Alien: Earth [Thriller, Sci-Fi, Horror] (Page 1 of 6)

Most of the trailer looks better than expected, so I'm still looking forward to this!

On-Set Dispatches: First Look | Alien: Earth | FX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxnQGWEWiCY

Yes, yes, YES!

Yeah - I know - Right?  I thought the same thing.

No.  I don't think so.  Remember

If I had to guess…  The Expanse did amazing world building in the early episode and it cost them viewers.  How many of us have to convince our friends "Just get through the first 5 episodes because there's so much world building going on for this show-Then you'll be hooked." If I had to guess the team for this was avoiding that trap.

Episode 1+2 of "How to destroy an IP", don't think there is any way back from this. They can probably squeeze a bunch of money out of a dwindling fanbase but it's done, it's only downhill from here.

Boring AF.  What LuC said.

I think the first 2 episodes where world building and character setup, but somehow I agree with you. The Series feels a bit off.

The characters do not make sense. And where the heck is the training?

I mean that one idiot is just blabbing everything and ruining it for the main character.

So, I will wait and see. But I do not have high hopes.

Good call paisley1 and Luc and Kanga.

We shall see if this improves.

Yeah, it can't improve. The show has already destroyed the magic of Alien.

Alien is about you know.. terror of not knowing whether it's stalking you or not, meanwhile in this show it has had so much screentime that you can clearly tell that it's a guy in a suit. Instead we get bloody exposè, one-on-one action scenes, almost marvel-like superheroes.

It's supposed to be about that terror of the unknown but this show is being used as a form of contemporary critique of techbros instead, I bloody hate those guys too but I came to watch unknown terror.

I enjoyed it with the mindset of This is the world building start of a new show.

Just the same as how The Expanse required you to get through the first 5-6 episodes of world building.  So many people dropped The Expanse because the start was "boring".  Yet it lives on as one of the greatest sci-fi series ever and continues to be praised even now, years later.

I don't think Alien: Earth will get that level of praise years later.  (Nor will just about any show live up to The Expanse)
But I do consider these first few episodes to be the world-building investment phase of the show.  And you can see it getting better with the s01e03 teaser where:

Olyphant just owns most scenes he's in from any show and I'm looking forward to 'Marshal Raylin Kirsh' coming through more with each episode.

Tough crowd.

Alien stuff is generally a bit too heebie jeebie for me but I really enjoyed ep 1, kept me attentive throughout.

I've probably watched Aliens about 20 times over the years, it released when I was a late teen so it grabbed me by the balls, one of my favourite films for sure.
I wasn't expecting much from this TV series tbh, I thought it would just take a few random characters and shove them into the universe somehow.
As some have mentioned there are a few gripes I would have done a little different, but I am really surprised and happy about the direction they have gone in.

The sound is also great, I get a little smile on my face when I recognise something from the films.
Looking forward to the rest!

The first half of the 3rd episode was really hard to live through...

Second half, bit better.

But

At the moment, the only reason to watch the show is 'Marshal Raylin Kirsh' as SgtSaint correctly identified.

All I know is, if I had a billion dollar synth, I would ensure it was trained with surveillance, combat etc etc, skills. Before I send it anywhere.

There has to be some kind of logic here. I guess I am missing it.