I've been watching and loving this. Great performances from the cast. Some of them do seem to have some plot armour active, but it's well written in spite of that.

That's wonderful news, @danny ! 😁 

After the last film, I was worried it would become too 'teenage' in an effort to attract a younger audience ... and end up alienating [!!] us oldies.

I actually didn't hate Romulus. I just had to ignore the lore breaking changes (I'm looking at you alien gestated in less time than a youtube short).

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(I'm looking at you alien gestated in less time than a youtube short).

With or without forced adverts?

As a SmartTube user it has to be without.

I've just watched the whole thing. I'll keep this spoiler-free, until the spoiler tags. They'll be essential in a bit.

Until a couple of episodes from the end I was in two minds. It's two separate stories that don't really fuse together well. On the one hand, it's a modern day Peter Pan (it really is, it's hammered home relentlessly) about a tech billionaire who transplants the minds of dying children into synthetic adult bodies. They have to be adult bodies since, being synthetic, they won't grow; so you have kids grappling with suddenly being 'grown up' (and with being renamed to Peter Pan characters). However, the adult bodies are still very young-looking. The kids got my attention - it took an episode or so to warm up, but the kids are well-written and acted. The tech billionaire is an irritating cliché, lounging round in clothes that look like jim-jams, bouncing balls, calling himself 'Boy' and even, in one thankfully very brief scene, skipping down a corridor. I realised in the last episode he reminded me a bit of Charles Hawtrey (of Carry On fame).

Anyway. There's that going on, and one real problem with this being called Alien Earth, is that the alien is not the focus of the story - it's Peter Pan and his science experiment. If you just take 'the Alien gets to earth' as the premise, you have almost limitless possibility. I bet I wasn't alone in hoping for some sort of mashup of Aliens, Starship Troopers and The Walking Dead. That would, should have been job done. Instead, they feel like guest appearances. There's one episode in which they don't appear at all.

It's this focus away from the aliens that is distracting. At times I was so engrossed in the story of the Lost Boy kids that I (almost) felt that the aliens were just getting in the way. In episode 6 (of 8) there was a hint that the story might go in a direction that, in my opinion, would be guaranteed to piss off many fans of the Alien franchise. In episode 7 it goes there. So a show with many points of interest, of two stories that would have been much better told in separate series, turns to shit in the last 2 episodes. Of course that's only my opinion, and to date I haven't seen anybody else's. To you two or three who might be reading, don't read on until you've finished it.

I put it in the "it's ok" category. The kids as adults were played brilliantly.

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