Alien Erf editionPrevious: >>214152524
Wanna see my room, anon?
>>214165421All right fine, only if you are barefoot tho
>>214165421That's for Slightly only
Nibs' nibs.
Why did Trypanohyncha Ocellus go for a Synth?
>>214165709He just didn't know.
>>214165725>HeShe
>>214165709as opposed to who else in that room?
When are going see the plant thing do somethingWhat do the ticks do after feeding?What will the fly thing do ?
>>214165739She should not have attacked any of them because they are toasters.
>>214165762>When are going see the plant thing do somethingEpisode 6 or 7>What do the ticks do after feeding?Chill and digest.>What will the fly thing do ?Probably lay egg inside you.
>>214165806I thought the ticks would gestate something in their sacks, guess not lol
>>214165820To be fair there should be a reason why the W-Y brought them but it might not be to be a possible weapon like the others, maybe they produce some rare chemical or whatever.
>>214165893They cum unobtanium.
>>214165893Yeah sounds about right. inb4 the slime they produce prevents aging or something.
Whats going to pop out of the red-head?
>>214165627Don't like any of the xenos in this movie. They really just look exactly like that, haunted house animatronics.
>>214166000Or get you high or long erections.
>>214166060I wonder which would sell the most
>>214165867>>214166021All right, these are funny now.I saw the first one when I was drunk and couldn't understand it.Now I get it.
>>214166021Starts movie: zero kids, infertile. end of movie: 5 alien kids and 3 grandchildren
>>214166000I fucking forgot.In the books i read the queens produce royal jelly to make preatorians, other queens, and shit and the corpos wanted that because it made mega stims they give to marimes and had other medical stuff
>>214166127At least five.David made a ton of little monsters from her eggs. No telling how many are still running around on the Covenant planet.
>>214166167Yup. It gets you really high as well, but with time you mutate into weird ass half human-half xeno hybrids.
>>214166053eeeeh they were good in some scenes, looked fake in others
>has no discernible traits or side story and does nothing at all
>>214166339>is also the most tolerable of the bunch
>>214165400Of you still watch this slop you really must be demoralized beyond belief. I stopped after the second episode where the Alien literally gets killed off screen so now its just a show about turning jeets and women immortal. This is like when the new He-Man show killed off He-Man at the beginning and turned into a show about lesbians.
>>214166374My morale is pretty high. There will be multiple other xenomorphs, relax.
What do the Weiland Yutani crews do with aliens they deem not usable after studying them?
>>214166460Fill in a catalogue and leave them on their planet?
>>214166507No, nigger, that's not it
Is this show a travesty or does it have redeeming qualities?
>>214166552Feed them Engineer Black Goo™ (you can get it on most online stores) and came back after 5 years to see what happened?
>>214166580its certified shitkino
>>214166339He's smee, he bumbles
>>214166580It's travesty kino with few redeeming qualities.
>>214166580The good?>other aliens, timothy olyphant, bald enforcer, nibs, weiland yutani cyborgThe bad>the jobber xenos, the stupid trillionaire, the xeno whisperer, her useless brother, all the other synthetics, the extremely incompetent world building
>>214166580Yes
>>214166580Best SF series airing ATM.
>>214166580I'll admit I'm waiting for each episode with excitement. I love Alien and Blade Runner and this show blends them together thematically. Still, it's a fucking TV show and I know what they're like. I was excited about Westworld during the first season, it gave me a similar feeling as AE. Cleverly made high budget TV shows trick you though, they stretch the story out and make you think it's something worth sticking around for.
>>214166840>Cleverly madelol
>>214166580For now though I like some of the characters it's closer to being a travesty. It feels like it was written with the help of AI.
>>214166197>but with time you...More like, AND with time
>>214166840>I'll admit I'm waiting for each episode with excitement.This. Last show that did this for me was Dark Matter (the one with Edgerton not the spaceship one).
>>214166339This kid is gonna die horribly
>>214166863this
boy retard is gonna put a human inside the sheep chamber, so the could have an interesting conversation at last
I like Alien whispering. It's interesting :(
They establish Marcy as this heavy-duty mechanism capable of dropping down from extreme heights and then when a xenomorph grabs her brother and flies down the shaft with him, she chooses to take the stairs. And all this awkward wresting with a beast that’s fighting for its life, the most intense state for any living creature, when it previously massacred people by the dozen in seconds. Dumb fucking writing.
