Alien: Earth

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.

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 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'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.

Despite an interesting premise and promising first few scenes the show quickly returns to the mean of modern writing. Plot holes, contrivances, poorly written characters and no logical consistency. Things just...happen...with no real sense of cause and effect, or god forbid clear and consistent character motivations.

This and Romulus are just poor, pale imitations of two of cinemas greatest films in their respective genres. It's not a show for grown ups, or at least grown ups paying any attention. It's just a shallow run through the most basic or tropes and ideas.