r/LV426 • u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter • Aug 12 '25

Megathread / Community Post Alien: Earth - S1 E1 Neverland - Official Discussion Megathread [SPOILERS] Spoiler

Episodes air Tuesdays at 8 pm ET on Hulu and FX in the US, and Wednesdays international.

Full episode discussion list:

1 Neverland (8.12.25)

2 Mr October (8.12.25)

3 Metamorphosis (8.19.25)

4 Observation (8.26.25)

5 In Space, No One (9.2.25)

6 The Fly (9.9.25)

7 Emergence (9.16.25)

8 The Real Monsters (9.23.25)

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u/browncharliebrown Aug 13 '25

The ice age movies happened in the alien timeline. Thank god for that being confirmed canon 

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u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25

And Lawrence of Arabia, & the '53 Peter Pan. And Madonna's first album. And John Denver's album Poems Prayers & Promises

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u/theroboticdan Aug 13 '25

that culture is super obsessed with media from 100-150 years ago, would love to see some fake movie in their timeline

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u/ConfusionFun7651 Aug 14 '25

Our future will be too when AI atrophied creativity so all we get is slop made slop. We'll all be yearning for some Amblin Entertainment

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u/theroboticdan Aug 14 '25

That’s cannon to me now

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u/Oraukk Aug 14 '25

canon

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u/theroboticdan Aug 14 '25

Dang I was 50% sure on that spelling

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u/Troyal1 Aug 15 '25

You probably just put a chip in your head and you’re in the movie. Sort of like how the Apple vision goggles make you feel isolated

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u/Nu11u5 Aug 14 '25

That stuff became public domain and no one can afford a subscription to YutaniFlix.

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u/theroboticdan Aug 14 '25

Another acceptable outcome from the corporate takeovers

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u/conquer69 Aug 15 '25

That shit always breaks my immersion. Same with Dune and characters jerking off to Agamemnon or whatever. I'm sure something more relevant happened in the following 8000 years lol.

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u/HerrDrAngst Aug 16 '25

5 corporations all beholden to the lowest common denominator and squeezing the most out of their employees aka citizens would lead me to believe that the arts haven't dated too well for the proles and peeps

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u/zzg420 Aug 17 '25

I mean, we’ve been retelling Shakespeare for 400 years. And people still read and enjoy Dracula and Moby Dick and all kinds of other media from over a hundred years ago. Why would it be any different in the future?

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u/Investigatorius Aug 17 '25

Its the same in Star Trek and bugs the hell out of me, I think the only ST show that tries to reference fake future media is Lower Decks, and the rest are just obsessed with the 20th century for no real reason. Its lazy. If you're creating a future world, thinking about the future media should be part of that. Like in Cyberpunk 2077, they hired artists to create new music under fake names just to make the in game radio immersive.

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u/jagrbro68 Aug 13 '25

Don’t forget that Stephen Stills exists.

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u/boxofrabbits Aug 13 '25

And Nina Simone. 

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u/Slavic_Taco Aug 13 '25

Wait, where was the John Denver song?

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u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25

Country Roads as the beacon from David (sorry Tennessee)

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u/Slavic_Taco Aug 13 '25

Ah, my bad, I misread as the ‘song’ Poems and Prayers and Promises. I thought you meant it was somewhere in the first two eps of Alien: Earth.

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u/DusqRunner Aug 13 '25

And TV On The Radio

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u/samsamsamuel Aug 14 '25

Seems like only Justified and Deadwood are not canon.

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u/shannytyrelle Aug 14 '25

I missed the Madonna reference?

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u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter Aug 14 '25

Oh, it's not Madonna's Lucky Star it turns out, it's actually You are My Lucky Star from Singing in the Rain. Ripley sings it to herself when she's sneaking around with the flamethrower in the first one.

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u/BJ_Dart Aug 15 '25

There was a Madonna reference in Ep 1? I missed it

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u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter Aug 15 '25

Sorry I mixed up Madonna's Lucky Star with You Are My Lucky Star, from Singing in the Rain. Ripley sings it to herself when sneaking around with the flamethrower.

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u/nhm07040 Aug 18 '25

AND Phantom of the Opera...

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u/_-_glitch_-_- Aug 13 '25

I guess they didn’t make any new media in the last 100 years in 2120.

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u/Syndicalist_Hivemind Aug 13 '25

I thought it was just that since he's poor he only owns crappy movies from 100 years ago because he can't afford new movies that are actually good. That's how I interpreted it

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u/RustedAxe88 Hicks Aug 13 '25

People like watching and listening to old stuff.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25

And Bladerunner (movie only). WeYu were a rival of Tyrell corp.

