Alien: Planeta Tierra

Not talking about the kids in your living room, the on-screen versions are the ones that botched the alien franchise. It COULD have been great, because scenes are well-built and the adult characters work, especially the on-board android, but somehow, someone decided to give the main lead to a 12-year old, that acts and think like a 12-year old, with 10 year old friends as the entourage to battle extremely violent and blood-thirsty monsters. It doesn't work. And the constant switching of timelines and pace deludes the storyline more than helping it. Sorry, my rating is generous. A 12 year old would probably rate it higher, but I am not 12.

Some of the CGI in Alien: Earth is great, so hats off to the artists. I liked Prometheus and Romulus as far as the modern movies go but haven't loved anything since 1986. Covenant and now Alien Earth just aren't working for me. The writing takes what could be a simple, tense monster story and turns it into something it's not.

So a giant ship is headed towards Earth and no one noticed? Uh...Radar stations? Telescopes?

Calling James Webb. Hello?!

Why is it so dark? Speak up I can't hear the dialogue.

Who are these people?

Hey Vasquez have you ever been mistaken for a cyborg? Where is the humor.

Search and rescue with guns but no drones? Send in an automated robot into the ship.

Watching episode two and it doesn't look much better. Speak up!

There have been plenty of Alien projects that have come out over the years since the original trilogy and while some have been watchable and the other down right awful, this is closer to the unwatchable ones than the watchable. Somehow, it's gotten nothing but great reviews from both critics and split from fans of the franchise. It actually currently has a fantastic 96% on Rotten Tomatoes. Alien: Earth is about when a mysterious spaceship crashes on Earth and a ragtag group of soldiers, led by a woman named Wendy, have to make the discovery that will put them up against the greatest threat the planet has ever seen. What follows is a series that looks like it was made for kids and not adults.

I get the fact you'd send in the Space Marines to investigate a colony not answering the phone after you find a crazy woman in a space lifeboat telling you a crazier story about an Alien killing all her pals and she blows up the mothership. But an Earth made spacecraft crash lands with no warning on Earth and you send in search and rescue with guns? A person is on fire and no one in the search and rescue helps to put the fire out? We need to see the pulse rifles for Disney Nostalgia sake. They bought the franchise and that's what Disney thinks we need. I'm tapping out. Learn from Romulus and just rewatch Alien, Aliens Alien3 and Alien Resurrection. I don't want to be this disappointed. I want to enjoy this series. The folks who made this more than likely made Alien Earth in good faith but I'm sure there is some Disney crony looking over the shoulder of the creator and saying "You know what will be so cool? Pulse Rifles. We know our audience."