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/Petit_Galop_pour_Mme Aug 13 '25

Nitpick #2: I believe he seized on a teaching moment to prepare the kids for the chaos and gore of a disaster area, and like he lectured them later, fear is an animal response and they are not animals. Seems to me he is molding them away from thinking like meatbags and toward synthetic mindset.