If you're expecting alien on earth then I'm sorry to dissapoint but this is not it, despite the name and the cover literally depicting the planet Earth, most the plot happens outside of earth and the focus is not the Xenomorph
PR: A group of people sent by one of the three factions that govern the earth is sent to retrieve an alien egg, which the manage to do just fine until you-know-what and everyone dies except for that one black dude who is also a cyborg and this is getting awkward in the teen titans sense of the word, who survives by hiding in a hatch, not exactly dignifying but hey as long as it works...
The main difference between this and alien the eight passager, other than the obvious, is that in this case there's a ninth passanger. Well, actually there's two others, so there's... Eleven passangers. If you think it's getting a bit ridiculous you're absolutely right.
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| Alien Earth's called such because "Alien, the eight, ninth, tenth and eleventh passanger" sounds like just workers commuting |
The ninth passanger is a literal eyeball with tentacles, which is able to control someones mind by replacing the host's eyeball. How does an eyeball with tentacles exerts enough force to fight and subdue a host or how is it capable of though, much less sapience considering that it's, well, an eyeball, are questions that will remain unanswered. What does becomes pretty clear is that the aliens in alien Earth aren't what they used to be. Not only do the aliens get shot up, locked and even tamed (jesus) by the humans and synths, but the new alien, the eyeball, thrashes them around like ragdolls. Yes. A fist sized eyeball with tiny tentacles whacks a fully grown alien, no problem.
The other two new aliens are as unimpressive as the eyeball, one is a leech, and the other is a fly that instead of spewing normal acid it spews super alien acid. In fact, they're so unimpressive they barely have any impact in the plot.
After the ship collides on earth a team is sent to subdue all aliens on board, which includes Cyborg trapping one of them with a friggin expanding polyurethane spray gun because it's a "let's beat the aliens while they're down" kind of show, apparently, after that, the series shift to a completely different, non alien related plot of the new generation of synths and Richie Richard political battle to keep the aliens which consist mainly of him belittling everyone else. I suppose they didn't had enough budget to both get the crappy new aliens AND buy characters a personality. Did I mention all the new synths, which form sixty percent of the cast, are adults acting like children? Yeah. That's about as funny as you'd imagine. 18+ TV-MA people!
Eventually, the new synths or well, all the child synths guided by the one that tamed the alien because it's the only one that unexplainably grew up when inserted into the new body, confront Richie and sort of take over his operation. That's pretty much it, they're expecting a second season I think. If you think that these are surprisingly little events for ten episodes of forty minutes each, I wholeheartedly agree.
Apparently, while this, let's face it, generic garbage didn't had enough time to, you know, develop characters or give the audience the one thing they came looking for which is aliens on earth, they DID had enough time to have their shitty new alien to gruesomely murder a cat, I'm guessing with the purpose of getting some shock out the audience, given they couldn't have us care about any of their other characters. I would've tolerated the cat kill if it was to some purpose other than super bots vs random brat.
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