Sorry for the late notice. I hope to get the weekly programming list
posted soon.

--Robin



Alien: Earth [new] (8 and 9 pm, two episodes, FX)

The 46-year-old Alien film franchise moves to TV for the first time with
a prequel series created by Noah Hawley (who previously created the TV
version of Fargo for FX) and produced in part by original Alien director Ridley Scott. Set two years before the events of the first film (in
other words, nearly a century into the future from today), "Alien:
Earth" is the first entry in the franchise to take place on Earth—one
that is governed by five rival mega-corporations, one of which is
developing new robot-human hybrids. When Weyland-Yutani's mysterious
deep space research vessel crash lands back on Earth, a group of
tactical soldiers investigates—and we're guessing that you already
suspect what they'll find on board. Sydney Chandler (Sugar) heads a cast
that also includes Timothy Olyphant, Alex Lawther, Essie Davis, and
Samuel Blenkin. The first two episodes debut today on both FX and Hulu,
with the remaining six episodes arriving one per week on subsequent
Tuesdays through Sept. 23. Regular time is 8 pm only.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbsiKjVAV28

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqIi3N9dusk

https://www.metacritic.com/tv/alien-earth/
[score 85]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13623632/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien:_Earth


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On 8/12/25 5:06 PM, Robin Miller wrote:

Sorry for the late notice. I hope to get the weekly programming list
posted soon.

--Robin

Alien: Earthÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ [new]ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ (8 and 9 pm, two episodes, FX)

The 46-year-old Alien film franchise moves to TV for the first time with
a prequel series created by Noah Hawley (who previously created the TV version of Fargo for FX) and produced in part by original Alien director Ridley Scott. Set two years before the events of the first film (in
other words, nearly a century into the future from today), "Alien:
Earth" is the first entry in the franchise to take place on Earth—one
that is governed by five rival mega-corporations, one of which is
developing new robot-human hybrids. When Weyland-Yutani's mysterious
deep space research vessel crash lands back on Earth, a group of
tactical soldiers investigates—and we're guessing that you already
suspect what they'll find on board. Sydney Chandler (Sugar) heads a cast that also includes Timothy Olyphant, Alex Lawther, Essie Davis, and
Samuel Blenkin. The first two episodes debut today on both FX and Hulu,
with the remaining six episodes arriving one per week on subsequent
Tuesdays through Sept. 23. Regular time is 8 pm only.

I'm going to wait for all of the episodes to drop - hopefully by later
Sept., I'll have enough time to actually binge this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbsiKjVAV28

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqIi3N9dusk

https://www.metacritic.com/tv/alien-earth/
[score 85]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13623632/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien:_Earth

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Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

On 8/12/25 5:06 PM, Robin Miller wrote:

Sorry for the late notice. I hope to get the weekly programming list
posted soon.

--Robin



Alien: Earthÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ [new]ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ (8 and 9 pm, two episodes, FX)

The 46-year-old Alien film franchise moves to TV for the first time with
a prequel series created by Noah Hawley (who previously created the TV
version of Fargo for FX) and produced in part by original Alien director
Ridley Scott. Set two years before the events of the first film (in
other words, nearly a century into the future from today), "Alien:
Earth" is the first entry in the franchise to take place on Earth—one
that is governed by five rival mega-corporations, one of which is
developing new robot-human hybrids. When Weyland-Yutani's mysterious
deep space research vessel crash lands back on Earth, a group of
tactical soldiers investigates—and we're guessing that you already
suspect what they'll find on board. Sydney Chandler (Sugar) heads a cast
that also includes Timothy Olyphant, Alex Lawther, Essie Davis, and
Samuel Blenkin. The first two episodes debut today on both FX and Hulu,
with the remaining six episodes arriving one per week on subsequent
Tuesdays through Sept. 23. Regular time is 8 pm only.

I'm going to wait for all of the episodes to drop - hopefully by later Sept., I'll have enough time to actually binge this.

Big rancid burning onion of deep stupidity.

I was deeply disappointed by episode one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbsiKjVAV28

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqIi3N9dusk

https://www.metacritic.com/tv/alien-earth/
[score 85]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13623632/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien:_Earth

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Robin Miller <robin.miller@invalid.invalid> wrote:

Sorry for the late notice. I hope to get the weekly programming list
posted soon.

