I agree that after the first couple of encounters, it’s obvious the Xenomorph can’t be controlled and is of no practical use.
It occurred to me that Alien IV might have made some sense if the research facility was intended to find vulnerabilities. If the Xenomorphs had already invaded an inhabited planet, it might make sense to research countermeasures
I had the same verdict after watching the first episode. It's not terrible, and I'm interested enough to keep watching it.
The most eye-rolling thing for me is setting it 2 years before Nostromo has its meeting. I can't shake my feeling that a serious case of prequel-itis is going to swoop in hard.
Setting aside the logic, or illogic of the “Alien” film universe, this series has slices with the look and feel of the original. The tension and head fakes and flash forwards work. Morrow is great. But we know what is coming. In episode two the Xenomoph hides on a statue in a sick kill scene, which is mostly off screen. The AI hybrid storyline adds a layer of contemporary issues to the plot. I love Timothy Olyphant in anything. Although let’s be honest he not really an unemotional droid. “Ryland, you’re the angriest man I know.” Justified. Showing Wendy’s capabilities is the missing piece. We saw her jump and run, and then while hunting for Hermit she’s walking, with a makeshift sword from a paper cutter… Chekhovs blade? Let’s see her perform a little. Also, if the Xeno is a killing machine, then everyone it meets would be dead.
At least in the original comics it wasn't precisely the aliens they were using for the military but the royal jelly to make super soldier drugs.
Though the mad scientist in labyrinth... now that was f*** up.
They should have given us Dean and Jeri! (from aliens: stronghold)
EDIT: I do back your theory that the xenos were a bio weapon that got out of control. I don't like the David/Synth "answer" that Ridley Scott gave us.
I agree that after the first couple of encounters, it’s obvious the Xenomorph can’t be controlled and is of no practical use.
It occurred to me that Alien IV might have made some sense if the research facility was intended to find vulnerabilities. If the Xenomorphs had already invaded an inhabited planet, it might make sense to research countermeasures
I had the same verdict after watching the first episode. It's not terrible, and I'm interested enough to keep watching it.
The most eye-rolling thing for me is setting it 2 years before Nostromo has its meeting. I can't shake my feeling that a serious case of prequel-itis is going to swoop in hard.
Setting aside the logic, or illogic of the “Alien” film universe, this series has slices with the look and feel of the original. The tension and head fakes and flash forwards work. Morrow is great. But we know what is coming. In episode two the Xenomoph hides on a statue in a sick kill scene, which is mostly off screen. The AI hybrid storyline adds a layer of contemporary issues to the plot. I love Timothy Olyphant in anything. Although let’s be honest he not really an unemotional droid. “Ryland, you’re the angriest man I know.” Justified. Showing Wendy’s capabilities is the missing piece. We saw her jump and run, and then while hunting for Hermit she’s walking, with a makeshift sword from a paper cutter… Chekhovs blade? Let’s see her perform a little. Also, if the Xeno is a killing machine, then everyone it meets would be dead.
Disney once again hocks something that they played no role in creating.
Ooof, the second episode was nothing short of awful.
This thing may well be a disaster.
"I still can’t buy any research path that justifies the risk."
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and yet, Fauci funded Gain of Function research. IN CHINA. somehow, Clown World is stupider than any fiction yet attempted in the Aliens franchise.