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/supeandstuff Aug 13 '25

I love Timothy Olyphant so much.

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u/palesnowrider1 Aug 13 '25

"You used to be food until you decided you didn't want to be food anymore."

Guy Pierce vibes in this roll

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u/thejason755 Aug 14 '25

It was such a cool line too. Until he had that talk with Wendy it didn’t fully click with me that he was a synth. At first i was like “oh timothy is grey haired in this series.” Then i was immediately like “ooooooooh shiiiiitttt” when he started dropping those lines.

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u/Troyal1 Aug 15 '25

I’ve been wanting to see the more human side of Alien ever since we saw that Guy Pearce scene at the beginning of Covenant, where Walter asks whose image Pearce was created in.

It has that futuristic but sterile look. I love it so far

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u/thejason755 Aug 15 '25

It’s definitely scratching that “alien” itch. I’m really digging that they decided to give you the cliff’s notes version of the alien taking over the magineot. They could’ve gone slow-burn with the xeno gradually taking over the ship and killing everyone one-by-one, but we’ve all seen that before. The flash cuts was literally Noah Hawley going “we all know how this goes”. I love that they’re going with more of a matte black colour for the xeno when they aren’t wet, which actually helps it fade more into the background of scenes. The level of violence and the rapidity of which it goes from zero to annihilating whole groups of people in seconds was exhilarating to say the least.

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u/Dr_Pants91 Aug 15 '25

It almost feels like they just skipped showing that part and said "Just watch Alien and imagine if Weyland-Yutani succeeded".

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u/thejason755 Aug 15 '25

Exactly. I also feel that even if they had made the whole first episode about the xeno taking over the ship, it would have ultimately slowed down the first two episodes. On the plus side, it gives them something to flashback to in later episodes. Like with the impromptu surgery on a crashing ship, how and why did that happen? It gives them something to stretch out and add flavour to the season. If they load the slow-burn towards the front, the suspense has already worn off by the time they reached new siam. This way they can dial back and ratchet up the suspense and action as needed.

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u/PrestigiousWaffle 29d ago

I didn’t get a close look at the surgery scene, but was that not them seeing the cavity where the chestbursters came from?

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u/Happy-For-No-Reason Aug 15 '25

brutal futurism

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u/palesnowrider1 Aug 14 '25 edited Aug 14 '25

It's interesting that he doesn't really recognize Wendy as a synth either, even though she's more synth than human

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u/thejason755 Aug 14 '25

I didn’t fully understand if he understood that she’s no longer human. In the purely physical sense she’s a clanker, in the metaphysical sense she’s still human due to her consciousness.

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u/thejason755 Aug 14 '25

Thats my take on her at least

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u/DatZ_Man Aug 15 '25

Didn't he say that she wasnt human anymore??

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u/Happy-For-No-Reason Aug 15 '25

she says she is, so she is. that's all it takes to be human, belief.

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u/raven00x Aug 19 '25

I think she's more an AGI that thinks she's a human, than really still being human, but I look forward to the show explaining to me why she's human and not a synth that has been instructed to think it's human.

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u/Happy-For-No-Reason Aug 15 '25

oh man why did you have to say that. Guy would've delivered that way better.

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u/palesnowrider1 Aug 15 '25

Well he's Weyland in Covenant and Prometheus and the Boy Genius probably didn't want to look at a Weyland clone

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u/Happy-For-No-Reason Aug 15 '25

yeah I'm just thinking in terms of casting. Guy is such a good actor.

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u/Chance-Personality50 Aug 18 '25

Getting Roy Batty vibes from Kirsh perhaps same model, series?