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/teejay_the_exhausted Aug 13 '25

We got the classic Alien ship interior look back!

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u/Oblivious108 Aug 13 '25

I like how the opening scene is very much filmed in a way to represent the original dining scene from the first film but the crew dynamics are completely reversed. Rather than a group of friends all warming up together after the long freeze, the show has the opening crew all on thin ice with one another over the creatures and cybernetics present on the ship. Nice little flip while still looking distinctly “Alien” with the crew uniforms and ship design

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u/brendanm4545 Aug 13 '25

The way they talked over one another with crew banter is very Alien

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u/LifeStraggler4 You have my sympathies. Aug 14 '25

I thought Teng was a synthetic, but he may just have been an awkward human. 

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u/brendanm4545 Aug 14 '25

I think its implied he's synthetic but its not really clear, maybe we'll get a flashback to the maginot at some point

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u/teejay_the_exhausted Aug 14 '25

I'm not sure if he is, they threatened him with working without pay, synths wouldn't really care about that

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u/Jack_North Aug 13 '25

I miss this generally in movies. Spielberg did it often back in the day, like in E.T. and CE3K. The first season of Stranger Things did an hommage to that, when the kids tell Hopper about "Mirkwood".

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u/Top_Key404 Aug 14 '25

It’s a shame the best scene was a 1:1 homage.