Review Tuesday: ALIEN: EARTH (Season One)

  

 

ALIEN

EARTH

(Season One)

Prodigy Corp captures a shipment of ALIEN species from Weyland-Yutani. 

I heard that Disney was working on an ALIEN TV series to be based on Earth. My immediate reaction was to face-palm and abandon all hope. When the Nostromo came across the ALIEN no one knew anything about it. When the Colonial Marines fought the ALIENS none of them knew anything about it. But this show that takes place a couple years BEFORE the events in ALIEN has ALIENS on Earth.  

 

This is how they worked it out. ALIEN: EARTH starts off with one of the Big Five Earth corporations, Prodigy developing an android that human consciousness could be transferred into. The president of Prodigy is Kid Kavalier. He's an arrogant prick but he's collected some terminally ill children to test out his transfer process.They are referred to as The Lost Boys from Peter Pan. While the Lost Boys are getting used to their new situations a starship crashes nearby. They are sent with their wrangler Kirsh (Timothy Olyphant) to investigate the scene along with the troops and other first responders deployed to the scene. That was when the "kids" and Kirsh encounter some of the ALIEN species and Morrow, the sole-survivor of the crash. The ship belonged to Weyland-Yutani and Morrow was trying to collect the specimens so they could all be collected by the company. Prodigy out the halt on that, but Morrow was able to escape.

 

From that point on it was a series of stupid things being done by stupid people.

 

I lost my patience pretty quickly with this show. The crew of the Wey-Yu vessel? A bunch of unprofessional idiots. You didn't feel bad at all when they all died. Well, maybe one, the older engineer. The rest were morons. The Lost Boys? They were really like a bunch of girls and boys. The children used for this experiment ranged in at 11 -12 years. However, they all act like developmentally challenged four year olds and do all sorts of stupid things. The redhead Nibs is the most repellent character of the bunch. She's childish, violent, unreasonable, and delusional. This android thought she was pregnant for crying out loud. She laughs as the ALIEN dismembers the soldiers and has no problem with murder. They built a robot sociopath with that one. The "leader" of the bunch is Wendy. She was the first to undergo the process and seemed pretty well adjusted. She showed some unusual abilities that were given no explanation for. Somehow she can hear facehugger and can speak with the ALIENS and she can remotely take over and control electronic devices. Again, how?            

 

Before I get too far into the spoilers I better just write my review. I would call this show disappointing. I know I said earlier that I abandoned hope from the start, but that means I went into this expecting little to nothing. Some good coherent writing and character development was all I wanted. Nope. Even with such a low bar, ALIEN: EARTH still managed to disappoint me. The only TWO interesting characters were Kirsh and the EYE-topus. The writing is bad. The characters are mostly hateful. I was really hoping that the site would be nuked from orbit to kill everyone off so this story would be over. At the time I am writing this, there are rumors about a season two, although it hasn't green-lit yet. 

VERY DISAPPOINTING.