"And yet Alien: Earth is a wild success. But this isn't really to do with the xenomorph at all. Instead, almost every last atom of glory has been stolen by a new alien; one whose smarts, menace and weirdness trump almost anything the franchise has given us so far. Yes, it's time to give the demon sheep eye its props."
"This is partly true, but the show gambled on showing us some of the other extraterrestrial species that were captured in space at the same time. Key among them was trypanohyncha ocellus, a creature best described as a multi-irised eyeball bunged on to a set of octopus tentacles. Onboard the doomed spacecraft, the ocellus was able to sense danger and free itself from containment, unleashing untold horrors on its crew."
"Onboard the doomed spacecraft, the ocellus was able to sense danger and free itself from containment, unleashing untold horrors on its crew. In a flashback episode, we saw the ocellus burrow into the eye socket of its first host (a crew member played by Michael Smiley), giving him the intellectual ability to summon xenomorphs and (as seen in a battle where he hopped on to one's back and bit it) the physical ability to cause them pain."
Alien: Earth reframes the franchise's threat hierarchy by centering a new extraterrestrial, the trypanohyncha ocellus, which eclipses the xenomorph's menace. The ocellus appears as a multi-irised eyeball mounted on octopus-like tentacles and demonstrates the ability to sense danger and escape containment aboard a doomed spacecraft. The creature burrows into a human eye socket, endowing its host with intellectual powers to summon xenomorphs and physical capability to harm them. The ocellus's sheep form dominates much of the first season, capturing attention through its intelligence, menace and unsettling biology.
Read at www.theguardian.com
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]