The Reel Rejects - ALIEN: EARTH 1x01 & 1x02 Breakdown & Review!!

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Starting point is 00:01:09 All right, gang, you ready? Just get it. We have just watched Alien Earth. Episodes one and two. Maybe my favorite show of the year. I got a lot to say, but before I rant forever, please stay for my ranting forever. Because I got a lot to say,

Starting point is 00:01:25 I want to hear from you guys to know if you're enjoying, as much as I am. I'm just going to start with you. I really, really like this show. I think it's really strong. Does a good job of establishing established lore, but also introducing new lore, and the visuals are really incredible.

Starting point is 00:01:40 The acting is incredible. The way they're able to get you to care about these characters in such a short amount of time while establishing history, both through the character's emotions, but also the visual language of the show is really, really impressive. It's something that you wouldn't think

Starting point is 00:01:55 would be able to be sustained for an eight episode series, something like Alien, because it's only been films and, like, comics up to this point. But the way that they've centered it around characters that you really care about and allow the heart and the ethics of the show to take president, in tandem with the horror of the show and the mythology is really smart and really well constructed. I'm thoroughly invested. Obviously, the beginning of the show, the first episode,

Starting point is 00:02:19 is very much, like, lower and exposition heavy. But then this episode, the second episode, which I personally enjoyed more than the first, you really get to live in what was established in that first episode and I think that it's only going to go up from here like it's one of those shows where it each episode you're like wait wait wait wait wait no what do you mean we're just ending like I could have just stayed here for hours so yeah I'm thoroughly really really enjoying this

Starting point is 00:02:43 before I give my thoughts and terrorist thoughts I also want to thank we talked about the horror and gore and intensity of this show I want to thank the fine folks a prepper because this must have been a hell of an edit I cannot imagine making this show for YouTube and chopping it down. So much love to Prepper. And again, to the patrons who are helping us fight the copyrights. Yeah, man.

Starting point is 00:03:04 I freaking love this show. Starting with the first episode, we get so many Easter A's. Number one, when we get Jonesy in there, we get that opening scene at aliens. I talk about it all the time that the director made the smartest move on filming that on the last day so that all of the actors had the best camaraderie, which just flies off the screen in that movie, because when you don't feel, when they don't feel connected, there's cross talk and they're like smoking a bunch of things and there's computers in the background. And this set up the exact same way. When they come in, they're speaking to each other, the back and forth, the camaraderie is there. I felt it to me, that opening scene, aliens, and for them to open it up on this and have so many similarities to that, but also not to the point where I'm like,

Starting point is 00:03:54 like, this one's not as good. Didn't feel that way. So a hell of a job. And I agree. The fact that this has a heart in it, like when he hugs his sister, because he asked her the second fact and just sort of like falls into her, you're like, God, that's so human. And it's filled with so much heart of like he thought that his sister was gone forever. Sorry, guys.

Starting point is 00:04:17 And dead. And to just feel that. We're right there with him. And I felt it. And that's obviously due to great direction, really great actors. Everybody's really great, really grounded. And I think like we said during the reaction, the fact that we're like, you're like, wait, it's called Neverland. And then we see Peter Pan up there.

Starting point is 00:04:40 And then his name is Cavalier and her name is Wendy. And you're like, what is going on here? Except it's not so out of the realm or so real. It's still a very grounded environment, and we are dealing with aliens on Earth. And it doesn't feel like, this is really sci-fi. It feels like, no, this could happen. Like, this is, they did a really good job of making it feel really grounded and putting us there in our brains of like, this could be a possibility. And I love it.