>>214166863Right here cleverly made doesn't mean the story is mindblowingly intelligent. It refers to the overall execution of the show and it includes the visual aspects. If you're saying lol because nothing about the show appeals to you though, fair enough. Makes me wonder why you're in the thread though.
>>214167123>And all this awkward wresting with a beast that’s fighting for its life, the most intense state for any living creature, when it previously massacred people by the dozen in seconds.But it was wrestling with a parent, or whatever she is, you don't slaughter family
It really is just Raised by Wolves season 2.5. Scott had a fetish for tomboys and worms.
>>214167174o.o
>>214167260praise sol!
What's the theory about the guy spraying shit on the walls?
>>214167678>What's the theory about the guy spraying fungicide on the mold?No one dared to speculate about these complex mysteries.
>>214167678there's a lot of mold in the corners of rooms if you watch carefully
>>214167678He's Tinkerbell with the fairy dust.
>>214167678She was seeing echoes of the future
>>214167752>Tinkerbell doesn't speak>moldman hasn't said a single word yetDamn
>>214165762>What will the fly thing do ?Buzz around and be a nuisance
>>214168251sounds genuinely horrifying
Somehow a xenomorph will get transferred to a humanoid synthSo it will get to experience the conundrum of existence stripped of its biological imperative It'll also save on FX budget. You can just have one of the zoomers act like an alien instead of modelling one for real
>>214168455Yeah I'm afraid that\s coming for sure. There won't be am age limit for xenomrophs or something. It will be very dumb.
>>214165762Flychads get an entire episode.
>>214168544It'll be a bottle episode about trying to catch the fly. No horror elements
>Ripley spends 4 movies making sure Xenos didn't show up on Earth>Actually it happened 2 years before AlienWhy did they pick this retarded point in the timeline?
>>214168544Brundlefly confirmed
>>214168617Ripley was a mistake She was fine in the first movie in the context of everyone elseBut not interesting enough to carry the other movies. The character was too flat and abrasive.Veronica Cartwright would have done better
>>214166374You sound like someone who fast forwards through anything that isn't action.Marvel slop has ruined a generation
>>214168846This show is marvel slop funded by Disney.
>>214168617Because the timeline is stupid anyway and it's just a playground for the broad concepts.
I'm greatly enjoying that the show is willing to take chances and doing unique things:> Wendy able to hear/speak to the xenomorphs> Multiple xenomorph species> CyborgsThey may not all work out in the end but at least they're not just sticking to the same old formula.
>>214168617They are lazy and want to make their mark on the franchise.
>>214168957How? It's a slow paced character driven show without quips.
>>214169066The characters are stupid and the things they say are pointless
>>214169066It’s boring and pedo coded.
the brother is so fucking annoying
Is there a chance we find out how the outbreak happened on the ship, or should we just infer the black lady scientist got sloppy and subsequently got EYEBALL'd.
>>214169347indeed
>>214169376next episode is a flashback about the Maginot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvk16F4n1PI
>>214169430We need more high quality images of the ship
For me, it's Kumi
>>214169430Seems like a bad name for a ship designed to contain aliens.
>>214169482
This looks rather nice. Only thing missing is a model of the ship.
>>214169602
>>214169122>>214169259What would you lads say are your favourite TV shows?
>>214168455>experience the conundrum of existence stripped of its biological imperativeHe literally me
>>214169656I don't watch tv
>>214169713What are your favourite films anon?
>>214169741I don;t watch movies either
>>214165867I don't get the Alien plus 3D printer step
>>214169759What are your favourite books pal?
>>214169769The lab in Romulus was 3D printing facehuggers.
>>214169810I'm American, we don't read books
>>214169877What are your favourite muckbangs buddy?
>>214169873Oh right, I haven't seen that
>>214169915I like hungry fatchick and gongsam tablehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_IegktrtRwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk1cHnm4jec
How many corporations are there in the movies? Just WY?
