Alien: Pianeta Terra

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."

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.

The characters don't work, the pacing is off, the music choices are questionable, and I am a huge Tool fan. It all feels so forced and despite my love of the Alien universe, I feel that not only does this deliver the suspense and feel of the movies it fails at even providing likeable characters, and their motivation, besides "brother" and "your ship crashed into my building, so yeah". And the anachronisms, I lost count before the end of the first episode.

I was quite excited for this show, I have been left thoroughly disappointed.

Most of the characters are dumb just like a typical horror movie they make dumb decisions in order to create suspense and drama.

The plot is dumb. A bunch of soldiers go on search and rescue. They take one medic and no real search and rescue gear. They take their pulse rifles though and head into a giant skyscraper that was hit by a giant spaceship. Imagine if police and firefighters put down any and all rescue gear and grabbed automatic rifles to rush into the twin towers during 9/11. That's what you have here. A very dumb plot. A better plot would have been if their boss, a trillionaire owner of arrival corporation to the corporation that owns the ship, had ordered them to go into the ship to secure it. See I fixed part of their terrible plot in just a minute. What happened to writers? They used to be able to tell such good stories and now they're just so dumb.

If you like horror movies with dumb plots, dumb writing and really dumb characters than this TV show is for you.

As an alien fan for 40+ years, I was hopeful that this series could finally revive the franchise. However, what made Alien great was suspense. What made Aliens awesome was action (and a sublime cast, script, and director). Whoever wrote and directed this has completely missed what makes the franchise great; instead, they think it's about horror about grossing people out. They're going for cheap scares and have just completely missed what makes the franchise great. Sad. Hoping it picks up, but based on the direction the series is going, I hold no hopes.