Starting point is 00:05:19 And I'm with you on that, that I could just watch endless. amounts of this and thank you for the songs that end every episode freaking metal hell yeah let's go i think it's my favorite show the year um i'm a big fan of alien uh in the sense that i think sci-fi when it's done well can be a really good commentary on the present and i always thought that waylon yutani as a investigation of the human less elements of corporation like when you lose your humanity for wealth, having these creatures that are just for destruction being their profit margin, being something that they want to keep and maintain. Obviously, that's not even a very subtle metaphor for a lot of the things that we are experiencing. I love this show

Starting point is 00:06:08 elevates all of the original alien lore and makes it the exponential increase to our present from 50 years ago. So instead of billionaires is trillionaires, instead of the synthetics being just binary, we've got a third. element of hybrid. So I believe we, our lifetime, will actually see things close to synthetics. I don't know if we'll get to the point of hybrid, but I do see that as where humanity's going. So from a broad sci-fi standpoint, I love the idea that this doesn't feel as near future as the first alien does, because I think we're catching up to the first alien. I like that they've extended it out, even though narratively this takes place first, that we get to have something like a

Starting point is 00:06:52 hybrid that might be something our grandkids know about so all of that being a commentary on extreme wealth on the inhumanity of humans on what it is to pioneer new technology what it is to seek all these things while using tropes like the arrogance of an apple while playing around with the lore of the the innocence and naivete of the lost boys and what it is to be preserved as a child and all of that being metaphors for the darkness of what humanity takes on as they evolve in whatever we're becoming um i thought it was really great writing I thought Noah Holly absolutely nailed the tone of the first alien film. This is much more alien than aliens.

Starting point is 00:07:29 I love aliens and I love the space marines and all the stuff James Cameron did. But even when there's space marines in the first episode and some in the second episode still feels like alien. And I loved Alien Romulus. The newest alien, the film, I thought that I finally got Alien 3. All respect to David Fincher is my favorite director in the world. Alien 3 is not my favorite film. I've always seen it as Alien 1, Aliens, and then it ended. I love that we got Alien Romulus this last year,

Starting point is 00:07:54 and I feel like we got a trilogy. This show is exceeding all expectations because Alien Romulus for me was like, oh, they can make a good third one. I'm good, buttoned up, alien trilogy, but then this show came out of nowhere to be maybe an even better version of long form than watching a trilogy of films.

Starting point is 00:08:11 Like it doesn't feel like, you know, three, two-hour movies. This feels like a beautiful tapestry of storytelling where we get to live in it for eight hours. And it feels like the format, I think modern audience is more attuned to. I think that our attention spans are short, but we've got these amazing little beats of fade outs.

Starting point is 00:08:28 And like it feels like an old show where you get the little commercial break for the tension, but I can't wait for next week. I'm already so excited. Like, I don't always get that with a movie. This feels a really cool formatting as well as a quality show. So acting top notch, so impressed with everyone, directing infathomably good,

Starting point is 00:08:47 so many great transitions and choices and style. and horror elements and production design and puppetry and whoever's playing that xenomorph aces. I think it's my favorite show of the year. I'm with you on that. And I also think, you know, in going back to, you know, showing like the riches off. And it really when Cavalier is saying,

Starting point is 00:09:09 I just want to talk to someone who's smarter than me. And it's like that's really kind of all of us with Chat 2BT right now, yo. Like for real, except he just been. chat chbt synthetically right and then he's adding the human there but we are close i mean you think about crisper it's like they're working on changing genetic code like if you have enough money you can probably get your baby to have blue eyes right and it's like we're getting closer to like i'm sure if you guys saw that you know be venom there's a certain type in it that cures cancer obviously we are not fully there but they have discovered that there's like ways that technology is is helping us

Starting point is 00:09:49 but so much show to the point where when you look at this show to see a cyborg where you're like, it's a computer, it's like chat cheapy T inside, it's around the corner. And that's wild to think about. Rejignation, it's that weird time of the year where you're still holding on to the end of summer. But as it's wrapping up, you're also kind of getting ready to go back into a routine. My routine, long filming days, a lot of editing sessions, a lot of meetings. And not much time to think about the basics, like hydration. This summer I've gone to a lot of events

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Starting point is 00:11:52 But I think it's an interesting psychological experiment that they release those robots and they put them in like rainbow flags and they're making it like a meme and a joke so people are filming them for fun and making it like, oh my God, ha ha, ha, so funny. But it's like, well, you're accepting a robot in a reality by doing this.

