(episode review) - Alien: Earth- Episode 8

 

 

Aside from the fact that this has always been one of my favourite franchises, this episode was spectacular! The inmates are running the asylum. The second-to-last scene (for me) was telegraphed from the previous episode as I knew this person had to be used for the Ocellus, and we were shown in the first episode that Atom was a Synth, but as usual, humans and their hubris are the hand to their own demise, and I absolutely love it. What is that phrase I love so much, oh yes, death by misadventure. This episode is the final episode of the first season, and although there are a lot of threads left hanging, they managed to tie up some things, but left enough to have you wanting more, because there are so many unanswered questions. What happens now, next, in the future (the future we all know), or do we?

First of all, this episode picks up with most of the people together, but slowly, people start to go in their different directions to track down these different people. I am trying to remain spoiler-free and as vague as possible. The fight between those two in the elevator scene was really good, although it could have done with being longer. The monologue was so unnecessary, but that is what people do when they feel they have the upper hand. In the end, I was surprised that they were both still alive, as I thought one would kill the other. I hadn't realised that the communication between the Xenomorph and Wendy is like an echo-location or something, that she could be in one place on the island and make a noise and communicate with the xenomorph, which can hear it from a completely different location on the island, so that was cool. I mean, we had seen it before, but not with a distance so vast. Any scene with the Ocellus is a thing of nightmares, and I always feel uneasy when we are in a scene with it, but the setup was sinister, and the scene was great. There is a moment where Wendy shows up and does something...if you had seen my face, my jaw had dropped open and was open for that entire scene thereafter. Yes, we have seen some things, but this one was elevated and was a truly amazing moment in the scene, AMAZING. It was just something, I guess I did not expect she could do, but it also made sense when explained. Some really great moments had me clapping and cheering, such as the moment where Marcy clicks her fingers, because just when I thought, 'could she not...?' moments later, 'yes, she could'. It was a pre-hit wind-up which teased us to get ready for the moment. And when that ball, hit, I was thinking, "Badass!" This season of Alien: Earth has been great, and I can totally understand that not all questions are answered, and there is a lot of "stupidity" from the characters on the show, and that it has been a slow burn of a show. I cannot think of a reason why they will not do a season 2, but when that does happen (because I am sure it will), it will be interesting as to how this will all go down next season.

(episode review) - Alien: Earth - Episode 7

 

 

This is the penultimate episode, I believe, and in true alien fashion, everything goes to shit and quickly. If you are not up to speed with the show, this might be a spoiler, while I bring you up to speed, so please be warned. I will try to limit the details as much as possible. As we have seen in previous episodes, Morrow is after the specimen for Weyland-Yutani due to the corporation giving him purpose, so he is simply doing his job by any means necessary to stay alive and is using Slightly to achieve his goals. Slightly scared for his family is pressured to carry out a task he does not want to do, which leaves Arthur incapacitated. Arthur was fired because he and his wife want to do what is morally right for the children, but Dame (the wife) goes against her morals just to keep her job, although one of the children flipped out on her a few episodes ago. That same child thought she was pregnant, but Wendy told her what had happened, making Wendy realise she is, in fact, property of The Boy Kavalier and he can do whatever he likes. The Boy Kavalier makes a deal with the Weyland-Yutani Corporation because he thinks he can use the quarantine time to somehow communicate and or use the Xenomorph for his own gains, but Wendy is the only person who can and her brother is trying to get her off the island because he does not think they are safe and this is further proven when Isaac goes into the lab and an accident occurs.

