Fiction, by its own definition, is not real. A character can have a whole life of the background, the politics and geography of his invented native world is a matter of registration, but none of that would exist if writers, actors, artists and other creatives would not have imagined it first. He pretends a crucial moment of his past never happened, and the story is not actually rewritten. A hero will not sue anyone for his defamation if they suddenly reevaluate like a villain.
However, sometimes it feels like Science fiction And the fantasy “Canon” in science fiction and fantasy is the most sacred sacred cows. Television movies and television programs are joined in knots trying to avoid contradicting disposable dialogue lines that were pronounced decades earlier. Fans, and I will admit that I have been as guilty of this as anyone, I have always been happy to mark inconsistencies in the franchise’s tradition, while the Marvel Cinematic Universe He has built his entire brand in labyrinthine continuity. Lucasfilm even uses his own “Keeper of the Holocron” to be aware of the vast Timeline of a galaxy very, very far.
But although the consistency is undoubtedly important, it should not come at the expense of good stories. “Alien: Earth” Showrunner Noah Hawley and the rest of the creative team seem to have realized this, since the program has adopted a much looser approach to the canon than most of its gender counterparts.
The show is established only two years before the Nostromo team of the USCSS lands on LV-426, and bring something very unpleasant on board. However, “Alien: Earth” never cares about the fact that the UscSS Maginot catastrophic accident, as well as the prodigy and the other three corporations No Weyland-Yutani that govern the world, never mentioned before. Nor is it hanging from its unlikely chronology, nor does it deviate from the events of the Prometheus missions and the covenant that departed a few decades before. He Multiple black goo That showed magical properties in Ridley Scott’s prequel films is, until now, conspicuous for his absence
Instead, we have introduced ourselves to a completely new ecosystem with insects that throw acid, and a parasite and strange eye on the legs that can be orchestrating the entire show. After being related As a result of the morally doubtful experiments of an Malévolo Android in the “Pact”, the Xenomorph It is, for now, at least, to be a more tight Apex predator for evolution.
Crucially, Alien: Earth has maintained the key pillars that helped make classics of all “alien” and “aliens”, aliens “, Eggs, face holders, blood acid– And treated everything else as malleable. Other science fiction sagas should probably take note.
Canon, as we know, is a relatively new concept. When “Doctor Who” and “Star Trek” debuted in the 1960s, even the most advanced writers would never have dreamed that their ideas would still affect popular culture six decades later. There was no great plan for the future: it was not revealed that the doctor was a time of time until the program was six years old, and the creatives often invented things as they advanced. The continuity of “who” remains a notoriously nebulous concept.
And despite George Lucas’s previous plans for the “Journal of the Whils”, the original “Star Wars” trilogy was effectively a blank, in which he was free to tell any story he wanted. Even the prequels had a minimum existing tradition to avoid, with the numerous novels, comics and cartoons of the expanded universe that occupied lower levels of canon: Pre-Disney, only the movies (and, to a lesser extent, the CG “clone wars”) were gospel.
Even so, the dependence of Lucas in the principle of “from a certain point of view” still managed to finish a significant part of the fans base. Why would Obi-Wan describe Yoda as “Master Jedi who instructed me” if Qui-Gon Jinn were his teacher? How did Princess Read her mother if Padmé died when she only had a few minutes? But Canon is a minor inconvenience when it is only some films. It is when you move to vast multimedia empires, horcated in numerous interconnected films, television programs, books, comics and Cameos in “Fortnite” which becomes a possible block of stumbling blocks.
First, there is the patrimonial factor, such as “Star Wars”, “Star Trek”, “Doctor Who” and any other inherited franchise have decided that nostalgia is their not -so -secret weapon. Often the impact is minimal: bring a unique character of “Star Trek” Roger Korby In the prequel shows “Strange New Worlds”, for example, but leaning towards the existing canon can sometimes be the reason for being a plot.
Han Solo’s Parsec Kessel Kessel Race was an apart from an informal and slightly meaningless piece until it became a great piece in “Solo: A Star Wars story“. Meanwhile, Omega (The Big Bad in the most recent “Doctor Who” end had not appeared on the screen since 1983 Fifth Doctor Story “Arc of Infinity”, a deep cut for all but fans more hardcore.
Much worse, however, it persists with the plots that do not work. Few television programs get everything from day one, and any long -term series will have, in fact, ought Have some less successful stories in the later catalog. Shows that they are trying to push the envelopeinstead of simply sticking to a formula.
Sometimes, a franchise can make a lower course correction: the second season of Leslie Knope of the second season of “Parks and Recreation” was subtly different from Leslie Knope of the first, but other times it is better to raise your hands and consign an idea in the trash.
That is why we are unlikely to see someone following in the footsteps of Tom Paris and Kathryn Janeway breaking the Warp-10 barrier and becoming giant lizards, as they did in the infamous “Star Trek: Voyager” Episode “threshold”. The writer Brannon Braga later described the story as a “real and smoking stinking” and was rumored that he had been removed from Canon. For similar reasons, the revelation that the doctor is half human on his mother’s side has been conveniently brushing under the carpet since his only mention in the television film “Doctor Who” of 1996.
It could be said that the most intelligent of “Alien: Earth” is the way Hawley has been demanding about the essential. Even the strongest fans of the franchise would probably admit that there has been no significant addition to Xenomorph’s mythology since the Alien Queen grew her ugly head in “Aliens”, four decades ago. But the decision to convert the television program into a drama about children’s androids, enemy companies and, crucially, a new collection of fauna inspired by the “thing”, even less than the life of 46 years of life, much less dependent on their homonym Star Best “I think the beast has almost exhausted, personally.”
Smart than, “Alien: Earth” has continued on his way without (until now) directly contradicting everything that has gone before, instead of being selective about what to include and ignore. Something that did not make the cut? Well, maybe that is happening in a distant star system, at the other end of a long journey in sleeping hypers. (Or perhaps it did not happen at all).
“Star Wars”, “Star Trek”, “Doctor Who” and the rest should be observing with interest, because when you have an eye in the past, even a stranger alien with legs, it is difficult to really accept the future. And besides, none of that is real anyway.
The final episode of the first season of “Alien: Earth” is broadcast on Disney+ from Wednesday, September 24.
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