Nine movies in, assumptions start to pile up like a precarious Jenga tower that every ounce of originality’s been squeezed out of the lucrative “Alien” franchise Ridley Scott erected. Just burn that thought down. Audacious showrunner Noah Hawley, the upstart who turned the Coen Brothers “Fargo” film into a nervy series, defies the odds and builds upon the mythology of Scott’s durable foundation. He oxygenates it by drawing in themes and characters from “Peter Pan” — that’s right, J.M. Barrie’s hero and his Lost Boy crew who have never grown up.

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The notion of fusing a story about voracious alien monsters with a beloved children’s classic sounds like it would be a disaster. But Hawley is a creative storytelling dervish, and not only does he interweave the two seamlessly bu

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