When you don't have high expectations for a product, your capacity for disappointment, or your threshold, is quite low to begin with. However, "Alien Earth," unfortunately, leaves me quite angry. I didn't expect a series that, a priori, went against the established canon to be as complex as "Prometheus" or as shocking as "Aliens." But I did expect a minimum of coherence, and why not, surprise me with something interesting. After all, expanding the franchise's universe, adding other extraterrestrial entities, and talking about transhumanism and the concept of hybrids had a lot of potential. What we got was little of the "Alien" saga, perhaps some "Blade Runner," and definitely a lot of "Jurassic World," with the Xenomorph copying the Velociraptor Blue's outline. We could have also had a corporate war between Prodigy and Weyland-Yutani. We got an undesirable and terrifying CEO and a descendant of Yutani who is embarrassing due to how poorly developed she is and how she is humiliated in a meeting. Are there any good things? Yes, there are some. I, in particular, found the beginning of the series super interesting, with the entire sequence of the crashed ship and the rescue of the specimens. Already in the third episode, when Wendy kills a Xenomorph that had caused so much damage with her bare hands and a paper knife, it was disturbing. But even more so at the end of the fourth, when we get a glimpse of terror in the form of a Chestbuster trained by a machine that copied sounds... terrible. Episode 5, with its inconsistencies and bad things, is like a restrained movie, and while it could have shown more, it ends up being one of the best of the season. Episode 6, which for me is the best by far, and then the absolute absurdity with everything that happens at the end. I don't know what to think about the writers of this series. How can you be so wrong and out of touch with such a legendary saga? Is there any screenwriter in the 21st century who understands these franchises enough to give us a product that's even halfway up to par, as happened, for example, with "Andor," speaking of Star Wars? Is this what's coming, for example, also in the "Predator" saga? I really thought we could go in the vein of "Alien Romulus," which, while it had many flaws, took the canon very seriously and made us uncomfortable with the Xenomorph, rather than this joke about a species trained by a girl in a cybernetic body. The only redeeming feature is the attempt to expose transhumanism and its connection to machines, but to a certain extent, the best aspects of the Morrow and Kirsch series end up having little or no importance. Truly a complete disappointment.

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