Alien: Earth

The entire show is like this: a bunch of teenagers fantasizing about suddenly gaining superpowers to handle all the adults they hate. One of them accidentally gets a vicious dog, she encourages the dog to bite and kill anyone who gets in her way, and finally sits on the roof declaring: "We rule."

Teenagers believe they have grenade in their hands makes them invincible, allowing them to act like adults but without the responsibilities or consequences of adult behavior.

I had such high expectations after 4 episodes. There were a multitude of characters with different motivations. And then slowly this show degraded into one dimensional storyline.

This show is more about synths than aliens. And there is no logic in anything the synths do. They are the most unlikeable protagonists. Are we supposed to root for the synths? By the end of the season I was rooting for the synths to die because they are so loathsome.

Like many, I had really high hopes for a new take on the franchise. And elements of the show did live up to my expectations, albeit only to be deeply overshadowed by a mess of a plot, and characters that made no sense.

I enjoyed the glimpses we got into the world-building with the mega-corporations, I enjoyed the creativity put into the new alien species, and I even enjoyed the take on the immortality trope as presented in the show.

But despite my readiness to check my disbelief at the door, no amount of blind-eye turning could allow me to just accept the stupidity of the decisions made by characters, or the nonsense plot holes that achieved nothing that a little more thought and care in the writing could have.

All that being said, episode 5 was exceptional. That alone could've been rewritten as a standalone cinematic sequel to the original Alien and Aliens, and IMO would've been accepted as a worthy finale to the trilogy.

This is exactly what Disney does to a beloved franchise.

Something that once stood as a symbol of fear, power, and mystery has now been reduced to a childish series that turns the terrifying Alien creature into something as harmless as a household pet!

Just wait for season two when the Alien decides to start a family, have kids, and live happily ever after alongside humans!

The best part, and maybe one of the only grown up scene of the show so far, which is the story of the ship carring the monsters, is abruptly fast forwarded so they can get fast to the part they can play and be Disney kids.

They are super fast, they can jump from the moon, yeah yeah, action starts and I was surprised they didnt sit on the floor and cried.

It is kinda of fair their excuse to use kids because of the growing brain and so, but in a super future world where you have no clue a giant space ship is gonna hit your planet, and you have technology from a 90's future perspective gives me the impression that reasonability was not the priority, but rather extract money from every age group possible.

Aimed to please shareholders, not fans.