Spoilers Alien Earth (2025 Hulu show)
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Even that big time meeting between Yutani and Kavalier at the beginning of the episode was super empty. Huge room, huge table, and it was clearly meant to feel like they were the only 2 people in the world. Even the two assistants that each of them brought barely made a peep.
Yeah, the Nibs thing was kind of weird, you'd think they would have either kept her away from the other kids, or come up with some kind of cover story for why she forgot everything that happened over the last few days. Just letting Wendy in with her, without her knowing what had happened to her was just dumb. There's no way they weren't going to notice something was wrong with her.
And what is up with the characters names on this show, I had been assuming Dame was her title, but apparently it is her name. And then of course we also have Boy Kavalier.
I'm pretty sure this is meant to be a multiple season series, so I'm assuming at least one or two of them stick around to give us some consistency.
Just finished the sixth episode. We can finally say that the scientists in Prometheous weren't particularly stupid; in fact, they were perfectly in line with the standards of the profession in the Alien universe.
The question that arises is: how are there still any scientists alive in the Alien universe? It seems that one of the tenets of the scientific method there is: "If it looks dangerous, get close and possibly touch it. Without any protection."
The question that arises is: how are there still any scientists alive in the Alien universe? It seems that one of the tenets of the scientific method there is: "If it looks dangerous, get close and possibly touch it. Without any protection."
And then there were four. Rest in peace, Nibs. At least she went down with a fight (bye-bye, jaw!).
Kirsh was letting Slightly help Morrow in order to lure Morrow in...but why didn't he tell Kavalier about that silent operation? I think Kirsh still has his own agenda and he merely plays along with Kavalier as long as their goals align.
Kavalier now has this "brilliant" idea of allowing the eye octopus take over a mind and I'm curious to know who he thinks is the perfect candidate for such an "opportunity." I can't wait to see that idea blow up in his face.
Poor Marcie. She has full control of a xenomorph but she has completely lost the trust of her beloved brother. The graveyard didn't help any.
Kirsh was letting Slightly help Morrow in order to lure Morrow in...but why didn't he tell Kavalier about that silent operation? I think Kirsh still has his own agenda and he merely plays along with Kavalier as long as their goals align.
Kavalier now has this "brilliant" idea of allowing the eye octopus take over a mind and I'm curious to know who he thinks is the perfect candidate for such an "opportunity." I can't wait to see that idea blow up in his face.
Poor Marcie. She has full control of a xenomorph but she has completely lost the trust of her beloved brother. The graveyard didn't help any.
I was much more reminded of LOST, what with the jungle-buried machinery, the jungle-covered bunkers, and the Prodigy icons stamped on everything.
Yeah, I noticed that, too, but I figured it was some kind of weird shallows of that immediate area. Once the camera looked at the other end of the beach, the water was moving.
Are we sure Nibs is dead? I think that electric-arc-thing was used to incapacitate a xenomorph previously, and the hybrids are physically synths, so could be she’s just heavily EMP’ed but not permanently wiped?
Speaking of which, I’m glad they came down firmly on showing that yes, the original kids are dead; these aren’t transferred consciousnesses, they’re new beings with copied memories, and now Wendy knows that.
For Kavalier’s human eye-topus candidate, I’m betting on the mysterious wall-fogger guy.
Well, that's what I thought at first but the final look at her seemed pretty definitive. I would love to be wrong but that's the sense I got from how the scene was depicted.
Yup, I liked that revelation, too, and how the show didn't outright explain the implications of that revelation. Simply a confirmation of what we expected.
Except wasn't that Atom's suggestion in the first place? At least that's what I thought he said. Kavalier's lightbulb moment suggested someone who wasn't discussed.
Also, I like the nickname eye-topus. That's less clunky than eye octopus that I've been using this whole time.
Heh, thanks; I’m sure I’ve seen it online somewhere before. You’re probably right about Nibs and Kavalier’s candidate.
Random thoughts:
* Samuel Blenkin would be a shoo-in to play a hobbit on some future Tolkien production.
* Weird that the graves were clearly marked, yet set up in some out of the way, untended area. You’d think they’d simply dispose of the bodies to avoid complication, or else go the other route for optics and have them publicly buried for the families.
We always knew they weren't in their original bodies, finding those original bodies doesn't change anything. Whether or not one buys into the idea that their consciousnesses were actually transferred seems to be something of a philosophical question.I thought it was significant that we cut away to a scene with Hermit after that.
Yeah, but you’d think they wouldn’t bother with marked headstones and (barely) formalized graves if they saw the bodies as just husks the kids had shaken off; they’d just dispose of them (or store them for bioresearch). The gravesites seem to confirm or acknowledge that even in the eyes of the scientists themselves, no, those aren’t husks left behind by the still-living-in-new-bodies kids; those are the kids, and they’re dead. The hybrids aren’t them, despite their copied memories, and now Wendy gets that. Which fits with the whole pulling-away-from-humanity theme.
Wall fogger guy is obviously keeping a predator or Na'avi or Grogu alive.
I'm glad this series is almost done because I'm really starting to feel it's not going anywhere substantial and is just getting silly with kids in robot bodies now being friends with the most dangerous creature in the universe.
Sounds like there are plans for season 2 and I'm guessing the show did well enough early on to warrant that but if it's going to be more of the same going on to next season then I don't think it's going to keep the same viewership. I mean, how far can you take this show if it's keeping within continuity of the movies? Alien Earth? More like Alien Island.
Guess it didn't help that I rewatched 'Alien' at the theater this morning. Gods, what an amazing movie. An era of film making I sorely miss.
Sounds like there are plans for season 2 and I'm guessing the show did well enough early on to warrant that but if it's going to be more of the same going on to next season then I don't think it's going to keep the same viewership. I mean, how far can you take this show if it's keeping within continuity of the movies? Alien Earth? More like Alien Island.
Guess it didn't help that I rewatched 'Alien' at the theater this morning. Gods, what an amazing movie. An era of film making I sorely miss.
That's the thing: it isn't keeping within continuity of the movies.
But many religious people see bodies the same way -- as husks the dead have shaken off -- yet still 'bother' with headstones, graves, burial ceremonies, et cetera for some reason.
Marcy's second "what did you do" would have been better if it had been more like Sasha Calle's, but she held back a little.
Maybe the second most, if you know what I mean...
That's in theaters?
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