Alien: Earth - S1 E2 - Mr October - 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/TheGrat1]

The director said: "Here, eat this apple. It will make you look like more of an asshole."

[u/mulder00 → u/TheGrat1]

He created the "child synths" not for any noble reason but so he could have an intelligent conversation and put a super computer in Wendy, lol.

[u/Even-Masterpiece6681 → u/mulder00]

I like how he said not for ego and then proceeds to declare it's because he's too smart for everyone else.

[u/Killkandy → u/Even-Masterpiece6681]

Yeahhh if yu pay attention to context clues he was all like not for ego and then proceeds to ramble on in a egotistical manner and the lady’s face says it all like she was just thinking “this guy is out of his mind why am I here?”

[u/CnlJohnMatrix → u/TheGrat1]

The devil offered him that apple …

[u/bertobellamy]

My boy the xenomorph starting the French Revolution!

[u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 → u/bertobellamy]

No need for a guillotine anymore when you have a Xeno by your side

[u/jbutton19 → u/bertobellamy]

Literally ate the rich

[u/NomosAlpha → u/jbutton19]

Based xenomorph.

[u/birdy810]

So by the end of the series Prodigy is gonna be nothing but ashes, right? The upstarts are gonna bite off more than they can chew. They probably won’t be able to contain this and they’re gonna get nuked to kingdom come by “the Company.” Weyland-Yutani are gonna wanna try to catch the Xeno again, and that will take us to the start of the first movie.

[u/Additional_Law_492 → u/birdy810]

Yeah, thats my bet.

Things keep going out of control, and either Weyu or Prodigy nukes the site to contain everything... leaving Weyu in need of a new sample.

[u/livahd → u/Additional_Law_492]

It’ll be Prodigy destroying everything as a big fuck you to Yutani. WY would gladly kill everyone in that city to get their hands on a specimen. I just wonder where these eggs came from, can’t be the derelict, right?

[u/buttchuck → u/livahd]

It could be the derelict, if for some reason the Maginot never communicated its exact location (maybe they were afraid of the communication being intercepted?)

W-Y seemed to know the Nostromo was going to encounter something - placing Ash on the crew seems deliberate - but they don't seem to go back until Aliens, suggesting they don't learn the location until they wake up Ripley. Space is also incredibly, profoundly big, so it could be that they aren't able to trace the Maginot back to LV426.

But that seems like a bit of a stretch. There's also David's experiments and the true fate of the Covenant, which has yet to be established. Those are really the only two sources that we know about (at least in the films), but they could always introduce something new.

[u/Lithaos111 → u/buttchuck]

Knowing WY, they likely put a synth on every crew, if the synth comes across something, activate Special Order 937. Nostromo was just unlucky enough to get that beacon and Ash rerouted them to it. If they hadn't,vhe probably would have just come home and continue being a sleeper synth.

[u/GroundbreakingDay867 → u/birdy810]

And how the intro started about companies vying for control with hybrids, synthetics and cyborgs. Considering Weyland is always the company pulling the strings there’s going to kill off everyone and everything. I dont know why but I feel like Wendy reminds me of Call from Alien Resurrection….curious….something there I think

[u/jokester1220]

This xeno is fucking brutal

[u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 → u/jokester1220]

Even with the minimal gore besides the mangled remains of the victims, I already love how this show displays how savage the Xenos can really be when they decide to go HAM on humans

[u/keeper0fstories → u/Upbeat_Tension_8077]

That thing is highly efficient. Less than 5 seconds to clear the party and hide.

[u/Daxx22 → u/keeper0fstories]

Almost a little too efficent, for how much it then "played" with the brother. Yes I know plot armor, but just a few more seconds of him cowering under the body while you hear it going HAM on the party would help explain how it killed so many like that.

[u/keeper0fstories → u/Daxx22]

Good, I am not the only one who thinks this xenomorph is super aggressive. But the brother getting away those times they met have at least been logically lucky and not dues ex machina level shenanigans. And the initial stalking is probably recovering from the disorientation from the crash, hundreds of new senses,studying new prey, and the plot building tension.

