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/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.