So I only watched Episode 01; I wasn’t impressed at all, I am debating whether to watch episode 02.

I don’t at all mind writers/authors developing new directions/concepts based on an existing franchise base. I really enjoyed Aliens: Phalanx, even thought it had massive flaws, but the world building was engaging and the pace was good.

That being said E01 comes off as a somewhat generic, “made for streaming” series adaption of the Alien world. Alien: Romulus on the other hand combined “modern sensibilities” with the classical retro-futuristic canon of the alien universe.

Perhaps it’s too early to judge, but I feel there is going to be a large YA-focus to this series (kids in adult bodies). Aliens: Phalanx was also very heavy on YA tropes, but IMO it had other things going for it to compensate.

I didn’t feel any tension or dread in the first episode. Some stuff was happening I didn’t feel like caring.

I will probably watch E02 to see if it gets better, but I am not getting my hopes up.

EDIT: E01 is 7.8 on and E02 is 8.0 on IMDB; no wonder I always got the feeling that series rating are always heavily inflated.

  • misericordiae@literature.cafe
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    10 days ago

    So far, while I think it’s alright as its own thing, it’s not really what I expected or wanted from an Alien series. The Peter Pan stuff is sooo heavy handed, and a lot of the tension gets lost when so many of the characters are synth-adjacent, imo. I’ll watch the whole season, but I’d be surprised if my opinion drastically changes. Morrow (the cyborg) is cool, at least.

    I am interested the criteria Weyland-Yutani had for selecting specimens to bring back, and what kind of worlds those specimens lived on. Like, the eyeball is cool (kinda generic, but cool), but it implies an ecosystem that includes a sufficient number of species with Earth-like eyeballs for it to survive. So why not bring back some of those other (presumably less dangerous) species, too?

    • J-Bone@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      9 days ago

      It will be interesting to see if there is information at all about the ecosystem(s) involved. I have a feeling this part will be superficial at best, but let’s see how things play out.