The Alien TV Show Already Honors Ellen Ripley (Without Including Her)
FX's new Alien TV show already honors the iconic Ellen Ripley without physically including her in its story. Helmed by Fargo's Noah Hawley, Alien tells the story of a near-future Earth some 30 years before Ripley and the Nostromocrew's fateful voyage in 2122. Yet despite not focussing on Sigourney Weaver's Ellen Ripley in the insular way the original Alien movies did, FX's Alien still finds a slick way to pay homage to her highly influential character in the Alien canon.
Per Esquire, Noah Hawley's Alien series will instead center on the sinister Weyland-Yutani Corporation, a corporate profiteer whose shady activities include deep space transport, planetary colonization, terraforming, and the study of the Xenomorphs across the universe. Previously used as a "faceless nameless corporation" in early Alien franchise installments, FX's Alien looks to flesh out the lore and canon surrounding the catalyst for the events of both the original Alien films and Ridley Scott's prequel movies. The Alien series, therefore, is set in 2092, converging with the beginning of the USCSS Prometheus' fateful voyage to LV-223.
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In this way, the Alien TV show finds the perfect way to honor Ellen Ripley without including her in its story, with the Alien series beginning the same year Ripley is born. In the Alien canon, Ripley comes into the world on January 7th, 2092, coinciding with the birth of the Prometheus age of space exploration. This canonical symmetry is certainly no coincidence, with Hawley and company flat out stating that the Alien show takes place 30 years before the space vessel Nostromo leaves Earth.
It makes sense that FX's Alien would select the year 2092 to
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