Spoilers Alien Earth (2025 Hulu show)

[Starkers]

Right, but that would have to have happened before the message Morrow receives about the death of his daughter, which is on W-Y letterhead and is apparently ~ 8 years into the mission. ( The math doesn't add up because it also appears to say he'll be returning in 53 years. That's why I wrote 'the 2060s' instead of a specific year. )

I'm still thinking he could be a synthetic -- going by the first film, a stealth synthetic wouldn't be out of the question. But notably we didn't get to see what color he bleeds. I guess his 'obsession' reminded me of what David was doing in Prometheus, in addition to his other mannerisms.

Ah, cool I hadn't picked up on the date of the letter, only the content. So am I right that conventional wisdom is that W-Y merged around 2099?

He could be a synthetic, or maybe the length of the trip and relative isolation tipped him over the edge (or he was always a weird stalker type!)

 

[Set Harth]

Ah, cool I hadn't picked up on the date of the letter, only the content.

I only noticed the fact that it said Weyland-Yutani upon rewatch. The timing is sort of baked into the content, though -- his daughter is supposed to have been only 18 when she died. It all goes by pretty fast and my eyes aren't the best, thank you pause button!

So am I right that conventional wisdom is that W-Y merged around 2099?

I think so, I guess the intent was to put it after Prometheus.

 

[Saul]

I'm still thinking he could be a synthetic -- going by the first film, a stealth synthetic wouldn't be out of the question. But notably we didn't get to see what color he bleeds. I guess his 'obsession' reminded me of what David was doing in Prometheus, in addition to his other mannerisms.

A lot of signs seem to point in that direction and after his latest appearance I felt it was reinforced even more. His demise though seemed very human. I wouldn't be surprised if we saw him again. There's definitely a sense that there is more happening on that ship than we are aware.

 

[Starkers]

I'm glad it wasn't just me who thought Teng was a synthetic!

 

[Set Harth]

He screamed like a human though.

 

[Roundabout]

We just got the "all hell breaks loose" on the ship episode. It happens whenever there is a xenomorph around. Add the eyeball monster and it becomes a double whammy.

What I wish we would also have been shown was how this ragtag crew managed to capture all those dastardly clever creatures in the first place.