Every day when the aliens attack the earth is one where you would have stayed better in bed.
Foto: FX/Patrick Brown
Invasive species that global capitalism releases on local biosphere are heated up almost as much as the anthropocene of humans as the climate change. Asian hornets are decimated by our bee colonies, American ox frogs eat domestic toads, Caucasian bears of the bear suppresses local plants and also ensures the hardest burns. However, none of this is anything against invasive species that extraterrestrial capitalism releases.
In the Disney series “Alien Earth”, for example, one of which sucks the entire blood out of the body of screaming astronauts and crawls full of then. Disgusting! Although not nearly as much as what awakens dark memories of a scifi legend for the first time after 30 minutes: HR Giger’s space monster, which in 1979, on behalf of Ridley Scott, was able to decimate a spaceship crew and have been able to bite through six sequels or prequels since then.
Constantly hissing smoke or sparks from the electrical system, retro cyber punk smooches with CGI perfection. It’s fun, who needs logic?
In the seventh succeeds (according to Darth Vader, but in front of Baby Yoda) the most two-way of all science fiction creatures, which has been denied 46 Hollywood years: with the help of earthly global players who hope for the extraterrestrial species return, it now ends up on the ground and now ensures a battle festival. That already gives the series of fresh alien feed. According to his own script, director Noah Hawley – in addition to inventor Scott also producer – creates other innovations.
In parallel to the maximization of profit, which embodies Samuel Blenkin’s tech billionaire Boy Kavalier between Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, a pinch of humor is about the future topic of transhumanism. On the way to the immortality of the Homo sapiens According to the opening credits, there are three perfection paths: cybernetic, synthetic or AI-optimized hybrid system. Half human, half machine, they are completely trimmed at yield interests of interstellar corporations. Including the Emma with cancer.
Because children like them are more mentally open than adults, Boy Kavalier transfers their minds into the body of healthy Wendy (Sydney Chandler, photo), enriches him with superpowers, making them head of an army of infantile elite soldiers. When the spaceship full of neoliberally usable aliens has to be used not far from its company headquarters, it should recover the valuable freight. So far, according to Scifi – one of the first aiders would not be Emma’s brother (Alex Lawther). What happens for eight parts for eight parts during her conscience conflicts and from then on reproduces practically every effect that Sigourney Weaver had to do with 1979 on the alien infected “Nostromo”.
There are cats, chain smokers and bloodthirsty creatures on board, which creep up to their victims for minutes with a lot of flair for drama to ultimately grapple – provided they are not main characters. Smoke or sparks from the electrics of a retrofuturistic booth magic are constantly hissing, on the – star period 2120 – quantum physics has a good 100 years of practice on their backs, but all computers work with push buttons instead of touchscreens. Sounds like the usual frills of fictions that bend physical limits to the brink of relativity.
However, it has to do with Ridley Scott’s chronology. “Alien Earth” plays shortly before the first part, which the Creator had for three herd years before smartphones and voice control. And honestly: The current mix of nostalgic cyberpunk and CGI perfectionism is just horny regardless of all logic gaps. Especially since Noah Hawley’s spirit flash of an elite group of Transhumaner Kids, whose bodies tick, act, act, speak as in Haribo advertising, but are visibly grown up, generate funny and profound situations.
So his best feat is to comment on our present in a playful way with all the bestiality. For example, the swelling power of Donald Trump’s gang market -radical techbros. It is not “about money or ego”, her prototype Kavalier explains his transhuman commitment. “I want to talk to someone who is smarter than me!” Ego, ego over everything. The fact that smarter possibly also means voracious, he will probably still work in the course of the series. For the time being, however, it shows impressively where our civilization is going. After all, the most invasive of all kinds is: man.
“Alien: Earth” runs from Disney+from August 13th.