Peter Dinklage Joins FX's 'Alien: Earth' For Season 2

Moons haunted.

I like North but it’s gotten to a point to where he’s almost typecast in the same gravely, yell-y roles that make him instantly recognizable

Careful Its power is dark

Comedy is a sign of intelligence 😉

It does make one wonder how much it retains from previous hosts. It would have had to retain knowledge of english and base-10 mathematics, because the sheep it was in wouldn't have known any of that. That scene also goes to show how much of an arrogant idiot Kavalier is. It's an alien in a f****** sheep, and as far as he's known, it's never even been in a human body. There's no reason for anyone to expect it to retain anything from its previous hosts, especially given its limited size and thus limited brain size. Why would he expect it to understand human language, given the creature it's inhabiting lacks the faculties for that beyond the pattern recognition you'd get out of any other domesticated animal, let alone for it to understand math? He just asks it for Pi, which is nothing more than an abstract short-hand humanity has adopted for the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. For all he knows, the creature thinks primarily in hexadecimal (base 16), meaning Pi would look like 3.243F6A8885 and not 3.141592653589.

You mean something like the Kalisk?

Eyelien

>How do they make love? Out of nothing at all

They really didnt stick the landing IMO.

I was super excited for it but the ending was pretty lackluster, hopefully season 2 answers many of the questions I was left with. Also, I *really* hated all of the 'child' characters. At least Timothy Olyphant was killing it, and the actor who played Morrow (Babou Ceesay) was fantastic as well.

I don't know what specifically others didn't like, but I didn't care for the whole "controlling the xenomorph" thing going on. It's not terribly interesting and it kinda makes the main character too OP. I'm willing to see where they go with it, however.

Giving Wendy a pet alien that she can control was pretty lame. Would have been far more interesting if it didn't just follow her every command like a trained K9 I also felt like they didn't do enough with the concept of the children in adult bodies. A lot of potentially interesting themes and ideas that just didn't really get fleshed out at all

It started great and then quickly unraveled at the end

I thought it was pretty terrible by the end. The writing and dialogue were awful. The first few episodes were good but it went way off the rails

the brother is dumber than i thought a human could be. it's infuriating

I think it's everything I could have wanted from the Fargo guy, and not really what I wanted from an Alien thing. Which is hardly the first time that has ever happened, Alien has never been the same thing twice, but Earth was out there in a Resurrection way.

It’s one of those shows where the plot only moves forward because characters make stupid decisions.

Everything in episodes 4, 6, 7 and 8 apart from the eye monster scenes and most of Morrow’s. It was a series of utterly bewildering plot decisions that left it in a shit place to start a season

I thought it was kind of terrible. >What are people complaining about? The Lost boys were really, truly frustrating to watch. I am so tired of this intellectual property telling the same story over and over again. I don't want to see remakes of earlier iterations of Alien movies with modern effects and aesthetics: I want something new. I needed a reason to believe Blenkin's character was smart/clever enough to become a trillionaire - the show never gave me that reason. The alien creature is pretty uninteresting. The more this whole series shows it, the less engaging and believable it becomes. This series gave us the stupidest, least capable version of the monster. The "eye" being the most interesting thing on the show is a creative emergency. Dinklage joining the show is a perfect marriage of sensibilities.

The brother character was maybe the stupidest character I have seen on television in a looooong time. “Your sister is not a person. We own her. She is a tool we created that will live forever and we will use to advance society and science over millennia. She can never leave. She is specifically not a human, will not age, and will not grow up. She is not what you think she is in any way” “Oh wow. Okay, so when can we leave? My sister is gonna be a teenager soon and I don’t want her to grow up here. Thanks for saving her, but I need to raise her into an adult at home 🙂” Like what the f***.

I thought it was fantastic until the last 2 episodes. They weren't good, and the whole thing just stopped in an unsatisfactory manner. I wasn't left wanting more, I was left annoyed.

the ending for one.