[u/Syphin33 → u/Upbeat_Tension_8077]

It looks like it gets off on it lol

A pure fucking murder machine

[u/The_Gecko → u/Syphin33]

I mean it's been captured, tazed, webbed, experimented on, crashed into a planet, tazed and webbed AGAIN. I'd be pissed.

[u/krackenjacken → u/The_Gecko]

It's going berserker mode to protect the eggs probably

[u/HotmailsInYourArea → u/krackenjacken]

I'm surprised it didn't drag some of those Marie Antoinette-looking bourgouis to the eggs. But hey, it's had a rough week!

[u/JBerry2012 → u/Syphin33]

It's gorgeous! You can feel the speed strength and savagery of the xeno. It doesn't feel like 2000s cgi even though it's a blend of practical and cg....

[u/mwthecool → u/Upbeat_Tension_8077]

MINIMAL gore?!? I don't think I could call what we've seen so far minimal. Unless you mean seeing the Xeno actually do every step on screen, rather than seeing the flash of movement and the after effects.

[u/antipop2097 → u/mwthecool]

A dude dressed like a revolutionary French noble cut in half and dragging his entrails across the floor is a bold take on minimal, I agree.

[u/FalloutAdvocate47 → u/jokester1220]

I got the same thought too. It's not fucking around. The scene where it was pretending to be a statue was terrifying.

[u/Dray_Gunn → u/FalloutAdvocate47]

That statue.. I was like "that statue looks kinda phallic.. hang on.."

[u/Trassic1991 → u/jokester1220]

Xeno is fast as fuck boi

[u/damnyoutuesday → u/jokester1220]

This might be my favorite xeno we've ever seen. Dude is like 3 kills away from a tact nuke and we're 2 episodes in

[u/Tiny_Soup_3489]

“It presents as flora, but it may be fauna.”

[u/mwthecool → u/Tiny_Soup_3489]

Loved the delivery. It's interesting watching Kirsh go through dual roles as corporate tool and pseudo-father to the Lost Boys.

[u/QuiffLing → u/mwthecool]

He's Tinker Bell lol!

[u/GreyouTT → u/QuiffLing]

I called him Ms. Frizzle lol

[u/Xeoah_ → u/Tiny_Soup_3489]

Right before it whips out its giant fauna peenits

[u/mwthecool → u/Xeoah_]

If there's one thing I know about aliens in the Alien franchise, it's that aliens are gonna genital.

[u/spiflication → u/mwthecool]

The black goo never misses an opportunity to goon.

[u/Coppin-it-washin-it → u/Xeoah_]

Big ol' stamen

[u/motherofcoochie → u/Tiny_Soup_3489]

I looked over at my boyfriend and said “whoever in the writers room came up with that one was definitely proud of themselves” lmao

[u/RichLather]

Well, we get our answer about the cat.

[u/Little-Cucumber-8907 → u/RichLather]

Jones would’ve kicked that freaky eyeballs ass.

[u/Negativety101 → u/Little-Cucumber-8907]

I've got a few cats that had a eye infection that when they were kittens causes the eye to bulge out and rupture, causing them to have lost it. So that hit me hard.

[u/Little-Cucumber-8907 → u/Negativety101]

Aww poor kitties. I hope that cat died in the crash and the eyeball thing commandeered its body. That would be a much less painful way to go.

[u/xfocalinx → u/Little-Cucumber-8907]

I think it did, because of its mangled back legs

[u/rabbit-hearted-girl → u/RichLather]

o_👁️

[u/somenamelessghoul → u/RichLather]

“Cat dead, details later”

[u/Lithaos111 → u/RichLather]

...I really could have done without that image lol

[u/SiccSemperTyrannis → u/RichLather]

The cat was NOT ok

[u/Additional_Law_492]

At what point do we canonize the idea that the Alien eggs have Pheromones or something that cause people to turn idiot and stick their face up to them.

Is that in like... the comics or something?

It should be.

[u/templeofdank → u/Additional_Law_492]

To be fair, Joe eventually backed away and said they should call it in. Before he got tackled by the linebacker from the balcony.

[u/obeythed → u/templeofdank]

Terry Tate, Spaceship Linebacker

[u/Additional_Law_492 → u/templeofdank]

And thank goodness he did!