--Robin

Alien: Earth [new] (8 and 9 pm, two episodes, FX)

The 46-year-old Alien film franchise moves to TV for the first time with
a prequel series created by Noah Hawley (who previously created the TV version of Fargo for FX) and produced in part by original Alien director Ridley Scott. Set two years before the events of the first film (in
other words, nearly a century into the future from today), "Alien:
Earth" is the first entry in the franchise to take place on Earth—one
that is governed by five rival mega-corporations, one of which is
developing new robot-human hybrids. When Weyland-Yutani's mysterious
deep space research vessel crash lands back on Earth, a group of
tactical soldiers investigates—and we're guessing that you already
suspect what they'll find on board. Sydney Chandler (Sugar) heads a cast that also includes Timothy Olyphant, Alex Lawther, Essie Davis, and
Samuel Blenkin. The first two episodes debut today on both FX and Hulu,
with the remaining six episodes arriving one per week on subsequent
Tuesdays through Sept. 23. Regular time is 8 pm only.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbsiKjVAV28

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqIi3N9dusk

https://www.metacritic.com/tv/alien-earth/
[score 85]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13623632/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien:_Earth

Robin and Ob Veeus and I discuss the first episode of ALIEN EARTH

Robin:

ALIEN EARTH has its premiere tonight at 8pm (FX and FX on Hulu).

Ob

I've been looking forward to this, so hopefully it will be good.

Moi

Thanks for the reminder, added to my watchlist

On
This was a disappointing start to the series. Basically, they are in a
future (2 years before the first ALIEN film) where 5 corporations control
Earth and the future of humanity is Cyborgs (people with robot part enhancements), Synths (artificial intelligent robots), and Hybrids (humans "transferred" into Synth bodies). Half the characters in the show are kids
in adult bodies acting like kids...maybe fun for the actors, but annoying
to watch. The head of one of the corporations is a "boy genius" (now adult that risks all his best toys on whims and watches them through their eyes
via low quality video. Beyond that, the premise is that a ship full of different dangerous alien species crash lands on Earth (seemingly no
warning even though it collided with another ship in orbit) and all the beasties get out. I only liked 3 of the characters (the sister Synth and
her brother and Timothy Oliphant's weird Synth robot character. Meanwhile, given the level of disaster at the crash site, I'm having a hard time
believing that the people in subsequent timeline series had no knowledge of these aliens. What the series needs is more science and less "jump
scares".

Moi
You liked it a lot more than I did and both of us liked it a lot more than
IMDB seems to have.

I only watched the first episode and I’m not sure if I’ll go for any more. So we start with a ship returning to earth and everybody wakes up out of suspended animation to have a meal and then goes back into suspended
animation for another four months. Now I understand why they did this,
because they are echoing a couple of scenes from the original movie, but
there was absolutely no freaking reason plot wise to wake these guys up at
this point. Then the ship continues engines blazing all the way to earth
which means it must’ve been going hellishly fast when it got there. And it hits the city and damages the building. A ship that size going ridiculously fast would take out the whole city. If they were lucky. And probably
vaporize itself in the process.

I don’t know what the hell that ring it hit in lunar orbit was.

They put all the crippled kids in “adult“ synthetic bodies, but they all still look really young. If you were building bodies to put these kids in, wouldn’t they look like Christopher Reeve circa 1978?

Oh, and that opening shot of earth where they rotate the camera 90ø, but
the sun in the background doesn’t go with it, just made me freaking angry.

The web is all excited because a future episode will be directed by the
first female Icelandic Director, or something. Because only that person can bring gravitas to the alien franchise. Gag me with a spoon.




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On 8/13/2025 3:58 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:

Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

On 8/12/25 5:06 PM, Robin Miller wrote:

Sorry for the late notice. I hope to get the weekly programming list
posted soon.

--Robin



Alien: Earthÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ [new]ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ (8 and 9 pm, two episodes, FX)

The 46-year-old Alien film franchise moves to TV for the first time with >>> a prequel series created by Noah Hawley (who previously created the TV
version of Fargo for FX) and produced in part by original Alien director >>> Ridley Scott. Set two years before the events of the first film (in
other words, nearly a century into the future from today), "Alien:
Earth" is the first entry in the franchise to take place on Earth—one
that is governed by five rival mega-corporations, one of which is
developing new robot-human hybrids. When Weyland-Yutani's mysterious
deep space research vessel crash lands back on Earth, a group of
tactical soldiers investigates—and we're guessing that you already
suspect what they'll find on board. Sydney Chandler (Sugar) heads a cast >>> that also includes Timothy Olyphant, Alex Lawther, Essie Davis, and
Samuel Blenkin. The first two episodes debut today on both FX and Hulu,
with the remaining six episodes arriving one per week on subsequent
Tuesdays through Sept. 23. Regular time is 8 pm only.

