Alien: Earth Series-Premiere Recap: Dark Star Crashes

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Which Alien is the true Alien? It has to be the first movie, right? You’ve got the snappy Dan O’Bannon script, the atmospheric Ridley Scott direction, and the killer cast putting across a simple plot in which a ravenous, seemingly unkillable monster stalks a spaceship crew. If you’re navigating your way through any new Alien story, the 1979 original has to be your lodestar, right?

But wait! What about Aliens? That massive 1986 box-office hit, written and directed by James Cameron...