Alien: Earth Renewed For Second Season 59
FX has renewed Alien: Earth for a second season and signed creator Noah Hawley to a massive nine-figure overall deal with Disney Entertainment Television. Deadline reports: Inspired by Ridley Scott's sci-fi thriller film Alien, Hawley adapted the film franchise for television with the strong support of Scott Free and its president, David W. Zucker, who is an executive producer of the series. It earned a positive reaction from fans, posting a 94% Certified Fresh rating from Rotten Tomatoes and a Metacritic Must-Watch score of 85. "It has been our great privilege to work with Noah for more than a decade on some of FX's best and biggest shows, and we are thrilled to extend our partnership well into the future," said FX Chairman John Landgraf. "Noah never stops surprising us with truly original stories -- and his unique ability to bring them to vibrant life as a director and producer as well as writer makes him extraordinary. We can't wait to get to work on the next season of Alien: Earth, as well as some equally exciting future projects in advanced development."
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For me it was more the other way around, though still far from great. I only thought the ability to communicate with the xenomorph made an interesting twist.
The eyetopus's creepy high intelligence would be scary were it not for the eyetopus itself being like an idea a child came up with.
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Agreed, love it otherwise, but I'm a huge fan of the universe.
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It's a series, not a movie,
If they conveniently wrapped everything up in each episode, there wouldn't be a reason to make another episode, and there's more material to explore... this series happens before the first Alien movie, and depending on the end of this series, it could mesh into the first movie, and could maybe (in a roundabout way) explain the end of the fourth one
(And, the reason she can talk to the alien is that it imprinted on her, the same way animals will imprint on humans)
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Not me. Never heard of it.
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It is dead, Jim! (Score:3, Insightful)
It was arguably dead at Alien 3, it was certainly dead by Alien 4 and it has gone to dust by the multiple "reboots" since the 2010s.
Put it to rest and do something new and cool, like Alien was in 1979.
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Prometheus and Covenant weren't "reboots" really... they were prequels, although they kind of changed things a little bit (and could be taken to have rippling effects on the main four movies).
The newer two, at least the flashbacks showing the Engineers alive would take place way before Alien: Earth... potentially being how humanity came to be (in the movies).
Something to watch inbetween (Score:2)
I think the series had nothing of the mood that made the first movie so good, there was no tension at all, especially with all the dumb plot points and characters in it. The game Alien: Isolation did it correctly years ago and that would have been a way better base for a new series.
By the time season 2 is out and complete I'll probably watch it because I do like science fiction, but the same way I watched this one, when I feel like doing nothing and thinking the presence of the xenomorph is a coincidence.
Lo
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The second movie, Aliens, also didn't have the mood of the first movie, yet was still one of the best movies ever made (IMHO! of course). I don't think the feel of the original is necessary in sequels, and might even be so hard to recreate that it's borderline hubris to try.
I think that is the best attitude one can take. The "domestication" of the xeno is the weakest part of this TV series, b
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... might even be so hard to recreate that it's borderline hubris to try.
"Sheer. Fucking. Hubris."
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Well, at this point, the lack of tension is from the fact that every movie these days relies on the same devices to shock/surprise/jolt the audience, and people are used to the cat in the closet scare and the killer robot trope, so neither is scary anymore (not to mention, people are always on their phone these days... and I'm sure a lot of people have read a synopsis of the movie already before it comes out).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org] -- prequel
Not to mention, eventually, there's not going to really
I Loved the Show (Score:3)
Re: I Loved the Show (Score:2)
I with you. I liked it up until the last episode which was awful. I really only wanted this to be 1 season, not 4 dragged out over 7 years.
Jesus Wept (Score:3)
I'm a fan of the Alien franchise, but not such a fan I don't call out stupidity where it's deserved. I made it through two episodes before quitting in disgust. The outright idiocy on display in practically every scene had be wondering if the writers or director even knew the history of the Xenomorph at all.
Utter dreck, and later I understand they made the Xeno into a pet. Way to take one of the most terrifying creatures every unleashed onto the silver screen, and turn it into a puppy.
No way. This series, as well as the Predator franchise need to be buried.
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In the horror side of the genre, characters making stupid decisions in a moment which come to haunt them is normal -- it's part of the contract between the audience and the writing, to buy the bit. Characters feeling like they would fit in Idiocracy the TV seri
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I'm surprised you're a fan of the Alien franchise if people making bad decisions that get them or other people killed is a deal-breaker for you.
You clearly aren't a fan. If you were, you'd knew the precise movie where instead of being competent and making the right decisions and getting fucked anyway, the franchise turned to supposedly smart people doing dumb shit all the time.