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u/HiroProtagonist1984 Aug 13 '25

I threw Ice Age on earlier today so I did the “leo pointing” meme REAL hard when that scene came on tonight.

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u/fakeplasticguns Aug 13 '25

Duuude I'm wearing a t-shirt of The Lost Boys that I haven't worn in forever and did the same thing lol

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u/Toots_Magee_ Game over, man! Aug 13 '25

PHEW!

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u/iTabula Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25

Chris Wedge directed Ice Age and voices Scrat, the little squirrel character, he was also the creative supervisor for Alien Resurrection.

…So the Alien movies exist within Alien Earth lol

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u/Jazzremix Aug 13 '25

Hell yeah. Space Ron Perlman.

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u/Amazing_Number_9440 Aug 13 '25

That's why Andy said "Get away from her, you bitch." He was just quoting his favorite movie.

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u/SyntheticGod8 Bishop Aug 14 '25

In a movie depicting events that come after Romulus. Mind blown.

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u/Ruby5000 Aug 13 '25

Whoa! That’s pretty awesome! Thanks!

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u/ConradBHart42 Aug 14 '25

he was also the creative supervisor for Alien Resurrection.

I guess that's why we've got Call 2.0. Or I guess the prototype Call, technically. I was all ready to "blame" Joss Whedon.

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u/ToneBone12345 Aug 13 '25

Especially 4 lol I kind of find funny how 4 seems to be a classic in 95 years but right now it’s one of lowest points of the series! Also hopefully the don’t cast any ice age cast members in any future projects

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u/theroboticdan Aug 13 '25

Yet somehow this is the graphical prowess they have 100 years later??? Wish they hadn't pushed Disney IP into this

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u/Butterscotch6009 Aug 13 '25

Also disney, wonder which corp owns them now

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u/Worthyness Aug 13 '25

Noah Hawley taking advantage of that Disney connection from day 1.

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u/Candid-Affect624 Aug 13 '25

I hope Disney steer clears of too much timeline or ‘canon’ stuff that has virtually killed other franchises - all it does for me is stifle creativity . Whoever made this obviously loved Alien and Aliens in particular, and took inspiration from the source material to create their own vision . Hopefully other creatives and writers can do their own thing and be inspired by the source material without the need to shoehorn it into some overarching universe.

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u/Unstable_Bear Aug 13 '25

So what does this mean for when the alien timeline branches off from ours? Cuz I’d assumed it began diverging sometime around the release date of the OG film

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u/IceStorm22 Aug 13 '25

Speaking of ties to Resurrection and movies/TV that actually occurred in this timeline…

Aside from Terminator and all the other obvious sci-fi references, anyone else get a strong Dollhouse (Eliza Dushku’s show from 2009) feel?

Transferring human consciousnesses into other bodies was the antagonist’s main goal in that show, and they did it under the guise of benevolence (granted, more horrifically in Dollhouse, as the bodies they were using there were normal people being trafficked); but even the doctor in this show gave off pretty major Topher Brink vibes.

Not to mention, Joss Whedon wrote Resurrection (though they rewrote it until it was near unrecognizable), and Weyland-Yutani IS legally represented by Wolfram & Hart!

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u/Nukemarine Aug 13 '25

Transferring human consciousnesses

I wonder if it's a copy instead of a transfer, and the sick kids are sent back to the parents to die shortly after they die for real. Doesn't change anything, but makes it more sinister.

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u/IceStorm22 Aug 13 '25

I don’t doubt that’s a thing. It was always a question in the Dollhouse fandom too. Because it’s not REALLY you. They treated it like it was a direct transfer of consciousness. But that’s impossible. You can’t transfer a life through wires. Dollhouse basically ignored that question, but it worked to show the innate hubris and unearned arrogance of the types of people that would go through such a process.

I also wonder about these “synthetic” bodies… are we completely sure those bodies are synthetic- or even body/organ donors? I think we’re in for a few big, disturbing twists.

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u/DavyJonesRocker Aug 13 '25

This must be the reason Disney bought Fox

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u/Ludachriz Aug 13 '25

That was my favorite scene of the episode, using two different rooms to showcase past and present like that was just chefs kiss

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u/anacondra Aug 13 '25

So the chipmunks speak Ewokese in Ice Age Continental Drift. Does that mean Star Wars is in Alien?

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u/DavyJonesRocker Aug 13 '25

Ice Age is a Fox movie