The really bad character writing and plotting

The Alien itself looked unimpressive

Acting was terrible. Hard to relate to kids in adult bodies. Training an alien to be friendly like its a puppy was odd. Not for me. But others enjoying it so whatever.

The last few episodes were dogshit, started off strong tho

The writing is kind of all over the place. Some parts are good, some are not quite as good, some parts pretty weak. I got the vibe it didn't exactly know what kind of story it wanted to tell. I'm interested to see season 2, hope they knock it out of the park.

It was absolutely awful, even worse than some of the recent Alien movies. I barely made it through two episodes before abandoning it in yet another idiotic plot armor scene in episode 3.

There were more plot holes and lazy writing than I've seen in a while. I really wanted to like the show, but it was ruined with nonsensical character choices and plot armour, IMO

The last episode was terrible & seemed to undermine most of the season.

To put it quite bluntly, it’s a CW interpretation of the Alien franchise.

I didn’t necessarily dislike it, but I was let down Specifically in the characters; so much of what makes the original two work so well imo is the naturalistic, rag-tag relationship between average working folk. Whereas Earth just didn’t really have the same charm to me, it often felt like characters were too busy describing plot to really describe themselves much. (Granted, the whole conceit of the group of kids does provide some natural limitations there, but even outside of them, just couldn’t really latch on to anyone).

I liked it until the last episode when we got this weird relationship with Wendy and the Xenomorph. Didnt kill the whole vibe and ill check out season 2 but that was like my "whaaat" moment. Like, what? All this time the Xenomorph just wanted to tall to someone?

Dinkleberg....

It was. Johnson wants to continue it with Dinklage taking over (also playing Charlie for some reason) but as of yet no one has picked it up.

If his comments did impact jobs for actors with dwarfism (already very debatable, there is evidence the Dwarfs in the new Snow White were already going to be CGI) why is it Dinklage's fault? He was asked an off the cuff question and responded that he would like to see a wider variety of roles offered to people like him, roles that treated them with respect.  If Disney, or other companies, took the complete wrong message from that and decided to limit roles further, how on earth is he the one to blame and not them?

There are also activists with dwarfism who have spoken out in defense of Dinklage: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNhSOexsXA1/?igsh=MXRqbWlud21wbTZiZw== https://www.instagram.com/reel/DR3FhBlkSEq/?igsh=anFvaWJ6dmlhOWRt One of them said something interesting: people prefer to blame Dinklage, the actor with dwarfism, for the situation rather than blame the large studios and corporations that choose not to cast actors with dwarfism in more films and series. That interview has been quite distorted over the years. I listened to the podcast and Dinklage said, when asked by Marc Maron about his thoughts on the Snow White remake, that he didn't like the idea and that he preferred actors with dwarfism to get more complex roles and not be stereotyped. At no point did he say "actors with dwarfism should stop being hired for anything". (It should also be noted that the filmmakers had already planned to use CGI for the dwarves in the film from the beginning of pre-production, before Dinklage's statements.) By the way, the upcoming Harry Potter HBO series will feature two actors with dwarfism, Warwick Davis and Leigh Gill. Davis will play Flitwick and Gill will play a goblin.

Roles for dwarf actors aren’t limited, companies just won’t cast them for anything other than “dwarf characters”. You should be able to cast a dwarf actor is ANY role, that was literally his point. They can be love interests, tragic heroes, villains, dads, moms, teachers, etc. If they are good then that should be the only criteria needed.

Not liking a celebrity is always the correct choice. We don't know these people. But I feel it's borderline stupid to think that Disney made a business decision to keep ONE actor happy. I'm sure Dinklage had some status in Hollywood after Game of Thrones but "push Disney around" status? Do we **really** think that's the case?

Rotten Tomatoes is genuinely useless for TV because of this. Very rarely do any critics review entire seasons and oftentimes problems that can sink a series take more than the two or three episodes critics write about.