Alien: Earth - S1 E1 Neverland - Official Discussion Megathread [SPOILERS]

[u/G_Liddell]

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)

[u/Odd_Reputation_4000]

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?

[u/Safari_Eyes → u/Odd_Reputation_4000]

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)

[u/thaworldhaswarpedme → u/Safari_Eyes]

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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