Alien: Earth creator Noah Hawley on potential season 2, says he hopes to soon hear whether he should get another job or get back to work.
Alien: Earth creator Noah Hawley on potential season 2, says he hopes to soon hear whether he should get another job or get back to work.
I don’t know what people where expecting. This wasn’t going to be Alien/Aliens condensed into fifty minutes every week. I knew there was going to be something else that was going to carry the story. I really enjoyed it and loved the fact it introduced other creatures that are just as nasty as disgusting.
Yeah I would like to know what exactly they expected. I stopped posting as I found the negativity just too depressing to deal with, there is very little TV shows this year that is head and shoulders better.
At its core the Alien films are horror films, well Aliens is a Nam war movie but with added horror elements. Horror films rely on most of the protagonists being dumb at least some of the time, going into the basement, saying the funny words in the book bound in human skin, etc.
Ripley is a Cassandra figure, shes the only one who makes sense but is ignored until its too late, and the people ignoring her are mostly morons possessed with self interest and greed. Its not a new concept to the franchise or horror films in general.
A straight retread of the same concept of Alien or Aliens doesn’t work, its been done, its even been done again in a Force Awakens way recently with Romulus. Earth had to be its own thing with its own expanded scope otherwise it would never have the legs to cover about seven hours.
I thought it was pretty good. My only real complaint was that I think they made the Xenomorph too humanoid-looking. It almost looks like a person in a suit at times.
To be honest, that was the biggest disappointment of the whole show for me. The design of the alien was great, but as you say, it was too “man in suit”-ish too often. Also, it wasn’t slimy or wet enough. It always looked plasticy.