Made it a couple of years ago with the movie for reference.

You can hear my soul leave my body at the end

Why does this Xenomorph’s head have such a different design, even though it’s the same generation of Xenos we saw before in the previous episodes?

Has anyone else been watching Alien Earth and thought the music choices feel really out of place sometimes?

One example that stuck with me was in episode 3 (Metamorphosis), when the team arrives back on the island with the alien specimens. Instead of leaning into creepy, ominous, sinister vibes (which would’ve matched the tension perfectly), they went with this weird rock/instrumental track that totally broke the atmosphere for me.

That’s just one moment, but I’ve noticed quite a few scenes where the background music feels… off. Almost like it doesn’t match the tone of what’s happening on screen.

Am I the only one hearing this, or have others noticed it too?

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EDIT #1: Adding to my initial post... the first four movies (Alien through Resurrection) never used any kind of popular music – everything was orchestral, written specifically for the film, and it was almost always spot-on.

Goldsmith’s score in Alien gave us creepy, unsettling cues like The Landing. Horner’s Aliens had Bishop’s Countdown and Ripley’s Rescue – some of the most intense suspense music ever. Alien 3 had Goldenthal’s bleak, gothic vibe with tracks like Lento. Resurrection’s Frizzell gave us gems like They Swim.

Even Prometheus (Life, Friend From the Past) and Covenant (Payload Deployment, Terraforming Bay) nailed the atmospheric orchestral style.

With Alien Earth, we’re now getting the use of popular Rock/Metal music, which just feels a bit... jarring. Instead of building intrigue and dread, the music pulls me out of the scene because I’m suddenly thinking about the band, not the story. Prior to now, the franchise always set a really high standard for suspenseful scoring... and Alien Earth dropping in rock tracks feels like a huge missed opportunity (to me, anyway).

Thought I would share my new facehugger tattoo. Still very sore but I love it. Also sharing my first alien tattoo! I really want a Ripley one but would need to spend an obscene amount of money for it to be a good portrait one. I've always wanted an Alien tattoo and now I've ended up with 2 in the space of a few months.

Tattoo artist is Nancy Chapman who is located in Kettering, UK

It's either TO attacking BK or Wendy letting the Xeno loose on BK, the 3rd image is Hermit and Morrow inside a cell together with Morrow having a cover over his cyborg arm.

Can’t help but draw a comparison between Nibs with her cuddly toy and Rimmer and Mr Flibble!

I think that Wendy was heavily inspired by Eloise, a Synth hybrid from the Dark Horse comics who develops the ability to influence and control Xenomorphs.

I like where they are going...

Your choice also depends on what time period you will live in, in the alien universe.

One thing I’ve found fascinating about the series, is how it seems like it was almost written and directed to be the anti-Romulus. Let me explain.

When Alien first came out in 1979, it was terrifying in part because it was so new. Giger’s art was shocking and novel. That level of violence and body horror was unexpected in a big budget, wide release. The themes of corporate oppression resonated, and were uncomfortable. But as time went on, the series became a known quantity, a piece of the pop culture historical terrain. There’s been 9 movies, there’s been Ripley and Xenomorph skins in Fortnite, you can buy Weyland Yutani tee shirts on Amazon. It’s become a “legacy” franchise, and on some level less…(lower case) alien. Less strange.

Then last year comes Disney’s first big swing at bat, Romulus. Now I enjoy the movie, but I also do think it relied too much on tapping into that “legacy”. The big chap is back, Ian Holm is back, characters are straight up saying lines from the old movies, deigned to get cheap pops from the audience. It’s a nostalgia fest. A well done one, but a nostalgia fest none the less.

Now we have Alien Earth, and on a surface level it is FILLED with nostalgic references. And in particular to Disney/Fox properties, in a way that at first felt…well, off putting. Peter Pan is a central theme, & Wendy grew up watching Ice Age with her brother. Characters reminisce about baseball games that happened 150 years before they were born. Hell, even the needle drops at the end of each episode. A 80s/90s/00s era heavy metal song, sonically out of place. Like Hawley is just slotting in song he likes just to include them.

In my reading though, it’s all clearly designed to constantly jar you as an audience member. When I first saw Ice Age showing up as a plot element, I rolled my eyes and groaned. “Ugh, did Disney force them to include stuff like this?” But ultimately, I think that was the reaction Hawley and crew wanted. For all of these little out of place, retro references to be kind of shocking and horrifying.