>>214170078Yeah in the movies others are never mentioned In the Alien Isolation game there's Seegson which makes crappy synths that break down and space stations that go bankrupt. They're portrayed as losing out to WY most of the time.
>>214170078Just Weyland-Yutani and the US government
>>214170145>>214170078I -hate- that Seegson hasn't been tossed a little throwaway bone mention. I don't care if they're not top 5, I want them acknowledged.
>>214170632Alien Isolation and the Alien concept art had so many one-off companies to make whatever the fuck, I really wish that design philosophy carried over to more stuff
>>214170171So, in 2 years they wipe out 4 massive corpos and all evidence of this groundbreaking synthetic technology and of xenos and all other alien lives
>>214170798Art of the Deal
>>214170775It's such an easy thing to throw into the script: Just mention Seegson as a major company that isn't on the level of the 5 in any serious respect. Use it as contrast
>France ceases to exist 2 years after Alien: EarthGrim.
>>214170816That would fit with the game too. They're the underdogs and Sevastopol Station was supposed to turn things around.
>>214170798Only Prodigy gets BTFO, the others continue, there are dozens of corporations, big and small, in the books.
>>214170828>France ceases to existIf only.
>>214166374They wanted to make a Blade Runner show but had to settle for the Alien license
>>214170828I thought France was an independent power all the way up till Resurrection
>>214170816I doubt that would ever happen, to me it looks like they're going for the "five corporations own EVERYTHING" angle
>>214170965>300 more years of France existingEven grimier.
If a xeno's mind gets transferred into a synthetic body it will be Tarkovskian Kubrickian sci fi kino the likes of which have never even been explored.
>>214170980If they wanted to sell that then there should be prodigy brand everything all over the place, really impress upon the audience that this is a corporate world. It doesn't even look like the future.
I've never watched or played anything in the Alien franchise, should I start with this show?
>>214171092Just watch Alien (1979) and nothing else.
>>214171092>I've never watched anything in the Alien franchiseAre you 12?
>>214171076Eyeball alien will get transferred to a cute synth girl >Eye like you :3>Get it? EYE hehe.
>>214171092watch everything in order of release
>>214171137It's too easy. Try harder.
>>214166580It's fun and it looks cool.
>>21417112130 years young, pal>>214171154Ok, I guess now is a good time to finally get into it
>>214171137And that synth girl's name? Nibs
>>214171154This is the best advice. >>214171092MY advice which isn't the BEST advice is watch Alien, Aliens and Alien 3 and then Prometheus. Alien Isolation is a canonical soft Aliens Sequel starring the protag's daughter and Alien's Dark Descent is an amazing tactical squad management game that's like realtime X-Com UFO Defense combined with Darkest Dungeon in an Alien setting. [not cannon iirc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUBkNEDpraoDark Descent is REALLY fun.
>>214171318based objective anon
Alien Isolation is fucking shit because it has zero lore development, it's just running from one xeno.
>>214171092skip Alien 3, Prometheus and Covenant, watch the rest.
>>214171250If your year of birth starts with a 19 then you're not young.
>>214171355>it's just running from one xenoIf only that were true.
>>214171374Alien 3 Director's Cut is great and Prometheus is canon whether you like it or not. Covenant, yeah take it or leave it, they left that plot thread limp and dead.
>>214165421Want to see my room too, anon?
>>214171092Watch Chadetheus and Covechad. Then Alien and Aliens. Don't play videogames like a goddamn retard.
>>214171092this here>>214171154dont be a fag skipping movies
>>214171399>Prometheus is canon whether you like it or notI really don't think canonicity is something of interest to someone who's never seen any of the movies>>214171092Here's my opinion>Alien>AliensThese make a great pair of movies that don't require anything else.>Alien 3is a somewhat bleak movie, but it works as a capstone to a trilogy. You can take it or leave it. I personally like it but a lot of people don't. None of the others are particularly good as far as kinology goes.>Prometheusis a different movie attached awkwardly to the alien franchise. It's alright on its own terms but that's all.
>>214171483He will if he cares about the myteries. Tell him we'll get lore about the "jockey" from Alien and he'll be fascinated.
Any watch order advice that doesn't include "watch Alien (1979) first" is objectively wrong.From a storytelling point of view, that's the place to start. Not some sort of "in universe" timeline.