Do you complain about salads at steakhouses too? (Score:1)
I'm a fan of the Alien franchise, but not such a fan I don't call out stupidity where it's deserved. I made it through two episodes before quitting in disgust. The outright idiocy on display in practically every scene had be wondering if the writers or director even knew the history of the Xenomorph at all.
Utter dreck, and later I understand they made the Xeno into a pet. Way to take one of the most terrifying creatures every unleashed onto the silver screen, and turn it into a puppy.
No way. This series, as well as the Predator franchise need to be buried.
You got that backwards. He understood the property well enough to know the xenomorph is pretty boring. It's an elite hunting animal. It has no emotion or motivation. I don't think you can make a good movie about it any more. It's been done. It will never live up to the first 2. Romulus was decent...but let's face it, Alien was a slasher movie in space that was accidentally good. It's just Halloween/Friday-the-13th in space, but that cast and monster were so good that it became a classic....by accide
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Not sure why people expect the same thing every time when the formula for taking the setting & concepts and applying a new genre was shown to work immensely well with Aliens. For me this series was the best thing to happen to the franchise since the first two. Prometheus has been the only one since that was interesting, but it really felt like things got chopped to hell in that movie, and there were some terrible decisions/motivations not explained, etc. The series delivered on the same old "alien in
Impressive attention to detail (Score:3)
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No, it's because the ships were built as cheaply as possible, even going as far as reusing older computer monitors (and probably last generations spaceship engines)... the monitors are there to give you info, not for watching movies on.
And, also... there's always a 'synthetic' onboard... the synth doesn't care about the fact that their monitor is only amber (they interface with MUTHER directly), and the crew is probably trained to not expect full-color video.
Alien: Abomination – has crash-landed (Score:1)
The show’s plot is an endless pa
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With Disney involved, I'm sure we all realize that the goal is to milk every penny possible from every property they own. Now, I don't see 5-year-olds wanting EyeSquid plushies to snuggle up with at night, and the Xenomorph language doesn't really lend itself to singing any catchy tunes, so maybe they're aiming at adult collectors of Alien swag?
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I'd love to have an EyeSquid plushie (a friend wants to make one).
Did y'all forget how to enjoy things? (Score:3, Interesting)
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Suck/not-suck aside, would you at least agree that it's as good as The Mandalorian?
Eyeball monster == Baby Yoda. So. Fucking. Cute.
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Excellent! (Score:3)
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So you don't want to watch anything on TV these days... must be quiet at your house.
Of course they renewed it (Score:2)
It was so good because it wasn't about the Alien (Score:2, Flamebait)
However, if you watch Alien Earth with an open mind and don't just look for things to complai
A second season? (Score:2)
I watched the first season. With each episode the show took a turn for the worse in my opinion. Completely scatter-brained story and plot. I'm really surprised this was green-lit for a second season. In three years when the second season comes out I won't even care (or probably even remember any of it).
Haters gonna hate (Score:2)
Negativity is cool I guess. I found the show has lots of interesting elements, for example:
The tension between cyborg, synth and hybrids; almost like a class/race hierarchy
Pondering what being one of the above means... are you still human? Is humanity about the intellect/mind/soul only, or also the physical body?
5 corporations basically running the world. William Gibson alluded to this in Neuromancer and other works. And I think it mirrors some current trends.
Billionaires/Trillionaires who live in la-la lan
I, for one, am happy they renewed it (Score:1)
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They did that with two flops of movies already... all because of the ending scene in Predator 2 (there's a xeno skull in the trophy case).
Ugh... this was awful. How do people like it? (Score:2)
I can't think of a sci-fi series that's more polarizing than this one in recent memory?
Even in my own group of friends, it runs about 50/50 that people either loved Alien Earth, or they thought it was trash.
I watched it because of a high recommendation from one guy I know, and tried to give it a chance. I had to stop after a few episodes. It was just painfully awful, IMO. I mean, sure - lots of money was poured into good special F/X and it's the creatures we all know from the long-running franchise. But the
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So, you haven't heard of/seen: Lost (especially towards the end), any of the Stargate series, Doctor Who (the recent seasons), can't really think of any other sci-fi series right now.
I think, what everyone should keep in mind is that this is only season 1... should they have packed the entire series' premise into one season? There's probably a big plan on paper in Ridley's office vault, don't know for sure.
I know that it ties into the first Alien movie's story... https://time.com/7308896/alien... [time.com]
I'm willin
Loved it (Score:1)
I'm still waiting for you (Score:3)
to notice that the entirety of Alien: Earth is an exact analogue to the race among billionaires for AGI. With all the same egos and all the same downstream consequences for the 99.9999% of the planet.