Alien: Earth episode 5 is the best Alien movie in 39 years
Alien: Earth episode 5 is the best Alien movie in 39 years
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Alien: Earth episode 5 is the best Alien movie in 39 years
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I gave up after the third episode. And it took a lot of effort to watch E02 and E03.
This is the first Alien production where I didn't really care what was going on.
I don't mind a novel take on a series, but this was merely a "mainstream adaption for a streaming service" production. I am good.
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You could watch episode 5 stand alone and it would be a complete story. You might not understand every little nuance (like Morrow being a cyborg and not a synth) but you'd still have a really awesome Alien movie.
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I don't mind new takes on a series and even occasional inconsistencies and unbelievable moments. For example, I really enjoyed the Aliens: Phalanx novel even though it suffers from many of the same issues I noticed in the first three episodes of Alien: Earth (distracting YA themes, unbelievable plot devices, plot pacing), but it offered it's own experience. While reading the novel, I was curious about the world, I wanted to find out what happens next.
I just didn't feel anything while watching the first three episodes, it felt like some random scenes without much point other than to make a somewhat generic Alien themed streaming mass market action-scifi show.
I might check out E05 at a later date. But for now, the series is on hold for me.
I will note that I didn't watch Foundation (not interested in watching a random show with a Foundation setting, it's like reading a fanfic) and I immediately dropped The Man in the High Castle after 1-2 episodes once I realized they merely took the setting and completely ignored the main point of the book.
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I did enjoy this episode more than the previous ones. My only gripe is why does the crew seem so “unprofessional”. They’re scientists and engineers yet can’t follow simple protocols. Hell, even the lady in the lab was so careless with handling foreign biological specimens. Maybe it’s because this is basically the level of people you get for a job that requires sacrificing 65 years of your life in space?
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It's just a combination of lazy writing and time constraints, we've seen it throughout the series. The biologists never have any concept of safety. Really the only film in which the idiocy made sense was Alien 3, since most of the cast were degenerate inmates.
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This whole series just feels like those fan-made Trek episodes you find on YouTube. Even episode five just felt like a rehash of the first Alien movie, only this time with a crew of idiots. The “scanner” was particularly laughably low budget — painted cardboard with a flashlight shining behind it as a stagehand jerkily moved it across the actor’s body.
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I have been enjoying the series immensely so I'm already biased but thst was a great episode considering the budget and time constraints.
I would have preferred it if they took the risk and pushed it to near two hours but obviously that blows screen time and money budgets.
I think its easy to forget that the entire seasons budget is about the same as a higher tier action film now, one episode is about a tenth of that, for just over an hours worth of content.
It has a larger number of sets which just eat up budget as its covering more areas. I think with that in mind its impressive.
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Agreed. That shit was fire.
I feel I have become out of touch. I like science fiction; I like themes of transhumanism, biotechnology and creepy parasites, but every time someone opens their mouth in this show; My eyes roll into the back of my head. I feel everything is too obvious and too telegraphed. It feels like the show wants to portray itself as smart, but it's just the same sci fi themes we've seen in American pop culture for the last 20 years served with some nice production values and no subtlety. It almost feels infantilized to me. I fell asleep with episode 4 and I am afraid to waste my time watching the rest.