>>214171436That's a really cheap looking alien.
In Romulus, they said facehuggers injected the black goo into people in order to create alien, in Earth, the facehuggers carry little xenomorph tadpoles that they implant into people.Which is the canon method?
>>214171558Both
>>214171558The black goo contains tadpoles.
>>214171558Facehuggers were just milked of goo, they don't inject it.
>>214171355Nigga did you even play the game?
Could the eye octopus control a non vertebrate animal?in vertebrates, the eyes are an outgrowth of the brain, it's directly connected to the brain and I guess that how the eye octopus controls the host. But, ironically, in cephalopods like an actual octopus, the eye growns directly from the skin, connecting to it's peripheral nervous system instead of the brain.
>>214171558The Romulus facehuggers are pirated and printed not free range organic facehuggers.
>>214171651No, I saw the last 5 minutes of a playthrough video
>>214171558My headcanon and something I read a long time ago on some fan lore website was that Facehuggers inject something like a virus that causes your body to grow a xenomorph embryo from your own DNA, like a tumor. It's the best explanation I've ever seen
The only good thing Romulus added to the lore is the wall pussy stage of alien development.
I want to have gay(happy) sex with Nibs
>>214171774>Hey, how should we design the adult synth body we are making for this sick little girl?>Give her a mid face but amazing lips>Oh.. Okay.
What if I start calling characters the x-ster...like the "Nibster" or the "Wendyster"? Is that cool, bros? Does it make me look cool? You know, I'm trying to get back into the dating game.
>>214171774>>214171800Ah the wonders of the human body where you can have weird tiny baby hands but a 9 inch cockHer nose and lips separately aren't bad looking it's the rest that's UGHGHGHGHGHGHGH UGHHHH kill me.
How do Xenos see? Do they have eyes?
>>214171774Nibs is amazing
>>214171896Magic.Echolocation.By sensing energy.Take your pic.
>>214171866Her lips are where the nigger DNA went
>>214171922>Take your pic.No
>>214171957Did i stutter?
>>214171896No one has been able to catch one to study it so no one knows
>>214171692Damn I'm sorry I doubted you
>>214166374lmao older relative I was watching it with yelled after ep.2 that the writers clearly wanted to be writing WESTWORLD or something.>>214170798I remain convinced that the writers are economically illiterate because they threw that shitty "big 5" exposition in the first episode that makes no sense and violates canon and have also completely FAILED to point out how Boy Cavalier (so clever, get it?) runs a company as a techbro in a world dominated by '70s and '80s style mega corps. I'm not against the idea, but they never explain it.>>214170828France is independent throughout the Alien timeline; the conceit of the universe is that the '70s energy crisis never really ended on Earth, resulting in a much weaker European economic community and Britain and France each existing as economic/technological superpowers.
>>214171764Adding yet another stage to the development cycle was fucking retarded. It already sheds it's skin, why does it need a fucking cocoon as well?
>>214172094it makes sense if you assume that the cocoon is taking material from the bulkhead in order to build up the aliens body.To me, that's better than they just growing matter out of nothing, Resident Evil style.
>>214172066>Boy Cavalier (so clever, get it?) runs a company as a techbro in a world dominated by '70s and '80s style mega corpsYeah this bothers me too. This guy is just THERE without explanation.The show is just using the 70s and 80s corps as windowdressing without understanding. Noha Hawley is old enough that he should know better just from having lived in the 1980s.
>>214172094I think it's pretty clear by now that the Xenmorph kinda varies its lifestyle based on host or whatever. It's not a stretch to imagine that the variant the company was working on did the wall pussy thing, or even that it realized it was easier to stow away on the ship that way. Or it just did it in the original and we never saw it?
