So, you haven't heard of/seen: Lost (especially towards the end), any of the Stargate series, Doctor Who (the recent seasons), can't really think of any other sci-fi series right now.
I think, what everyone should keep in mind is that this is only season 1... should they have packed the entire series' premise into one season? There's probably a big plan on paper in Ridley's office vault, don't know for sure.
I know that it ties into the first Alien movie's story... https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftime.com%2F7308896%2Falien...

I'm willing to withhold judgement until it gets further in... as it stands now, it has potential if they work it right.

They did that with two flops of movies already... all because of the ending scene in Predator 2 (there's a xeno skull in the trophy case).

So you don't want to watch anything on TV these days... must be quiet at your house.

I'd love to have an EyeSquid plushie (a friend wants to make one).

No, it's because the ships were built as cheaply as possible, even going as far as reusing older computer monitors (and probably last generations spaceship engines)... the monitors are there to give you info, not for watching movies on.
And, also... there's always a 'synthetic' onboard... the synth doesn't care about the fact that their monitor is only amber (they interface with MUTHER directly), and the crew is probably trained to not expect full-color video.

Well, at this point, the lack of tension is from the fact that every movie these days relies on the same devices to shock/surprise/jolt the audience, and people are used to the cat in the closet scare and the killer robot trope, so neither is scary anymore (not to mention, people are always on their phone these days... and I'm sure a lot of people have read a synopsis of the movie already before it comes out).
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F... -- prequel

Not to mention, eventually, there's not going to really be any truly original ideas for series/movies... everything ends up being a rehash of something else.

Prometheus and Covenant weren't "reboots" really... they were prequels, although they kind of changed things a little bit (and could be taken to have rippling effects on the main four movies).

The newer two, at least the flashbacks showing the Engineers alive would take place way before Alien: Earth... potentially being how humanity came to be (in the movies).

It's a series, not a movie,
If they conveniently wrapped everything up in each episode, there wouldn't be a reason to make another episode, and there's more material to explore... this series happens before the first Alien movie, and depending on the end of this series, it could mesh into the first movie, and could maybe (in a roundabout way) explain the end of the fourth one

(And, the reason she can talk to the alien is that it imprinted on her, the same way animals will imprint on humans)

And, of course, there's the LLM-AI elephant in the room.
Once they get the current version of AI to be capable enough, why do they need to hire a human? The "AI" can work 24/7 for free (nothing more than the power to keep the computer powered up).
What stops then from having "AI" operated robots flipping burgers? Answer: the "AI" isn't good enough yet... but believe me, when it gets to that point, you'll see a lot of jobs (including yours) become purely computerized.

So, this method is just straight round up, without round down?
So, why teach math the way I stated?

Yes, it would solve that... they wouldn't hire anyone outside of a few block area, or just hire less people (each person does three people's worth of work) to offset the cost of paying for your transit (when you're not actually working at t he office).
So... you can't make a living off of $80k/yr., but $82k (with the paid transit thing) means you can live just fine... you could get a cheaper car payment or a cheaper mortgage payment or a cheaper phone plan or buy less fast food or get rid of the cableTV, and you wouldn't need to worry about that extra $2k a year. Managing your money better is a thing, also... is there a real reason you buy name-brand everything at the grocery store? Do you really need two Mercedes and one Cadillac in the garage?
Of course, the company doesn't care, you're a peon... you make them money while you make some fraction of what the company makes. If some law was passed that would make it the companies problem, you can be guaranteed that the fun little perks (free coffee and donuts at the office, being able to listen to music when you're on a smoke break (if they even allow smoke breaks after the paid-transit law passes), that $9 each way in transit doesn't come from thin air, and the company is going to recoup that loss however they can... you have to buy all your office supplies on your dime, you have to buy your coffee and donuts now, they got rid of the janitor, so you have to clean a specified area as part of your daily job, oh... and, because the company pays for your daily office transit now, that vehicle now has tracking stuff installed along with a shutdown switch (to make sure you don't use that vehicle that the company is paying for to run over to your affairs place).

So, during the drive to work, you're not rocking out to MmmmBop in the car while sipping your $8 latte and nibbling on your $3 biscotti, while enjoying driving in your Mercedes with heated leather seats?
Solely for the benefit of the employer: So, you're closing million-dollar contracts while doing the above? Your job office is in the car? Why do you need to drive to the office?

Statistically speaking, the room full of monkeys, given an infinite timeline, might eventually type Shakespeare.
A LLM-AI simply regurgitates what it found in its city-sized database.

It is not intelligent, it does not make decisions on its own, it's not working to solve world hunger without any human input of any kind... it's not writing the next great American novel when it's not busy regurgitating 'how to solve long division'. It responds to queries however it's programmed to, that's it.
It's a simulation of a conversation, even when it "hallucinates", that's it.

So, being that it's a computer, it's legal for it to cough up entire sections of text from The Stand and not pay royalties to Stephen King? Right, you don't have a right to perform a copyrighted work, but because it's a computer/cell phone mostly used in the privacy of your home, it's legal for it to spew copyrighted info without ever paying for it.

"It didn't copy material": Your words... "To be clear: Reproducing exact texts is a training failure. It's a mistake." That implies copying... if it can reproduce exact texts, that means it has a copy of a book in the database someplace. Same thing with the code for a text box... it was trained (read: crawled) the web, most likely including GitHub... it doesn't create new code, it spews what it was trained on.

Oh... so it's intelligent? It can make the decision to launch the nukes or not based on it's own observations entirely?
So, it doesn't predict the answer to what I asked?
So... when I ask it for some Visual Basic code to give me a Yes/No text box, it's just using code it stole (without accreditation to GitHub or someplace) or did it generate that code entirely on its own without any reference material?
When I hold a conversation with it, is it genuinely answering an emotional question about the loss of a pet (as a human would), or is it using some piece of text it gleaned from a book or something that fits the model of emotional response?

If I wrote a book, and your LLM-AI model 'happens' to crawl the site my book is on, and the material is used as 'training' stuff, it's fine that it didn't pay me for being able to quote entire pages of text "word for word, down to commas"? If it doesn't pay me for using my material, that is the Napster DMCA thing. If it's not, then I can download any music or movie I want without worry.

1) If they were freed from the 'office drudgery', how would they afford the newest iPhone that they've gotta have?
2) What "unnecessary journeys"? Going to work? Picking up the kids from soccer practice? Running to get a head of lettuce because you forgot to get one?

Switching to EVs globally isn't going to do crap for about 200-300 years (assuming solar and wind)... where does that power come from? You put in a new entertainment system that controls the whole house? Where's that power coming from? What about at night or on a non-wind day?

EVs are not the answer... maybe hybrids, I don't know. But, if the US is going to push for EVs, they better get fusion running 24/7 because just storing solar and/or wind in a big battery ain't gonna cut the mustard.
NG power plant (once it's gone, it's gone): you can frack the shale deposits and get some, you can drill for oil and get some (why would you if we don't need oil anymore), you can mine coal and get some (again, we're not using coal anymore).
Nuclear: the waste is an issue... strap it to a Starship first stage and aim it for the Sun.
Fusion: pour money into it, and don't hamper progress... it's where we have to get to. What do you think all those LLM-AIs are gonna be running on?