Alien: Earth - First Look

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**Lathe Biosas**

Maybe the xenomorph will be taken out by something new... and different... and....

Yeah, I don't believe it will happen either.

Ooh... Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem is available to watch for free... wonder if it's the director's cut with the kid enjoying the chestburster (Buddy's buddy

)?

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I have an idea that involves Kajiu Xenomorphs and 200m tall power loaders...

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I mean... how bad could it be?

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Ahtman wrote:
Lathe Biosas wrote:
I mean... how bad could it be?

How dare you!

It's only a matter of time...

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Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Salvation blobbed it horribly. Fighting in daylight! Humans not having Plasma Rifles in the 40-Watt range.

Hunter Killers not looking like Hunter Killers. Stupid Moto-Terminators. Stupid humans.

Stupid. Bloody. Film.

But it had giant bipedal robots! That instantly gives it a bonus star for that.

And it was better than Rise of the Meh-chines and ~~Sega Genesis~~ Genesys.

Not as good as Dark Fate though.

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Didn't realize that the show was on FX.

That makes it watchable for me.

Did watch Alien/Aliens/Alien Prometheus before watching episode 1.

Spoiler:

....aaannd Episode 2

Not the end-all-be-all of awesome. But pretty decent so far.

Spoiler:

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I don't understand what year it's supposed to be as we are missing Hyperdyne (the Corporation who makes Synthetics) and America (The USCM were around in 2101.

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This show has one thing against it. The same thing that plagues all prequels.

If you introduce new technology or information into the series, you then need an explanation of why the people in the later "episodes/films" don't have the technology/information.

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Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Easy.

Alien is set two years after. And we know those deep space missions can last years, thanks to cryosleep. Indeed the crew in the show are ending a 65 year mission.

So when the crew of the Sulaco were woken up to investigate LV426? They couldn’t have known about the events of Alien Earth.

And by the events of Aliens? Cover up and plausible deniability. By the end of the second episode, the infestation is still contained to the crash site.

Working on the assumption it doesn’t go much further? There’s no reason for anyone outside The Company to know or learn exactly what happened, as any and all deaths can be put down to “spaceship crashed into mixed residential/commercial building, lots of people went rather predictably splat”

Spoiler:

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I just realized that all the Aliens films I didn't like were missing copious amounts of Weyland-Yutani mischief.

I'm just thrilled that it was a YT ship.

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LordofHats wrote:
Wending? The Lost Boys? Neverland? Eccentric and self-absorbed? He's kind of a walking allusion to Peter Pan.

He was reading Peter Pan... and the Cyborg is obviously Captain Hook.

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Jadenim wrote:
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LordofHats wrote:
Wending? The Lost Boys? Neverland? Eccentric and self-absorbed? He's kind of a walking allusion to Peter Pan.

He was reading Peter Pan... and the Cyborg is obviously Captain Hook.

Does that make the Alien the crocodile?!

If we can figure out if what Wendy heard is the analog for the ticking clock.

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Ahtman wrote:
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Timothy Olyphant seems to be going for the Roy Batty look.

I'm sure it is a coincidence.

Ridley Scott wouldn't cross over three different movies?

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Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I’m genuinely half expecting a Predator to turn up in the later episodes.

Based entirely on hope.

Oh. I was talking about Bladerunner and it's same-universe sister film Soldier.

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insaniak wrote:
It's possible that cyborgs just went out of fashion, because Synths were ultimately better in practically every way.

Spoiler:

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Ahtman wrote:
Lathe Biosas wrote:
Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
I’m genuinely half expecting a Predator to turn up in the later episodes.

Based entirely on hope.

Oh. I was talking about Bladerunner and it's same-universe sister film Soldier.

Exactly. We're getting a de-aged Kurt Russel by episode seven.

That would be more awesome than any Predator appearance.

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It's amazing how people get hung up on this one issue.

I remember cons of yesteryear that revilved around Trek's transporter... and if it kills you everytime you use it.

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LordofHats wrote:
He's definitely not a good person. Good people don't say gak like 'I just want to have an interesting conversation because you're all too stupid, so I'll experiment on some kids!'

Whether or not he's full blown evil or merely banally evil remains to be seen.

I don't like when they put a face on the evil corporation.

That's one of the reasons I didn't like the AvP films as they gave us Mr. Weyland in the first one and Ms. Yutani in the sequel.

I like my evil corporations to be faceless entities, like in Alien: Romulus.

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Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
As opposed to Amazon, Facebook, Tesla and that?

Are you actually an AI?

What? Moi?

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Souleater wrote:
Legion is available on Disney+ . Highly recommended.

Hope there's no extended dance sequence in Alien:Earth.

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Mr. Hawley likes to put background characters into the foreground later in the series... but, I have a buddy who worked in Thailand for about 6 years and he said they had guys spraying for mold before the rainy season kicked in and right after.

This guy could be a metaphor for humanity's struggle against biological lifeforms that are hostile to human life (like black mold)...

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AduroT wrote:
Episode 3 almost checked me out.

Spoiler:

The schizophrenic Alien, the horrible action scene, the sometimes acid blood. Why did they go thru the whole process of removing the embryo from the egg to implant into a single lung rather than just tossing one egg into a room with a sheep and seeing what happens? Like, how did they even know specifically to look for the embryo, that it could survive submerged in liquid, etc. I liked the android’s “Don’t stick your face next to the egg” speech and their “no humans allowed in this room” protocol they then enacted, but everything after that felt like Too much knowledge on the subject. Also Wendy’s unique super hearing the others don’t have, and no one apparently noticing she came into the room during surgery and passed out twitching on the floor behind them.

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Noah Hawley says there's gonna be a season 2, but I can't get my internet skills to work today...

Article info:

Chris McPherson. "Noah Hawley Has Plans For Multiple 'Alien' Seasons". Collider.

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I've noticed that the black goo hasn't made an appearance in dialogue, are they skipping over the odd prequel stuff that contradicted the original film, or are they sticking closer to the original Alien/Aliens?

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Noah likes his third act twists. What could he be planning?

I'm hoping for someone to make the transference into a xenomorph body.

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But as we've seen it other Alien films... their Blood can eat through spacestation floors and walls (and even the outer hull pretty quickly).

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Anyone else think it's odd that we haven't seen any paper in the show?

Why need a paper cutter at their offices?

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Gert wrote:
The kids literally have paper to draw on.

::waves hand::

You didn't see my previous post. You can go about your business.
Move along.

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This show has solidified one thing that has been nagging me across the franchise.

Prodigy is shown as having intelligent employees.

I can only assume, since 99% of Weyland-Yutani are stone stupid, that everyone who can't fill out the job application at a real company has a job licking rocks waiting for them at WY.

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If everyone turns stupid at the end, we'll know that Ridley Scott had more creative control than we thought.

One thing about Noah's other works, is his characters aren't usually dumb... even when you think a character isn't the swiftest boat in the fleet, they surprise you.