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Pretty much resumed everything there, but let's detail more.

They show actually starts quite interesting, with three factions, synths, cyborgs and hybrids being explained. Enter a spaceship full of different alien creatures. Not bad.

Good atmosphere, some more interesting characters, the cyborg, some problematic human crew (some are really inexplicably stupid, who would hire someone like that for a job as complex and dangerous as this? Doesn't make sense..), which I think it's a poor and lazy excuse for trouble to happen. I'm sure a script can be written where characters are intelligent and still have problems. Just lazy, cliché writing.

Enter the worst of the show, the hybrids. Not conceptually which is an android body with a transplanted human consciousness, but because they use kids' minds. And not clever kids, just any random kid that's about to die. Unfortunately they're all idiots. The excuse is that adult minds wont adapt to the new bodies, but instantly we see how these kids fail to adapt and struggle to do the simplest tasks. Besides their effectiveness, they're very uninteresting, stupid and obnoxious, so it's really annoying to see that the show is entirely based on them and the Alien is pretty much a back thing appearing here and there.

Would have been WAY more interesting to se these hybrids as geniuses about to die, of any age, which would be more interesting as per their interaction between a mature mind, an open mind on its learning stage, a brave young adult, and so.. would make sense too that if you invested billions in these bodies, you'd use a clever mind, which is literally the reason, as the owner says, to have someone clever to talk to. He just wishes these random childish minds will be come geniuses, but he doesn't even try to teach them things or nurse their intellect in any way. It's absolute nonsense, specially coming from someone who calls himself "the boy genius" and doesn't do anything remotely clever in the whole show, quite a pathetic character.

The main character, one of these hybrids, even though apparently smarter and with leader capabilities, becomes a poorly excused demi god and an obnoxious excuse to introduce philosophy where it's not needed. Absolutely unbearable, I couldn't stop rolling my eyes through the las whole three episodes.

The Alien, the one we came to see, is barely an important character in the series, and definitely the worst version of I've seen so far, it's a mere dog pet for one of the characters, as stupid as a cold minded predator (so the character has been for so many instances) can be when hunting, and shown in plain day light completely ruining the way we always seen and felt the character so far. In these scenes, you can tell how much of a guy in a suit it is, and the movement of the Alien looks clunky and slow, nothing threatening at all.

Then, the fact that is called Alien Earth, many fans prefer seeing Alien in a space setting, I actually found the earth, city environment a very interesting setting, I actually thought this many years ago, thinking of Predator 2, always wondered about the possibilities. Finally I get to see it, and a series was so exciting, since it gives lots of time to develop the atmosphere, characters and situation, but the settings are actually a spaceship and a laboratory in an island in the middle of the sea, so.. not much of what I expected.. huge disappointment.

Some interesting points were the atmosphere on the first half of the season, the cyborg, the synth and the introduction of more alien species to the lab, but these at any point actually interact with the Alien, so quite a wasted opportunity and a pointless addition.. As it ends, I doubt I'll be seeing how this advances, since it just opens to more about the most annoying characters just being what they are but in a bigger scale.. hard pass.

Overall, a terrible script with some good production value, some enormously annoying selection of main characters and very few interesting ones to hold on to.

A terribly huge disappointment, I'd rate it lower as I feel so bad about this show, but I guess there are some good things I enjoyed in there.

I don't think it's a bad film, but I'm actually quite disappointed in comparison with the expectations Prey generated in me.

I felt this one was aiming too hard for the PG12, being too funny, pushing humour and cute stuff in there, and I didn't connect with it.

I was actually expecting something more serious and dark, following the previous instances of Predator movies.

I also wasn't a fan of the main character design, in terms of face and costume.

I liked the brother and the father, but somehow they choose the weakest design for the main character.

The secondary characters weren't very interesting for me, I don't thing the chemistry was good, and the cute little pet kind of character is an absolute no go for me, not for a Predator movie.

It really felt like the people paying for it was again getting in the way of the creatives.. The premise is interesting, the production value is good, the action is decent, but I wasn't a fan of characters and actual story.

It's a decent watch though, but I feel it's not at the level in any way in comparison with Prey, I hope the director goes back to the previous track..

In general it's a fun movie, with some decent performances, but it's quite light-hearted, which maybe some won't appreciate, and some of the legendary people appearing on the story are portrayed in a very (too) cartoony manner.. Still, it's a fun watch and will probably get you looking up some more about these events.

It's definitely a very important piece of music history which is worth telling and knowing!

Light-hearted or not, it's worth watching.