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Ry009 said:
Watch the first two episodes - fantastic.

From the trailers I didn't get the impression that this was going to movie level production.

First ten minutes wouldn't feel out of place against the first movie. Really did a great job there.
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It deadset looked like it could have been out takes from the 79 movie, it was tripping me the **** out but did such a great job at setting the tone and timeline immediately.
Frank Bunn said:
Two episodes in. It's a bit slow but I'm enjoying it. Great production values. The casting is perfect. I like that there's more than one alien species and a new type of super human. Timothy Olyphant giving off Roy Batty vibes.
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100% this, thought the same thing, the thematic ties to blade runner feel quite deliberate and obvious to me too.
Brick Loosener said:
I don't really care to be honest.
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Yeh this, i messaged a mate (huge Alien nerd) about the absolutely insane life cycle of a Xeno and that i didnt think it worked quite that way from my memory of the chestbuster stuff but it also doesnt really matter, this also might be some genetic variant of the xeno too.
 
Two more tonight and something that came up which bugs me - and it was semi-mentioned - but the lack of education to help them thrive is a failure . That most are still childlike is a failure of the program

Sure the Boss wanted to send them out but I dont think they were that ready. Wendy had time to find her brother . Thats not an afternoons work.

The pregnancy sub-plot feels icky unless something is inside and about to burst out - thats the only pay off for me

I may give it 2 weeks and watch 2 in a row again as it felt better having a follow up
 
GreyCrow said:
Two more tonight and something that came up which bugs me - and it was semi-mentioned - but the lack of education to help them thrive is a failure . That most are still childlike is a failure of the program
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There's a bit of an inconsistency with the maturity of the hybrids. Wendy, Isaac (the scientist) and Curly (wants to be Boy's favourite) act like adults whereas Slightly (Indian boy) and Nibs (red head girl) are childlike. You've got to admire the casting though - to find 30 year old actors who can pass for adolescents.

Ep 4 was a bit dialog heavy but also had a few compelling visual sequences.

GreyCrow said:
The pregnancy sub-plot feels icky unless something is inside and about to burst out - thats the only pay off for me
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Are they hinting that the eye-ball octopus creature has got inside Nibs? With the sheep it seems that it doesn't change the body of the infected animal but takes over its brain.

I'm hoping Adrian Edmondson gets pregnant again.

 

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Thought it was another great episode. My fav show of 2025. Still stands on its own without needing to be nostalgia bait.

They're all acting like kids IMO, in various ways.

Sibling/'baby' stuff setting things up for when it all inevitably goes to shit.
 
Yeah, another solid episode, for sure. This is shaping up to be an excellent series. Considering how the Xenomorphs have affected the androids, turning them into allies in past movies, it's clear that this is going to end badly. That scene between Nibs and Dame Sylvia was chilling, then nicely bookmarked with the final scene. Then the sheep... Damn!
 
Ep 5, far out!
 
Mostly a boring flashback episode with the old trope of a bunch of morons being sent on a multi-billion dollar space expedition.

My take on what happened at the end.
The Xenomorph didn't kill acting captain Zaverni because it derived from her lover. But then the eyeball creature got into the Xeno and took over its brain. This is the Xeno that Wendy had a fight with and killed.
 
crafty_bernardo said:
That was a feature film itself. Fantastic ep.

What bothers me though is how nerfed the Xeno's are
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I thought they were going to skip over the events on the ship as it would just be retreading the ground of the first film, but wow, that episode was amazing 👏
 
James Colorado said:
I thought they were going to skip over the events on the ship as it would just be retreading the ground of the first film, but wow, that episode was amazing 👏
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Yeah, it was pretty kick ass. God that eye thing gives me the heeby-jeebies.
 
BlakeyNoFlakey said:
Yeah, it was pretty kick ass. God that eye thing gives me the heeby-jeebies.
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I'm enjoying the new life forms they've introduced, they've kept the threats fresh.
 

