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Tim reviewed the whole thing, and liked it as expected. I'm also decently interested in it. It's good. 7.5/8 out of 10. It'll be curious if they can maintain it.
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I'm also decently interested in it. It's good. 7.5/8 out of 10. It'll be curious if they can maintain it.
I'd rate it 8.5/10. I really think the show delivers7/10 for me. I'm hoping the second season is better. I want to see their version of ...
At first I thought it was strange, since there is very much a feeling of it being the first time contact was made, but then I realized that Weytani knew about the alien already, so there must have been a prior incident.30 years before the original? So Rippley’s crew isn’t the one to have made first contact with the xenomorph? That could be interesting.
The way I remember is that the company didn't know about the Xenomorph until Ash (the android) notified them. I feel like it's being retconned.At first I thought it was strange, since there is very much a feeling of it being the first time contact was made, but then I realized that Weytani knew about the alien already, so there must have been a prior incident.
This makes me think that there will be no survivors in Hawley's film.
No, not true. The company directed them specifically to LV-whatever to investigate the shipwreck because they knew the alien was there, in hopes that a crewmember would be impregnated and Ash could help get it back to Earth.The way I remember is that the company didn't know about the Xenomorph until Ash (the android) notified them. I feel like it's being retconned.
I'm not sure if I'm mixing up the movie with the flash-back scene from Alien: Isolation, but were they sent there by the company? Didn't they detect the hails of a beacon? Or did this happen in Prometheus? God, my memory is a jumbled mess on this.No, not true. The company directed them specifically to LV-whatever to investigate the shipwreck because they knew the alien was there, in hopes that a crewmember would be impregnated and Ash could help get it back to Earth.
They picked up a distress call, reported that to the company, which told them to investigate it. They were deep space truckers, not scientists or explorers. When one attaches itself to Kane, Ash (because he knows about the alien, and he only would at that point if the company did) countermands Ripley's order and lets Kane, Lamber and Dallas in without quarantine, with the purpose of capturing the alien specimen.I'm not sure if I'm mixing up the movie with the flash-back scene from Alien: Isolation, but were they sent there by the company? Didn't they detect the hails of a beacon? Or did this happen in Prometheus? God, my memory is a jumbled mess on this.
I saw it with my daughter a couple months ago. The ship picked up a distress signal which knocked them out of sleep and protocol was that they had to check it out. It seemed random/chance, or at least it wasn't obviously or blatantly stated anywhere going to the distress signal was all a setup. If it was, it completely went over my head. Once they found it was aliens and Ash talked to the computer in the special room, that seemed when the corp started pulling strings.No, not true. The company directed them specifically to LV-whatever to investigate the shipwreck because they knew the alien was there, in hopes that a crewmember would be impregnated and Ash could help get it back to Earth.
I think Ridley Scott meant for it to be ambiguous in the film and that it was later retconned.I saw it with my daughter a couple months ago. The ship picked up a distress signal which knocked them out of sleep and protocol was that they had to check it out. It seemed random/chance, or at least it wasn't obviously or blatantly stated anywhere going to the distress signal was all a setup. If it was, it completely went over my head. Once they found it was aliens and Ash talked to the computer in the special room, that seemed when the corp started pulling strings.
The scene where the survivors talk to Ash's severed head is significantly longer. Notably, Ash confirms that the company had deciphered the signal coming from the moon in advance, that they knew about the Alien, and that they had at least some idea of what the crew were walking into. In the film, this is never outright confirmed.
With all due respect, it went over your head.I saw it with my daughter a couple months ago. The ship picked up a distress signal which knocked them out of sleep and protocol was that they had to check it out. It seemed random/chance, or at least it wasn't obviously or blatantly stated anywhere going to the distress signal was all a setup. If it was, it completely went over my head. Once they found it was aliens and Ash talked to the computer in the special room, that seemed when the corp started pulling strings.
He described it exactly as it happens, so I'm not sure what went over his head.With all due respect, it went over your head.
So did I. Are you going to ignore the part about Ash letting the infected crewmember in against Ripley's orders, or are you just wrong about why that happened?He described it exactly as it happens, so I'm not sure what went over his head.