Wish I could watch the show, but my TV setup is still too compromised and I have to wait until we move. I thought to myself that they probably filmed or edited the series for 2.4:1 to make it as wide as the original movie. I guessed right. It would fill my monitor. But then I saw that the show also has HDR, and my IPS monitor's HDR isn't good enough for movies and TV shows. (Except for South Park lately) I never watch movies on this monitor anyway because all the grain and digital muck are too obvious when you're so close, but I was willing it to make an exception for this show because it's modern and clean, meaning less of that stands out. Oh well. Brings me back to my thread called "Your TV sucks," in which I complained about no TV manufacturers making very lightly curved ultra wide TVs. So many TV shows opting for this aspect ratio, and the list of movies in it endless, and still we only get the fucking flat 16:9 TVs that have barrel distortion and make the picture appear more distant than if you had constant image height.
My only gripe is them not dumping all the episodes onto Hulu at once and having to wait week after week for each episode, so, I'd say avoid watching until you can binge watch them.
I'm enjoying it so far.
Anyhooo, while in Hulu I discovered that new season of King of the Hill, so, awesome.
Watched the first episode. I'll keep watching because I rather like the look of it and it's intriguing, but it's depressing, the way the characters speak is sometimes forced and overly dramatic, and I found how deeply it explores the theme of man and machine merging misplaced in what was originally just a monster movie with corporate themes secondary, which reveals that the alien is so played out by this point and they have to turn the series into something else because there's no place else to go with the monster.
What bothered me most of all was the hybrid Wendy dropping from such a height onto sand. The filmmakers did it for dramatic effect, showing no respect for mechanical engineering and making her pretty unbelievable.
Haven't seen it, I don't watch television. But I'm farily certain my friend can help me watch this series as I'm a huge fan of the IP. But reviews I've heard are mixed, but it's not like we haven't had trash Alien content after Aliens. :(
Watched the second episode and it occurs to me that the alien has the same problem as in Alien: Covenant. It's not scary because it's (often) not a man in a suit. It moves around so fast, not at all like the human whose form it supposedly took, but more like a cartoon cheetah. You are aware that it's not real, somehow more than in the old movie made with duct tape.
The reunion in episode 2 wouldn't happen, the brother and sister wouldn't go down these paths and reunite like this years later. I find it unreal and therefore emotionally manipulative.
Small nitpick: The text about the Nostromo ship and crew in Alien was typed out that way to make it seem like it was a log written by someone in the world for us. Makes no sense to do that if you're just writing "One day earlier" in the guy's personal life. Also feels like they're going through the motions to fill ten hours. "What can we do here? I dunno, have it snarl over his shoulder."
Also have a problem with the guy wanting to do a medical internship on Mars, because it's a SHITHOLE that we will never colonize. Brief scientific trips and robotic mining, perhaps, but not a place to live. Presumably so much energy needed to power the gravity machines that keep the inhabitants' bones and muscles from deteriorating on that tiny irradiated planet. I found Alien more real than this.
Also still seems like the new monsters are from a different universe from Giger's design. There's not even an attempt.
12 minutes into episode 3, I think I have to quit the show. Any scariness the show had left lost with this fight. Idiots. Yeah, screw Fox, I'm going to bed.
Edit: A forum user joked that she's a Marvel superhero, honestly an appropriate description after the ridiculous drop from the cliff in episode 1 and this fight that made me crash out of the show. How could they think freaking Alien is the place for a power fantasy?
The tv show inherited amazing stupidness of Prometheus movies. That is, going into a alien infested area without any biochemical hazard suits, without any back up, without heavy weaponry, exoskeletons, but just plain clothing, bare hands and their wits. F*ck this.
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