[Ray.]

I thought it was a fun series with some interesting allusions, themes and concepts. Didn't think it was a masterpiece or on even footing with the first two movies (and arguably some of the others), but it was definitely a lot of fun and I hope it gets a second series.

Online discourse over the show did annoy me a bit. In their efforts to wave away a lot of the problems with the show's writing, it seemed to me that people online (most probably newbies to the Alien franchise) were trying to drag the first movie down in order to lift this show up. And none of those reasonings carried water. The show doesn't have the first movie's excuse of the character's being basically space truckers who were conned into their alien finding expedition through a very small print that was buried under pages and pages of legalese. The fact that those characters make crucial errors that lead to their deaths is understandable.

But the characters in this show were specifically sought out and employed to go out and find the alien creatures. When you take that on board, the various mistakes that these characters make, that are crucial to the events of the series progressing the way they did, become far more egregious and difficult to excuse. So yeah, a fun series with some interesting things to say. But not a masterpiece. Still, it's only a first series. And who knows how long it could run for. It could very well end up being a great piece of work by the time of the show's finale, providing it gets renewed.