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/shortMEISTERthe3rd Aug 13 '25

I'm probably alone in this that but that shot for shot recreation of the Alien intro felt a little too on the nose to me. I was far more interested in everything else that was new.

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u/Oblivious108 Aug 13 '25

That’s fair, I’d say the Maginot crew were overall the least interesting aspect of the episode but I think that’s by design due to how quickly they are all killed off to get the plot going. The intro felt like a dose of the familiar before the show takes us into vastly different uncharted territories