In Space, No One...

Retro futurism at its finest. Catode monitors, Mechanical controls everywhere. That late 70- early 80 vibe from every character pull trough verry well. Great addition to the Alien Universe of T. Ocellus. Also great pacing, firmly in touch with the Ridley Scott's Alien.

PS Kind of a miracle the crew survived 65 years in deep space, plus collecting specimens, with so gross incompetence and negligence.

While this show does have a few problems, it's written by the guy who created Fargo and Legion, 2 masterpieces of TV (only including the first 2 seasons of Fargo, not the whole show). A problem a lot of studios have these days is they hire completely inept writers to take over massive franchises, people that have no business being anywhere near them. Examples: Kathleen Kennedy for Star Wars, the Witcher show was an abomination, Rings of Power was garbage, and so many others, Harry Potter is probably next. This is not one of those situations. Noah Hawley is a legit top showrunner in the business.

So far Alien Earth has been pretty slow and there are some deficiencies in terms of the characters but overall it's definitely better than a lot of the haters are making it out to be. I think it's mainly a question of patience. If the show started out with episode 5 first and it grabbed people's attention right away the show would have more momentum but the payoff wouldn't have hit as hard so I prefer the way they structured the show. I'm confident the last 3 episodes are building up to blow everyone's minds. People don't have patience any more and I swear if Breaking Bad came out today it would be cancelled after 1 season because everyone would think it's slow and boring. The setup for the last part of the story is complete and I think Alien fans are in for a treat in the coming weeks.

In an era of rehashing, redundant and repeatedly rebooting franchises this series has a new and refreshing feel reminiscent of the last predator film Prey. With relevant and current themes around tech and AI I really enjoyed the first few episodes as the characters are interesting and well cast.

The visuals and dialogue have been great and always on the edge of my seat on each episode and wanting the next one to come quicker to see where we are going next.

Franchise fan or new comer will enjoy and I look forward to seeing this become a series for many years to come with the richness of characters that could lead to intriguing sub plot stories.

If the fan base rejected Alien vs Predator, how to cultivate an audience for Alien vs Peter Pan?

I think I am finally starting to understand the show runner's brilliant plan in this regard. Making a good show was probably too much of a challenge, so instead the plan was to make bad individual episodes. Not just bad, but shockingly inept in every way. That way, with a modicum of effort put into other episodes, they would by contrast look less bad. And less-bad would be mistaken for good, right?

This is meant to be one of those less-bad episodes. To make it not complete trash, the show runner, likely wrestling with intense inner conflict, hardened his resolve and removed any reference to Peter Pan, some deep down part of him understanding that these references spoil anything they touch.

But of course he didn't want the episode to enter actual good territory, because then the contrast game would work against him next episode when he returned to Peter Pan, and return he must, because Peter Pan is THE ENTIRE POINT OF THIS QUARTER-BILLION DOLLAR ENDEAVOR!

Therefore... remember Alien? This episode is like the original Alien, except with idiotic and obnoxious zoomers and a bunch of plot points that make no sense.

Witness the Machiavellian brilliance: they clearly added the obnoxious and idiotic zoomers in just to irritate the audience. That is because they are not aiming for good. They want their show to live, episode by episode, in the 1 to 3 out of 10 range. That is because they know, or rather the show runner knows, that Alien vs Peter Pan is a 2/10 concept at best.

Sadly, he missed the low mark he was aiming for this week and this episode is worthy only of 1/10. But he should be commended for having the courage to bring his Alien vs Peter Pan dream into fruition, and for concocting a low-effort scheme to maybe get a handful of people to like it, almost, if they pretend hard enough.