ALIEN: EARTH (2025) is now filming its second season. New cast members include comedienne-singer Tracey Ullman, former Bronn actor Jerome Flynn, Sam Spruell of Fargo and Peter Dinklage, the humorless fool who considers himself the official spokesperson of all people under a certain height.
Set in the year 2120 – two years before the events of the very first Alien film – Alien: Earth was not my kind of show. Most of what I disliked about the streaming series could have been negated just by instead setting it after the events of Aliens.
REASON ONE: Setting the story before Alien (1979) devalues Ellen Ripley and her crew. Alien: Covenant already made it so they are no longer even the first Earthlings to encounter Xenomorphs and find remains of Engineers/ Space Jockeys.
Alien: Earth compounded that by further cementing it into the canon AND made Ripley and company look like inept losers who couldn’t even handle one Xenomorph years after corporations like Weyland-Yutani had successfully captured MULTIPLE alien species – including Xenomorphs – from around the universe and brought them to Earth. Continue reading
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