12/18/2023 0 Comments Serenity spaceship![]() That said, when the series moves to the big screen, we see a Serenity space vessel that is subtly darker and grimier than its TV counterpart, bringing it more in line with the Alien look. As much as Alien is in the mix, Serenity has more in common with the Millennium Falcon’s VW van aesthetic. ![]() Instead of dirty faded white surfaces, we have flowers painted up the walls. Instead of the kind of mass-product prefab furniture that fits this look, we have wooden, hand-carved-looking furniture. But where it is visibly very different from Alien is in the dining area of Serenity herself. Where there are definitely common aesthetic elements between the films, neither Prometheus nor Alien: Covenant feature Alien’s CRTs and clunky keyboards, which are replaced by high-tech holographic displays and those transparent screens everyone thinks are futuristic now, even though they would be a nightmare to use.įirefly’s nods to Alien are everywhere, to the point where a number of props and user interfaces display the Weyland-Yutani logo. These films are perhaps the most surprising deviation from Nostromo-chic. But if you want a slightly more subtle deviation from the template, try: Prometheus (2012), Alien: Covenant (2017) These ships are sleek, almost organic in their design, in line with the tales of royalty and space empires they portray. Here you will find no exposed wiring or bulky metal furnishings. If we look for spaceship aesthetics that deviate from the Nostromo pattern, another great place to start is the recent adaptations of Dune and Foundation. It is a story about empires, armies and space royalty. Unlike Pitch Black and Riddick, Chronicles is not a story about fugitives, passenger transports, or bounty hunters. Interestingly, however, the look seems to have skipped over The Chronicles of Riddick. It’s not hard to see the genetic lineage that connects Pitch Black and Alien, and that is definitely there in the aesthetic of the space tech in both this and its threequel, Riddick. Pitch Black (2000), Riddick (2013)Ī bunch of travelers in cryosleep are woken up unexpectedly and then find themselves at the mercy of vicious alien predators (small A, small P). The habitable base in Moon is relatively much smaller (apart from that massive cellar nobody likes to talk about), but the human element is dwarfed by the lunar landscape outside. The Nostromo, with its crew of seven, is much bigger than even the starship Enterprise, full of countless labyrinthine hallways, and even it is dwarfed by the enormous mining platform it is tugging back to Earth. It is a working vehicle, but it is also a home, built to a human scale. But the Millennium Falcon feels like Han Solo’s VW camper van. Most people’s first exposure to that aesthetic was probably the interior of the Millennium Falcon. The set is littered with post-it notes, bored graffiti and unfinished personal projects.Īlien was not the first film to show us “used” spaceships. It is full of surfaces that might once have been white, but are now creamy, discolored and stained. Like Outland, we’ve got plenty of stark white living spaces here, but like Alien, Moon is a bit more realistic about what those places might look like after five minutes. ![]() Where Moon differs from Outland is, without putting too fine a point on it, the cleaning. The helium mining facility in Duncan Jones’ Moon could easily share a balance sheet with the mining facility in Outland and the one being dragged back to Earth by the Nostromo. ![]()
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