Oct 12, 2026 · 1 hr 20 min · 12 segments
Join us this week as we review the titular alien in Alien: Isolation on the PS4 and the Alien movie franchise.
So the movie starts off on the Nostromo with people waking up out of hypersleep.
And the Nostromo is, as you called it, a space tugboat.
Yeah, a little space tugboat.
Yeah, that hauls materials and cargo across space.
And they're awoken early to check out a distress signal on a planet.
I think that's what they call it, the space jockey.
Oh, really?
Oh,
yeah.
Which had a whole spaceship full of eggs.
And then one of the facehuggers pop out, and that's the earliest form of the alien, besides the egg, that implants, like, an embryo inside of its host.
And then, of course, they're not supposed to let him back on because they're supposed to isolate him, but the science leader, head of the science department...
The lead scientist...
Yeah, you could say that.
Some people call it, not the circles I run in.
They let him back on the ship and then everything gets out of control.
So the only thing I really, really enjoy in this movie is the fact that, like you say, all the characters are like their own people.
Yes.
And the writing is very individualized for them.
Dallas is the captain and I just enjoy how well they do at making certain people assholes but like not assholes
well yeah where you understand their you
So the movie starts off on the Nostromo with people waking up out of hypersleep.
And the Nostromo is, as you called it, a space tugboat.
Yeah, a little space tugboat.
Yeah, that hauls materials and cargo across space.
And they're awoken early to check out a distress signal on a planet.
I think that's what they call it, the space jockey.
Oh, really?
Oh,
yeah.
Which had a whole spaceship full of eggs.
And then one of the facehuggers pop out, and that's the earliest form of the alien, besides the egg, that implants, like, an embryo inside of its host.
And then, of course, they're not supposed to let him back on because they're supposed to isolate him, but the science leader, head of the science department...
The lead scientist...
Yeah, you could say that.
Some people call it, not the circles I run in.
They let him back on the ship and then everything gets out of control.
So the only thing I really, really enjoy in this movie is the fact that, like you say, all the characters are like their own people.
Yes.
And the writing is very individualized for them.
Dallas is the captain and I just enjoy how well they do at making certain people assholes but like not assholes
well yeah where you understand their you
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