Starting point is 00:12:09 Like the choice to just casually film a robot is a great way to indoctrinate us into normalizing that they're around. And to me, that means if we have robots today in Los Angeles and we have these elements that are not being like, oh my God, like we should be much more alarmed. By 2030, I think it'll be very common to interact with a robot day to day. And that is very soon.

Starting point is 00:12:34 So I like that this show is leaping a little bit more forward from even the first alien. Yeah, but I also really enjoy the fact that, you know, where we're introducing this new element of the hybrid, you know, what if somebody with memories and the experience of what it's like to feel now has the processing power of a computer? And I like the potential of that, you know, do you utilize that to, you know, advance your humanity? Do you find some sort of medium between what it means to have all the power and all the knowledge of the world with the experience of what it's like to feel? and do you lose some of that the more you know

Starting point is 00:13:19 synthetic information you're able to obtain but it seems like Wendy are our main character though she can't necessarily feel she has the memory of what it's like to feel which which motivates her which drives her and maybe this is an argument maybe she still can feel

Starting point is 00:13:35 she seems to feel at times and they do seem to be showing very clear lines where she's not feeling like it does feel like it's not like a bad acting choice it feels very informed and very lived in and she said she was special and that's been pointed out enough times that I do feel like there's going to be a conversation there of what it is to be human because if you have a human brain in a synthetic body but you started as an animal you started you still are at your core human what does that mean for what you are and I think that's going to be fun to explore yeah I'm I'm very curious to see you know how she goes about these things in the future knowing that she's special I think I said earlier in the episode and I imagine that with you now again experiencing the other side of humanities, experiencing, you know,

Starting point is 00:14:19 man's own self-evolution to preserve its longevity. You know, do you then start to, for lack of a better term, indoctrinate people into that form of living? Like, if her brother becomes something that's in danger, her last living connection to what she knows her life to be, does she then opt to get him to become synthetic as well? And I love the line about just being concerned,

Starting point is 00:14:44 that live forever like humans are things that have evolved but we were food and now we just consume until we die and we are probably closer to a virus than a mammal so if you then live forever what does that make you if you're the virus that doesn't need those things that made us um you know take more than we need like humanity at all times gathers more than it needs and we waste and we abuse and we ruin areas so if you don't need food and you're a creature of destruction what does that look like going forward? So it's got a lot of, I mean, two episodes in, I had a lot of questions raised. And we haven't even talked about the evolution of the animals, the creatures like xenomorphs we know and certain things. But we got this new thing with the, what did you

Starting point is 00:15:26 call it? I thought it was great. The octopus. Opthipus, great. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The octopus. We've got some new creature designs. And I personally like that this isn't tied to the original canon yet. And I don't know if it ever will be. And I love that because it gets to be with the lore, but without being beholden to continuity or trying to, you know, Easter egg a or like do too much of the things besides tonality Easter eggs like the opening and those things that work without being like can't wait for blah blah to show up exactly don't dig up a corpse and reanimate them like you did daily and romulus that was the biggest knock on that film for me was that was gross it was ghoulish to uh to ai an actual

Starting point is 00:16:02 person um back to android life uh so i love that this show doesn't have to do any of that and it can play in its own lore no holly has way more leash of making these animals making these making these other things and we're already loving these new characters and and we talked about during like without having to recognize the actors allie font and the dude from the end of the freaking world are the only two i recognize at all and i'm enamored with everyone in the show yeah me too i i also was just thinking that you know when wendy is uh watching her brother talk to the robot at the dmv looking place um the second he says he's like oh have a heart is when she taps into that robot and there has to be some sort of connection where i feel like that's going to fly right back in

Starting point is 00:16:43 um to the point of proving to us somehow the reason why she is special um and i'm really curious about that i wonder if i'm overthinking that no i think that's very intentional it's a really good point it's uh that heart line like the oh have a heart and that's the time she flies in with that that quote from ice age um i just i love to see where they're going to go with that storyline next. And I do think also they did a really good job of highlighting what luxury and greed looks like in this world. And they only did it with just the opening of a door.