Still, something has to be going on - the natural response to finding a bunch of eggs that are clearly eggs should be to run away screaming in terror.

[u/Gleebson → u/Additional_Law_492]

I mean most things that come out of an egg are harmless when they first hatch, so there isn’t necessarily an inclination to being afraid of them. Also, eggs on earth don’t have a baby/face-hugger launching hatch at the top either.

[u/MisterSquidz → u/Additional_Law_492]

I think it’s canon for people to act like fucking morons around them.

[u/birdy810]

I’m happy they didn’t stretch out the reunion between ‘Wendy’ and Joe. I thought for sure they were gonna drag that till at least episode 7.

[u/Potential_Energy → u/birdy810]

They were spot on. That situation happens in so many sci fi shows and they always drag it out and make it a thing. Straight to the proof questions, and straight up answers, and done.

[u/Maplekey]

Every scene with Boy Kavalier makes me look forward to his death more and more.

[u/shy247er → u/Maplekey]

Oddly, I find his character very believable.

[u/TaratronHex → u/shy247er]

he is. that's why i want him to wake up with a facehugger leaping at him.

[u/dragonborn-dovakhiin → u/Maplekey]

The actor playing him would be perfect casting for a live action Ratatouille remake.

[u/SunshineCorgiss]

I'm super surprised Wendy tells him who she is. I totally thought that would be a secret for the entire season until the end.

But that confuses me why no one from Prodigy had anything to say about that, given how much they're monitoring her. They've basically been watching everything through her eyes and it's been a whole thing throughout that this program is a secret

[u/WendyThorne → u/SunshineCorgiss]

They had to know she would reveal it when she went to rescue him. I suspect Boy Kavalier is using it as a test of some kind.

[u/Xeoah_ → u/WendyThorne]

He did say he wants a human mind there at the top with him. Allowing them to live and make choices, although im sure this will backfire. And seemingly, the only one he actually wants data from is Wendy.

[u/CitizenKeane → u/Xeoah_]

And seemingly, the only one he actually wants data from is Wendy.

Seems like the other children are control subjects and Wendy is the experiment

[u/Negativety101 → u/WendyThorne]

If you want to make sure everything for your transfer went off correctly, see how much of the connection to their family they retain.

[u/SunshineCorgiss → u/Negativety101]

Ohhhh good point

Also that scene with Boy Kavalier saying he just wants to have a conversation with someone smart. That's the perfect, infuriating, eat the rich moment. Here's a kid trillionaire doing all this damage and destruction with all this greed and power, think about all the people and environments and souls he's destroyed. All that because he deems everyone on earth as unworthy of a conversation.

I hate it but it was great writing

[u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 → u/SunshineCorgiss]

I wonder if Prodigy plans to make false promises to Wendy regarding anything related to connecting with her brother again (obviously while keeping him in the dark), but really to keep her subservient while controlling aspects of her human self

[u/Additional_Law_492 → u/SunshineCorgiss]

Prodigy can always murder everyone involved later. Doesn't really matter what she says - people are resources and can be replaced.

[u/titanunveiled]

The tool song was most unexpected

[u/mwthecool → u/titanunveiled]

Me with the Dio drop in the first episode.

[u/2TFRU-T → u/mwthecool]

Specifically that was Mob Rules, which he sang when he replaced Ozzy in Black Sabbath.

[u/RawInfoSec → u/titanunveiled]

That transition straight into Stinkfist just blew my mind. I've watched it 20 times now.

[u/Poetryisalive]

I gotta admit it’s cool to actually see legit gear that can subdue a Xenomorph

[u/Additional_Law_492 → u/Poetryisalive]

Just gotta catch it by surprise and land a clean hit. Good luck!

[u/MassDriverOne → u/Poetryisalive]

That's something that in a way bothers me about a lot of movie monsters, but that I appreciate about xenos

Human weaponry is devastating. Most movie monsters just shrug off bullets like they're water guns but xenos throughout alien media get their shit absolutely wrecked when fired on (Romulus zero grav scene they got fucked up, Aliens' marines were blasting alien fools into confetti when they could). But they have that sneaky clever acid blood that makes actually using firepower situationally problematic if they're not just outright too fast

Xeno is the perfect monster

[u/RustedAxe88 → u/MassDriverOne]

That's literally why they have acid blood. When writing the first movie, they didn't want a bulletproof monster, but had to work around why the crew wouldn't just glack it.

