So far it is really nailing the vibes of the first two films. It takes place a couple decades prior to Alien and one of the new plot points is that an up and coming rival corpo city state to Wayland Yutani is porting the minds of terminally ill and disabled children into synthetic bodies.
The cast does a phenomenal job of portraying kids in adult bodies with their mannerisms, humor, and body language and it has all the clicky clack retro sci fi the series is known for an I fucking love it so far.
Definitely a mix of both films in terms of themes and action. There is clearly some Aliens feel with some military grunts investigating a crashed ship and also some Alien vibes with the slow burn of the first couple episodes. I highly recommend for fans of either of those movies.
i do think the juxtaposition in technological style is weird at best. It’s like Prometheus on one hand and Alien on the other. Perhaps the chunky retro tech is used for reliability reasons, like how XP is/was used on space stations for a long time. But I kind of wish they’dve stuck to retro if they were going to use it.
although now that I think about it, all of the high tech stuff is used by the corpo freaks + their forces and the worse tech is used for lower class things like that robo HR desk that used punch cards. So maybe it’s intentional and hinting that the reason for tech regression is capitalist immiseration.