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Ridley Scott Drops ‘Alien: Covenant’ Sequel Update, Regrets Losing ‘Blade Runner’ Rights News/Updates (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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[–] 11 points 2 months ago (6 children)

The director also added that he thought the first season of Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth TV series was “pretty damn good” — which from Scott is high praise.

I thought it peaked at the pilot episodes myself.

Anyway, hope we get a Romulus sequel with the same lead cast. They were the most interesting thing to happen since the first two movies IMO.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    IMO the A:E show was better than the last 2 or 3 Alien movies.

    We got the epic ship crash episode, the crazy assorted new deadly alien species, the Ghost in the Shell children, plus the awesome cyborg vs android battle. Noah Hawley needs to keep cooking with all that

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, there are definitely some great ideas. Just some stuff like the scientist couple taking opposing sides with WY etc put me off. Maybe a fan edit could sort out my issues with it.

    Also not a fan of superheroes. The androids have been basically turned into those (why does she have a sword on her back). I get that there’s a whole audience of Marvel fans out there etc, but just doesn’t appeal to me.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I wouldn't really call the Ghost in the Shell children androids, since they allegedly have the minds of human kids in them instead of being programmed bots. But that was also a question posed by the story - are they really the kids, or are they something else like a copy or an abomination?

    Superheroes are just a thing that goes back through the legends and tall tales of humanity, like the stories of Hercules and the Greek pantheon etc. Marvel and DC corporations don't own that idea.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    You must've watched a different show. Alien Earth is awesome. Just more sci-fi than horror. The tie-in with predator was dope

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Meh, it started really well but got sillier as it went on. I don't understand how the "kids" got away with half the shit they did, surely if they're so unique and valuable, but also have the minds of children you would keep a 24/7 remote watch on them? Why did the super secure armoured lab have a floor level vent that a fully grown man could easily crawl through? Wendy is far too OP, super strong, clever, can control Aliens AND synthetics AND computers. I liked the eyeball squid tho, that thing was freaky.

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