Starting point is 00:17:21 Yeah. And the art design with those LED orange lit like mirrors and corners and an elevator and, of course, the piece of art. That's all we needed. We just needed one character to come up. say a few things drink his wine and we're like we know exactly what that represents yeah and i just think that's really good storytelling uh sir no no i was just saying that i think i think that's great and it's not not to to bounce off of your point i like the fact that you know we do see things that

Starting point is 00:17:59 are extravagant in this world and i guess for the positive of spending money i think that it is really cool how much practical is in this show. My God, yes. It's beautiful. And they do a smart thing with showing the alien but not showing it too much. They utilize their editing to

Starting point is 00:18:20 cut to it quickly and show it to quick shots to still, yeah, to build up the tension and the horror of what we're experiencing. And it's funny that things, both like sci-fi stuff outside of this, but more specifically,

Starting point is 00:18:36 the alien franchise things like three and four utilize a lot of CGI when it shows the xenomorph so the fact that we're going back to practical not only for the xenomorphs but the set and then seeing the aftermath of it some of it are some of it's really beautiful the cadavers and everything there's so much practical

Starting point is 00:18:52 in this yeah I was thinking about as we were watching it you could make an entire show of this trailer of just the aftermath of what the xenomorphs are doing without showing any of the plot or any of the characters itself because there's just a lot of footage of its destruction and you really get that that it walks that line of of embracing the the higher concept sci-fi stuff will also maintaining its horror roots which is very impressive i got last two thoughts okay uh thought

Starting point is 00:19:19 one this is my favorite thing that disney has acquired and turned into glory um i don't know that fox ever had the money to make this an eight-hour show like when fox owned alien i don't think they ever were like you know what i mean this wouldn't have happened so tip my hat to disney for making this choice. Like, if you buy something and you know that it's beloved, Alien Romulus and this with one year, thank you, Disney. I feel like we do a lot as consumers when we're upset at art to go like, the studio ruined it. I'm going to say right now, thanks Studio for fixing it. Yeah. I think Alien 3, Alien 4, Alien versus Predator, all of those felt much more like cash grabs. I think, again, people do not ever look at studios fixing things. These are artists,

Starting point is 00:20:04 theater artist ends. These are incredible creators making these things. So I want to give flowers to people who are throwing lots of money at Noah Holly and the rest of this team. Yeah. They deserve it. So that was thought one. Thought two, Noah Holly was supposed to do a Dr. Doom and I'm so upset that's never going to happen. Really? Yeah. Watching this show, like Dr. Doom's

Starting point is 00:20:20 one of my favorite characters of all time. And Dr. Doom was going to get either a series or a movie. I forget which, when Fox had Dr. Doom and Noah Holly was doing it. It was his baby. It was this whole thing. And now we got a reheated Iron Man. So I can only give you so many flowers.

Starting point is 00:20:36 Disney, I'm just going to keep it real. Really excited. I'm going to give you all the flowers because I swear to God, if you're a Disney stand like me, in the rich, when they're all dead in the tables there, in Han and Mansion, when you roll through and the ghosts are sitting around that table, I swear to you, they look a lot like the dead ghosts on there. And I'm just like, yeah, what up, Disney. Synergy, corporate synergy. I see you. That may not have been. on their mind at all, but I'm like, go on that ride, and you'll see.

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The Reel Rejects - ALIEN: EARTH 1x01 & 1x02 Breakdown & Review!!

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