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Alien Earth is a separate continuity that's ok

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ninXeno426

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So there's been somewhat of a trend in recent years where people behind beloved franchises haven't always taken fan interests into consideration. Whether it's the "fans don't matter" approach of The Last Jedi. The brutal murder of Joel, the main character of The Last of Us in the sequel's opening hours. Replacing Michael Myers as the main killer in Halloween Ends. Killing John Connor off in the opening minutes of Terminator Dark Fate and replacing Skynet with Legion, a new AI that does the same exact thing. And of course certain controversial decisions made by Prometheus and Alien Covenant, though they definitely were not the first divisive decisions made in this franchise.

Such controversial decisions are frequently back tracked though not always. Alien Covenant felt as if it tried to balance what people liked about Prometheus and giving fans what they want "fucking Aliens" as Scott so bluntly put it. Rise of Skywalker attempted to back track every controversial decision made by The Last Jedi. Did you know SAW X exists because fans rejected Spiral: From the book of Saw, the Jigsaw less soft reboot? And yet again Alien Romulus treads safe and fairly familiar ground after the polarizing prequels.

Trying to keep fans happy is a difficult task. Can't please everyone.

As I said above Alien is already prone to controversial decisions. Killing Hicks and Newt in the opening moments of Alien 3. Ripley dying in Alien 3. Even Alien 3 ignoring the Earth War trilogy comic series is often brought up as a disappointment. Don't know why anyone would think Hollywood would take comics seriously though. Bringing back Ripley as a human xenomorph hybrid in Alien Resurrection. Just about every decision regarding the Engineers and possible xenomorph origins in Prometheus. David being the "creator" of the xenomorphs in Covenant, he didn't but many take Covenant at face value. Hell even James Cameron's hive complete with a Queen is a controversial decision. So if Alien Earth isn't intimately connected to anything then that is fine. Par for the course, Earth seems to be yet again dividing fan opinions. On one hand Alien Earth is being hailed as the best Alien anything in decades, similar to what was said of Romulus last year. On the other hand being derided for just another bad Alien update. Business as usual with Alien. Whether it's arrogant self indulgence or consciousness of fans (I'm going with the former) it's for the best Alien Earth exists separate. After all I'm certain there's a huge portion of the fanbase that's happy he's not tying into the Scott's controversial prequels. Scott is a producer after all, he doesn't seem to mind. Interesting enough he hasn't said anything to praise Earth like he did Romulus and has seemingly been absent from anything Earth related so who knows maybe he thinks it's rubbish. As of now it seems Alien will separate into two continuities.  Film continuity. 

Prometheus (2093)

Alien Covenant (2104)

Alien (2122)

Alien Romulus (2142)

Aliens (2179)

Alien 3 (2179)

Alien Resurrection (2381)

I should note lots of Disney era Alien does ignore Alien 3 and Resurrection. No comics, novels, or games have really acknowledged them. To be fair Resurrection takes place so far down the timeline its easy to ignore.             

Alien Earth is 2120. No prior stories meaning Prometheus and Covenant didn't happen. Noah Hawley has hinted at building up to Alien and borrows some Aesthetics from Aliens as well. Whether he chooses to lead to the movies is really up to him. A producer behind Alien Earth stated that that Alien fans don't expect things to be connected like Marvel. While i thought that was a ridiculous thing to say, due to the divided opinions on the franchise even critically they're not wrong. Earth can exist on its own. Fans can use head canon theories to make it fit with the existing time line. It's been done before. You'll find fans that say The Earth War Trilogy, William Gibson's Alien 3, Vincent Ward's Wooden Planet, or Aliens Colonial Marines are their Alien 3. The AVP's are their preferred prequels. Alien Isolation their preferred Alien sequel. We even have fans that desire Blade Runner to be connected though they aren't. Alien canon has never been as strict as Star Wars or even Star Trek and that's ok. It's amazing that it's easy enough to follow. It could be worse. It could be like Terminator which has about 5 or 6 different timelines that just can't coexist. Alien is surprisingly easy to follow...unless you try to connect all books, comics, games and Predator.

That's a different story.

