The Earth misses one major element that is famous for the science fiction horror privilege

This post contains Spoilers For the first view of the “Alien: Earth” episode.

“In space, no one can hear you scream,” says the classic description line, but in the new FX Prequel series “Alien: Earth”, no one screams a lot in the first place. The new Noah Holieth revolves around the Ridley Scott concession to connect many of the grave and strange moments in its first two hours, including one of the cat’s deaths in the history of science fiction. However, even if the viewers find the events of the show frightening, his characters do not; Hawly’s focus on artificial humans already leads to almost almost strange emotional experience of fear on the screen.

There is no doubt that the prominent absence comes from the “foreign: the land” that is deliberately made from the jump, and comes to the experience of our viewing in the views of two parties partially artificial organisms whose emotions are thwarted either silent or thwarted by their surroundings. Windy (Sydney Chandler) has a child’s mind and placed in a semi -trencies of an artificial object no Human. Morris (Papo Sisai), a ship security officer in Wieland Utani who survived a foreign acquisition of USCSS Maginot, was quickly unveiled that Sipurg that interacts with the Xenomorph murder with a completely straight face. Interestingly, not only fake humans in “Alien: Earth” who are not afraid.

“Foreign: Earth” is no longer an exploration of human terrorism, but contrary to the most famous moments of concession, his feeling of indifference to death almost surprised. Think of Scott’s 1979 Classic, and the scene that comes to mind first includes John Hurt’s Kane out of screaming While a foreign young man explodes from his chest. Whether we are seeing Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), tense to upgrade while sticking to the flames in the dark or left screaming although you face it with the microorganism of Xenomorph in “Alien 3”, the concession was always synonymous with the fear of the teeth. So what does “alien” look without fear? It is a question that Holie clearly cares about the answer.

In addition to many Ciborss, combinations and hybrids, humans in “Alien: Earth” do not look particularly anxious. Windy Hermet (Alex Luther), a military doctor, wanders around Maginot’s crash as if he was in a state of uncomfortable Fugue. We do not yet know if he intentionally calms himself, or is separated extensively as a result of shock, or just stumbling in life waiting for death. Regardless, it offers a deficiency -like deficiency in self -preservation. His boss, at the same time, is a trillionaire without a soul that does not arouse his eye when he hears about a ship full of deadly foreigners who crashes in one of its high limbs. Instead, the boy Cavalier (Samuel Blinken) sees only the brands of the dollar, waving any concerns about losing life while rubbing all his hands in the joy of animation in the possibility of Xenomorph.

If the original “strange” films tell the story of humanity He interrupted something wrong and scary in the first place“Alien: Earth” aims to present a copy of humanity, which has already done something wrong in itself before Xenomorphs arrived. Between its constellation, Saiburgs, hybrids, trillioners, and dead -eyes soldiers, the Earth’s speeches in the new series have nullified their personal feeling of fear, and perhaps the instincts of the survival they are going through. There are very few actual and weak people on the horizon-which may be the perfect metaphor comparison with my usual sympathy, generation of falls, searching for serotonin, lighting from glowing our smartphones and keeping it alive through caffeine and wheel.

If we judge from the first two episodes of the display, the option to show a little fear on the screen is a double -edged sword. At some points, it is difficult to deal with the frightening or emotional items of the display when it appears repeatedly and reactions with clear destinations from the characters that we were not in particular connected to. Some tension is a great hypothesis with enormous potential – New types of deadly foreigners are exacerbated in the 100 -storey building – It leaks faster than expected when most people on the screen do not seem to be concerned in particular, whether they live or die. Of course, numbness is in some ways. In one of the dark dark scene (and my patients), a man who wears a complete Victorian aristocratic costume answers the door in disturbing when the search and rescue team immediately comes, and immediately seized his warnings about the danger until the entire bourgeois dinner party is separated.

One of the best scenes in the first show consisting of two parts is not afraid of his favor, which leads to the fluctuation of the typical Xenomorph attack by focusing on cutting tomorrow on a computer while his colleagues are classified outside the COMMS room. CameraWork and Editing are smart here, as they play with our expectations by expanding the scope of the sound of an objective terrible attack (however, for fans, very familiar), Xenomorph’s attack with shots of the center of Ceesay and calm. “Fear is for animals!” Kirch, the leader of the missing boys in Timothy Olivant, tells his wings when they retract instinctively from a fateful noise. “You are not animals.” But those who watch him at home are, and despite his calm qualities, “Alien: Earth” is still at its best when it makes our animal instincts begin.

New episodes from “Alien: Earth”, the first show on Tuesday at 8 pm Eastern time on FX and Hulu.