Alien:Earth

[blankall]

Originally Posted by Looch City

Just started this series and have caught up now.

Has anyone here complained about Marcy/Wendy's haircut yet?

My god, it's so distractingly horrible. Like a female version of Dumb and Dumber haircut lol. I can't help but cringe every time she's on screen with that.

Otherwise, loving it!

Straight from the source:

Providing an example, Head of Department Hair Sanna Kaarina Seppanen adds, “With Wendy’s hair, we wanted to bring up something youthful. I gave her that very blunt short bob with some really razor cut curls to give it a bit of wildness and a bit of texture so that it has a youthfulness about it.”

https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/ali...es-hair-makeup

[Locke]

Originally Posted by blankall

Straight from the source:



https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/ali...es-hair-makeup

Sorry lady...you missed. She looks like a dime-store scratch-and-dent-bin Willy Wonka.

[blankall]

You know this show is good when the nitpickers have to criticize the actors' hair.

For the record, I don't think Sydney Chandler gave the creators much to work with. That's just how she does her hair, with those bangs.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by blankall

You know this show is good when the nitpickers have to criticize the actors' hair.

For the record, I don't think Sydney Chandler gave the creators much to work with. That's just how she does her hair, with those bangs.

Now, now, lets not get carried away here, right now the set designers, makeup crew and a goat have been doing the vast majority of the heavy lifting on this show.

Story? Weak.

Characters? Thoroughly unlikeable.

Cinematography? Top notch thus far.

And now....this:

Originally Posted by Locke

All she needs is the hat.

[Erick Estrada]

I like her look. It's distinctive with the big eyes and bob hair and adds to the show. Kind of like Amy Lou Wood in White Lotus Season 3. Just having people on the internet and social media bring up their appearance generates interest.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

I like her look. It's distinctive with the big eyes and bob hair and adds to the show. Kind of like Amy Lou Wood in White Lotus Season 3. Just having people on the internet and social media bring up their appearance generates interest.

sorry but i just couldn't. Bugs was so distracting every scene she was in.

[Erick Estrada]

I thought she was the best part of the season. She somehow makes buck teeth hot.

[Johnny Makarov]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

I thought she was the best part of the season. She somehow makes buck teeth hot.

She is a beautiful girl but it was soooo distracting!!

[Johnny Makarov]

It's Tuesday! 2 more episodes of a bad haircut!

[Johnny Makarov]

Another great one!!
That gurgling sound at the beginning was hard to stomach, and to see a facehugger in someone's bedroom is crazy!

Did we know that their last name was Hermit from before? I always thought it was his code name. lol

and are we desensitized now? that chest buster scene just seemed kind of fast and tame...

[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?

[SutterBrother]

Nibbs psychotic break was everything I would have hoped for.

[direwolf]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

and are we desensitized now? that chest buster scene just seemed kind of fast and tame...

Unfortunately nothing will ever have the same impact as that very first chest burster in the ‘79 Alien film, or even the “kill me” one from Aliens. At this point in the franchise we’ve pretty much seen everything in terms of Xenomorph gore.

[blankall]

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?

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.

[Shazam]

Kirsh is a synth and he can't harm humans. So he used the hybrids as a proxy. I quite liked it. I normally hate Timothy Olyphant but he's been fantastic here.

[GoinAllTheWay]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

and are we desensitized now? that chest buster scene just seemed kind of fast and tame...

And happened pretty fast? Within 10 mins of it dropping off his face, chest burst?


I had to lol at the "meet at the beach" plan that turned into wading through a swamp to meet up with WY soldiers at a pretty secluded area. If dood with the alien in him wasn't WTF'ing the situation before, he'd have to be at that point.



Also looking forward to the continued experiment with eye alien being moved to a human host. Clearly more intelligent than they realized being able to bang out pie before taking a bit of a dump.

[Cappy]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

I like her look. It's distinctive with the big eyes and bob hair and adds to the show. Kind of like Amy Lou Wood in White Lotus Season 3. Just having people on the internet and social media bring up their appearance generates interest.

I think the haircut works for a 13 year old girls haircut. they nailed it.

[Cappy]

Originally Posted by blankall

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.

Yeah, anyone who has worked with a big corporation know that dumb decisions get made through the bureaucratic process

[blankall]

Originally Posted by GoinAllTheWay

And happened pretty fast? Within 10 mins of it dropping off his face, chest burst?


I had to lol at the "meet at the beach" plan that turned into wading through a swamp to meet up with WY soldiers at a pretty secluded area. If dood with the alien in him wasn't WTF'ing the situation before, he'd have to be at that point.



Also looking forward to the continued experiment with eye alien being moved to a human host. Clearly more intelligent than they realized being able to bang out pie before taking a bit of a dump.

If eye squid knows Pi, their either from a species that has mastered mathematics to the point they discovered Pi, or eye squid calculated it on their own on the spot. The dump taking suggests, they though the task was beneath them.

Boy genious should probably exercising caution here....but won't.

[Duruss]

Got back from a trip and watched ep 7 last night. I think some of the outside effect shots were a bit cheesy looking, but the story was fun! The eyesqiud understands human idioms judging by the #2 it took while reciting Pi. Kirsch gloating to Morrow after soundly playing him was great. I think that Nancy/Wendy is going to be a terror over the next couple episodes judging by how angry she was at the end of this episode.



How long a chest burster takes to incubate has always been whatever time is narratively convenient.