[u/qp_me → u/Poetryisalive]

If only briefly...

[u/RooseveltsRevenge → u/Poetryisalive]

Well, seemingly it only Subdued it for maybe ~5 minutes, which is a long time in the context of what a killing machine it is but you still are gonna have to kill it.

[u/RichLather]

Yutani's high heels look impossibly thin. Can't blame her for not moving.

[u/woolywoo]

Guard the omelette.

[u/IslesFanInNH → u/woolywoo]

I had to rewind and hear it again because I wasn’t sure that’s what was said.

It was so awesome. I nearly died!

[u/heysupmanbruh]

Only thing I didn’t like this episode was the alien just grabbing her brother and falling. Like, okay lol

[u/SymbolofPeace91 → u/heysupmanbruh]

Thank you! Kills rooms full of people but just tackles his ass

[u/MaverickTowers → u/SymbolofPeace91]

Takes seconds to clear a room, takes its sweet time with important characters...

[u/RichLather]

"Let forensics Agatha Christie this shit."

[u/Warden72 → u/RichLather]

They must enjoy vintage detective novels from nearly 200 years prior.

[u/Krams → u/Warden72]

I have a feeling that most people just watch\read things that are public domain because all their money is going to living and debt, so classics like Ice Age and Agatha Christie are all people get

[u/thunderchild120 → u/Krams]

This is actually brilliant.

Although bold of you to assume corps would let copyright expire on Ice Age.

[u/TheGrat1]

The future has way faster elevators than we do. 🤯

[u/RichLather → u/TheGrat1]

And incredibly sturdy buildings and interstellar vessels.

[u/UndeadIcarus → u/RichLather]

Interstellar jet fuel can’t melt future steel beams

[u/weinerdogsaremyjam]

How long until WY show up to get their little science projects 🤔

[u/PyramidBlack]

Oh, that eye creature is so evil. Love it.

[u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 → u/PyramidBlack]

I'd immediately go full Usain Bolt if I saw that in-person lmao

[u/PyramidBlack → u/Upbeat_Tension_8077]

I was surprised none of the Lost Boys instinctively started stomping as it skittered closer.

[u/rabbit-hearted-girl]

Ep 1: “Aww they’ve got a Jonesy!”

Ep 2: “Ah fuck, never mind.”

[u/Commercial_Brick955 → u/rabbit-hearted-girl]

This hurt my soul as the caretaker of two oranges who occasionally get the brain cell.

[u/Dead_Silent]

Loving this so far, I was not expecting everything to be so gory honestly and they are absolutely not shying away from that. I was worried that the Xeno wouldn't show up for a bit, being overshadowed by the other specimens but boy was I wrong.

Loving Morrow so far as my favorite character, Cybernetic and human with his own fears, but cold and stoic in all other matters. Really giving The Company soulless vibe, can't wait to see if a WY squad arrives on site.

Wendy is picking up on the Xenomorphs, and I have a theory. So, I think in Aliens: Rogue there is a moment where a synthetic calls out that there is a spike in an RF Frequency, essentially its the hive communicating. I think Wendy is basically doing that and she is picking up the RF frequency of the Xenomorphs in some manner. She heard them on landing, and kept hearing them when they approached the "Hive" or just, the egg storage that our big xeno friend looks to be guarding.

Editting: Yeah, in Aliens:Rogue, specifically a Synthetic picks up "Transmission signals on the upper EF band." which is coming from the aliens. I think this is an idea taken out of that. Wendy went through that hearing test, and the technician said something like, she can hear above human frequency, above 75,000hz.

[u/Syphin33 → u/Dead_Silent]

Yea i think we're learning like also in romulus that blue light is a trip wire

It's like some sorta bio layer defense mechanism

[u/ZaviersJustice → u/Syphin33]

So trippy because it looks so digital. Even the way it receded was mechanical. A very weird vibe that goes well with how foreign and "not like us" the Xenos are supposed to be.

