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.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Sigourney Weaver is a fan of the show:

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"I'm really enjoying it," Sigourney Weaver — who played Ellen Ripley — said at the PEOPLE/EW and Shutterstock Studio at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday, Sept. 8, while promoting her new movie, Dust Bunny.​

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"What I admire about it is the scope is so much more profound than just an Alien movie," the actress, 75, added. "It's about our world and what's dominating the world in 100 years, and to me it's right on."​

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Weaver praised Hawley's concept of the "new creatures based on children," referencing the hybrids, synthetic beings with human consciousness, like Sydney Chandler's Wendy.​

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"All these things are so remarkable and they're just building and building and building," she said.​

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"And the monsters that he's also bringing in are just terrifying. It's like, we don't have enough problems with the alien, we need 50 more," Weaver gushed. "I can't believe I'm watching TV."​

 

[FredH]

…okay, so in this version of the Alienverse, they don’t have FTL travel yet — which presumably includes the already-in-transit Nostromo. That rather changes things.

 

[Set Harth]

With all these 90s records in the end credits I feel like Soundgarden might be showing up at some point...

 

[NCC-73515]

Nice to see the development from burster to adult! It curled down from the ceiling like in its first appearance in Isolation.
Was red hair's "Where they are" a Vasquez reference?
And the Creep Sheep just watches

 

[thribs]

I take it there are no alarms in that containment room? Seems odd that this can go on and no one notices.

 

[thribs]

With all these 90s records in the end credits I feel like Soundgarden might be showing up at some point...

The reviewer on IGN loves to break down those songs at the end. I’m already on my next show before the tune even plays.

 

[Set Harth]

Well the beginning of the song starts playing before the show is even over...

 

[Set Harth]

…okay, so in this version of the Alienverse, they don’t have FTL travel yet — which presumably includes the already-in-transit Nostromo. That rather changes things.

So this show is not only contradicting the prequels, but the original movies as well?

 

[FredH]

So this show is not only contradicting the prequels, but the original movies as well?

Telling a story, not worrying about “canon”. Doesn’t bother me much; the Ripley story aside, Alien’s a rough setting/situation, not a saga.