LV426 - On Lemmy no one can hear you scream

It wasn't great. Which really made me sad because I wanted to love this show.

The most compelling stories happen when it feels like the narrative unfolds due to the characters and their interactions, where A inevitably causes B, which in turn causes C, and so-on.

Watching Alien Earth, it felt like A, B and C were all drawn out in advance, and the characters were simply going through predictable and sometimes bizarre motions to move the plot from one point to the next.

Obviously shows and movies are scripted and written in advance, but the trick is to make it not feel like that to the audience, so we can get invested and live in the moment, with the characters.

And that was the problem with Alien Earth. I barely cared about anyone, I couldn't get invested, and the whole thing felt bland to me.

The biggest exception was Morrow (the Maginot's cyborg security officer) who I thought was a great character, with strong acting performance. The flashback episode to the events on the Maginot prior to the crash which featured him significantly was probably the strongest episode IMO.

I watched ep 4 last night and I thought it was very boring. The story is interesting but they take a lot of time to build up stuff that don't deliver. The episode could have been an email. I'll probably keep watching tho