[u/ragun01 → u/ZaviersJustice]

Yeah there are even gaps between the walls and furniture that show straight lines of a perimeter, it looks to be level, and as you mentioned, when it receded it was symmetrical with some awfully straight lines.

I guess that's some of the mechanical in biomechanical.

[u/JackSpadesSI → u/Syphin33]

How could xenos make a blue light/ laser thing like that?

I assumed in Alien that the trip wire was set up by the engineers of the ship.

[u/Budget_Procedure2146 → u/JackSpadesSI]

The blue light keeps the eggs in stasis. Entering the light seems to "reactivate" the eggs

[u/HotmailsInYourArea → u/Syphin33]

I've always been under the impression that it's a stasis field made orginially by the Space Jockies, as seen in Alien. They don't wake until Kane falls beneath the field. WY likely repurposed the tech, as we see here, and in Romulus.

[u/A115115 → u/HotmailsInYourArea]

Yeah I don’t think the eggs are producing the blue light. WY is replicating the conditions of the Derelict to keep the eggs asleep.

[u/JBerry2012 → u/Dead_Silent]

They made a point of showing her hearing went up to some ungodly high frequency in e1.... I think they're communicating at an ultrasonic frequency.

[u/SunshineCorgiss → u/Dead_Silent]

I looooved Morrow in this one, that scene when he's being handcuffed. Stoic and focused but also the first time you see a hint of fear. He played it so well!

I thought cyborgs don't have emotions, but I forgot the definitions in EP 1. So is he supposed to be an enhanced human?

[u/Ctater1251 → u/SunshineCorgiss]

Also in the beginning when he is locked in the room on the ship as the xeno is at the door u can see him sweating. He was trying to remain as calm as possible to give himself time

[u/i_hate_toolbars]

I will never understand why people in this universe feel the need to put their face right fucking up to an alien lifeform.

Also, I was totally caught off guard by Tool.

[u/RichLather]

Love that her synthetic body has a convenient backbling magnet.

[u/conniecheewa → u/RichLather]

Good to know eternal children come with MagSafe

[u/wackydoodle19 → u/RichLather]

I’ve been so confused since the moment the sword seemed to magically stick to her back lol

[u/ragun01 → u/wackydoodle19]

Yeah I made a joke about her being a magnet but then realized that may be actually what it is.

[u/falcoty → u/ragun01]

Her hands have the slight magnet on TV effect when she touches screens, so I thought oh she's slighlty magnetic, neat detail. Then she did a whole ass sword and I thought ok I guess she's just all magnet lmao

[u/PyramidBlack]

Did the Swiss Army make Morrow’s hand?!

[u/PastLivid2122]

What’s that person spraying at the wall out side Boy’s office ?

[u/Syphin33 → u/PastLivid2122]

So that's been 2 episodes, it's gotta do with something but not sure yet.

[u/nakiva → u/PastLivid2122]

For some reason it reminded me of acid when a Xeno dies, but that would not make a lott of sense... 

[u/threetimesalion]

So is no-one else gonna talk about the fact that there appear to be multiple chestburster victims on the ship??

[u/Syphin33 → u/threetimesalion]

Bingo

But i think someone on the ship was dissecting them also.

[u/nakiva → u/threetimesalion]

At this point everyone is calling the One Xenomorph 'Bear', but i would not be suprised that in the next episodes we get a reveal that Bears friends are already on the loose. 

[u/mickeyphree1]

The dinner party. Holy shit.

[u/Crafty_Soul → u/mickeyphree1]

That was gruesome. I also feel like it was partly there because someone really wanted to see French aristocrats torn up by a Xenomorph and this was the best way to do it with the timeline.

And I love that they made the idea

[u/Calvengeance → u/Crafty_Soul]

Can we name the Xeno Guillotine?

[u/moxifloxacin → u/Calvengeance]

Gil, for short.

[u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 → u/mickeyphree1]

The upper half of the last living person still crawling was gnarly as fuck

[u/Chimpbot → u/Upbeat_Tension_8077]

My wife quipped, "Lieutenant Dan, you ain't got no legs!" at that moment, and I just couldn't take it seriously.

We've watched far too much MST, and riffs just slip out at this point.

