Spoilers Alien Earth (2025 Hulu show)

[FPAlpha]

Seems like that ship was still doomed even without the saboteur because the science officer apparently studied at the School of Prometheus.

At some point this occured to me too. I mean how incompetent/careless were these people and they knew they were carrying highly dangerous alien specimen of which they knew very little about.

This whole ship should have been one giant flying lockdown cage with tripwires, liquid nitrogen all over ready to freeze everything T-1000 style and a batallion of Colonial Marines as backup. Especially when we know how much value W-Y is placing on this transport.

Then again i work in logistics and i know how careless people can get over time even with dangerous goods, much less over 65 years in a small and closed group. Humans just aren't built to be operating at a 100% over such a long stretch of time, small mistakes turn into habits and these are extremely hard to shake off.

What's even more terrifying than the monster designs themselves is their intelligence. We know that the Xenomorph has exhibited very sophisticated tactics but then again so does every high level predator on Earth. Eyeball alien seems almost human in its intelligence, did that thing try to actually warn the human scientist about the impending escape of the slugh aliens?

What if it itself is not malevolent at all, it's just misfortunate that it appears as a monster to us when it only wants to communicate ( but then again why take over the engineer, most likely killing him?)

If they existed in real life, I’d agree that they might just be “presenting” as conscious without actually being self-aware, just machines simulating it. But in-story, we’ve seen a lot through their eyes — with Wendy in particular being a major protagonist — so I think we’re supposed to take it as a given that whatever they are, they’re conscious. (Likewise Data!)

Maybe the children AI's are the result of them itself not being self aware and just replicating a child's mind and simulating its life and reactions? If they're AI at all, that is.

I hope they address this this season, this episode returned to the familiar Alien template ( though done well), i hope the next episode continues the world building.

 

[Nerys Myk]

So did the Maginot get all those creatures from just one planet? Must've been a hell of a planet. We heard they lost some crew collecting the specimens, but it's amazing any of them survived.

Space Australia.

 

[Captaindemotion]

I said after the first episode that Hawley often does an episode that goes up his own bum. Fortunately we haven’t gotten that but I should’ve remembered also that he also often does flashback episodes and tonight we got that in spades. And what an episode it was. A mini-Alien movie. In that hour or so, the crew were well-depicted and characterised and it was a delight as always to see Michael Smiley again.

As someone else said, the other aliens are in their own way scarier and certainly ickier than the classic xenomorph and that was definitely shown tonight, especially with the ticks and also how the eyeball creature seemed to manage to scare the titular alien,

The episode also humanised Morrow while also reinforcing what a ruthless bastard he is.

So far, while I really enjoyed Romulus, I’m finding this series to be the best in the Alien franchise since Aliens.

 

[JD]

Also...I found it quite curious that the eyeball octopus tried to warn foolish Chibuzo that the tick was breaking free from its capsule. I wonder why...

Yeah, it's starting to look like The Eye might not be so bad afterall. It warned her about The Tick that escaped, and while it took over the engineer we don't know for a fact it killed him since it had already taken him over when we saw it, it didn't kill the captain when it had the opportunity, and then it attacked the Xenomorph and allowed the captain to get away.

So Weyland Yutani is based in Chicago. (That was Chicago, right?) I can dig it. And speaking of digging it, Yutani's personal guards were wild looking. What headgear!

I was wondering what city that was.

So did the Maginot get all those creatures from just one planet? Must've been a hell of a planet. We heard they lost some crew collecting the specimens, but it's amazing any of them survived. Modern 2025 thinking would probably just have drones and robots collecting the specimens, while the humans waited safely back at the ship.

I had assumed it picked them up at different points throughout the 65 years they were out.

I wonder if the acting Captain is still alive. They spent a lot of time with her and we never saw the alien kill her.

I doubt it, it looked like the Xenomorph was doing some pretty serious damage when it attacked her at the end.
I was a little shocked we got to see what happened to the Maginot in this much detail, but it was nice to get to see the crew again and find out exactly what happened.
I missed, what did the Marrow's message from Wayland-Yutani say? From his reaction I'm assuming something happened to his daughter?
I'm curious what is exactly was up with Tang, because that guy was seriously weird and creepy.
I think The Ticks might be taking The Eye's place as the creepiest aliens.

 

[Commander Troi]

I missed, what did the Marrow's message from Wayland-Yutani say? From his reaction I'm assuming something happened to his daughter?

She died in a fire.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

She died in a fire.

At age 18, a mere 8 years (I think) into his mission.

...supposedly. I'm not entirely sold she actually died.

 

[JD]

She died in a fire.

OK, thanks.