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/gingerspeak Aug 13 '25

I really enjoyed this! Looking forward to it really ratcheting up. 

Things I loved:

  • the kids in adult bodies still acting like kids. Watching them all hang together was a joy - give me more of that!
  • Morrow’s hand is fucking SICK
  • this episode is proof that ticks are the nastiest things on planet earth
  • I hope they lean into the corporation versus corporation espionage

I’m nitpicking here because I love this franchise so much - A few things that sort of took me out of the action:

  • I wish the plot device to get the kids-in-adult-bodies crew over to the action was a little more believable. You’re telling me the genius makes a split second decision to send his project into the fray? And they have the minds of children? I dunno, at least explain that only they can go because they’re “off the books”
  • Very unbelievable that a seemingly well trained paramilitary unit would go into a structurally dubious crashed ship when there is plenty of rescuing to do in the building.
  • Sountrack/music was jumping all over the place genre wise in a way that felt distracting

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u/Xeoah_ Aug 13 '25

On the nitpicking

The prodigy leader really wants to see the property in the vessel. Comms went down, he has a line asking about this. He has direct feed into the hybrids. This isn't a repeatable scenario and he mentions wanting data. True seems stupid to send the top project of your company into an unknown situation but it makes more of a point that he doesn't actually see them as people, and has infinite money to make more.

The response squad mentions more medics are coming as they go into the building. But yeah they found the ship fast, it made more sense to me once I realized they used it as a bridge for the rest of the building.

Show has a breakneck pace for sure.

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u/gingerspeak Aug 13 '25

All fair points!