what if they SOMA’d the kids?). I don’t know if I am going to religiously wait for each episode, or let a few come out before I catch up.