I'm going to wait for all of the episodes to drop - hopefully by later
Sept., I'll have enough time to actually binge this.

Big rancid burning onion of deep stupidity.

I was deeply disappointed by episode one.
...

I told me so.



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On Aug 13, 2025 at 7:04:28 AM PDT, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

Robin Miller <robin.miller@invalid.invalid> wrote:

Sorry for the late notice. I hope to get the weekly programming list
posted soon.

--Robin



Alien: Earth [new] (8 and 9 pm, two episodes, FX)

The 46-year-old Alien film franchise moves to TV for the first time with >> a prequel series created by Noah Hawley (who previously created the TV
version of Fargo for FX) and produced in part by original Alien director >> Ridley Scott. Set two years before the events of the first film (in
other words, nearly a century into the future from today), "Alien:
Earth" is the first entry in the franchise to take place on Earth—one
that is governed by five rival mega-corporations, one of which is
developing new robot-human hybrids. When Weyland-Yutani's mysterious
deep space research vessel crash lands back on Earth, a group of
tactical soldiers investigates—and we're guessing that you already
suspect what they'll find on board. Sydney Chandler (Sugar) heads a cast >> that also includes Timothy Olyphant, Alex Lawther, Essie Davis, and
Samuel Blenkin. The first two episodes debut today on both FX and Hulu,
with the remaining six episodes arriving one per week on subsequent
Tuesdays through Sept. 23. Regular time is 8 pm only.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbsiKjVAV28

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqIi3N9dusk

https://www.metacritic.com/tv/alien-earth/
[score 85]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13623632/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien:_Earth

Robin and Ob Veeus and I discuss the first episode of ALIEN EARTH

Robin:

ALIEN EARTH has its premiere tonight at 8pm (FX and FX on Hulu).

Ob

I've been looking forward to this, so hopefully it will be good.

Moi

Thanks for the reminder, added to my watchlist

On
This was a disappointing start to the series. Basically, they are in a future (2 years before the first ALIEN film) where 5 corporations control Earth and the future of humanity is Cyborgs (people with robot part enhancements), Synths (artificial intelligent robots), and Hybrids (humans "transferred" into Synth bodies). Half the characters in the show are kids in adult bodies acting like kids...maybe fun for the actors, but annoying
to watch. The head of one of the corporations is a "boy genius" (now adult that risks all his best toys on whims and watches them through their eyes
via low quality video. Beyond that, the premise is that a ship full of different dangerous alien species crash lands on Earth (seemingly no
warning even though it collided with another ship in orbit) and all the beasties get out. I only liked 3 of the characters (the sister Synth and
her brother and Timothy Oliphant's weird Synth robot character. Meanwhile, given the level of disaster at the crash site, I'm having a hard time believing that the people in subsequent timeline series had no knowledge of these aliens. What the series needs is more science and less "jump
scares".

Moi
You liked it a lot more than I did and both of us liked it a lot more than IMDB seems to have.

I only watched the first episode and I’m not sure if I’ll go for any more.
So we start with a ship returning to earth and everybody wakes up out of suspended animation to have a meal and then goes back into suspended animation for another four months. Now I understand why they did this, because they are echoing a couple of scenes from the original movie, but there was absolutely no freaking reason plot wise to wake these guys up at this point

I got the impression that it was a shift change. One crew was waking up while the current crew on duty went back into the freezers.

Then the ship continues engines blazing all the way to earth
which means it must’ve been going hellishly fast when it got there. And it hits the city and damages the building.

I did notice that when the search and rescue guys are going through the wreckage they passed by a little kitchenette area and the coffee mugs were still sitting neatly on the counter by the sink as if the entire ship hadn’t just slammed down onto a planet or anything.

And this Alien doesn’t seem interested in creating a hive. He takes no prisoners!

I read in some article online that they are not considering PROMETHEUS and COVENANT to be canon for purposes of this show, which is fine with me.

Regardless of the nits, I liked the first two episodes and look forward to the rest.



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In article <107gn61$3ke8f$1@dont-email.me>, ijball@mac.invalid wrote:

I'm going to wait for all of the episodes to drop - hopefully by later >Sept., I'll have enough time to actually binge this.

I watched the first ep on-demand tonight. I'm intrigued.

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In article <107iohb$2949$1@dont-email.me>, atropos@mac.com wrote:

On Aug 13, 2025 at 7:04:28 AM PDT, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

Then the ship continues engines blazing all the way to earth
which means it must've been going hellishly fast when it got there.
And it hits the city and damages the building.

