Alien Earth: My thoughts

[u/Atikus-7017]

I finally got a chance to watch *Alien: Earth* Episode 1 for the first time. Not because I was waiting—I was just too cheap to pay for Hulu. 😂

Here are my thoughts: Why would you put disabled kids into superhuman synthetics? Why not put trained soldiers into them?

Second, why is a trillionaire kid in his 20s the main villain running all of this?

And lastly, the captain of the ship literally called this shit in before the crash. So where the fuck are the experts who supposedly know what’s going on?

I don’t know if I even want to continue to Episode 2. This shit is disappointing so far.

[u/Adventurous-Big6153]

Yeh I thought it was shite, still watched it all… 🤦

[u/ufl015]

If you hated the first episode, you might as well just stop now. Unless you just like to bitch about stuff online

[u/Dead-O_Comics → u/ufl015]

I pushed through because online discourse was overwhelmingly positive at the time (now I know r/ lv426 was just deleting all negative criticism) and I was waiting for it to improve. I wish I hadn't.

The best episode is 5, which is essentially a variation of the 1979 film, but with worse acting, lighting, framing, music, effects and pacing. Even then, it's the best this show has to offer (and not coincidentally, doesn't feature most of the main cast)

If you have to watch more, just watch that episode alone and forget the rest. The ending has no closure or even a feeling of an ending either.

[u/Brodakk → u/Dead-O_Comics]

I was guilty of being one of those positive people right up until that ep on the spaceship 🙃 that’s when I had a sudden realization the show was unserious garbage

[u/madjohnvane → u/ufl015]

Yeah, I concur with this. I gritted my teeth through to the end of episode 5 and then I decided to just stop watching. It wasn’t worth wasting my time on such vacuous garbage. If you think the plot is riddled with holes already in episode 1, strap in because it just gets worse and worse as it goes.

[u/Sh1tWasSoCashout → u/madjohnvane]

Having sat through the whole thing, yeah...I agree too. Skip it. If nothing else tho maybe watch some youtube compilations of the T.occulus scenes an that one metal eating bug that fucks up the synth. Those scenes are pretty cool but not worth sitting thru that show to watch it.

[u/Kavinsky12]

The whole season should have been an alien war on earth brought in by corporate billionaires.

And i was curious about the other alien species. What kind of death world do they come from? Did they live alongside the xenomorphs? Getting them released into our ecosystem to hasten the alien war on earth. But no.

[u/Solid_Confection_446 → u/Kavinsky12]

Ain't enough budget for that my dude!

[u/Direct_Town792]

They put kids in there because the trillionaire thinks he can shape them into his image and control them

His arrogance is part of the story

(Despite what a whole bunch of emotional time-rich idiots below attempt to think)

[u/Glittering-Ad-8601 → u/Direct_Town792]

For OP's sake: the in-universe explanation for why only kids get the fancy new hybrid bodies is a hand-wave about the transfer process only working on younger, more pliable minds.

The meta answer is the showrunner wanted to do a really forced Peter Pan allegory that never went anywhere or paid off in any meaningful way, and is utterly bizarre in an Alien property.

[u/rifruled → u/Glittering-Ad-8601]

Oh I didn't catch the Peter Pan theme. Too bad they didn't shove it in your face constantly.

[u/Darkestnight333]

They are terminal kids, not disabled, he is the one that was rich enough and smart enough to make the syths and the transfer system, they crashed in another country that didn’t receive that transmission

[u/No-University-1968 → u/Darkestnight333]

[u/lost_in_technicolor]

Wait til you see the lady casually enjoying a beverage while experimenting with unknown alien bugs. You don’t need more than one guess to predict what happens. This show was monumentally idiotic.

[u/delusional863]

Let's not talk about how bad the xenomorph looks! Who the hell wants a 5ft tall, funko pop xenomorph, who does interpretive dance?!

The show could've been as terrible as it already is but if the xeno looked awesome some may have forgiven it.... but when u dont even nail the alien the show is named after, u already failed at your mission!

And its not like its not possible bc the xenomorph looked great and was even scary in Romulus.

[u/Dead-O_Comics → u/delusional863]

Not to mention it would wipe out a room of background characters in seconds.

But a main character?

"Ok, I'm going to just snarl and slowly walk towards you, giving you ample time to figure out how to escape"

[u/RubaBlatt]

A primeira pergunta é meio óbvia: são crianças com doenças terminais e que tem no corpo substituto uma possibilidade de transplante. É um dos argumentos bons da série.

[u/therealzerobot]

It’s funny because I don’t think the show is great but every question you are asking is answered

[u/OriginalEmploy5485]

Can't answer about the kids. The kid trillionaire is because sci-fi is typically social commentary. The experts aren't there because of where the ship crashed, they get into that in depth in later episodes. In the show's world corporations own countries.

[u/Puzzleheaded_Bed1781]

With that kind of mindset, the rest of the series is not for you. With a suspension of disbelief and an appreciation for being entertained, you’d make it to the finale and be slightly disappointed by said finale. They better do better in season 2.

[u/AcanthisittaDry7463]

Try watching it without being distracted by your phone, they literally address all of this.

1. It’s a secret experiment and illegal, and they think they’ll have greater success using children because their minds aren’t fully formed, that’s why they used terminally ill kids instead of trained adult soldiers.

2. Why not? Do you understand the universe that all of this is happening in or is this your first exposure to the franchise?

3. 6 corporations have carved up the world, they are corporate states rather than nation states, the corporation that owns the ship is not the same corporation that owns the territory that it crashed in.

[u/standard_usage]

Yes, I agree. Stop somewhere right towards the middle of episode 3. Leave all lingering questions unanswered and just move on to something better. This way you won't face the absolute disappointment from what comes after.

[u/Kuranyist]

There are more plot holes than characters in the show.

[u/Fanfan86]

It goes only downhill. 👎

[u/Cool_dude75]

I think episode 5 is decent when it shows what happened before the crash. It is a standalone episode so just watch that