Alien: Earth

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."

I'm a huge fan of the alien franchise. Was so hyped for this. Especially after alien Romulus, everyone I know loved that movie.

The good: The concept is very cool, human/android hybrids. Some creature designs are cool, and SOME of the effects look great

The bad: Everything else

The plot makes no sense, the characters are hard to like/warm to. It just feels like a forced cash grab. This honestly feels like a high budget B rated movie you watch on a random sci fi channel at 2am for background noise.

It's a sci-fi and for whatever reason the writers just don't seem too aware of that. It's the year 2120 and apparently surveillance/drones aren't a thing. The key for getting a show like this to work is to create a world that the watcher believes in. The world they've built doesn't achieve that at all.

Anytime Disney is involved It's like good writing takes a backseat due to other "agendas". I'm sure criticaldrinker would understand.

Only two episodes in and my hopes are very low, I will try to watch until the end of the first season. But I get the feeling watching paint dry in a dark room would be far more productive.

Also, reviews on here must be fake/paid for, there is literally no way the reviews on here are real I don't believe it.

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.....

Just got back from an early screening of episode one. My wife and I really enjoyed it and we're ready for episode 2. Production quality is through the roof! Set design for the ship is ripped straight out of the first Alien and it looks and feels organic. The world building is interesting and they breathe fresh air into the technology and creatures. Strong cast and a tone that is very Alien. Stoked to see where this season goes!

I was looking forward to a great new Alien saga. Sadly this isn't it. The plot, the writing, the acting. All very mid. Are we supposed to care about these synthetic characters at all? If so, mission failed. A poorly veiled attempt at getting us all comfortable with the idea of transhumanism. I'm not buying into it tbh.