Alien: Earth is an ambitious and controversial look at the Alien franchise, and by focusing less on xenomorphs, it broke a major series rule.

Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t have enough common ground for that to even be possible?

It's a big universe out there, and while we're all for exploring it, a specific subgenre of science fiction movies has hinted that it might be a bad idea. Alien invasion movies have come in droves over the years, making us fearful of what lies out there in ...