Since we are now up to speed, it was telegraphed in a few episodes prior to the capabilities of Wendy, a tech manipulator, and now she can communicate with the xenomorph, so a team-up was bound to happen, but how the episode ended, wow. Kirsh has been playing 4D Chess, which makes more sense now as the episodes play out episode by episode. It has been somewhat slow-ish, but we have been watching the slow domino effect of one action leading to another and the hubris of humans thinking they are smarter than other creatures. The Ocellus has shown intelligence from the beginning, so now Boy Kavalier is on a quest to find a host for it in hopes of communicating with it, and Wendy wants to save all the children by taking them away from Boy Kavalier with her brother, and Slightly is struggling to fulfil his mission for Morrow. I have no idea what the final episode will be, as I am assuming the island is no longer safe for anyone at present, but the Boy Kavalier is going to try and communicate with the Ocelus, and I assume it will kill him, telling him he is inferior to it. With that said, anything can happen, but I feel like I can guarantee a few survivors like Kirsh, Morrow, Wendy, Hermit and that Ocellus. I mean, what will season 2 look like? It is so hard to say, but maybe nobody will die but a few minor characters, maybe, and season two is when things really get interesting. Great episode of this show...great!

(episode review) - Alien: Earth- Episode 6

 

This show just seems to get better and better, and honestly, this is peak sci-fi. Aliens, Robots, Cyborgs, Hybrids, Alien: Earth has it all. And it is not all just action-based, there is actual science involved, the watching and testing of specimens, whether it be Aliens, Robots, Cyborgs or Hybrids. And like I said before, it could be my personal bias talking here, but this show is just that good, because whilst Alien was great and Aliens was different but better (in a different way), this show manages to juggle the two (with a bit more of Alien), so that this episode has turned the villain on its head. What I mean by that is that there is an argument to be had that the main villain of the Alien franchise is the Alien organism, the Xenomorph, but if you have watched any of the movies in the franchise, it has ALWAYS been Weyland-Yutani. Moreover, Weyland-Yutani is human, so this episode shows us how it is not just one corporation or two (or all for that matter), but humanity is the problem, humans have always been the problem, and Wendy explicitly states this.

Last week, we got the flashback that humanised Morrow; this week, we further understand his motives that make him a multilayered person. We also get Kirsh, who seems to be up to something because some of the children want to remain as children but are being forced to grow up, and some seem to want to prove themselves to a point where an "accident" occurs due to a timely knock on the wall. The Boy Kavalier simply does not care and is onto the next best thing, the Alien that Weyland-Yutani are after, even setting up a deal with the Weyland-Yutani corporation, but this is likely to go badly for him, not to mention Slightly, who is under so much stress with Morrow being on his back about the specimen. Wendy sees firsthand what Boy Kavalier is capable of, and her brother Hermitt is going to do whatever he can to save his sister and get off the island. Nibs is not in a good place right now, and Arthur, the only person who seems to be a good person, just got fired.

(episode review) - Alien: Earth- Episode 5

 

Considering how the last episode ended, things have got a little crazy. Kirsh seems to be "plotting" something, Morrow is sinister as hell, the octopus eye alien is WILD! The whole sheep situation could not be any more disturbing, but most of all, the snake charming at the end is where we ask, "What is happening?" It is one thing for the hybrids to believe they are human, or at least some of them, one of the hybrids to think, "well it happened to Mary, it could happen to me, and in fact, it has", another thing for Morrow to be IN THE HEAD of little boy Slightly, but to have Boy Kavalier try to come between the Hermit and Wendy and the sister being able to charm the snake, this show has stepped up the levels and although there isn't always a lot of action, what we do get is beyond great, especially the use of orifices. The Alien franchise never disappoints when it comes to an alien getting into a human.


And just when you thought we would pick up from the last episode, this episode throws us into the ship we saw in the first episode, where we get to spend more time with these characters and what happened, leaving Morrow to seal himself inside the control room. For how Morrow has been acting throughout these past episodes, this episode gives us some of his backstory, in which I feel humanises him. He had a child, and he was only on the ship as chief security officer, and he just wanted to do his job, but when you are surrounded by imbeciles and a person who decided to take the ship into their own hands under a promise that may not even happen, Morrow is pushed to make challenging decisions. However, with all the engineers, biologists and others on the ship who wind up getting picked off, one-by-one, by making human mistakes off the back of dumb ones anyway, it is not just the Xenomorph loose running rampant on the ship when the testing of these aliens go wrong, it's a combination of a lot of things, but having a Xenomorph loose defintely does not help.