Alien: Earth

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.

Omg....... Alien 3, Alien ress, Alien covenant, the AVP movies, even Alien Romulus, whatever sins you might have committed are all forgiven, these movies are masterpieces compared to what i just watched...

4/10 - only for the visual effects, action scenes...

The plot, the characters, the creatures, the story, the directing, are all insulting... Nothing makes sense, nothing sticks, its utterly and completely confusing the way people act and react to undergoing situations.....

This should've been much better. The first episode was sort of a set up story - it much in the way of action. It was kind of interesting, but not what I expected in terms of quality. Just saw the second episode, and it was marginally better. It had some action, and they did a decent job with the xenomorphs. Besides some action, there was a little more in the way of story background. They really need to step up their game though, and do it fast. If the show remains at around this level, they will lose me.

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.

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."