Alien: Earth (FX) • Page 16

it seems like a good idea but it really needs to be executed well, which it clearly wasn’t here. I think having so many kids didn’t help either. Some of the stuff with Wendy was kind of cool but her being a god by the end just didn’t work for me.

 

we definitely didn't need six of them. at some point it felt like most of their individual plot arcs were just "i'm a kid in an adult synthetic body" and not much else.

 

3 had arcs then 1 just said aww shucks a lot, 1 wanted to be the favorite and 1 was just there to die from the weird space fly.

 

RIP Isaac

 

yeah the ones with concrete arcs i actually liked quite a bit, but if you're setting up multiple characters to be put in a situation where they have to face the reality of being more or less immortal/adults/cutting edge technology, the worst thing you can do is not have them reckon with that. at least those three arcs had those characters question their own mortality and responsibilities a little bit.

 

Also I feel a little bait and switched by the scope of this. This show felt most alive at the parts in the ship or in the city, but then 2/3rd of this takes place on that uninteresting island

 

Yeah more like Alien Island right??

 

Robot kids kind of works because it gives them more of a reason to be scared of shit. But then they just made them invincible gods so it doesn’t work

 

I kinda had the thought early in the season that they did it to get around all the usual bellyaching about the characters in this universe being stupid and putting their faces near alien eggs. but then they made them all geniuses and the aliens didn’t really care about them so idk

 

The finale wasn't even attempting to resolve most of the underbaked concepts/character arcs. Didn't instill confidence that another season will fix that.

The coolest part of the finale was when Wendy open the cell and turned on Boy K, but even that was a short-lived moment. Didn't really feel like Alien without xenos being the central plot-driver.

 

I did like Wendy just telling Boy to run lol

 

I normally like Alex Lawther a lot. His episode of Black Mirror is an all timer, he was great in End of the ****ing World and Andor; but he wasn't very good in this. Really bad American accent.

 

Alex Leather, lol

 

I fixed it!

 

Honestly didn't notice anything wrong with his accent

 

It was very bad

 

Haha weird, I wouldn't have even known he was British if I hadn't stumbled upon a random interview on YouTube

Only bad American accent I can think of in recent memory was Vanessa Kirby in Fantastic Four

 

The actor who plays Arthur is married to Zazie Beetz!?

 

Also found that out recently

 

He kind of looks like Rory Scovel

 

i also just found out he's in season 5 of Fargo. Looks really different in this

 

I said that earlier in the thread please read the thread Mick. Pissing me off.

 

damn lucky guy lol

 

I only knew he was British because you look at his face and what else can he be