Wot I am watching now

[Birdman1811]

Alien Earth - if the first two episodes are anything to go off, the series is hopefully going to be immense! Episodes available now on Disney Plus or alternative sources.

I found them overlong and a bit silly to be honest, could've been cut to one episode what we've seen so far. Makes little sense that it's set 2 years before the Nostromo mission. The Nostromo's mission was only ten months long, which means people on Earth already knew about the Xenomorph and really shouldn't have been surprised. Also, how is it all of a sudden perfectly fine to zap it with electricity to incapacitate it?? Nobody ever tried that in any of the other movies, so it just  feels daft.

Alien Universe addict here.

So in fact humans did know about the xenomorphs, that's even hinted at in Alien, hence the special orders to land and get a specimen to bring back (why Ash ignored quarantine etc). Alien.Earth actually helps explain why that's the case.

In the extended universe electricity has been used to stun them a lot, but it never lasts long, as they found out.

I really enjoyed the two episodes so far, glaf to see a proper killing machine alien rather than cannon fodder, and it's a brutal, messy killer this time which is always welcome.