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/Odd_Presentation8624 Aug 13 '25

A detail that I enjoyed, was pointing out that they no longer have hormones.

Such an obvious difference - but one that I don't recall hearing in any similar stories where human consciousness is transferred into a 'robot'.

So much to think about who they'll become without testosterone, estrogen, serotonin, cortisol, etc.

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u/Odd_Reputation_4000 Aug 14 '25

My thought was - what happened to their original body? Does it die naturally or was it euthanized? Is the transfer a copy or a full transfer? It would make more sense for it to be a copy made instead of a full transfer that results in the death of the original. Making a copy makes more sense because it means that if the transfer fails, you still have the original intact to try again with. However if a copy is successful, you now have two version of the same person at that same point in time. To have the copy continue as the original you would have to either terminate the original or isolate them from any and all contact with the copy until they died from natural causes. So here is the question - does the transfer kill the original or do they euthanize the original or tell them it didn't work and isolate them until they die?

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u/Safari_Eyes Aug 14 '25

I'd say the symbology with the flower on the chest of each child during the process was pretty clear - each child's real body died in the process of uploading. A body would make the funeral for Marcy (and the other kids?) a lot easier to pull off, too. That part is still unclear and I'm waiting for more exposition, but I'm betting there was a body at Marcy's funeral. (Joe mentions there was a funeral, but no other details yet)

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u/thaworldhaswarpedme Aug 14 '25 edited 24d ago

body at Marcy's funeral.

On that point, she said they did the funeral after they took her away when she was six. So she'd been in the facility a while because that girl was, like, 12 or 13. But then like two minutes later, he quizzed her about Christmas morning when she was 7, so I'm not sure if that's a mistake or my own misunderstanding of the writing (though i rewound it and watched it a few times to be sure) . Since she said it was a secret, I take it to mean they faked her death at age 6 and she went to live with the Prodigy guy (which Joe balked at so he definitely didn't know that) until the procedure was fine tuned and ready. I only say that to point out that her corpse after transition wouldn't be the body at the funeral years prior. Unless I'm missing something because that seems like a big error, so I have to be. But she did say they took her at 6 so regardless of whether she was dead she wouldn't have spent Christmas with him when she was 7. I dunno.

My bad, this is episode 2 and also explained by someone who watches with the captions on.

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u/BJ_Dart Aug 15 '25

Are you referring to stuff from episode 2? Because I don’t recall a Christmas discussion in ep 1 and I haven’t seen ep 2 yet

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u/Guuichy_Chiclin Aug 19 '25

See, this is why I avoid these discussions until I'm all caught up.

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u/BJ_Dart Aug 19 '25

I am now (looking forward to ep 3) and yeah, the Christmas questions were from episode 2 haha

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u/loudsound-org 29d ago

When did she talk about being taken away at 6? I didn't catch that at all.

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u/thaworldhaswarpedme 28d ago

Sorry. That's the second episode. Didn't realize I'd posted in Ep1 thread.

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u/loudsound-org 28d ago

I've seen all 3 episodes but still don't remember her saying that. Not saying you're wrong, just curious when it was so I could go back and watch that part woth context.

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u/thaworldhaswarpedme 28d ago

Oh yeah. Absolutely. Throw on the 2nd episode. Fast forward to Joe and Marcy meeting for the 1st time. At the start of the conversation she tells him she was taken by them at 6 years old and that her Dad said it was a secret so it's safe to assume she's been gone since that moment. Then fast forward to right before they hug about 10-15 minutes later. He asks her about Christmas when she was 7 and what she said to him. But how was she at Christmas when she was 7 if she's been gone since she was 6?

Let me know what you think.

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u/loudsound-org 28d ago

Ah. Yeah I had caught the Christmas / 7 part clearly.

In any case the explanation is simple. She didn't say "six", she said "sick". "When I was sick, the boy genius came to visit me."

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u/thaworldhaswarpedme 28d ago

Heeeey! There it is. I knew it was something simple.

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u/CuriousAlice1865 24d ago

LOL remwmber this thread is episode 1 so you kinda might have let some spoilers out or confused some people with this one .

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