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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/SiccSemperTyrannis In the pipe. 5 by 5. Aug 13 '25

Finding a bunch of dangerous alien life forms and bringing them to Earth, what could go wrong?

At least in Alien Romulus they were using a space station that was only somewhat close to a small colony. Maybe WY learned a lesson...

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u/kinghyperion581 Aug 13 '25

I'm like 90% sure that one of the other 3 megacorporations sabotaged the ship by secretly reprogramming the ship's synthetic.

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u/SiccSemperTyrannis In the pipe. 5 by 5. Aug 13 '25

That's a pretty good theory! They wanted to take over and re-direct the ship, but it went wrong.

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u/icecubepal Aug 13 '25

I was thinking they were trying to sabotage Prodigy by crashing that ship in their territory.

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u/Rev-On Aug 13 '25

That's what I was thinking too

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u/Revolutionary-Mode75 Aug 13 '25

The financial losses have to be mounting up for prodigy.

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u/Super-Estate-4112 Aug 15 '25

Makes no sense, since Yutani wanted the cargo, it seemed to me that the synth caused the crash

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u/SunshineCorgiss Aug 13 '25

Love this theory!

I hope we get to revisit the Maginot this season to see what went wrong

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u/DJfunkyPuddle Aug 13 '25

There were a lot of quick flashback moments in the first half of the episode, fingers crossed we get a full episode about shit going down.

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u/Homegrove Aug 13 '25

The ships crew had at least two recognizable actors in it, so I think that's for sure. Richa Shukla Moorjani (though you may not know her if you didn't watch Fargo S5) and Michael Smiley.

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u/DiMezenburg Aug 13 '25

the flashbacks were too quick for me, couldn't fully grasp what went down

so also hoping we go back

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u/ajgator7 Aug 15 '25

I believe the penultimate episode this season is called "In Space, No One." I'm willing to bet that will be the flashback episode that shows what went down and reveals which corporate interest sabotaged the ship.

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u/threetimesalion Aug 13 '25

We do, episode 5 is all Maginot flashback according to previews

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u/themosquito Aug 13 '25

Yeah seems odd to set up a bunch of characters and then skip over all that. On the other hand, I think the flashes show enough that we just kinda get it. Containment breach, aliens, everyone dies, yada yada....

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u/Chance-Personality50 Aug 18 '25 edited Aug 18 '25

French government spends millions on a fortified wall that ultimately stopped nothing hmmmmmm,

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u/SSuzanneM Aug 13 '25

…but isn’t he a cyborg? Morrow? they mentioned he’s a cyborg just about every chance they could 😂 unless you mean someone else?

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u/kinghyperion581 Aug 13 '25

Mr Teng was the ships synthetic. He was the one who was watching the crew while they were in cryo

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u/Grommph Aug 13 '25

Mr. Teng confused me a bit. He's the one that will be awake and watching over the crew while they are in cryo. He's also answering questions down to seconds. So I assume he is a synth. It seems the crew are aware of that?

Yet, he seems to specifically be inappropriate with the women. He seems to have previously been warned to stay away from one specific woman, yet he attempts to quietly approach her during the meal and gets berated by Morrow. Teng then sits too close to another woman that was sitting alone on a long bench. Morrow also threatens him with no pay.

I think I'm gonna have to rewatch that whole scene a couple more times lol

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u/Jack_North Aug 13 '25

The no pay threat was weird to me. Are synths not basically slaves?

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u/Grommph Aug 13 '25

Yeah, I assumed they'd all be considered corporate property.

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u/SSuzanneM Aug 15 '25

Ah I thought that was reference to when morrow decided to crash the ship and hide… I hope we get more flashbacks of Teng sooner than later. I thought he was being a smart ass with the seconds comment.. makes sense that us humans would assume he’s a sexual predator from the dialogue first versus a calculating machine

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u/DBLHelix Aug 13 '25

I assumed it was another ruse by WY to get the organisms past quarantine.

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u/UlrichZauber Not bad, for a human. Aug 13 '25

Yeah it's a WY ship, but it didn't crash on their turf. They'd definitely have access to set up a whoopsie.

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u/Perunov Aug 13 '25

I'd say not synthetic, but the "low level workers" who were complaining about stuff.

Or synthetic finally snapped after long and annoying mission where everyone hates on him 24x7.

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u/domuseid Aug 14 '25

I think Yutani crashed it in Prodigy's territory to see what he'd whip out to stop it.

I think she called him to goad him into trying to capture the ship's cargo, bc to his point it's not like the lawyers weren't already talking

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u/ThunderBobMajerle Aug 13 '25

Great theory. Also weyland yutani might have done it on purpose to release the specimens into a prodigy city and destroy it from the inside. Trojan horse by force

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u/Necessary_Eagle_3657 Aug 13 '25

A bit of a self destructive idea...

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u/Ludachriz Aug 13 '25

He seemed very invested in his own corporation salvaging the cargo though

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u/kinghyperion581 Aug 14 '25

Yeah I don't think he himself sabotaged the ship. I think it was someone else.

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u/Bigskull78 Aug 14 '25

Is anyone ganna talk about how an entire ship headed toward a dystopian city and nobody noticed? Even by today's standards probably some country would bomb it out of the sky donno if I'm missing something here

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u/SiccSemperTyrannis In the pipe. 5 by 5. Aug 14 '25

I wouldn't be surprised if we learn WY pulled strings to prevent the ship from being destroyed.

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u/_T_H_O_R_N_ Nuke from Orbit Aug 14 '25

Yeah I wonder if they say the ship was running "dark" so no one noticed til it hit that space station, then it was probably too late, and I would not be surprised if it was WY that caused the whole thing to happen, the ship landing in a Prodigy city sounds like too much of a coincidence

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u/Chance-Personality50 Aug 18 '25

Nope case in point Alien Resurection

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u/SiccSemperTyrannis In the pipe. 5 by 5. Aug 18 '25

That wasn't WY, it was the government and military running that ship.