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Madeleine Morris
Madeleine Morris
@Remittancegirl@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

So, is the over-arching plot of Alien Earth that in the future, humans are, without exception, far more stupid and inept?

Because it seems to me the vast majority of the tension building plot points revolve around yet another human making a fatally stupid mistake.

Frankly, there’s no tension around the aliens. It’s really all about… what is this staggeringly stupid character going to fuck up next? #AlienEarth

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Madeleine Morris
Madeleine Morris
@Remittancegirl@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

What made Alien and Aliens outstanding was that, for the most part, the human characters were intelligent and competent - and pitted against an inexorable force of nature.

Alien Earth fails because the downfall of humanity being stupidity and greed isn’t fiction. We’re fucking living through it now.

It’s not entertaining.

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