Loving the Alien – Disquiet
As I mentioned on Saturday in advance of its publication, I wrote another little piece for hilobrow.com. The current Hilobrow series is 25 short essays on “our favorite sympathetic villains.” The series is named for Endora, from Bewitched. Other entries include Clarence Boddicker (Robocop), Skeletor (He-Man and the Masters of the Universe), and Alexis Carrington (Dynasty). I chose to write about the xenomorphs from Alien. I proposed the entry in advance of the Alien: Earth TV show, and have been quite happy to see the business-suite shenanigans of the earlier storytelling take center stage in this latest serial.
My piece begins: “A corrosive line runs through the Alien franchise, and I’m not talking about the acid blood of H.R. Giger’s famous monsters. I refer to the grim corporate future.” To borrow a phrase from David Bowie, this is a short essay about me loving the alien.
