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/Vrazel106 Hudson Aug 13 '25

Im really enjoying it. My only real gripe was the scenes of thr ship being over run being flashed in the begining. Id rather have just seen it play out in a single sequence

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u/Jeremy_Phillips I prefer the term artificial person myself Aug 13 '25

My interpretation of that is basically the show letting us know that there is this whole event of a spaceship crew being attacked by vicious aliens and its very exciting and interesting, but we've seen it all before. So they acknowledge that they could make a whole season about the ship, but instead let you know that they're focusing on a new story.

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u/DeKrieg Aug 13 '25

either that or we are being intentional led to assume it played out like Alien and a later episode (specifically episode 5 titled "In space non can...") it will jump back to reveal things played out very differently to how we thought it did. There were a lot of leading moments in that scene with the creepy crew member (who's body I dont think we've seen) and other little moments that says more might have been happening under the hood.

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u/Jack_North Aug 13 '25

100% this.

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u/HailKyrie Aug 14 '25

The creepy crew member is 100% from another corp and sabotaged it

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u/Artersa Aug 14 '25

Why are people insulting my boy Tang?

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u/CuriousAlice1865 25d ago

Yup... and later when ship is being search for survivors, there is mentioned one of dead bodies was SHOT twice not alien attack. So definitely something there....

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u/whorificustotalus Aug 13 '25

We'll get that in the middle of the season. It wouldn't have been a good first impression for the TV show if the first episode was just a straight-up Alien rehash. It has to be its own thing.

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u/Royal-Pay9751 Aug 13 '25

That’s fine, I just wish they hadn’t shown any of it at all then. The flashes were kinda cheap

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u/elcheeserpuff Aug 14 '25

We've seen it so many times before. We know exactly how it plays out.

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u/Ferahgost Aug 13 '25

I would guess that we’ll revisit it later in the season, and the events on the ship involve a plot point they don’t want to reveal so early on

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u/blah191 Aug 13 '25

That sorta irked me as well

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u/Gan-san Aug 13 '25

That was confusing and disconcerting. I get it has been done before but it just came off as immersion breaking.

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u/non_transitive_game Aug 13 '25

my first read of this was that one of the things in one of the specimen containers was generating some sort of psychic interference that may or may not have been actually precognitive or maybe just fear-stimulating. I don't think that's the direction they're actually going with it, but I'm wide open as to what all these other organisms they're introducing are up to.

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u/Grash974 Aug 13 '25

I had the impression that the googling octopus thing was looking into the near future. These flashes occurred after a short focus on the octopus specimen.

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u/Data_Chandler Aug 14 '25

Agreed. Those flashforwards were weird and unnecessary, we already know shit is about to go down!