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Originally Posted by Badgers Nose
Even by Alien’s standard ‘evil corp sends unsuspecting dummies to alien parasite lair’ template, this story seems pretty bad thus far.
Great acting, sets, production, sound, sfx… but the story is dumb.
It also doesn’t fit into the Alien timeline very well - but that’s not really saying anything.
- they know where these xenos come from, even captured some, but in the next 100 years Yutani completely forgets about them?
- look how easy it to catch a hatchling
- we monitor the hybrids, but there is no alarm when we lose track of them - I have to go to the lab and click ‘track’
- cyborg is pretty damn advanced, but doesn’t exist in the universe’s future?
- we can see through their eyes, but even with unlimited resources we don’t monitor hybrids
- island is on high alert, really?
- gunshots don’t raise any alarms
- hybrids super strong - jump up/down cliffs but need two people to carry a scrawny scientist?
Fox doing stupid Fox things again - this is like Homer’s car; stick very idea you can think of to the Alien franchise. It should be a license to print money - but let’s #### it up by retconning all the time, or tying it into that B movie Predator universe, and Blade Runner too, why not?
Maybe there is a ep 8 McGuffin that fixes this. I hope so.
I still love anything Alien. But damn it could be so much more. The casual fans I watch this with all think the story is pretty stupid. But hey, new sci fi! Who says no to that?
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I thought this episode made the corporations seem a lot less dumb. The fact that Kirsh had masterminded a lot of the tomfoolery to get another Xeno and capture Morrow makes the corporation, as a whole, seem a lot less dumb.
Kirsh was in charge of all the security, and he was not only ignoring the hybrids' plans but pushing them along. So yes, he knew that their monitoring had been turned off. He also likely sees the hybrids as inferior to himself and a pet project for the boss, which is nothing but a nuisance to himself. So he's not overly concerned with their safety. He's more than willing to sacrifice them, if it means getting more access to Xenos. If he can scapegoat the hybrids, even better.
I honestly don't think it's too far fetched from how corporations who take over the world would actually act. Imagine if corporations like Tesla and Amazon managed to take over the world. Basically, what if Elon Musk was a couple of steps forward in his control level. You kind of have to be somewhat of a non-rational sociopath to get to that level of success, and the way the corporate heads in this show are acting, is exaggerated, but not totally unrealistic.
I thought it was implied that the Xeno eggs, in Alien Earth, came from LV-426. WY doesn't forget where they came from, but this show confirms that the WY purposely sent the Nostromo to LV-426 with the intent of retrieving Xenos, within the crew members.