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Be warned... spoilers lie within. Also: Sanja fails to understand how jokes work!

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Simon Lee Tranter

I really enjoyed the first two episodes, but there's a lot of room for improvement, I think. Given how it started, with the near anal level emulation of the opening of Scott's original film, I feared it was going to be another nostalgia-fest, like Romulus was. Thankfully, it started to do its own thing after that opening section. I love all of the new stuff, like the mind transfer into synthetic bodies, the cyborgs, the new alien species, and the idea that there are rival mega-corporations. It had more new ideas in the first half hour than Romulus had in its entirely. On the down side, some of the writing was a little odd. People didn't seem all that astonished that there were alien beings running around. Maybe there will be a later explanation for that though. The standard of the effects varied wildly. I noticed in the end credits that there were quite a few different effects houses involved, and you could tell. Some shots were amazing, others looked very amateurish. Oddly, I think the xenomorph is one of the weaker aspects of the show too. I know they tend to redesign the creature for every project, and it's clear in this show they were aiming for something more like a big cat - a bit beefier and more of a quadruped - but it looks ungraceful and too rubbery. It's lost that oily, otherworldly, strange sexuality of Giger's original design. Overall, I thought it was solid rather than spectacular, but it's early days. Really looking forward to seeing how it all plays out.

Katie Rootham

I've not watched Alien Earth, but I've just dinged it on my Disney app, so I'll defo give it a go. As for the Alien / Predator films, I'm a massive fan, I only recently binged watched the lot, and then watched Alien Romulus, which was ok. It's a shame the Alien War experience in the old Trocadero wasn't open, I bet Sanja would have loved that. I know back in the day, we went twice and it scared the crap out of me. Oh happy days! 🤣