Obviously, the ship's automated air brakes were on.

I did notice that when the search and rescue guys are going through the >wreckage they passed by a little kitchenette area and the coffee mugs were >still sitting neatly on the counter by the sink as if the entire ship hadn't >just slammed down onto a planet or anything.

I didn't notice, but maybe the interia bufffers were still wotking there (If you have artifical gravity, you should be able to do that, right?).


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Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

In article <107iohb$2949$1@dont-email.me>, atropos@mac.com wrote:

On Aug 13, 2025 at 7:04:28 AM PDT, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

Then the ship continues engines blazing all the way to earth
which means it must've been going hellishly fast when it got there.
And it hits the city and damages the building.

Obviously, the ship's automated air brakes were on.

I did notice that when the search and rescue guys are going through the
wreckage they passed by a little kitchenette area and the coffee mugs were >> still sitting neatly on the counter by the sink as if the entire ship hadn't >> just slammed down onto a planet or anything.

I didn't notice, but maybe the interia bufffers were still wotking there (If you have artifical gravity, you should be able to do that, right?).

Then why did the guy have to hide in the crashproof room that you can only
get to from within the computer room that only he can get to?

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anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:

Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

In article <107iohb$2949$1@dont-email.me>, atropos@mac.com wrote:

On Aug 13, 2025 at 7:04:28 AM PDT, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

Then the ship continues engines blazing all the way to earth
which means it must've been going hellishly fast when it got there.
And it hits the city and damages the building.

Obviously, the ship's automated air brakes were on.

I did notice that when the search and rescue guys are going through the
wreckage they passed by a little kitchenette area and the coffee mugs
were still sitting neatly on the counter by the sink as if the entire
ship hadn't just slammed down onto a planet or anything.

I didn't notice, but maybe the interia bufffers were still wotking there
(If you have artifical gravity, you should be able to do that, right?).

Then why did the guy have to hide in the crashproof room that you can only >get to from within the computer room that only he can get to?

You saw what happened to the other people, right? :-)

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Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:

Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

In article <107iohb$2949$1@dont-email.me>, atropos@mac.com wrote:

On Aug 13, 2025 at 7:04:28 AM PDT, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

Then the ship continues engines blazing all the way to earth
which means it must've been going hellishly fast when it got there. >>>>> And it hits the city and damages the building.

Obviously, the ship's automated air brakes were on.

I did notice that when the search and rescue guys are going through the >>>> wreckage they passed by a little kitchenette area and the coffee mugs >>>> were still sitting neatly on the counter by the sink as if the entire >>>> ship hadn't just slammed down onto a planet or anything.

I didn't notice, but maybe the interia bufffers were still wotking there >>> (If you have artifical gravity, you should be able to do that, right?).

Then why did the guy have to hide in the crashproof room that you can only >> get to from within the computer room that only he can get to?

You saw what happened to the other people, right? :-)

Then the inertia buffers are not working.

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On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 05:48:31 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:

Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

In article <107iohb$2949$1@dont-email.me>, atropos@mac.com wrote:

On Aug 13, 2025 at 7:04:28 AM PDT, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote: >>

Then the ship continues engines blazing all the way to earth
which means it must've been going hellishly fast when it got there. >>>>>> And it hits the city and damages the building.

Obviously, the ship's automated air brakes were on.

I did notice that when the search and rescue guys are going through the >>>>> wreckage they passed by a little kitchenette area and the coffee mugs >>>>> were still sitting neatly on the counter by the sink as if the entire >>>>> ship hadn't just slammed down onto a planet or anything.

I didn't notice, but maybe the interia bufffers were still wotking there >>>> (If you have artifical gravity, you should be able to do that, right?). >>>

Then why did the guy have to hide in the crashproof room that you can only >>> get to from within the computer room that only he can get to?

You saw what happened to the other people, right? :-)

Then the inertia buffers are not working.

I haven't watched this yet but if this is set years before the original
Alien movie, how in hell do they explain the huge plot hole they created? In Alien and Aliens it was pointed out that humans had never encountered the Xenomorphs before.

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memyself@null.net wrote:

I haven't watched this yet but if this is set years before the original
Alien movie, how in hell do they explain the huge plot hole they created?
In Alien and Aliens it was pointed out that humans had never encountered
the Xenomorphs before.

They haven't, but it explains why the replicant in the movie had orders to
get samples.

I suspect the incident will be covered up byh the corporations.


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