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Well said, I do agree with you. As much as the perfectionist in me wishes it could all connect like a perfect puzzle piece – I realize it never will. Too many hands in the cookie jar. You bring up good points as well. I was hopeful the series would have tied into or expanded on the prequel lore and the expansion Ridley Scott set out to do with Prometheus. I'll fight for that expansion till my last breath 😂

As much as I personally want the series to make sense and fit into film canonical timelines, I too am thankful it exists in its own lane now. I just don't understand why writers, directors and producers wouldn't WANT to keep everything tightly knit and connected into one cohesive thing. I guess to each their own.

Also, your OP had weird formatting and one typo, so I did my best to fix the formatting and fixed the Alien: Earth release year to 2120 from 2020. 🙂 Great topic, though!

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Thanks for the fixes! I saw them and went back to edit and still couldn't fix them. Might be a mobile thing. I jammed this thing out during the afternoon on my phone. I overlooked the typo though lol and the year as well. 

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Well said, I do agree with you. As much as the perfectionist in me wishes it could all connect like a perfect puzzle piece – I realize it never will. Too many hands in the cookie jar. You bring up good points as well. I was hopeful the series would have tied into or expanded on the prequel lore and the expansion Ridley Scott set out to do with Prometheus. I'll fight for that expansion till my last breath 😂As much as I personally want the series to make sense and fit into film canonical timelines, I too am thankful it exists in its own lane now. I just don't understand why writers, directors and producers wouldn't WANT to keep everything tightly knit and connected into one cohesive thing. I guess to each their own.Also, your OP had weird formatting and one typo, so I did my best to fix the formatting and fixed the Alien: Earth release year to 2120 from 2020. 🙂 Great topic, though!

As for why they wouldn't want things connected, I think it's this arrogant thinking of "anything you can do i can do better". Minor spoiler for tonight's episode of Alien Earth: There's a tense confrontation between Dame Sylvia and Nibs and Sylvia attempts to diffuse the situation by offering tea. Watching the scene i was like "hmm where have I seen this before?" Prometheus naturally. Hawley wants to draw things from it but not tie into it. Arthur and Dame can't conceive children? Sounds like Shaw and Holloway. He picked what he liked and ignores the rest. Also reminds me of the thinking that went into the Star Wars sequels where the lead up to Episode VII was all about downplaying the prequels. It was pretty clear JJ Abrams didn't care for them therefore didn't want to acknowledge them. Same with Rian Johnson. It does make me appreciate that Fedè Alvarez embraced all aspects of the franchise with Romulus. Plenty of call backs to virtually every movie and forging an intimate connection to prequel lore. Even if it came off of as memberberry overload.

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Well said, I do agree with you. As much as the perfectionist in me wishes it could all connect like a perfect puzzle piece – I realize it never will. Too many hands in the cookie jar. You bring up good points as well. I was hopeful the series would have tied into or expanded on the prequel lore and the expansion Ridley Scott set out to do with Prometheus. I'll fight for that expansion till my last breath 😂As much as I personally want the series to make sense and fit into film canonical timelines, I too am thankful it exists in its own lane now. I just don't understand why writers, directors and producers wouldn't WANT to keep everything tightly knit and connected into one cohesive thing. I guess to each their own.Also, your OP had weird formatting and one typo, so I did my best to fix the formatting and fixed the Alien: Earth release year to 2120 from 2020. 🙂 Great topic, though!As for why they wouldn't want things connected, I think it's this arrogant thinking of "anything you can do i can do better". Minor spoiler for tonight's episode of Alien Earth: There's a tense confrontation between Dame Sylvia and Nibs and Sylvia attempts to diffuse the situation by offering tea. Watching the scene i was like "hmm where have I seen this before?" Prometheus naturally. Hawley wants to draw things from it but not tie into it. Arthur and Dame can't conceive children? Sounds like Shaw and Holloway. He picked what he liked and ignores the rest. Also reminds me of the thinking that went into the Star Wars sequels where the lead up to Episode VII was all about downplaying the prequels. It was pretty clear JJ Abrams didn't care for them therefore didn't want to acknowledge them. Same with Rian Johnson. It does make me appreciate that Fedè Alvarez embraced all aspects of the franchise with Romulus. Plenty of call backs to virtually every movie and forging an intimate connection to prequel lore. Even if it came off of as memberberry overload.

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