Alien: Earth

Bald Brah said:

But I'm still loving kirsch and morrow and the evil eyeball. I can't wait to see them drop someone in the cage with it and hear it talk.

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Maybe someone already mentioned this, but this already happened in the flashback episode and it still was making gutteral noises. Of course the writers are retarded so who knows what they'll do with it.

Bald Brah said:

I liked the episode. I don't like the xeno whisperer though. That whole arc is fucking retarded. It's like she learns a couple clicks and now she's a xeno queen? Wat?

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I'm not defending it, because the show is so dumb, but I think her being able to communicate with the xeno is tied to her ability to manipulate electronics. Since the xenomorphs are biomechanical, they sort of live in the world between organisms and machines.... it's still stupid, but I think that's the implied in-story explanation.

This whole series has been a masterclass on how to completely rob a franchise of suspense and intrigue. Yeah, let's show the big bad xenomorph sitting on a box in a brightly lit cell looking bored. That's what the people want.

Also, the chestburster scene was the perfect distillation of this entire show: sorta like the first one but worse.
Even the very brief shot of the chestburster popping through his chest was a laughable version of the "guy laying under a latex model of his body" effect they used in the original Alien. It looked terrible and they didn't even bother to try to match up the angle of his head with the fake body. It looked like they covered a cardboard box with his shirt and got hm to stick his head next to it. Seriously, pause the show on that 1 second shot and see how bad it looks.

Dr.Retarded said:

Jesus it's not about the powerfulness of the stupid protopulse rifle, but the fact that you've got all these highly trained commandos not blasting away at a goddamn monster wanting at them.

I mean what the hell. Like I said earlier I'm pretty sure there was a dude with a fucking smart gun, or maybe a minigun. They have the firepower but they didn't use it because the script requires it to just be retarded. He got a goddamn monster running at you, you figure somebody would have an itchy trigger finger. Maybe they miss who the hell knows it's so stupid.

I mean maybe that makes a little bit of sense because they've only got a couple of different aliens and running around, and you can't have a soldier blast it because then you're screwed with your shitty writing.

It's just bad form.

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Plot armor.

Single main enemy = max stacks plot armor

Swarms of main enemy = stacking aura debuff that reduces plot armor based on number of enemies