FX Alien Series

[sh9000]

[jvmacross]

What can possibly go wrong?

[TangledThorns]

Ugh, HULU.

[sh9000]

https://www.ign.com/articles/the-alien-tv-show-is-in-active-pre-production

 

[Seto Kaiba]

Ugh, no... please no.  Just... no.

This is not a thing that needs to exist.  Ever.  We do not need any further demonstration from Mr. Scott that he doesn't, and likely never did, understand what made Alien a classic of modern horror.  Prometheus and Alien: Covenant have driven that point home with a vigor far in excess of what was strictly necessary or wise.

[Thom]

I still want a real sequel to Aliens...

[Dobber]

 

9 hours ago, Thom said:

I still want a real sequel to Aliens...

While I don’t HATE Alien 3, I still agree with this.  Ripley’s story should’ve ended at the end of Aliens. No need to further traumatize her.
 

Chris

[TangledThorns]

I remember thinking a TERMINATOR television series would suck but ended up being wrong and still annoyed it was cancelled. I'll give an ALIEN series a chance.

[Seto Kaiba]

Unpopular opinion, but as good as Aliens was as an action movie on its own merit it was a rubbish sequel to Alien.

The Xenomorph in Alien was scary because it was this nearly invisible, inscrutable, untraceable, and seemingly unkillable threat that lurked among the crew of the Nostromo.  It was so good at staying out of sight and hunting the crew opportunistically that it seemed to be everywhere and nowhere.  That, combined with the lack of over-the-top generic horror movie reactions to it, lent its killing spree an air of subtle, claustrophobic, creeping horror that has seldom been equaled in modern horror movies.  The characters were trapped, alone and afraid, with an unknown quantity that wanted to kill them but was in no hurry to close the deal.

Aliens was a solid action movie, but IMO it kind of ruined the Xenomorph by having a bunch of them operating out in the open, giving them easily understood animalistic behaviors, and making them easy to kill.  The Xenomorph wasn't a monster anymore, it was just a dangerous animal you could kill by running it over or shooting it and that sucked a lot of the mystique and horror out of it.  

If they're going to do an Alien TV series, we need something like Alien: Isolation not Alien: Covenant or Aliens.  The Xenomorph is only scary when it's an unseen Implacable Thing that wants the characters dead but isn't about to let them see it coming.  When it's running about in broad daylight striking poses so the audience can admire its CGI or the characters can Just Shoot It, it stops being scary.  

(And come to that, an Alien TV series needs characters who are competent and capable professionals.  Even Aliens has shades of accidental comedy because of how arrogant Gorman's marines are and how quickly they get brought down, but it's nothing compared to Prometheus and Covenant where every single character displays such a breathtaking lack of interest in self-preservation that you end up rooting for the monster.)

[sh9000]

2 hours ago, TangledThorns said:

I remember thinking a TERMINATOR television series would suck but ended up being wrong and still annoyed it was cancelled. I'll give an ALIEN series a chance.

This.

[mechaninac]

5 hours ago, TangledThorns said:

I remember thinking a TERMINATOR television series would suck but ended up being wrong and still annoyed it was cancelled. I'll give an ALIEN series a chance.

If the idea of a Alien series had been announced in the late 90s, early 2000s -- heck, maybe even as late as 1st 3rd of the 2010s, I would've been very excited for the prospect of it; however, with the absolute dearth of creativity and talent among writers and producers since the middle of the last decade -- to say nothing of how these same individuals handle just about every franchise they touch as platforms first and entertainment/escapism dead last, I'm far less sanguine on this being anywhere near passable, let alone good.  Here's hoping that I'm dead wrong; alas...