Warning: This article includes spoilers for Alien: Earth 3, Episode 3, and “Metamorphosis”.
All fandoms have specific ideas about how things and why they can work. It can be true individually or worldwide, as the fanbase insists on “Canon”. And there’s no place where the original Ridley Scott film, which debuted in 1979, has been more widespread than the alien franchise fans who have to deal with vast myths and knowledge for decades. So if you are angry about the FX and the Hulu series, will you reinvent the heterogeneous morph myth? Overcome.
Outer franchise’s chaotic timeline
One step back (not to be hostile to the potential fanbase of this article immediately), and some of this problem would have begun with some confusion about the timeline of the series. In the original film in 1979, Nostromo met Xenomorph in 2122 and a company that funded the expedition, which means that we never experienced alien life before. But it is not true, as we found in Prometheus (set in 2093) and Alien: Covenant (set in 2104). And to be honest, aliens did not know at all about XENOMORPH, or sent an old expedition. We know that Nostromo’s crew never found that before. But that’s all we have.
Alien: Earth, the deadline for 2024, is more confusing than misunderstanding that it will happen early this century before Prometheus. But for a while, there are more things: Showrunner NOAH Hawley said that during a fixed visit, Press was the show in the 1986 film alien in James Cameron in 2179.
Not so. The 8 episodes of this series will be held in 2120 two years ago, two years ago, and what’s going on there? Who knows? But this common confusion about what happened before and after aliens: the Earth has aroused tensions that fans want to know how it is understood.
Main issue? If you try to sort everything in a row, it doesn’t make sense. Specifically, Alien: Earth’s central vessel Maginot has been tasked with 65 years of tasks that brought Xenomorph eggs to Weyland-Yutani for 65 years. If you do math there, they were inserted someday between 2055 and 2120, and David (Michael Fassbender) creates Xenomorphs in 2104. Is there a possibility of picking up alien eggs right after that? Of course, why not contradict the information of the show? But thinking about David’s inventing Xenomorphs is a little brain-linker, Maginot picks up eggs and Nostromo has found more eggs for 16 years. If you add something to work with the continuity of Weyland-Yutani, a company that spans the series, you can find your own timeline whenever you can, and you can find that your brain melts faster than xenomorph blood.
More complex is Hawley’s view of the company. Hawley said in an interview with Variety, “There is little myth in seven films.” “I don’t have to save the myth of the existing myths, but it was good to start again.”
The sound I just heard is angered by dozens of fan wiki to be angry by alien fans.
The reason why continuity is not really important
But here is the main point of this. Now we were in multiple weeds. Is it important if Hawley adheres to the existing continuity? Why do you worry about the crumbs that lead to a series of confirmation or events that will be a bread crumbs instead of the soup of interesting ideas that may not be possible for other filmmakers later? In addition, the alien series has always been as follows. Evolution, artistically through the lens of other directors and producers, as well as from the point of view of the Xenomorph itself?
The first four films of the franchise followed the story of Ripley (Sigouney Weaver) on the surface, but each item is not about her ongoing story than the specific visuals and storyquikes of the filmmakers behind the camera. Some worked, as Cameron posted Scott’s ghost parable as an action/war film. Others are in trouble produced by Alien 3’s David Fincher’s Dark Prison Planet Movie or Alien Large Time Jump Swing: Resurrection. But even two items of the latter tried to do something different from the first two films, even if the experiment didn’t work. At the point of view of Hawley, they were less worried about using mythology or expanding franchises rather than pointing out Xenomorph as a metaphor and external stress.
Alien: Earth also focuses on what is not focusing on existing knowledge, but interesting, strange, or following. When Xenomorphs takes the host’s characteristics, take all the Xenomorph that does not have to occur according to the existing knowledge. Except for things, Xenomorph, who drives around like wild animals, is much more scary than stalking the hallway like a slasher. Is the previously set content accurate? It is not necessarily. Do you allow more visually exciting shows? yes.
Episode 3 rises significantly by showing Xenomorph tadpoles that we have never seen before. We know that for decades of Xenomorph life cycle, Xenomorph, who hugged his face and grew up as a chestbuster. Thanks to the anatomy of Face Heger from Synth Kirsh (Timothy Olyphant), we found that they were holding an embryo of Xenomorph, which acts as essentially hard. In addition, we can see that it slides inside the removed lungs of Joe (Alex Lawther). This is to thrive because the earth does not contradict what we saw before. But Xenomorph assumed that he was pregnant in the digestive tract. Can you do that in the lungs? Can the tadpole actually swim? Why can you swim?
Again: Who cares about? What looks great, interesting and more important is the entire show (full franchise) is about growth. It often comes from the direction of maternity and has the shadow of dame silvia of Essie Davis. But aliens: The Earth’s thrust is about children and grows as an adult, which is probably the final form in the early stages of Xenomorph.
But probably the biggest and most curious addition is the hybrid synthesizer with a brain pattern of a child that Wendy (Sydney Chandler) can listen to Xenomorph. We saw this in the previous episode when Wendy became close to living things. Episodes 3 returns home while listening to Xenomorph screaming in “birth” as Kirsh removes it from Face Heger and eventually collapses from the floor. We have never seen a synthesizer reacting in this way before, but here, even here, it has been naturally expanded from the strange charm that was shown with the creatures of the previous item, from the original film to ASH (Ian Holm).
Should the synthesizer be able to listen to Xenomorphs? If this hybrid synthesizer has never seen before in the series, should we exist with Cyborg? How does some technologies develop more than the late franchise? And what about the fact that mankind doesn’t know about Xenomorph and has several other alien species on Earth on the new TV series?
In fact, as long as Hawley and Company keeps following the core spirit of the Alien series, it is not important to follow artistic muse. This is true when Scott made fresh and new things in 1979 and attempted to recreate it with Prometheus in 2012. And aren’t you making much stronger statements than to fill the dots like the previous one? This show does not lead to Nostromo’s disclosure or introduces Carter Burke (Paul Reiser) dad. It speaks of one’s own story itself, and if everything is not exactly what happened before, it has the effect of talking about its own story internally. Fan Wikis is to find the rest, and it is up to the fans to find out the rest as soon as they are not upside down.
