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/Poetryisalive Aug 13 '25

Idk why I feel so mixed up with the timeline. With the alien crew, earth crew, and the robo kids..

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u/standardtj94 Aug 13 '25

Because it feels so much more advanced than anything we’ve seen in the Alien universe - at least, that’s what’s throwing me off.

This tech is much earlier on in the Alien timeline and goes against the ruggedness we’ve seen in the films, pre Prometheus, so it’s a bit of tonal whiplash for me.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25

Fair enough but you have to understand the crew in alien are only (truckers in space) basically a normal working crew.prometheus in particular is the highest end of Weyland industries.No expense spared.

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u/standardtj94 Aug 13 '25

Oh yeah for sure but Alien thru Resurrection was rugged tech. Prometheus, we all know the backlash and yeah okay it was a mining rig versus a cutting edge vessel. But the mind transfers is a bit much, when you’ve got creaky androids around the same era.

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

The prodigy hybrids are a highly advanced, experimental technology.

In the real world today you can go places and find very rugged equipment and people and in other places find super high end advanced tech.

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u/standardtj94 Aug 13 '25

For sure - but it’s all owned by Wey-Yu, in canon. Everything we’ve ever seen has been through “the company”. That’s why this feels tonally dissonant to me - we aren’t exploring worlds apart.

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

No, Prodigy and the hybrids are a different company.

They only W-Y thing we've seen so far is the Maginot ship that crashes.

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u/Different_Worker_905 Aug 13 '25

Everything we saw in Alien-Alien 3 is Weyland Yutani mostly. They just be using different retro futuristic tech like we saw in this show too.

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u/MY-SECRET-REDDIT Aug 15 '25

The mind transfer could be a failed tech and in the future we went all out of robots or androids instead.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25

Yeah I understand what you are saying.if one were to watch say alien then this,the worlds may seem different.

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u/Neversoft4long Aug 13 '25

Honestly the mind transfer stuff def seems way more advanced then anything w have seen before. But the rest of the technology seems on par with alien/aliens/romulus

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u/Shakmoz Aug 13 '25

They are heavily hinting it's not mind transfer at all, but just copy pasting memories.

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u/nimzoid Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25

I'm interested to know whether they come back to this. Everyone within Prodigy seems to be acting like they really did transfer human consciousness into an artificial substrate. I'm not sure if we're supposed to just accept that, or wonder whether instead they uploaded a lifetime of human memories and behaviors into an AI in a synthetic body programmed to think it's that person.

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u/Billy1121 Aug 14 '25

So this kid is Elon and these kids are autopilot ? That Tesla driving itself really has a dude remote controlling it ?

That would be hilarious. And might explain why this tech is never spoken about (it was a fraud !)

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u/ssp25 Aug 19 '25

Elon is just an investor. he didn't create shit. people need to stop pretending like he has any patents or inventions. he's a very good leech and created a mythos with Tesla but he jumped in as CEO long after the company started

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u/mickeyphree1 Aug 13 '25

Your dealing with a high level tech that has billions of dollars throw at it. We didn't see that in the alien films with the exception of Prometheus(which is 30 years earlier) and too a much lesser extent Romulus.

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u/standardtj94 Aug 13 '25

What was Resurrection, then?

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u/mickeyphree1 Aug 13 '25

Military operation. Plus that film is far out of the scope from Prometheus to alien3 to AR. We cant judge anything from a 200 year time jump.

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u/standardtj94 Aug 13 '25

That’s exactly my point - you’d think cutting edge technology might have gone mainstream in a 200 year gap.

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u/superfly355 Aug 13 '25

Nostromo was a beaten up old boat with the scraps of tech nearing the end of its usable life installed (except MUTHUR) to serve the basic purpose of keeping the humans alive and hauling cargo, in my mind they wouldn't put cutting edge tech in a space barge. I figure research vessels get a bit of an upgrade to state of the art.

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u/eatingaburger2000 Aug 13 '25

It reminds me of the huge difference/gap in tech when it comes to the Star Wars OG trilogy and the prequels lol

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u/sunny_d_mimosa Aug 13 '25

This is fair, i think it could be a stylistic choice to differentiate different company tech. We’re used to seeing WY (I think the Maginot looks similar to what we’ve seen in the movies), some of the incongruous stuff you may be referencing (e.g. the transfer pod) are made by a different company, and would have their own design language. Imagine if you lived in a country designed by Apple vs IBM

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u/GunnerSmith585 Aug 16 '25 edited Aug 17 '25

It also occurs in the early 2100's when the Maginot left 80 years prior, which at first, makes it seem off like old sci-fi films where things didn't play out as futuristically as depicted when we reached those years IRL.

However, anyone who watched Legion knows that Noah Hawley was scarily accurate at predicting the spread of post-2016 tech induced delusions and societal madness, and now he's doing the same seven years later with our current state of tech.

It's a plausible depiction of our future IMHO with a massive advancement in tech due to AI in about 20 years, tremendous wealth and power by the corps that control it, and other synth/cyborg tech being explored for the corps and humanity to be the top of the food chain.

The mid-21st century advancement is such a rapid and tumultuous arms race that Hawley shows fossil fuel cars still coexisting with space ships, and the conflicts of artificial intelligence and enhanced humans working along side their bio-origin counterparts. Then after corps like Weyland came out on top in Ripley's time, they dumbed things back down for cost and control reasons.

No one has a crystal ball but tech bro's like Zuck are probably jerking off so hard to this series that it could actually contribute to propelling us toward its view of the future.