[Nick Zwar]

I don’t have Disney+, so I’m not watching the show (yet…maybe it’ll be elswhere some day).
I admit I’m somewhat skeptical about Alien working as a TV series.
I loved the original ALIEN. It was a classic science-fiction monster movie, the type of which had been done before (with Mario Bava’s PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES an obvious predecessor, though Scott said he had not even seen the film… but the similarities are nevertheless obvious), but ALIEN was the first time such a movie was constructed with A-level production values. The monster-bursting-out-of-chest scene was at that time a harrowingly shocking scene, well done. The idea of Ash being a robot was a further, excellent plot twist. ALIENS then was a great sequel, because it didn’t try to do the exact same thing as before, but put marines up against aliens. ALIEN3 had its issues, but I liked the atmosphere, Fincher’s direction, and Elliot Goldenthal’s evokative music score. I did not care all that much for ALIEN: RESURRECTION, but I liked PROMETHEUS more than most (not because I don’t see its obvious flaws, but because I enjoyed that it tried to do some new things). That’s it, I haven’t watched any of the other Alien movies, though I do have ALIEN:COVENANT on Bluray for a rainy day.

There is a tendency in all of these franchises that go on for too long to overexplain this or that, and I don’t like the idea of de-mystifying the Xenomorphs too much. I don’t even like the idea that they were created as some sort of “biological weapon”… a “weapon” the wielder cannot control at all is rather silly. I find them much more interesting, and frightening, as naturally evolved but highly dangerous creature, that may have been part of a different eco system on a different planet where it fit in, but once it was taken out, is highly dangerous because it no longer has any natural “enemies”. The original Alien is one of the best designed alien creatures ever, it deserves to haven an aura of mystery around it.
As far as ALIEN:EARTH is concerned, I might give it a try one day.