Like almost every prequel ever, they wrote themselves into a corner by making it a prequel.

For some reason I strongly disliked Alien: Earth (managed about 3.5 episodes). There are productions that don't grab me or aren't made for me; but for some reason I found AE to be aggressively bad and annoying.

The Disney style kids in adult bodies concept is a joke. In my eyes, adding something like that is the easiest way to ruin your production. I don't want to watch such shit, I am not a 15 year old teen. I wasn't even interested in such concepts when I was 15.

The Mark Zuckerburg fellow was comically unrealistic. This is not how you do satire of oligarchy. One almost starts to wonder if the lame satire of oligarchy is a structured part of American internal propaganda policies (I don't actually believe this, the directors/producers just don't give a shit and go with whatever). Compare the Zuckerberg character to Mark Ruffalo's Kenneth Marshall character in Mickey 17, neither characters were subtle in their use of satire, but Mickey 17 never took itself seriously, it's almost like a magical realism production in a sci-fi exterior. AE does take itself very seriously.

The behavior and narrative design of the characters was just off-putting. The annoying, inappropriate humour, plot armor use and just boring, stereotypical "epic streaming service sci-fi show" characters.

I actually don't mind "nostalgia bait", but it needs to be done well. I gave up on the beginning of the 3rd episode, but based on recommendations I watched the 5th episode "In Space, No One..." and I thought it was shit. It did not have that Alien feeling of dread and desire for survival. It was very generic, sort of like some LLM output that gets the surface elements right, but can miss the point of a given work/concept.

When it comes to sci-fi and horror, I am not picky. I thought the theatrical versions of Alien 3, Alien: Resurrection and Prometheus were decent. The Director's cut versions (Chaos Edition fanedit for Prometheus) are a lot better, but the OG releases were entertaining sci-fi horror experiences. Not to mention that I will watch almost any found footage movie there is.

But that doesn't mean I am going tolerate something like Alien: Earth that feels like a tasteless, odorless synthetic product in very eye catching and opulent Alien packaging.

Battle angel alita from temu, the lost boys and their puppy dog alien. Why is modern american media so infantilized?