[worry]

This is ALF we're talking about?

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

worry, on 04 September 2025 - 01:02 PM, said:

This is ALF we're talking about?

Alf kills and eats cats

Alien kills evil humans (or more succintly: humans)

Alf is evil monster

Alien is avenging angel of outer space

But how many facehuggers could fit over Alf's face?

The image of Alf's belly bursting open with myriad tiers of fanged mouths does please me...

[Briar King]

“You said shit.”
“So! You said fuck!”

Yeah sorry not sorry that gets annoying on a week to week basis. Like I said binge/full drop would help with that. I considered doing so around ep 3 but decided against it as it would be a pain in the ass to avoid spoilers till ep 8.

Ep 5 alone maybe worth a rewatch in future when going back through A1-3. It was great but that crew just screamed “I wanna die!” being idiots at all the wrong times.

[QuickTidal]

Briar King, on 05 September 2025 - 04:01 AM, said:

“You said shit.”
“So! You said fuck!”

Yeah cause they are still kids in adult bodies. And kids would say that. It's played for laughs on that premise. And that was one scene...

But hey man, you do you. I just think it's weird to complain about the concept the show is deliberately playing with.

[Abyss]

Azath Vitr (D, on 04 September 2025 - 02:41 PM, said:

worry, on 04 September 2025 - 01:02 PM, said:

This is ALF we're talking about?

Alf kills and eats cats

Alien kills evil humans (or more succintly: humans)

Alf is evil monster

Alien is avenging angel of outer space

But how many facehuggers could fit over Alf's face?

The image of Alf's belly bursting open with myriad tiers of fanged mouths does please me...

[Tsundoku]

It's in French, but could be interesting:

[Briar King]

Alien Earth. Yep that’s a one and done in the end on my end.

[Azath Vitr (D'ivers]

Binged Alien: Earth. Seems they changed the design of the xenomorph---particularly the face---in a way that somehow makes it less appealing and less frightening. Granted, I did know in advance that it was just a man in a suit, not CGI (or AI!). Didn't find it "scary" at all.

Aside from that, it was much better than I was expecting. Pretty good. And much more variety than I was expecting---there are a lot of major plot elements that go beyond the usual xenomorph universe mythos.

It also had a bit of philosophical depth, bobbing to the surface of salience now and again. Overall, it was more in the "spooky/grisly/ghastly fun" category.

The

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synth

with the spiky white hair seems like an excellent role-model.

The most horrific thing was... well, I'm not going to really spoil it (if you haven't already seen the memes), but if you want a hint, suffice it to say there's a monstrous cross between

Spoiler

the WeWork guy, Elon Musk, and a child prodigy

.

And Japanese people might find his behavior particularly offensive... fitting since Weyland-Yutani is British-Japanese.

Glad they didn't develop the

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children in adult bodies having sex

concept though (even if

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they were put through a brief hyperaccelerated puberty, and only having sex with each other during that period

. Even if that probably isn't enough to keep QAnon or paranoid religious fundamentalist types from pretending to be upset about it (or maybe not? IDK). I don't think they were overtly sexualized.

This post has been edited by Azath Vitr (D'ivers: 08 October 2025 - 12:37 PM

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Azath Vitr (D, on 08 October 2025 - 12:30 PM, said:

Binged Alien: Earth. Seems they changed the design of the xenomorph---particularly the face---in a way that somehow makes it less appealing and less frightening. Granted, I did know in advance that it was just a man in a suit, not CGI (or AI!). Didn't find it "scary" at all.

To be fair, even xenomorph takes on traits of the host (which is why the one in Alien 3 has dog traits), so they will always be slightly different.

[Abyss]

Tsundoku, on 11 September 2025 - 10:47 AM, said:

It's in French, but could be interesting:

https://www.youtube....h?v=E35zvIpbMsE

if they aren't purple and pink and giant and go 'SQWARK' when zapped in the head, i don't care.

[Tiste Simeon]

I watched Adolescence, all four episodes in one sitting. What an astonishing, heartbreaking piece of storytelling. It deserves all the accolades it got and more. Stephen Graham is fantastic in everything he does, but this is a masterpiece.

I'm still up at 1am thinking about it...

[Tsundoku]

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Tsundoku, on 10 October 2025 - 08:48 AM, said:

Looks lime they nailed the correct lighthearted (This is peacetime) vibe....A KNIGHTS TALE if you will....but yeah, looking good so far.

[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 10 October 2025 - 11:27 AM, said:

Tsundoku, on 10 October 2025 - 08:48 AM, said:

https://www.youtube....h?v=UPFRItMOgPo

Looks lime they nailed the correct lighthearted (This is peacetime) vibe....A KNIGHTS TALE if you will....but yeah, looking good so far.

Seconded. This is NOT a hard story to nail for tv, it damn well should be great.

[worry]

Apparently it's gonna be six HALF-HOUR episodes. Now they're talking my language!

[Tsundoku]

worry, on 10 October 2025 - 04:12 PM, said:

Apparently it's gonna be six HALF-HOUR episodes. Now they're talking my language!

For a novella? That's almost Hobbit movies-level padding.
Unless they're doing the other novellas as well.

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 10 October 2025 - 06:53 PM

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Tsundoku, on 10 October 2025 - 06:51 PM, said:

worry, on 10 October 2025 - 04:12 PM, said:

Apparently it's gonna be six HALF-HOUR episodes. Now they're talking my language!

For a novella? That's almost Hobbit movies-level padding.
Unless they're doing the other novellas as well.

It’s adapting A KNIGHT OF THE SEVEN KINGDOMS, a 350pg book which collects all three novellas, THE HEDGE KNIGHT, THE SWORN SWORD, and THE MYSTERY KNIGHT.

[Tsundoku]

Ah, there you go then. I read them all individually as they came out in short story collections. I even have the graphic novels of the first two.

The trailer seemed to cover just The Hedge Knight though afaik, probably what threw me. I guess they didn't want to spoil the whole thing, which is unusual in and of itself these days.

Probably should get a copy of the whole thing I guess.

This post has been edited by Tsundoku: 10 October 2025 - 11:27 PM