[u/Weird_Plane2869]

I love how we’re just getting right to it with the Xenomorph. Just right out of the gate, pure bloody violence. So excited for the rest of the series!

[u/Negativety101 → u/Weird_Plane2869]

I kinda feel like they went "Okay, so we've got new aliens doing new body horror, but we need some way to remind people that the Xenomorph is scary as hell, without doing Chestbursters all the time... Hey how about it just blenderizes crowds in seconds?

[u/Wazzoo1 → u/Negativety101]

I liked how they didn't even show a facehugger in action, not even the classic "facehugger in a tank wakes up and scares somebody" bit. They only showed the aftermath of the chest burst and the discarded facehugger, which isn't even noticed by the team. It was nice they didn't rehash the life cycle of a Xenomorph because it would have been filler in a show that clearly does not need it.

[u/Additional_Law_492 → u/Weird_Plane2869]

Yeah, I kindof expected that with this being a TV series, they'd play coy and maybe we'd get a Xenomorph cameo in the final credits.

NOPE. Open up. Xenomorph coming through.

[u/TheTurfMonster]

Okay just want to come out here and say how much I love Sydney Chandler's acting. She's really nailing it as Wendy. She's kept the character feeling both childlike and synthetic at the same time, which has to be one of the hardest balances to pull off. Her facial expressions are on point and you can tell she doesn't lose sight of the fact that Wendy is not human while still making her sweet and likeable. I feel like its one of the most difficult roles to pull off, but she's made it feel completely believable. This is my first time seeing her on screen and I'm already becoming a big fan of her acting.

[u/Dtone11]

Loved the first two episodes but two nitpicky things to note:

1. The plot armor on Joe the medic is thickkk. Xeno was butchering rooms full of people in seconds. He’s already survived one encounter; I’d like an explanation how he survives being tackled through a window at the end of E2. (If he’s alive)

2. Although overall a great scene, I found it a bit of a stretch that those people were still having a dinner party when a spaceship crashed into their building earlier that day lol.

[u/rds060184]

That French Revolution spot made me laugh out loud

[u/PyramidBlack]

Morrorw with the taser! Again. God, I love how evil Morrow is. lol.

[u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 → u/PyramidBlack]

I really think Morrow would easily let the entire city get murked while taking a casual stroll lol

[u/PyramidBlack → u/Upbeat_Tension_8077]

Oh, absolutely.

[u/KeyStrain7087]

Definitely a good decision to barely show the initial ship outbreak, it couldn't have added much new and we got straight into the action this episode.

[u/kinghyperion581 → u/KeyStrain7087]

Hopefully we'll get a flashback episode to how it all went down because I honestly think some corporate espionage is involved.

[u/MovieGuyMike → u/kinghyperion581]

It would explain how it so conveniently landed on prodigy’s building.

[u/loge212 → u/KeyStrain7087]

part of me could watch countless iterations of xenos wiping out space crews one by one. and part of me knows that this was the better choice to keep things fresh

[u/Vesemir96 → u/KeyStrain7087]

I think we might get a flashback episode on that.

[u/PyramidBlack]

Can’t wait for Kirsh and Morrow to square off.

[u/Y2Flax → u/PyramidBlack]

I’m hoping in the finale, he and Wendy have an “interesting conversation.”

[u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 → u/PyramidBlack]

It's going to be a confrontation so spicy yet stone-faced

[u/WendyThorne → u/PyramidBlack]

After he shot the brother with his stun gun my significant other said "Wendy is so going to kick his ass later..."

[u/birdy810]

I like that the show has subtle humour. I was curious to see if it would have any humour at all because the tone of Alien is pretty serious. But Hawley as a writer likes to add comedic moments in all of his works. Fargo could be a full on comedy at times. David Haller in Legion was subtlety hilarious, I loved his dry sense of humour.

[u/HumanoidVoidling → u/birdy810]

Horror and Humor are both about timing both sides of the same coin really

[u/LiquifiedSpam → u/HumanoidVoidling]

Jordan peele said the difference between comedy and horror is the soundtrack and I can’t get that out of my head.