>>214171911
This show should have been about the crew of the Maginot collecting specimens and as a bonus getting into situations that are interesting and thrillingCould still start with them about to return to earth and everything going to shit. Then the rest of the season is a flashback showing how they got to that point.Include an Arcturian femboy alien crew member for good measure and you're guaranteed an Emmy win
>>214172185You can SENSE the set and prop people trying to work through this, too. This is supposed to be a future where our resources went towards space instead of semiconductors. Hawley has already added in iPads, touch screens, cell phones, the Internet, the fucking Ice Age movies...The prop people TRY to do a good job figuring out how the tech would exist but it's really an impossible task. And If WY had the processing power to render Ice Age, they wouldn't be rendering Ice Age with it.>This guy is just THERE without explanation.Even something about how he's an up-and-coming junior exec, or maybe about how Prodigy is a small but rapidly-growing upstart corporation with new tech and he's a super unconventional CEO challenging the big companies, SOMETHING that would explain why this company has such an erratic CEO and such a stupid logo.
>>214172288If they wanted an Ice Age clip, they should have redone it traditionally animated instead of CGI
When did Synths get downgraded?Those niggas are fucking super powered in this, while Ash had a hard fucking time trying to kill Ripley, and got taken out by being boinked in the head with a fire extinguisher.
>>214172331Yeah; I get the sense that this show is made by a bunch of people who really wanted to make an Alien show and a writing team that really did not want to be writing for an Alien show.
>>214172331or just kept using Peter Pan.
>>214172094To suck into the electric grid and use that energy to make the xenomorph as if a caterpillar ate with its cocoon instead of with its mandibles as a larva.Besides xenos having a highly convoluted life cycle is normal already. Real life parasitoids just have the adult inject egg into the host, it hatches into a larva that grows into an adult then it cycles. Xeno lifecycle is wild compared to that simple one.
>>214172268>the crew of the Maginot collecting specimens and as a BONUS getting into SITUATIONs that are interesting and thrillingYou cheeky fucker
>>214172344The writers really want to make a show about robots and tech company bad and are stuck writing a show about aliens. So naturally all the conflict is gonna be the tired "robots are better than humans but humans are mean" we saw in that shitty HBO robot show.
>>214172368Yep and that would account for bio-Marcie saying >She looks like a Wendy if Peter Pan was her favourite movie to watch with her gormless brother
>>214172368I love how Boy reads Peter Pan to them through a podcast mic on a podcast set because the writers have the subtlety of a sledgehammer.
>>214172396At least it can't possibly be worse than the electric state
>>214172395
>>214171399>Prometheus is canon whether you like it or notI always read Prometheus as an alternate telling of the Alien story. Like, the aliens are the same but the circumstances in which they're encountered and the races/societies that encounter them are totally different.Romulus is canon to whichever one you prefer to be canon, either the original 1979 one or Prometehus/Covenant.
>>214170004i will never get this, its disgusting
>>214172469High bar you got there
>>214172474The one redeeming part about weird cyborg guy in this show is that he looks kinda like Yaphet Kotto and that reminds me of the original.>>214172469Googling this and it looks like pure anthracite coal; how bad has normal people TV gotten while I wasn't paying attention since COVID?
I don’t understand why they have to make an Alien show but fill it with contemporary references and shitty metal music. How in the fuck does the bald guy know what a Snuggie is? Why are they watching Ice Age? If they really wanted to make a Blade Runner show they also failed because the aesthetic is too Prometheus.
>>214172474Why don’t they freeze him??
>>214172344It's almost like Prodigy designed and built different synths than their rival, Weyland Yutani.Boy Kavalier plainly said his hybrids cost a billion dollars each.The whole fucking Nostromo is only worth 42 million.This is a big maybe, but is it possible that the hybrids are tougher and better built than a run of the mill WY science officer android?
Is this accurate?
>>214172848Then they should have mentioned that. Maybe when he's on the phone with WY he could have mentioned how far ahead his synths were.
>>214172875I wouldn't put it in that reddit way
>>214172875Imagine being a low level system tech getting a call on the hotline for emergencies and it's an Indian scammer demanding the nuclear codes.
>>214172519Prometheus and Alien Covenant are canon, but have zero to do with Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Alien Resurrection, Alien Isolation, or any other Alien property.David won, and took his thousands of test subjects off into the sunset, never to be seen or heard from again, and nothing he did or will do will in any way influence any other movies.I don't know what the fuck is wrong with you retards that can't tell the difference between LV-426, LV-223, and the Engineer planet.
>>214172519Meant that last post for the guy you for the guy you were replying to.>>214171399Not for you.Sorry about that.
