Alien: Earth (FX) • Page 15

Well that was .......certainly an ending.

Damn and I was hyped going into it too.

 

what was the point of the whole thing about Nibs being pregnant too? I get wiping her mind was what led to Wendy realising she couldn't trust the adults but it seemed like it was going to actually lead to something else and just got dropped

 

What a fumble. Echoing what's already been stated but dang so disappointing. I was down for the show and premise too, warts and all. I don't even know that I want to this thing to move forward, or that I'll even watch next season tbh

 

Can’t believe how much they fumbled the finale. I was fully on board until that.

 

Yeah the eyeball getting to the beach was dumb

 

there were moments of this finale that i liked, but so much of this is banking on the hope that a season 2 is down the line (it probably is), that it didn't feel as fulfilling as i would've liked. agree with everyone that the creatures took more of a backseat than expected (even if i liked a handful of the character-driven elements).

i think there was an assumption that having these creatures on Earth could open the door for more interesting commentary on corporations co-opting science for a profit (as has been demonstrated in the movies, just with a different angle here), but we really don't get that with the creatures, and are just now building to two of the five corporations really fighting to make that happen.

if you want to focus it on the angle exhibited in the show's opening text (synthetics vs cyborgs vs hybrids), there's not much there either. sure, you could say the creation and use of the hybrids is co-opting biomedical advancements for profit without full knowledge of the side effects, but the plotline feels like it has a clear, slightly uninteresting way it wants to approach that subject matter (i.e. the hybrids gaining autonomy over their creators). and by the end of the season, i don't feel like that the synth vs. cyborg vs. hybrid plotline felt consequential. we know the endpoint is that synthetics are the preferred form of artificial/biomechanical life (as evidenced by the movies), but there could be interesting ways to explore how those beings process their existence and co-optation, and it felt like we only scratched the surface of that with characters like Morrow, Kirsh, etc. seeing those internal conflicts exhibited in the hybrids was interesting at first, but felt repetitive when trying to explore it with six different characters.

idk, i liked most of this season overall, but i don't know where they're going, and i don't know if i have confidence that they'll stick the landing just yet.

 

Yeah fart noises. Overall pretty meh show. Best episode was the flashback to what happened on the ship.

 

I liked it! I just wish a show didn't end on the penultimate episode again. have an ending! what's up with this lately? budget shit?

 

That was the worst episode for me because of how ridiculously dumb everybody on board was aside from Morrow lol

 

tbh I think where this went wrong was they drastically overestimated how much people would get invested in the hybrid kids and vastly underestimated how much we'd all want to see a Xeno tear through half the cast

 

The hybrid kids were just all over the place. An idea I already don’t love that was executed poorly.

 

I liked the robot kids. I think what Noah Hawley and Ridley Scott and I have in common is we think the robot stuff is more interesting than the slobbery dick monsters

 

each to their own but I don't know if Ridley really agrees with that haha. it was apparently Disney's decision not to have xenos in Prometheus and they backpedalled real quick by the time Covenant came around

 

I've seen prometheus and covenant. either he loves those robos or he's just a huge Fasshead

 

I have to be honest I couldn’t really muster up enough interest to keep going after episode 4. Sucks.

 

I will say that episode 5 was a highlight

 

Yeah I did see that. I’ll probably try it. Don’t care for robot kids at all. Don’t like boy kavalier.

 

but Disney didn't buy Fox until after Covenant? do you mean it was Fox's decision?

 

The actual synths are cool. The kids in synth bodies are dumb and bad.

 

Yeah don’t think Disney was involved with Prometheus

 

I did like the Jurassic Park (OG) vibes I picked up in the final episode.

 

I also thought E7 was the finale so E8 was all bonus content for me haha. Whoops.

 

I probably do and was talking out of my ass apparently lol my bad

 

man what a dumb finale

 

I thought it was a neat idea. But the reality of a bunch of actors in their late 20's/early 30's acting like 10 years olds is just annoying in execution.