How serious doctors and scientist should have dealt with unknown, alien, lethal organisms in Alien Earth
In case you were (or are still) wondering why Alien: Earth got so heavily criticised for its presentation of scientists dealing with alien, mostly unknown but certainly lethal organisms, go watch this IRL video.
And no, Alien (1979) did not make the same little "mistake". The crew of the Nostromo did not know Ash was an evil synthetic, they saw him do medical checks then saw him, a person they thought was just as human as themselves walk around without any extra protection after the initial examinations, so they just assumed it's safe to follow his example. And so on.
Not sure why I had to post this when I've just managed to mostly forget AE. I've stumbled upon the post I linked, and it's brought up memories, sadly.
Posted Mar 5, 2026, 8:01 PM UTC