Ubiquitous <
weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
I watched:
What did you watch?
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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