Alien:Earth

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The eye scene reminded me so much of seeing the scene from the beginning of Aliens where Ripley has the nightmare about the chest buster. They really nailed that gross body horror feeling.

Olyphant will always be the creepy guy from "Go" to me, and he perfectly nails this part.

[manwiches]

Originally Posted by AC

JFC I laughed far too hard at this meme. Lolol

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[BigThief]

Liked episode one and two, loved episodes three and four. AC I literally lol'd at the sheep meme. That eye ball parasite is frightening.

[Johnny Makarov]

WTF did I just watch???!!!!!!
12/10!!!

This was the perfect sequel to Alien. That wasn't even TV. It was a movie.

I've been looking in my cup of water every time before i drank after this episode.

[Locke]

Probably the only good episode thus far, but its a low bar.

1. Things happened. So it had that going for it, which is nice.
2. No stupid children. Also a positive.
3. Many, many stupid adults.

How this collection of circus clowns get jobs working in space? Each and every last one of them is an absolute idiot fully deserving of whats coming to them. Where did they find these morons?

Literally the worst and dumbest 'scientists' ever. Did they scour the C- grads of a local community College and shoot them into space?

[blankall]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

WTF did I just watch???!!!!!!
12/10!!!

This was the perfect sequel to Alien. That wasn't even TV. It was a movie.

I've been looking in my cup of water every time before i drank after this episode.

Was thinking this. If this was a movie it's probably in the running for third best alien film. Combined a lot of the best elements of Prometheus and Alien. Definitely likes this better than Romulus.

Love Morrow's storyline. Making him more relatable and less just evil was great writing.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by Locke

Probably the only good episode thus far, but its a low bar.

1. Things happened. So it had that going for it, which is nice.
2. No stupid children. Also a positive.
3. Many, many stupid adults.

How this collection of circus clowns get jobs working in space? Each and every last one of them is an absolute idiot fully deserving of whats coming to them. Where did they find these morons?

Literally the worst and dumbest 'scientists' ever. Did they scour the C- grads of a local community College and shoot them into space?

lol. not enough dad jokes for you? hahaha. Why are you even watching?

[blankall]

Originally Posted by Locke

Probably the only good episode thus far, but its a low bar.

1. Things happened. So it had that going for it, which is nice.
2. No stupid children. Also a positive.
3. Many, many stupid adults.

How this collection of circus clowns get jobs working in space? Each and every last one of them is an absolute idiot fully deserving of whats coming to them. Where did they find these morons?

Literally the worst and dumbest 'scientists' ever. Did they scour the C- grads of a local community College and shoot them into space?

When you blackmail people into working for you, you don't always get the best workers.

The crew is a good representation of corporate culture run amuck. In corporations you typically don't end with the most talented people getting ahead. Morso those that "play the game". In a society run by corporations, you'd see a combination of idiot middle managers and naive crew men populating a mission like this. This isn't NASA, it's a corporate mission that involves sacrificing your life to dreg a galactic swamp for bugs that can be commodified.

Wailand Yutani seems to have purposely chosen a crew that can be controlled and disposed of, leaving the only competent one, the security officer, in charge of a bunch of future xeno vessels.

But yes, the crew is dumb.

[Duruss]

That was great! Felt like the original movie and added heavily to the plot. The eye ball is pretty darn interesting.

[direwolf]

I agree, that episode felt like a mini movie, and it was terrific. They really captured the feel of the original films with that one.

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by Locke

Probably the only good episode thus far, but its a low bar.

1. Things happened. So it had that going for it, which is nice.
2. No stupid children. Also a positive.
3. Many, many stupid adults.

How this collection of circus clowns get jobs working in space? Each and every last one of them is an absolute idiot fully deserving of whats coming to them. Where did they find these morons?

Literally the worst and dumbest 'scientists' ever. Did they scour the C- grads of a local community College and shoot them into space?

You'd die working for a large corporation.

I'm on a contract with a large... place. And boy some of the people are beyond dumb.

[Duruss]

Originally Posted by direwolf

I agree, that episode felt like a mini movie, and it was terrific. They really captured the feel of the original films with that one.

I loved the sets, they were definitely key to creating the vibe from Alien on the Nostromo.

The Xenomorph whipping its head back, when the eye beast launched itself was a nice detail. It added more character to the Xenomorph, it also contributes to the eye's character development. Earlier it had been trying to warn the doctor about the ticks.

[Locke]

I will admit, that was the best episode yet, it finally got some of that 'Aliens' feel to it, there were more than a few places that lost me.

Like the woman running through the ship away from the Xenomorph and she's running for her life at what appears to be a brisk jog and the distance between her and the Xenomorph just changes all the time and then...look! A ladder! I should carefully go down it rung by rung! Safety first! Not like I'm fleeing for my life or anything!

And for the love of God...close the doors. Its like the only thing you've got going for you, airtight doors but they come with this one critical, fatal flaw...they only work...get this madness! They only work if you CLOSE THEM and then leave them closed.

Amazing right?

That being said...still infinitely more interesting than whatever BS that is with the android children and the brother.

[manwiches]

Wow, that was a crazy good episode. That eye monster is the thing of nightmares. God...

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Originally Posted by manwiches

Wow, that was a crazy good episode. That eye monster is the thing of nightmares. God...

I guess it was purposely distracting the doctor by tapping on the glass so that the ticks could get loose?

I did find the ticks also being highly intelligent a bit much? They don't all have to be intelligent, some of them can just be scary bugs.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by manwiches

Wow, that was a crazy good episode. That eye monster is the thing of nightmares. God...

Noah Hawley calls her Eye Midge! lol

have the week off so I just rewatched episode 1 again and then episode 5 for the 4th time. Too bad that Chinese masterdebater got so little screen time. He reminded me of Kevin Spacey in 7.

[SutterBrother]

I wanna know what planet these nightmare aliens came from.

Like... Eye Midge is fighting Xenomorph. Ticks can kill you as adults, gas you as larva, and infest water.

How did any of these creatures get captured in the first place? How did the ship even manage to escape whatever hellhole they landed on?!?

Literally the worst and dumbest 'scientists' ever.

Why would you think they were scientists? They're roughnecks working an interstellar cargo long hauler for 65 years. It's the bottom of the barrel. The people who took whatever job they could get.

That shines through in spades.