Fantastic episode. A glimpse of motivation for the eye ball creature as well.
Alien: Earth
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Yes, this was probably my favorite episode because it felt like a classic alien movie. The audience knows something is going wrong, but the characters in the show do not. the engineer was right, once those facehuggers were on the crew they should've thrown them out of the airlock.
Cyclonepride
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I think Boy Kavalier acts almost exactly like the two people in real life most on track to be trillionaires behave, especially in terms of no empathy and being self absorbed. One of them is literally running a company trying to make the same “hybrid” he is.
I really didn't like Prometheus and I think you hit on why. The one scene where the two guys who spent the whole move scared of their shadow only to see the new lifeform pop up and be like "Oh, can we pet it?" and instantly die. So silly.
The eyeball Xenomorph is very interesting to me. It looked like he was trying to warn the science officer of the leeches and later fought the xenomorph.
Reddit has some theories about it, i saw people call it a xenomorph hunter and that zenomorph’s second mouth could evolutionarily designed to scoop out the eye parasite from other xenomorphs.
I wonder if Wendy will develop a way to communicate with the eye parasite xenomorph.
Reddit has some theories about it, i saw people call it a xenomorph hunter and that zenomorph’s second mouth could evolutionarily designed to scoop out the eye parasite from other xenomorphs.
I wonder if Wendy will develop a way to communicate with the eye parasite xenomorph.
Maybe the goat/sheep is thrilled with the upgrade. How do we know?
Just watched Covenant, and having just watched Prometheus I REALLY enjoyed it. IMO its really just a single movie. Finally gave the real background on the alien origins I was thinking Prometheus would provide. And Fassbender/David is tremendous.
Saw a TikTok breakdown saying that a lot of people misinterpreted Alien as a slasher movie when in reality its more mystery. There's more gore than a classic "mystery" movie, but in reality the viewer is constantly left wondering/discovering along with the characters. Discusses why some of the later Alien movies moved away from that (Resurrection, Romulus), and how Alien: Earth is a return to form.
Edit: took a while but I found it...
Saw a TikTok breakdown saying that a lot of people misinterpreted Alien as a slasher movie when in reality its more mystery. There's more gore than a classic "mystery" movie, but in reality the viewer is constantly left wondering/discovering along with the characters. Discusses why some of the later Alien movies moved away from that (Resurrection, Romulus), and how Alien: Earth is a return to form.
Edit: took a while but I found it...
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Cyclonepride
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I'm having a hard time enjoying it. I only watched half of last week's episode before I got bored and went on to something else. I still have the other half and tonight's episode to watch and I'm not looking forward to it. It's the kind of thing I'll watch when there's nothing else on.
I've been saying for years Prometheus and to a lesser extent Covenant are great and totally underrated. I like Romulus too but it feels kind of inconsequential/self contained. When you compare it to other franchises with this series has been so solid lately, it's really just Resurrection that is a total stain to be ignored (and the AVP movies but who doesn't ignore those?). There's no pleasing some people, if someone didn't enjoy the medical unit scene in Prometheus as a totally new creative twist on the iconic Alien movie scene absolutely nothing would have possibly pleased them in an Alien prequel/sequel.
Alien 3 I've changed my opinion on several times. It's definitely not as good as the first two and some of these later movies...but there is some great iconic stuff there. The special effects suffer a little from being in that transition time from pure practical effects but the digital stuff hadn't yet been mastered. The overall look of it is great.
What makes the original Alien so great is it's more relevant and real to us now than in 1979. We are actually starting to wrestle with some of the sci-fi questions of Alien in real life. Neuralink is basically what Boy Kavalier is trying to do and the person behind it is nearly a trillionaire, "Mother" is here and we all can have it on our phone for $20 a month.
That eye is up to something. The way its watching and studying everything. The banging on the glass to make the syn fall and get attacked by the flies, and then at the end just going on eating the hay.
We like this series. It’s better than a lot of other stuff on right now. Is it great? I don’t think so but again it’s pretty good.
Cyclonepride
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My wife just bought me a shirt with the sheep on it. Totally geeked about that, wore it last night. Whatever happens, I think I want the sheep to win.
Work travel has ramped up again so watching more on flights. Burned through Terminal List: Dark Wolf the last couple of weeks and started this series on my current trip. Watched the first three episodes. I don’t know how much I like it but I am hooked. So much they can do with what they are building. Looking forward to finishing it.
I also want to give credit to the actor that plays Smee! He is so good and the only one that is completely believable as a child. He really sells the premise for me.
I also want to give credit to the actor that plays Smee! He is so good and the only one that is completely believable as a child. He really sells the premise for me.
The “nibs” actress is same way in next few episodes.