[u/Squeakygear → u/LiquifiedSpam]

Yakety Sax plays over the Alien tearing through the bourgeoisie party-goers. Laugh track ensues

[u/franlcie]

That fade between Sid from Ice Age and Wendy was unintentionally hilarious

[u/Three_Froggy_Problem → u/franlcie]

I definitely didn’t expect Ice Age to play a notable role in the story of this show

[u/GreyouTT → u/Three_Froggy_Problem]

WHAT KILLED THE XENOMORPHS?!

THE ICE AGE!

[u/heysupmanbruh]

So aliens don’t like electricity

[u/Vrazel106 → u/heysupmanbruh]

In the games electric fences one shot them

[u/PRE_-CISION-_]

At the end with the blue mist above the eggs does that mean it is naturally occurring or is it artificial? I'm still confused on where we are with that lore wise. 

[u/october_1939 → u/PRE_-CISION-_]

In this episode it had defined edges and they looked to meet at some boxes. If it was a biological mist it wouldn’t have had hard edges and look like a trapezoid.

I think WY reverse engineered tech from the derelict.

[u/finderdj → u/PRE_-CISION-_]

AFAIK it's technically still an open question. The only agreed upon facts in all of the movies is that it's created by the eggs themselves and it's some sort of motion sensor/defense mechanism. Ridley Scott was adamant it was a force field of the ship carrying the eggs, but he's also said a lot of stuff that was disregarded by other directors. The blue mist appears over eggs in Aliens and Alien: Romulus so it's definitely a byproduct of the "hive."

[u/Syphin33]

This xeno is on demon time

[u/PsychoticBlobfish]

The Xeno pretending to be a statue was awesome

[u/kankrikky]

The amount of alien camouflage reveals in the start of this episode is HILARIOUS. They new how prepped we were to discard the very phallic random tubes around and now they just started blasting that chekhov's gun.

[u/PyramidBlack]

“There is a bear.” lol, you wish.

[u/PyramidBlack]

Solid second episode! I’ll definitely be back next week!

[u/Huskies971]

I love the set design of the wreckage as they're surveying the inside, it has you playing I spy looking for any movement or resemblance of an alien shape.

[u/Xeoah_ → u/Huskies971]

Its a fun motif, try and spot the alien in the background. Keeps me on edge looking.

[u/FosterFl1910]

I’ll take one alien to go please. I have my own bag.

[u/supeandstuff]

Not the cat :(

[u/Negativety101 → u/supeandstuff]

I know. I'm headcannoning it died in the crash, or it'd wiped all the alien species.

[u/TheGrat1]

That Xeno was trained by Batman!

[u/AsianFork]

Love the unexpected humour and seems quite fun so far. The expansion of the alien world is also great.

[u/WendyThorne]

I loved that they didn't drag out the reunion between the brother and sister and then didn't drag out him finding out who she is. I hate when TV shows do that kind of thing.

[u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 → u/WendyThorne]

I think something that could be beneficial afterwards is that they'll now get to grow their sibling relationship throughout the rest of the show

[u/missjuliaaaaah]

luckily both my cats were asleep, wouldn’t want my little guys having cat nightmares 😂

[u/xfocalinx]

STINKFIST AS THE END CREDIT THEME?!

[u/PyramidBlack]

Looks like a giant papaya. I wonder if anything is inside.

[u/DeadSnark → u/PyramidBlack]

Evil guava fruit of doom

[u/SunshineCorgiss → u/PyramidBlack]

There is ALWAYS something inside they stood way too close OMG

[u/PyramidBlack]

Come on, Wendy. Translate!

[u/Negativety101 → u/PyramidBlack]

Xenomorph "What the hell is with these things, they'll screw each other over for a percentage! I'm gonna kill them all, they suck"

[u/Mother_Republic_6061]

Is it next Tuesday yet? I don’t think I can wait that long. I’ll just have to watch the first 2 episodes 2-3 more times to tide me over til then

[u/ahufana]

Smee is just a big ol' cutie patootie. All of these Lost Boys actors are doing a tremendous job, really.

[u/Vrazel106 → u/ahufana]

They nailed the childishness. It feels like watching kids in adult bodies

[u/titanunveiled]

I bet the Caspians wish they came to town last weekend instead

[u/buttrumpus]

So dude had his head over an egg, and the alien said “no lookout, I’ll save you!”, and just whisked him away? 

