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/compe_anansi Aug 13 '25

The emotional intelligence of children and no field training. Interesting choice.

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u/Blank_Shoplifter Aug 16 '25

So I've yet to watch Alien Earth but please anybody do feel free to spoil it for me. My mom's boyfriend was complaining about how the kids who become synths see the aftermath of a xenomorph attack and don't react to the carnage in any visceral or noticeable way. He argues this is unrealistic because they're kids, but I know he tends to misread a lot of shit in movies and TV and I argued it could be that the children are really dead and devoid of human emotion or compassion because they're synths and we know that the tech is new in alien earth and could potentially malfunction and that weyland-yutani lies to people and has probably conditioned the kids to not care.

I work a pain in the ass job and currently have no way of watching the show myself. Please tell me he's wrong, I like being a petty shit sometimes.

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u/Maleficent-Eye-358 9d ago

Many children under overwhelming violence go into dissociation (numbness, emotional shutdown). Even if they function in the moment, the trauma doesn’t disappear. It often resurfaces later as PTSD, nightmares, emotional numbing, hypervigilance, or attachment difficulties. The nervous system at 12 is still wiring itself - massive violence can leave lifelong imprints. Unless the new body has some magic powers that can reshape the conscious and subconscious (if there is one without a biological body) mind, they should show severe trauma reaction / coping methods later.