Spoilers Alien Earth (2025 Hulu show)
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I don't think this show or Andor are action shows. The "action" is more filler than not.
A slower burn of an episode but still very good. It's disturbing how many of the kids are being groomed/manipulated in some way. The most obvious example is Morrow/Slightly but Kavalier is manipulating Culy and Wendy and you could even say Kirsh is grooming Tootles in some respects, letting him choose a name and giving him the illusion of free will.
Nibs is the one most obviously cracking up but I think all the kids of issues, the only exception being maybe Smee but that's probably because we haven't got to him yet. I think the show and the actors are doing a good job of portraying kids in adult bodies.
Re Nibs I think it was obvious even when she was a child that she didn't understand what was happening to her and didn't realise that the transition was final.
In an ideal world where a corporation gave a shit Prodigy should have transferred the kids into replicas of their child bodies, given them a year or two to get used to a synthetic body and then placed them in adult bodies.
The show exploring existential questions about consciousness and what it means to be human is wonderful though, but also accessible.
Eyeball alien remains the most terrifying thing in the show. I did wonder about it taking over a xenomorph but then xenomorphs don't have eyes!
Who knows maybe this is why xenomorph's don't have eyes?
Glad they didn't put Hermit's lung back in him! Might be a brief respite because Slightly obviously plans on using him as a carrier for Morrow. It is interesting that Kirsh knows and is, for the moment, doing nothing. Kavalier and Atom are dirtbags, but they're recognisable dirtbags. I do wonder if Kirsh is going to turn out to be the true villain of the show (or the true hero I feel like he could go either way)
Glad we saw the chest burster in all its glory, the one ropey bit of Alien was always how it scooted off from the table after bursting out which looks silly (did it have legs? We never knew). Is Wendy going to have a pet xenomorph?
Kirsh said the eyeball alien was intelligent, I guess we don't know how intelligent. Smarter than an animal, 20th century human smart or smarter than the 22nd century humans? I get a few The Thing vibes from it.
And we still have the other alien lifeforms to throw into the mix!
Guessing Hermit's squad mates are going to come in very handy in the finale when, I'm presuming, all hell will break loose on the island!
Nibs is the one most obviously cracking up but I think all the kids of issues, the only exception being maybe Smee but that's probably because we haven't got to him yet. I think the show and the actors are doing a good job of portraying kids in adult bodies.
Re Nibs I think it was obvious even when she was a child that she didn't understand what was happening to her and didn't realise that the transition was final.
In an ideal world where a corporation gave a shit Prodigy should have transferred the kids into replicas of their child bodies, given them a year or two to get used to a synthetic body and then placed them in adult bodies.
The show exploring existential questions about consciousness and what it means to be human is wonderful though, but also accessible.
Eyeball alien remains the most terrifying thing in the show. I did wonder about it taking over a xenomorph but then xenomorphs don't have eyes!
Who knows maybe this is why xenomorph's don't have eyes?
Glad they didn't put Hermit's lung back in him! Might be a brief respite because Slightly obviously plans on using him as a carrier for Morrow. It is interesting that Kirsh knows and is, for the moment, doing nothing. Kavalier and Atom are dirtbags, but they're recognisable dirtbags. I do wonder if Kirsh is going to turn out to be the true villain of the show (or the true hero I feel like he could go either way)
Glad we saw the chest burster in all its glory, the one ropey bit of Alien was always how it scooted off from the table after bursting out which looks silly (did it have legs? We never knew). Is Wendy going to have a pet xenomorph?
Kirsh said the eyeball alien was intelligent, I guess we don't know how intelligent. Smarter than an animal, 20th century human smart or smarter than the 22nd century humans? I get a few The Thing vibes from it.
And we still have the other alien lifeforms to throw into the mix!
Guessing Hermit's squad mates are going to come in very handy in the finale when, I'm presuming, all hell will break loose on the island!
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