The first two episodes have been fabulous. I particularly liked the nods towards the original film - especially the camera work in the scene with the crew waking from the cryogenic sleep. Slightly confusing range of characters, which took me time to get to grips with, but it’s been a great start.
You’ve skipped over Alien Romulus, which is the best thing done with the franchise since the first two movies. Fede Álvarez, the writer/director, was essentially saying to Ridley Scott, “You may not remember what you did in ‘79, but I sure do.”
It was hot garbage, got worse with each episode. The one watchable moment was the Maginot story, conveniently set on a carbon copy of the Nostromo interior, with the real enemy lurker being the hideously stupid lab tech. The rest of the show just nosedived and went from one abysmally illogically dumb thing to the next, until we got Lassie the Alien Doggo and the zany antics of the utterly moronic and inept human cast and zombie-like androids with dead kid memories. Yikes. Bare feet propped on tables and desks is apparently the new 'daring social commentary' if Starfleet Academy is any indicator. Gross.
The first two episodes have been fabulous. I particularly liked the nods towards the original film - especially the camera work in the scene with the crew waking from the cryogenic sleep. Slightly confusing range of characters, which took me time to get to grips with, but it’s been a great start.
You’ve skipped over Alien Romulus, which is the best thing done with the franchise since the first two movies. Fede Álvarez, the writer/director, was essentially saying to Ridley Scott, “You may not remember what you did in ‘79, but I sure do.”
It was hot garbage, got worse with each episode. The one watchable moment was the Maginot story, conveniently set on a carbon copy of the Nostromo interior, with the real enemy lurker being the hideously stupid lab tech. The rest of the show just nosedived and went from one abysmally illogically dumb thing to the next, until we got Lassie the Alien Doggo and the zany antics of the utterly moronic and inept human cast and zombie-like androids with dead kid memories. Yikes. Bare feet propped on tables and desks is apparently the new 'daring social commentary' if Starfleet Academy is any indicator. Gross.
So confused.
Alien Romulus was very good except for the unfortunate thing that has befallen a lot of Alien films: they couldn’t stick the landing. Literally.