Alien Earth - 2025 - 6/10

Above, meet-cute moment when Daisy meets Wendy.
Backup. Returning to Earth, a Weyland-Yutani research vessel crashes into Prodigy territory.
Prodigy is an upstart mega-corporation, developing synthetic humans.
Anyhoo, the vessel has alien critters. W-T wants them returned, Prodigy says “finders keepers.”
Sounds like plenty of potential meat on the narrative bones.
Except, producers opted to focus most of this bloat-fest on teenyboppers.
Children, encased in synthetic teenage bodies.
On the plus side, this is the first Alien franchise outing where W-Y employees aren’t the stupidest in the room.
Are writers truly this unimaginative? Or do they pander to LCD?
One excellent episode (E05), sandwiched between middling and lackluster, indicates what coulda / shoulda been.