Alien: Earth

[battlewraith]

 

Anyone watching this?

 

I'm actually not a big fan of the franchise, but the primary creative behind this is Noah Hawley who did Legion, among other things. 

I watched the first episode, which was promising. The main points of interest for me were:

 

1. The Earth is under the control of a handful of large corporations. A Weyland-Yutani ship bringing back alien specimens crash lands on a city controlled by another corporation that is developing technology for mind-swapped synthetic people. It's unclear how much of the narrative will involve conflict between the two corporations but it has already led to some deaths in the first episode.

 

2. A bunch of specimens were brought back, not just some face-huggers and a xenomorph.

[InvaderStych]

7 hours ago, battlewraith said:

Anyone watching this?

 

Yes. I was waiting for this since I first heard Hawley was showrunning. Love the way he's wrapped his signature onto the show while blending the feel of the first two movies. The art team knocked it out of the park as well. Everything looks exactly like it belongs in the original story-lines. Vehicles look like precursors to the ones we know and love, etc, etc.

 

Interestingly, the second episode (and three others) were directed by Dana Gonzales, who was the cinematographer for about half of the episodes of Legion.

 

Scoring is great as well, and very reminiscent of the score from Legion.

 

also ...

 

The Eye-Ball-Squid-Monster is as terrifying as I thought it would be when it was first shown.