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.
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.
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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?
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?!?
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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.
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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?!?
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.
I assume that they all came from different planets.
Was the eye squid fighting the Xeno or trying to take it over? The joke was on him though, as Xenos don't have eyes to take over.
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?!?
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.
Well when Security dude was going through the crew manifest there were Science officers and Engineers and a Doctor and yeah, a few roughnecks and the maintenance guy and his dumbass apprentice.
Besides, what would complete Roughneck clowns know about gathering Alien specimens?
Granted I'd buy it from that one woman..."we're going to put these specimens in this very fragile glass bottle and store it on the rickety second shelf so when it falls it shatters because thats how quarantine/isolation equipment works!"
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Well when Security dude was going through the crew manifest there were Science officers and Engineers and a Doctor and yeah, a few roughnecks and the maintenance guy and his dumbass apprentice.
Besides, what would complete Roughneck clowns know about gathering Alien specimens?
Granted I'd buy it from that one woman..."we're going to put these specimens in this very fragile glass bottle and store it on the rickety second shelf so when it falls it shatters because thats how quarantine/isolation equipment works!"
It looks like they are purposely collecting species that parasitize humans. In the Alien universe bringing back actual aliens requires government clearance. They purposely infect employees, because it's much easier to bring back a sick person (who happens to contain an alien insdie them).
Burke outright says this in Aliens:
So, yes, they are purposely choosing dumb people and likely instructing them to do things that will increase the chances of the aliens getting loose and infecting people.
Given that you need clearance once the alien gets on Earth, but can do whatever you want with it until then, is a good way to encourage crew members and scientists to perform and accept all these haphazard experiments on board the ship too. They are purposely being put on ships that can't actually contain the Xenos, then told to do experiments on them, even though Wayland Yutani already knows everything a scientist, with zero pre-existing knowledge, is likely to gather from the experiments.
The plot of Aliens revolves around a colony of people being placed in cross proximity to the known location of Xeno eggs. In the first Alien, it isn't outright stated, but heavily hinted at that the Nostromo, which was full of rednecks, was purposely sent to the alien eggs, and the androids job was to retrieve a sample.
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