Alien Franchise Watch-Along: Alien

Nathan AndersonSomehow, in attempting to fix the image in this post, blogger 1) wiped my draft when I tried to undo some wonky formatting 2) autosaved the wiped version 3) didn't autosave when I reversed that change, put all the text back, and exited the draft. So I had to dig through all the previous versions of my main gdoc to find it again and then re-do the final polishing. Eesh.**Alien AliensAlien 3Alien: ResurrectionPrometheusCovenant **Been a while since I did a rewatch post, eh? My partner and I had talked about doing an Alien marathon ages ago but never got around to it until now - we’re a one streaming service at a time household, and for some Byzantine licensing reason HBO Max had all the Alien films available through the end of May. When in Rome, die screaming alone and in space I suppose. Breaking with previous tradition, Alien is the only rewatch of the lot of them: the rest are my first time (adjusting for osmosis). Alien (1979, dir. Ridley Scott) Damn what a good…