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crafty_bernardo said:
I was more terrified watching that slug
unscrew the lid and dropping eggs in the water bottle
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I liked how the eye/brain octopus learned from it, yet also tried to warn the crew, showing a competitive instinct.
 
I'm enjoying it but everyone on that vessel was dumb as **** except Morrow.

Like... suspension of belief stupid.

There was no urgency from any of them. Some crew are dead and aliens are loose and they're all laughing and making jokes.
 
Ohitsthatguy said:
I'm enjoying it but everyone on that vessel was dumb as **** except Morrow.

Like... suspension of belief stupid.

There was no urgency from any of them. Some crew are dead and aliens are loose and they're all laughing and making jokes.
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My impression was that this was a ship crewed by civilians, and so discipline was severely lacking. Just look at how filthy those two engineers were, like a couple of hobos. I think that's why they all acted the way they did. Plus, I don't think most of them had any idea what the various species they had were even capable of, so they didn't consider them a danger until it was too late. Remember, their first encounter with the xenomorph was on that ship, so they had no idea what it was capable of.
 
BlakeyNoFlakey said:
My impression was that this was a ship crewed by civilians, and so discipline was severely lacking. Just look at how filthy those two engineers were, like a couple of hobos. I think that's why they all acted the way they did. Plus, I don't think most of them had any idea what the various species they had were even capable of, so they didn't consider them a danger until it was too late. Remember, their first encounter with the xenomorph was on that ship, so they had no idea what it was capable of.
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Agree with this, but the apprentice engineer, Malachite, does not seem like someone smart enough to be working on a space vessel, and it's one of the two faults I had with the episode (the other was performing surgery without any infection prevention other than gloves, that's first year medical student stuff). The only way around it, and I don't think it works, is if W-Y were doing things on the cheap by hiring him.

Besides these two gripes, I thought the episode was outstanding.
 

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You didn't address the dead crew and the lack of urgency.

The science lady had food and drink in the lab.

Its the future and they're still using glass to store these things? And she leaves the lab and there's no big warning one of the glass containers is insecure?

It's fun but come on, so, so stupid.

And what's the deal with Morrow finding the guy talking to Prodigy in the logs? lmfao

Damn, caught! No one expected him to go through logs

So ****ing stupid
 
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Ohitsthatguy said:
You didn't address the dead crew and the lack of urgency.

The science lady had food and drink in the lab.

Its the future and they're still using glass to store these things? And she leaves the lab and there's no big warning one of the glass containers is insecure?

It's fun but come on, so, so stupid.

And what's the deal with Morrow finding the guy talking to Prodigy in the logs? lmfao

Damn, caught! No one expected him to go through logs

So ****ing stupid
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Ok, those are fair points. I do agree with Blakey that they were a civilian crew which causes issues, but they should still have tightened up the running of the ship, and a competent crew would likely be chosen by W-Y. There was a warning that eye-brain octopus' container wasn't secure, though to your point it was localised within the lab, not the whole ship.

Overall still enjoying the show, though when a friend did mention it has a higher budget than Shogun, I did think that a lot of that might have been spent on the end credits music (licensing Metallica would NOT be cheap...)
 
Just got around to watch the latest episode, and yeah the logs and the glass containers were a bit off-putting, but not enough to call the show a complete write off. Entire franchise has usually depicted humans as being massive self serving nuffies.
 
The dialog is well written and delivered, there's just a bit too much of it sometimes. But it was another ep with people doing stupid things and plot contrivances.

A door falls off a feeding hatch in a billion dollar facility? Come on. Tootles is supposed to be smart but instead of calling for a mechanic to fix it, or even quickly opening the main door and sliding the food tray in, he steps into the room containing alien creatures and locks himself in.

A secure bio lab housing several dangerous alien species has a large vent at ground level? Come on.
 
Groucho said:
Ep 5, far out!
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Yep best one so far

Finished them and as noted Ep 5 - stand out

Ep 6 standard horror tropes while moving towards paranoia
 

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