I think the first season of Alien: Earth finished very strongly with a number of interesting new developments and a plethora of creepy and frightening alien lifeform encounters and brutal slayings. I think the handling of new life forms and their often deadly qualities is handled better in this series than in, say, “Prometheus” (2012). These alien monsters are scary and other worldly. They are magnificent. As a matter of fact, they remind me of some of the disgusting life forms unleashed in “The Mist” (2007). Things we may have the misfortune of running into in our nightmares.
Well, it looks like all the opposing groups have been defined and are gathering on the island to iron out their differences. It may be a very chaotic, violent second season.
One final question which hasn’t been answered in Season One. Is there anything that can even slow down the Alien Xenomorph? Maybe next season.
The trajectory of the series took a backward journey to explore the events leading to the activities aboard The Maginot, the Weyland-Yutani spaceship which has managed to secure a plethora of exotic alien species.
Once again, it was a pleasure to revisit some of the familiar interiors of the ship which bring us back to their origins in the film “Alien” (1979). It seems that we even manage to summon up memories of “Alien: Resurrection” (1997) what with some of the wise cracking characters and flippant attitude encountered with The Maginot’s ship’s doctor. I thought the jaded attitude was a bit extreme and misplaced but then we only get to spend a few charming moments with him before his aborted “operation”.
Overall, I prefer the crew of The Nostromo. I think one of the things striking things about this series as we are well past the half way mark in the season is that there is not a character on the show that I truly care about. Probably because I am too jaded myself.
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