Alien: Pianeta Terra

The production values are a solid 10. For better or worse, the target demographic is adolescents and mid-teens of median intellect. The writing and plot are at a level of a 1980s Saturday morning cartoon. Dumbness and plot holes ruin the experience virtually every 30 seconds. For example, a search and rescue team is dispatched to a spaceship crash: they look and act like a comic small town militia, sloppy, inept, no discipline, armed to the teeth, no rescue or search equipment. The WTF moments just keep stacking up until the irritation factor just turns you off.

I've just finished the first two episodes. As a fan of the original movie and being in my fifties, this series is definitely not for me. It's got none of the suspense, tension or build of the original, a weird teen genius who eats apples and appears to be a moron, super-fast synthetic children in adult form who move painfully slowly at all times. Sorry but I just found the whole thing utterly ridiculous.

Also - it's still just set in a spaceship, it just happens to be crashed into the side of a building.

Very disappointing.

The show is absolutely wonderful in its stupidity. A ship crashes in the middle of a city - apparently, there is no air defense or military on the planet at all. There are no firefighters either; only medics arrive at the crash site, but for some reason they're carrying assault rifles. They run around shouting "search and rescue!" while pointing their guns into every corner.

Seeing a hole with a beam sticking out, they immediately crawl inside without securing anything in place or even thinking about how they'll get out again (with the wounded, since they're medics) afterward. When faced with obvious organic contamination and containers with experiments inside, nobody informs the medical service or cordons off the crash site in case of infection - why bother.

Not to mention that right in the middle of the crash site, some millionaire's plane lands, people run out of it and climb onto the ship, and absolutely no one cares. Meanwhile, the almighty Weyland-Yutani is just scratching its head somewhere and doing nothing the entire time.

I'll be honest on both fronts and tell you straight up. I'm a huge Alien fan. From the original, sequel and hell I even didn't mind number 3 and resurrection. I'm not a fanatical fan by any means but I enjoy sci fi sand horror so yeah these films were right to my alley

To the tv series .

I feel asleep half way into the second episode.... I never fall asleep unless the content genuinely does not stimulate my brain.

It lacked atmosphere, strong characters and just felt genuinely cheap. They add in some occasional sound effects from the old trilogy and call it a day.

This is more about the evolution of humans after death transferring their minds to an Android body.

It should probably be better if they focused spend aliens a little bit more. Or want horrible, but if I'm falling asleep then in definitely is not good either.

Watch with low expectations and you probably won't be disappointed.

Hopefully it improves.

As soon as I found that it's not Ridley Scott who was writing/directing this show, I had high hopes for the series. I watched two episodes and can say with confidence that the show has so far been more disappointing than even Prometheus and all the subsequent Ridley Scott's Alien movies. I am 100% sure the rest of the series will be worse.

The series seem to be turning Alien universe into yet another boring monster universe like that Godzilla and Kong universe. The writing is terrible. The characters are bland and boring. The conversations are so plebeian, soporific, and flat that my fingers had the urge to press fast forward button whenever two people started talking.

I will watch the rest of the series, but I expect the show to devolve further compelling me to downgrade my current 6/10 rating to a 5 or even 4.