Spoilers Alien Earth (2025 Hulu show)

[valkyrie013]

I really do think if they limited the Synth/Golem to just the 1 prototype, Wendy. it would have flowed better, having 5 kids is a bit much, and honestly, with the abhorent thing of killing the kids to do it, that having just 1 volunteer would be a better PR decision. Story maybe have had to have a 2nd one, so just name that one Peter, and you have the Wendy and the mashup of Slightly, Nibs etc. and have Wendy succeed by focusing on her brother, where Peter goes into dysfunction.. ( For some reason I see the Robocop 2 scenes where they try to make a #2 and it goes horribly wrong) with morrow messing with him.

Anyways just a thought.

 

[Aragorn]

That was the final episode. My thoughts were..... That's it?

Feels more like a midpoint in the story.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Never have I ever been happier about being wrong. Nibs lives!

PLUS. The plant creature finally reveals its nature and it's a mobile Venus flytrap! I'm waiting for the inevitable team-up with the Eye, now residing in poor Arthur's corpse. Oh, my, Boy Kavalier is going to be disappointed by that turn of events.

I'm glad Marcy/Wendy recognized who she isn't and that she's tired being told what she must do as either identity. I'm curious to see if she (or any of the other hybrids) chooses a different name next season or if she decides to stick with either of those names.

I should've seen Atom's synthetic nature coming what with his on-the-nose name but that was a fun reveal...quickly chased with Marcy/Wendy's immediate freezing of his systems. I particularly liked watching his eyes bounce around his skull while unable to move a muscle otherwise.

My singular disappointment is Boy Kavalier didn't get his just desserts...yet. Sure, he's out of power, imprisoned, and had his own distain thrown right back into his face, but he's not out of the game. I hope Marcy/Wendy hasn't made a poor decision in letting him live, instead of letting the xenomorph tear him to shreds like we all wanted to see.

Fantastic season finale that nicely concludes Boy Kavalier's tyranny and opens a new chapter for hybrid existence. I can't wait for more.

 

[Gepard]

m waiting for the inevitable team-up with the Eye, now residing in poor Arthur's corpse. Oh, my, Boy Kavalier is going to be disappointed by that turn of events.

I thought there was a decent chance that Oculus would end up in Kavalier; I suppose it still might, given his distain for everything human.

Hawley was definitely banking on a second season though. There's a lot of changes but nothing really resolved, with two huge dangling threads of the Oculus and Yutani coming in with her strike force.

I think overall I liked the season, but more for a solid start and it's strong finish. Like too many serialized seasons it felt like it noodled around in the middle. I haven't seen any of Haley's other shows so I don't know how it compares. Creators in general seemed to have a better handle on how to pace (semi)serialized TV back in the late 2000s and 2010s, e.g. BSG and Breaking Bad. And those were longer seasons!

 

[Set Harth]

Why didn't Morrow use his blade in the inevitable fight? Wasn't that the whole point of putting that thing over his arm?

Never have I ever been happier about being wrong. Nibs lives!

If R2D2 could survive it...

I should've seen Atom's synthetic nature coming what with his on-the-nose name

That was given away back in episode 4 when he caught the ball with android reflexes.

 

[Happy Hopping]

the creature w/ 1 eye and 8 legs, I thought they are part of the "gang" w/ those alien creatures. And yet it attack the alien in that episode. So if they are not part of the gang w/ those aliens, then how many fraction are we dealing w/ in that universe

 

[NCC-73515]

Stay frosty

The feyeght scene with the tentacles snatching his face and her kicking it away was great, and they even made it look cute when it pulled out the beach body's eye with effort

All in all a great season!

 

[Mage]

So, now that the show has ended (I've only seen the first episode), how intense is the gore?
I don't really mind gore, but I'm not a huge fan of over the top limbs/blood/guts all over the place.

 

[EmoBorg]

The last episode was weird, tbh. The ending reminded me of one of those Resident Evil movies ending.

 

[Set Harth]

So, now that the show has ended (I've only seen the first episode), how intense is the gore?

I would say not especially out-of-bounds intense, but mileage may vary.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

So, now that the show has ended (I've only seen the first episode), how intense is the gore?

I don't really mind gore, but I'm not a huge fan of over the top limbs/blood/guts all over the place.