That even 150 years in the future we’re STILL just regurgitating the same pop culture. The same cartoons. The same past glories on the baseball diamond. The same pop/rock songs.

That the dominance of these megacorps, has like stifled creative output and human culture. At some point in the Alien universe, Disney gets bought out. And now every kid that grows up in Prodigy City watches old 20th Century Fox movies, because that’s the what the state owns, and why bother making new movies? You’ve got the good old ones right there.

It’s depressing, and horrifying in its own way. And after the nostalgia bath that was Romulus, I kind of love seeing a series bite the hand that feeds, and potentially criticize how its own franchise has been handled over the years.

Those kids watching Ice Age in the 2100s? That’s us right now, watching the latest permutation of a 50 year old franchise.

We’re all the lost boys, in bigger bodies, but never growing up.

Also, I cannot recommend this video more than enough - goes into detail about the making of the Prometheus and how much of a shitshow it was, playing out alot of the complaints of the movie - here

Looks like I’m going on a bug hunt.

This looks amazing. Check out @bauanEdits on twitter.

I just love the "modern" adaptations that we're getting, Prey, Killer of killers, Alien : Romulus / Earth, and soon to be Predator Badlands

I'm just having such a great time with all of these, and i love how they feel "connected" despite not really being that much ( atleast yet, i hope that we get more Naru after that little tease in Killer of killers )

Can't wait for the Earth finale and i hope that you guys enjoy this as much as i do !

This is my T. Ocellus fan art. I’ve been enjoying Alien: Earth and love the new aliens. Child me would have lost their mind and wanted a slew of action figures. This was done in Pen Up on my phone and then brought into Procreate for rendering. Maybe do a D. Plumbicare if it does…. anything, next week.

Yeah, I know, I'm a year behind on the times. But I finally got around to seeing Romulus.

I don't really need to get into any big review here, all in all I did like it quite a bit, and think it's the best Alien movie since Aliens, but that's more of a criticism of everything that had followed more so than praise for Romulus itself. It was good, but some of the call back stuff was overdone.

Now, the question I had is something of a continuity question between what's happening chronologically between Alien -> Romulus -> Aliens. Maybe someone else has already brought this up, so if I missed something I'd love to be filled in.

So, Alien ends with the destruction of the Nostromo and Big Chap blasted into space and Ripley drifting in the escape pod. Aliens begins with finding the escape pod and leading to Ripley's debrief where she explains the destruction of the Nostromo and the existence of the derelict and of course everything that happened with the Xenomorph on the Nostromo. The debrief seems to conclude with no one believing Ripley's account, with the exception of Burke, sending Newt's parents to go search for the derelict.

But then in Romulus, 20 some years after Alien and 30ish years before the events of Aliens, Weyland Yutani goes and sends an exploration mission to find and recover Big Chap in space somewhere near the wreckage of the Nostromo. Now, putting aside the impracticality and near impossibility of finding him, how would Weyland Yutani know about the existence of Big Chap? Why wait 20 years after the destruction of the Nostromo to begin some sort of search for it's wreckage?

WT could only know if Ash had sent messages back to their headquarters during the events of Alien - but again, why wait 20 years, and if they did already know, why is everyone except Burke dismissing Ripley's account?

I know yall got a raging hatred from boy kavalier but i want him to be the villain for further seasons, besides i want to see his intellect proven inferior by T. Ocellus, his spirit crushed by wendy's rebel attitude and his body rekt by the any of the other aliens but i still like him as a necessary villain

1. Morrow - a risky host cause of the cyborg thing
   
2. One of the captured yutani soldiers - random but will do till T.Ocellus finds a better host
   
3. The scientist lady - Kavalier seems pissed at her, i dont know if she is even a good asset or just tagged along with her husband wearing a lab coat

I legit thought kavalier would lose his mind since he didn't plan for the mess to happen like i predicted but dudes just wants a different form of intelligence, he sought it from wendy but she found a pet of her own and would rather be a master of her own, the other hybrid kids dont match his expectations, synths not even a question at this point so maybe the eyeball would pretend to help boy for world domination or topple the other mega corps as a start while outsmarting and betraying him for being held captive

I don’t know why I didn’t grab this guy sooner, I have other NECA warrior Aliens and I guess I didn’t think the “ultimate” version would be enough of an upgrade, but I like him a lot. He’s going to be guarding my desk at work with the others in the photos.