Alien: Earth

@NeoRocket wrote:
Well said. I do think by the end of the season they raised the bar some. Whether retconning to c.y.a. as writers or that was the master plan who knows? I like the series though so will wait with baited breath for Season 2.

Yeah, I'll tune in for (as yet unannounced, or I may be wrong) Season 2 as I love the Alien franchise and live in eternal hope.
But another big issue in today's world is the massive gaps between TV show seasons.
I mean, we may be into 2027 before we see any more of this show...in fact I'd be shocked if that were not at least the case.

@Fozz33 wrote:
Yeah, the show is so very badly written in places.
Things happen just so the plot can go on, not for any logical reasons.
Like, it's a multi-billion dollar facility, yet the Android has a child (in an adult's body) go work in the HIGHLY DANGEROUS labs on his own.  Just hack away there and see how you get on!
Fully un-supervised.
It's nonsnese but the writers were like - "we need these things to happen to progress the story".  It's shoddy in the extreme.
And lazy.
Allegedly smart people doing absudly stupid things to progress the story is never a good look...dreadful stuff.

It's a shame really as the atmosphere, visuals, audio etc. are excellent.,
But bad writing can take down the best of shows (I'm looking at you, GoT).

Well said. I do think by the end of the season they raised the bar some. Whether retconning to c.y.a. as writers or that was the master plan who knows? I like the series though so will wait with baited breath for Season 2.

@DPh2902 wrote:
This show started weird, had a lot of promise in the middle episodes and then devolved into Lord of the Flies ... I see zero relevance at this point as a "prequel series" to the original Alien. 

Yeah, if U wanna make a show about dying children being saved by putting them in adult synthetic bodies, then make that show.
But why it's "Alien" is a serious question.

And as for Wendy having a Deus Ex Machina special ability with all tech, sweet jeebus, does nobody in the writing room call nonsense on this crap?

Finally the titular Alien itself - a mockery of what Ridley Scott and James Cameron gave us.