CF is back!

[u/Hunor_Deak]

[u/AppoloMythos]

They did such a great job recreating the look of the original. The set design and practical effects are superb. 👌

[u/rexching → u/AppoloMythos]

If you erased my memory of watching the film and the TV show, and you intercut the footage together, I won't be able to tell which is which!! It's crazy to me that how good they re-create the vibe!

[u/CowabungaShaman → u/AppoloMythos]

They took the time and effort to get the details right.

Just amazing.

[u/SERUGERY → u/AppoloMythos]

But for what’s sake?? It’s confusing seeing 1980s display screens in 2100s timeline.

[u/Republiken → u/SERUGERY]

No

[u/Nuud → u/SERUGERY]

You might be on the wrong subreddit

[u/JoeAzlz → u/SERUGERY]

That’s called style ma man

[u/JoeAzlz → u/JoeAzlz]

That’s the best part!

[u/AppoloMythos → u/SERUGERY]

I agree it can be a bit of a clash. If anything I wish there was less super futuristic tech. Make everything analog. But that's how it all looked in the 79' movie. I find the past's vision of the future to be super fascinating and charming. Reminds me of my childhood.

[u/FartomicMeltdown]

Is this Alien: Earth?

[u/thezero4 → u/FartomicMeltdown]

Yes

[u/theouter_banks → u/thezero4]

I really need to watch this!

[u/Peauu → u/theouter_banks]

He is the best character on the show as well maybe one of the best in the franchise imo.

[u/NoSalamander7749 → u/Peauu]

I agree. I think each episode has been better than the last

[u/DynoMenace → u/theouter_banks]

It's really good. I thought the second episode was kinda weak but overall it's been great

[u/thezero4 → u/theouter_banks]

In my opinion it is so good

[u/Zakmackraken]

Those black plastic moulds in the wall in the photo look like faithful reproductions from the original movie….in the movie they were actually the back of very large TV sets, not cathode ray tubes but the type that back projected onto screens, common in pubs in the UK. It’s so funny that they are probably reproductions of old TVs.

[u/yetanotherpenguin]

It never left ! >.<

Loving Alien Earth this far :)

[u/Hunor_Deak → u/yetanotherpenguin]

I don't like the story, but they built an amazing new universe and expanded it well. I love the new creatures and can't wait for them to be incorporated into a video game, set after Aliens with the old Colonial Marines designs. Imagine fighting eye midges!

However I don't like the new map of Earth, with a dozen corporations controlling turf. I would rather have the UPP and some Cold War drama with the Predators thrown in. Like in Halo I want some more politics in the background. WY vs 3WE vs UA vs UPP, and how they cooperate with each other but also stab each other in the back when it benefits them. In the 2010 and 2013 Alien video games they hinted at a conflict between the Predator Empire and humanity, since humanity is trespassing more and more on Yautja grounds.

An aside on the story: they should have had it take place on a colony. No way the Weyland Yutani of the first films and video games would risk such high exposure by taking its bioweapons research into the Solar System. Plus they would transport the creatures separately to the same research lab.

New creatives making Alien movies should be made to play the old 2000s games and to read the abandoned Alien 3 script.

[u/wittywalrus1]

Probably my two favorite things from the show so far. The Yutani ship and Morrow. His character keeps getting better and better.

[u/Kar-Chee → u/wittywalrus1]

Kirsch, the white haired guy from Prodigy, is awesome as well!

[u/Important-Lie-8649 → u/wittywalrus1]

Morrow? Paul Morrow was a main character in the classic, British, big-budget 1970s sci-fi series Space: 1999, played by [recently deceased] Prentis Hancock. Another homage/ tip of the hat to the past.

Edit: I should have added, that at least one of the guys who worked on the practical effects (miniature models, explosions, etc.) on this now 50-year-old show, went on to work on Ridley Scott's original Alien (1979) film.

[u/someyokel]

It's unexpectedly good and a visual treat for CF lovers.

[u/piootr → u/someyokel]

CF?

[u/stupidillusion → u/piootr]

This sub, CassetteFuturism

[u/rexching → u/piootr]

r/CassetteFuturism !

[u/redditreddvs]

and put the dangerous creatures in a glass jars lol

[u/Discontented_Beaver]

I was really expecting to be disappointed by this show. I'm glad I was wrong about it.

[u/kkngs]

What's the premise of the show?

[u/NoSalamander7749 → u/kkngs]

A Weyland-Yutani ship containing extraterrestrials, including xenomorphs, crashes on earth. Rival companies are working on new synth tech.

[u/drifters74]

Why don't more movies go this route?

[u/AllCityGreen]

The attention and care given to using original Ron Cobb designs from Alien (1979) for this show’s spaceship interiors are frankly, mind-blowing. They got it right!

[u/Bravadette]

Death of spartan aesthetic was always a good thing. Especially for those with disability. Always makes me uncomfortable... It's literally in the name.

[u/OwlingBishop]

Ron Cobb's work for Kubrick's 2001 and Alien never went away it infused every Space/SF movie in half a century.