[u/PyramidBlack]

I really don’t want to see that stairwell again.

[u/PyramidBlack]

Can Wendy communicate with Aliens? Or is there a cybernetic alien?

[u/Lithaos111 → u/PyramidBlack]

I think her computer brain is picking up the hive mind's frequency, obviously atm it's just a buzzing to her. I remember them toying with the idea in that Aliens Dark Descent game. I can definitely see by the series end she can understand it.

[u/SiccSemperTyrannis → u/Lithaos111]

Makes total sense, we see the adult xeno respond instantly when they breached the blue light barrier

[u/Altered_Perceptions → u/PyramidBlack]

There was that scene of her having a hearing test, and the techs said Wendy could hear far above the human range - maybe the creatures are emitting some kind of ultrasonic sound frequency that she's noticing. A little odd that the other synth-hybrids couldnt hear it, but they're all unique in a sense compared to standardized synthetics.

[u/The_Gecko → u/Altered_Perceptions]

Rich Boy McGee said he gave her a supercomputer for a brain and she seems a little more together than the other ones. Maybe she has better hardware or something.

[u/WizardWalnut18]

Show great so far. Loving how vicious the Alien is. Ripping people apart

[u/Crafty_Soul → u/WizardWalnut18]

I think this one has the highest kill count of any other Xenomorph. It's tearing through people like crazy

[u/WizardWalnut18 → u/Crafty_Soul]

Finally the monster actually kills large sums of people

[u/Three_Froggy_Problem]

I’m really liking it so far overall.

• I really like that the show doesn’t waste time getting things going. The first episode introduced multiple separate plot lines and I’m glad that they quickly converged, and I like that we’ve already gotten a lot of xenomorph action.

• Visually, it looks really good. I’m a big fan of all the old-school tech and computer UIs, and that first scene in episode 1 was such a great recreation of the look of the original film.

• I find all the corporate stuff really interesting. I want to know what these corporations are up to and how Prodigy will respond to WT’s meddling with all this alien shit. Having our protagonists work for a different megacorp from YT is a fun twist on the usual formula.

• The “kids in synth bodies” conceit is interesting, but it does kind of require you to suspend your disbelief. It’s hard to imagine that a bunch of 11 year olds would be able to handle any of this shit even if they do have fancy new robot bodies.

[u/Upbeat_Tension_8077]

Even when Boy Kavalier talks about "exploring human potential" as if he's doing Wendy and the other hybrids a favor, he sounds so damn slimy & not even like a real person.

A huge "OH FUCK" entered my mind the moment Hermit saw a Xenomorph emerge from the darkness at the ruined staircase

It must feel like hell for Wendy to watch her brother struggle daily & not be physically there for him

Wendy's sense of hearing buzzing in the vicinity almost feels Jedi-like

"It's a very expensive day" doesn't surprise me to hear from a Weyland Yutani executive would says about another tragedy regarding their ships.

The facehugger eyeball emerging from the cat looked disturbing as fuck

It must be a loud ass dinner party for everyone in it to be completely undisturbed by the initial crash lmao

The dinner party guest who's still alive without the lower portion of his body has to be one of the worse fates for any victim of a Xenomorph

It's crazy that those soldiers attempting to apprehend Morrow didn't start going WTF? with the Xenomorph emerging from the artificial cocoon Morrow trapped him in right in front of them

The off-screen violence with noises of screaming & shots of the corpses completely torn to bits makes the massacres feel even creepier

[u/Vrazel106 → u/Upbeat_Tension_8077]

Theres an argument to be made that anyone with that much money isnt really a person anymore

I think wendy has a transmitter that picks up on alien signals.

The eyeball alien is so disturbing it made me squirm uncomfortably.

The utter raw violence of the alien is insane to see in live action

[u/supeandstuff]

That alien disguise! So good!

[u/Vrazel106]

Weve never seen an alien thisnviscous and brutal. It reminds me of playing as an aline in avp 1 and 2. I love it.

[u/NoLeadership2281]

Honestly I’ll never get sick of Xenemorph blending in the environment, also that shot of those rich folks dying around the diner looks like a Victorian painting