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.

[Voltor]

As I recall in the first movie, the corporation already knew about the Xenomorphs. Now we will know how they learned of them. 

 

 

 

Also the people being ported/copied/transferred into the new synth bodies,  this was how the original cyborg hero 8-man was created.  A dead/dying person's brainwaves transferred into the cybernetic brain of the robotic 8-man body.  Total body prosthesis, no original organic parts.

Edited 8 hours ago by Voltor

[ThaOGDreamWeaver]

Spoilery stuff ahoy:

Spoiler

There were five species they said they brought back.

• Classic Xenomorph
• Ocellus (Eye jellyfish)
• Leech/Tick creature
• Giant Venus Flytrap (I initially thought this was a Half-Life Barnacle-y thing)
• ...?

Any idea what the fifth one is - given the sixth episode is called Fly...?

Are there any more horrors they're saving for the reveal - or other kinds of hybrids?

 

[battlewraith]

4 hours ago, Voltor said:

Also the people being ported/copied/transferred into the new synth bodies,  this was how the original cyborg hero 8-man was created.  A dead/dying person's brainwaves transferred into the cybernetic brain of the robotic 8-man body.  Total body prosthesis, no original organic parts.

Edited 4 hours ago by Voltor

 

This is actually the most horrific aspect of the show for me. The conceit is that the hybrid synths have been mind swapped--as if the mind were something akin to a soul that could be moved from one housing to another. The kids were sacrificed in order to create synthetic replica minds with immortal bodies.

 

This suggests a scenario where the deluded, vulnerable, or talented, if not the whole human race, could be enticed to commit suicide in favor of the creation of synthetic dopplegangers.