>>214172972How would you then explain the space jockey being de-mystified as an engineer in a space suit? Or every bit of technology actively regressing? My take is that Prometheus/Covenant must be an alternate timeline where tech diverged in the 2010's and not the 1970's.
>>214172894He kinda did, you second screen speedwatching scene skipping zoomer.
>>214172875More like if you were sleeping and a monkey slapped you awake and asked for the secret to immortality via a robot monkeyEither way John Prometheus' reaction is understandable
>>214166374I enjoy that the show has more ideas that just people running from aliens actually.
>>214173077As if we aren't spending every episode waiting for eyeball-kun and xenomorph-chan to hurry up and do something.
>>214173020It's not regressing. Rich people have access to high level technology, normal people have access to technology that is still far more advanced than ours.As was pointed out, the high level tech is fucking expensive.In Prometheus, you do know that the space jockey in the crashed ship on LV-426 left LV-223 2000 years ago to go to Earth and wipe out humanity and made it as far as LV-426 before he scuttled his ship. Likely due to being infected himself.
>>214173173>Rich people have access to high level technologyThe Covenant is a colony ship. If we assume the same timeline, Weyland is a colonization enterprise that establishes and maintains tons of human colonies. Even if this ship is top of the line, it is mass produced. It's filled with flat panel displays, which we know are more durable in space than CRT's. In a unified timeline, why would WY fill their mass-market ships with more expensive, more error-prone technology?
>>214173307>why would WY fill their mass-market ships with more expensive, more error-prone technology?WY cares about aesthetics
>>214173345lmao imagining a WY exec yelling at people about a "SOVL quotient"
>>214171727I remember reading the same thing.Berenstein, or Berenstain?
>>214171677What confuses is why it looks so much like an Earth mammal eye.
>>214172808HE WAS RIGHT! WHY DIDN'T THEY FREEZE HIM?!?
>>214173610Yes it is a bit too similar. The appearance of iris is exactly like a mammal'sAn octopus eye for example looks similar to a mammal eye at a glance, but quite different on closer inspection. Would have been cool to see the conspicuously alien eye looking out of the sheep's eye socket
>>214173679Or if it looked like the host's eye but was a totally black sphere while not in anything.
>>214173718>totally black sphere while not in anything.That's a cool idea. Like it totally dilates, then the pupil contracts to look at something
Guys, I'm crying right now.Just looking at her picture makes me feel something strange inside. I guess you could call it "love". I'm in love with Wendy. I've lost interest in all girls, besides her.Wendy really is all I think about all day, every day. I really do cry myself to sleep at night thinking about how I'll never be with her. If only she knew I existed in this life, if only she knew my deep profound love for her. I know that will never happen though. That is the thought that makes me so sad when I look at her. I'll never be with her, but I'll continue to love her until the day I die.
>>214174039fucking hell must be almost 10 years since i saw this pasta
>>214171558>they said facehuggers injected the black goo into peopleno they didn't
>>214173610it's been around Earth mammals for as long as we've seen it in the show, though. captured by humans and observing them on the Maginot, then at some point it got in the cat, then it's been surrounded by humans and synthetics that look like humans. the sheep's eyes are probably the weirdest eyes it's seen since being captured.
>>214169494fucking kek
>>214174039Noooooo
>>214169494Remember that episode where the protagonist bodyswaps with his sister, Xev, and then tries to lez out with Leia, but Leia sees through the ruse and forces the Xev/MC to suck his own dick? Do you think something like that could happen in AE?
You know what people hate? kids. You know what people REALLY hate? When adults act like kids. Fuck this stupid ass show.
>>214176730>rapey jeet adults pretending to be dumb, inoffensive kidsAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! DAY OF THE FLUSH WHEEEEEEEEEEEEN!
>>214176953Oh it's not just the jeets. The black one punching and moving around like a child, the stupid way the other ones talk and act. This is the problem with the later alien movies. Everyone acts retarded and stupid so the aliens can take over and kill everyone. The whole "WHAT IF THEY WERE ALL ACKSHUALLY KIDS" angle is just the final, stupid culmination of retarded characters acting retarded.
>>214172344Yutani is literally chinkshit stolen tech