It's not too intense. The worst parts are involving the Eye, especially the moment with the cat which I had to look away from.

 

[FPAlpha]

The episode went about as expected for the most part. We got the Morrow/Kirsh fight ( my bet was on Kirsh so i was mostly right, surprised Morrow could keep up as well as he did) and many people dying.

The kids "growing up" so to speak under Wendy's leadership was not that much of a surprise but still well enough. Given that there is a 2nd season and maybe even more it's ok that they didn't reveal why Wendy has additional skills that not even Prodigy/Cavalier expected but i figure those will be revealed/explained next season.

The stage is set now for an all out at least 3 side brawl next season, possibly 4 sides if the Aliens, chief amongst them Eyeball, have designs on their own as we know Eyeball hates the Xenomorphs apparently. Should be a fun 2nd season and i look forward to it.

As to the season overall it has turned out to be a mixed bag. It started off stellar, amazing concepts introduced and some Xenomorph action early on and cool mystery building after. However the show kind of got lazy after that in a way that in order to move the plot along people had to act very stupidly or circumstances created that were highly unlikely or just plain bad in order for something specific to happen - case in point this week when Eyeball just happened to crawl all the way from the lab to that specific beach to find the guy and possess him, that was just a little bit eye rolling ( pun intended) implausible ( and the show was on that level a little bit too much).

This dragged the show down from a straight A to somewhere in the B level region for me, which is still good but could have been much better with a little more careful writing and not taking the easy way out so many times.

 

[Saul]

That was pretty much a nothing last episode of the season. Zero resolution to anything set up in this and IF there is a season 2 it's at least two years away as they haven't even decided on a season 2 yet. What was the point? Started off well and nose dived. Who am I supposed to be rooting for here anyway? There's no likeable characters. The synth kids that kill and want to take over, yeah, no. And did that Prodigy fellow say he made his Dad a Synth at the age of 6?

"We're understaffed.."
You were understaffed 5 episodes ago Eddy.

And that Venus fly trap. Let's stand there for 10 seconds under it to make sure it gets us. Definitely don't run or anything.

 

[Set Harth]

And did that Prodigy fellow say he made his Dad a Synth at the age of 6?

No, he said he made a synth at the age of 6, the synth killed his dad, then he passed off the synth ( probably Atom ) as his dad.

 

[Mage]

I would say not especially out-of-bounds intense, but mileage may vary.

It's not too intense. The worst parts are involving the Eye, especially the moment with the cat which I had to look away from.

Thanks for that! I knew about the cat, which is why I became hesitant to watch. Offing humans, one thing. Animals, bit different. I'll do a binch as soon as I have time.

 

[Char Kais]

Space: Above and Beyond from 1995 had a much more interesting take on the "Humans VS Androids" (Synthetics/Synths/Silicates) theme than Alien: Earth.

The gimmick of "children's minds in adults' synthetic bodies" got old very fast, as in right after the first scene in episode one.

The Xenomorph, a perfect organism, is now a domesticated dog.

Wendy can do anything. She has superhuman strength, speed, and agility; she can fight a Xenomorph one-on-one with a paper cutter, and she can control Xenomorphs, computers, and synthetics. Much WOW!

Tech bros like Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Sam Bankman-Fried, Palmer Luckey and Bill Gates are weird. And Hollywood doesn't like tech bros.
But that doesn't mean that they automatically become interesting characters.
Unlike the 80s-style greedy corporate executive, Hollywood has not cracked the code on how to make tech bros interesting antagonists in movies/TV shows.
Combine that with the problem of modern Hollywood writers writing compelling and convincing, genius-level characters, and you get another character with antics who is just annoying.

What was the mold infection and guys in protective suits all about? Just a visual flourish? Another gimmick? A red herring?

 

[Aragorn]

It's amazing how the company had so many employees for the xenomorph to kill, but not when the kids were running around doing stealth missions. Maybe those stealth missions all coincidentally happened during lunch break.

 

[Set Harth]

Meanwhile the mold scrubber guys are just like "ehh, all in a day's work"

 

[StarTrek1701]

I am just thankful Nah Hawley didn't get to do his version of Star Trek.
After Alien: Earth I am thinking that would have been another stupid snoozefest.

 

[Daedalus]

Meanwhile the mold scrubber guys are just like "ehh, all in a day's work"

The true heroes of this story.