Alien: Earth TV Series

[Strikerkc]

The Alien universe isn't my area of expertise but wouldn't having a Xenomorph on Earth in a prequel mess up the timeline with respect to the first film's encounter with the Alien?

Yes, but that ship sailed with Romulus. It's set between 1 and 2, and the whole premise of 2 is that the corp doesn't have their hands on aliens yet (burke was there to try and capture a specimen while the marines checked in on the colony) ; but romulus has a whole space station full of face huggers that the corp just forgot they had laying around decades before Ripley ever showed back up.

Alien is best viewed as a "concept" that a new director gets to take a crack at every decade. If you're going to look at them as an interwoven continuity, it's just a clunky mess now. If you're going to look at them as a bunch of separate horror, action, and thriller/suspense films that play with a central villains, then you can at least take each movie on its own merit.

The show may be fine and enjoyable. the parts of the books/comics where xenos make it to earth are entertaining, and added some fun new aspects to the xeno threat that had been unknown before.

 

[renaissance_man]

Yes, but that ship sailed with Romulus. It's set between 1 and 2, and the whole premise of 2 is that the corp doesn't have their hands on aliens yet (burke was there to try and capture a specimen while the marines checked in on the colony) ; but romulus has a whole space station full of face huggers that the corp just forgot they had laying around decades before Ripley ever showed back up.

Alien is best viewed as a "concept" that a new director gets to take a crack at every decade. If you're going to look at them as an interwoven continuity, it's just a clunky mess now. If you're going to look at them as a bunch of separate horror, action, and thriller/suspense films that play with a central villains, then you can at least take each movie on its own merit.

The show may be fine and enjoyable. the parts of the books/comics where xenos make it to earth are entertaining, and added some fun new aspects to the xeno threat that had been unknown before.

That's a good way of looking at it. A soft reboot every time rather than direct continuity.

 

[yaris]

I agree with the idea that a movie every now and then is more than acceptable and while Romulus is a dumpster fire of rehashed ideas from all the other movies, I'm glad it wasn't a 8 Season show.

Making TV shows from the original films never seems to have the same value once fleshed out and produced. Star Wars and LOTR are prime examples of how to mismanage IP into serial TV. Mando is an exception but even that ran of the rails.

 

[Astyanax]

Fair, but I do think there are exceptions. Ash vs. Evil Dead was really quite good, IMO.

 

[renaissance_man]

I agree with the idea that a movie every now and then is more than acceptable and while Romulus is a dumpster fire of rehashed ideas from all the other movies, I'm glad it wasn't a 8 Season show.

Making TV shows from the original films never seems to have the same value once fleshed out and produced. Star Wars and LOTR are prime examples of how to mismanage IP into serial TV. Mando is an exception but even that ran of the rails.

I just caught up with series 2 of Rings of Power and thought it was excellent. Given they are filling in the gaps based on what are essentially appendices and an incomplete area of Tolkien's work I thought it was pretty solid.