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Spoilers Alien Earth (2025 Hulu show)
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I thought this was less dumb than last week's episode. Other than the pi scene, I didn't think there was a whole lot that was objectionable.
I loved the Pi scene!
It was the wading through all the dross to find any bits that are actually good that I didn't like. I appreciate that some people are much more patient than I am.
I don't necessarily think she's going to become an all out mustache twirling villain, my thoughts were more just that she was going to become more and more out of control with her using the xenomorph on anybody who gets in her way. If they go in that direction, I wonder if the final season could be Joe finally having to hunt her down and stop, hopefully in a non-lethal way.
Yeah, the Xenomorph really seems to be just a predator doing what predators do.
Yeah, on the Marcie bit, what she was bad, but it the guy was pointing a gun at her and she thought he was going to shoot her, so it was more or less self defense.
Yeah, definitely.
So that's what her plushie's name, I could never quite understand what she was calling. Is he an ostrich?I think Nibs is probably dead. I thought it was a lovely touch that as she lay their dying you could see Mr Strawberry floating in the water behind her
That thought occurred to me, but she seems to be to involved with the kids to sacrifice her to The Eye.In terms of who's getting the Eyemy money's on Dame Sylvia.
I was thinking it's going to be Joe, because he is probably the only person I could see Kavalier considering disposable enough for The Eye. The only reason I could maybe see him not using Joe was if he didn't want to piss of Wendy/Marcie when she finds out what he did.
Yeah, there were a couple times where I thought we might get to see what it does, but we still haven't.
Yeah, that bugged me too. That seemed to have been put together a lot quicker and was a lot more well made than I would have expected from Smee and Slightly.
Oh, I didn't think of that, but I could definitely see it happening now that we have two of them on the lose.
What was so bad about the pi scene, I thought it was good.
I'm starting to wonder if The Eye is going to end up being one of the series main villains. I'm starting to get the impression that she's got some plans of her own, and is manipulating everything around her for her own reasons. As horrible as will be to have Kavalier sacrifice someone to her, it will be interesting to see what she has to say if they go through with it.
A word on Rewatchability.. This show? Probably not.. After next week i'll probably never watch it again, and I Rewatch AvP Requiem every once in awhile.. so.. yeah.
Yep. Unless the last episode blows me away I can't imagine rewatching it, much less buying the blu rays, and I've got all the Alien movies, though not the AvP movies.
I liked it as television… but I didn’t really get how it would know either Arabic numerals or specifically base-ten math. (Unless it’s so smart it can deduce that Kavalier’s using base-ten and mentally convert it to base-eyetopus, then convert the rest back to base-ten, all on the fly. Which I guess is possible.)
Maybe when season 2 is about to start.
Remember, The Eye was observing humans for months (possibly years?) on board the Maginot. It's clearly smart enough to learn. Also, when it took over the engineer guy on the bridge of the Maginot, I wonder if it absorbed some of his knowledge.
Keep in mind, one of the reasons Kavalier created the synthetic bodies was that he just wanted someone he could have a mind-blowing conversation with. I could see him deciding that it's worth risking the whole planet just to have a conversation with an intelligent alien. If he can help The Eye to talk, and it just ends up saying something like "eat you, eat you, kill you, kill you", Kavalier is going to be severely disappointed.
Same. I can't ever imagine rewatching this. Maybe the episode on the ship but that's it.
My first thought was that Shmuel didn't talk.
We've got a new video about all of the new and old creatures.
And apprently The Eye's official name that they used during the production of the show, and which the cast and crew use in the video, is the Eye Midge.
IGN has an article about all of the fandom that's built around the Eye Midge. The article was actually the first time I came across that name.
And apprently The Eye's official name that they used during the production of the show, and which the cast and crew use in the video, is the Eye Midge.
IGN has an article about all of the fandom that's built around the Eye Midge. The article was actually the first time I came across that name.
This season will likely greatly benefit from a fan edit to even out the pacing.
The end of episode 7 felt very much like the end of "Act 2". The closest thing I can compare it to is the Obi-Wan Kenobi Disney+ series. And that's assuming it doesn't end on some kind of cliffhanger that serves to even further misalign the pacing.
The end of episode 7 felt very much like the end of "Act 2". The closest thing I can compare it to is the Obi-Wan Kenobi Disney+ series. And that's assuming it doesn't end on some kind of cliffhanger that serves to even further misalign the pacing.
One nice thing about this being a tv show with a potential second season is that we really don't know who will live or die. The logical assumption for most Alien movies is "everyone dies", but this is obviously different.
I hope Smee lives. He's fantastic at playing a kid in an adult body.
I hope Smee lives. He's fantastic at playing a kid in an adult body.
I gotta say this is among the things I marvel at most every episode: how well all the hybrid actors pull off that conceit. It could've easily come across as ludicrous, but they all play it so well. In fact, while I've seen some folks say that they feel the hybrid angle is "not a good fit" for Alien, I take the complete opposite view. The entire film series has been about futzing around with biotechnology for the sake of power; it would only make sense that Weyland (or one of its corporate rivals like Prodigy) would come up with ways of mixing synth and human. And one thing that the film series never really had much time for, being oriented towards the action and the scares, is to explore what such things as intelligent bioweapons or androids would mean to the people affected by them. Considering how relatively its narrow of a concept Alien is, it's amazing how well this series works in terms of its worldbuilding and its exploration of the themes that were addressed on the side in the films.
Well, don't forget that it's a SERIES, not a movie split up into instalments. I think it's perfectly fine for individual episodes to take different approaches to storylines and to the degree to which they advance the overall narrative. Since you bring up Star Wars, by that measure, e.g. Andor could also be cut down significantly, and if one were going only for the most efficient way to get from the setup to the resolution, some of the show's best episodes would have to be cut out completely.
It's a different format.
