14th August, 2025.
Right … I watched a little TV, last night: the first two episodes of a new series called Alien: Earth.
Yes, you’re right: it’s the latest entry in the successful Alien franchise, and set a couple of years before the original film.
To try and summarise?
The first episodes see a child called Marcy, a cancer patient, being transferred in to a new, android, body: and helping others through the same process: whilst yearning for contact with her only brother.
The episodes also see a spaceship crash on Earth, a spaceship that’s been investigating various alien lifeforms: including the franchise’s signature Xenomorph.
Yes: a Xenomorph is loose on Earth … and its brought its friends.
I’ve felt for years that expanding the Alien franchise — by properly exploring its background universe — would be a good thing.
And this series looks capable of doing that.
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Talking of TV shows … ?
I’ve going to be watching the next episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, tonight.
And going to try And catch the next episode of Foundation, later in the week.
One thing I have noticed?
Is that Strange New Worlds seems to have plenty of merchandise — books, t-shirts, props, what-have-you — but that Apple’s Foundation doesn’t.
That’s a shame: a reproduction Prime Radiant would be nice!
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As a final thought … ?
I was in Romford, yesterday: trading in my old phone at the Romford branch of CeX.
They were offering a better range of prices than the equivalent places in Brentwood.
I walked away from the trip, having sold the phone for thirty-one pounds.
Which therefore meant the new one, effectively, cost me some sixty-eight pounds*.
That’s not a bad price, from where I’m sitting.
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