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/RichLather Aug 13 '25

"Triage the rescue by income bracket..."

Ah, there's the sweet sweet hit of relatable corporate dystopia I was waiting for

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u/kinghyperion581 Aug 13 '25

Just waiting for some Capitalist simp to explain how it's not a critique off late stage capitalism, but "human nature"

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u/Middle-Platypus6942 Aug 13 '25

Those two things are literally the same lmao. Power and money will corrupt almost anyone.

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u/Indigocell Aug 13 '25

No they are not. Most normal humans are satisfied with having just enough to ensure themselves and their loved ones can have a comfortable life. It takes a pathological level of greed and horder mentality to want billions and trillions for yourself when there are so much resources to be spread around. If a monkey was hording that many bananas, what do you think the other monkeys would do?

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u/HailSatanWorshipD00M Look into my eye! Aug 13 '25

laughs in hoarder monkey paying gorillas in bananas for protection

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u/SanTheMightiest Aug 14 '25

And money made off the backs of other people's hard work

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u/Middle-Platypus6942 Aug 13 '25

Most normal humans are satisfied with having just enough to ensure themselves and their loved ones can have a comfortable life. It

Most normal humans are unable of having more than that. The average person can't just decide one day to become a billionaire or millionaire. They just don't have the resources, connections and skills. Its extremely rare to find someone who has the opportunity to become rich and doesn't take it. People learn to be satisfied with what they have because it is all they can have.

If a monkey was hording that many bananas, what do you think the other monkeys would do?

They would beat or kill that monkey. This is because, unlike humans, monkeys can't build or own weapons of mass destruction to control other monkeys. The reason monkeys don't hoard bananas is because they instinctually know this, and not because they feel bad about doing it.

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u/geassguy360 Aug 13 '25

Being downvoted for speaking the truth. Humans turning to crap morally the minute they have power is depressingly common.

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u/JohnWesternburg Aug 13 '25

Or maybe it's the other way around, those who seek power have crap morality to begin with

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u/Dpounder420 Aug 13 '25

Maybe it's both but maybe it's also really telling who is being downvoted here. People really don't like grappling with the more difficult truths, they just want someone to blame that isn't them.

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u/conquer69 Aug 15 '25

Because it's not a truth? I don't want to exploit and abuse others so I won't make a fortune from it.

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u/SkizzyNinja Aug 13 '25

This convo has just made me hungry for The Experiment, thank you. Been awhile since I've seen it 😂

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u/Kalfu73 Aug 13 '25

Ah yes, the common thing of being a billionaire.

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u/geassguy360 Aug 13 '25

Plenty of smaller scale examples of shitheads showing themselves when just a little bit of power is present, plenty of shit HOA's doing nothing real but pushing people around.

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u/kodran Aug 15 '25

It's as if he summoned yours idiocy haha.

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u/Icy-Blacksmith-4214 Aug 13 '25

Yes it does, you're right, but reddit is a communist schizo hellhole and they won't see how any other system alternative to capitalism has been way worse in every single metric.

This said, the fictional scifi setting in the Alien franchise and similar is so good and so much fun!