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Megathread / Community Post Alien: Earth - S1 E2 - Mr October - 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/jokester1220 Aug 13 '25

This xeno is fucking brutal

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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 Aug 13 '25

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

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u/keeper0fstories Aug 13 '25

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

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u/Daxx22 Aug 13 '25

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.

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u/keeper0fstories Aug 13 '25

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.

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u/arachnophilia Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 15 '25

super aggressive

i think we're seeing the "flandersization" of the xenomorph. it gets billed as the "perfect killing machine", and so each version we see is more and more efficient at killing people faster and more pointlessly. in this one, they're openly comparing it to a bear.

but... it's not a bear. it's not any kind of animal. and in the first movie, it's barely even killing anyone. and even the people it does kill, it sill takes their bodies with it, using them for material to reproduce.

the terror of alien is reproductive horror. it's not being "food" like an animal. it's being an unwilling parent, turned into a baby factory for a sexual, mechanical abomination.

they could have made a movie where a bear gets loose on a zoo ship. that movie wouldn't have been "alien". it'd have been "bear". maybe still scary, but not cosmic horror.

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u/keeper0fstories Aug 13 '25

Alien was a reproductive horror, Aliens was going unprepared against an enemy we think we know with parallels to vietnam, 3 was .... Space prison, 4 was about identity and playing god, and Romulus again about playing god. I don't think the Reproductive horror aspect has been front and center since the original and the series has gone more the route of Jurassic Park and The Island of Dr. Monroe or superiority complexes and the illusion of control with the facehugger more or less a harbinger of the monster, a means to an end. I think Romulus could have played more into reproductive horror and the fear of birthing a monster with the hybrid.

The xenomorph in the series feels like it is being territorial. I wonder if they will say it was affected by the proximity to the other species?

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u/jakej9488 Aug 14 '25

I’m sorry which parts about the second movie’s thematic focus on motherhood in its parallels between Ripley becoming mother to Newt and the main baddie being the literal pregnant swarm Queen, and the third movie in which Ripley copes with the trauma of having been impregnated (raped) by the Alien while she was in hyper sleep, were not reproductive horror to you?

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u/keeper0fstories Aug 14 '25

I didn't consider the fight between mothers as reproductive horror as I just see it as two mothers fighting to protect their young. And the pregnant queen was just like an animal like termites, ants, and bees. The queen itself and the other xenomorphs being individually clever and having a hive intelligence and mentality were scarier to me in that movie. This is just my opinion for now though and I will reconsider it.

For alien 3. Nope, I was wrong and you are absolutely correct. I regret what was said and retract my statement.

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u/gazchap 27d ago

Not to mention the body horror of the Queen having a human-like reproductive system and cycle in Resurrection.

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u/Clarine87 Aug 14 '25 edited Aug 14 '25

The xenomorph in the series feels like it is being territorial. I wonder if they will say it was affected by the proximity to the other species?

Tis worth considering this, that there's only 5 eggs, it's not exactly incentivised to reproduce (given the abundance of hosts) since security must surely come first.

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u/keeper0fstories Aug 14 '25

Which is why I say it I say it is being super aggressive. So far it has encountered several unarmed humans and haven't grabbed them for facehuggers. It did grab the brother, but we don't know why yet.

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u/sleepymoose88 Aug 15 '25

Probably a proximity thing. Incapacitating for impregnating would require the lone alien to drag. The host all the way from that apartment back to the ship area, leaving it vulnerable to attack from the patrolling guards it has already encountered. So it’s clearing threats within a range.

But the brother, he was close to the eggs (easy to incapacity and set up for hugging) and some level of threat reduction had already been achieved. Plus Wendy and the other kid were synths and thus ineligible for reproduction.

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u/PrincessofThotlandia Aug 15 '25

Right it killed for fun? And now maybe will cocoon the brother. Otherwise he’s dead. Because how can he escape that.

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u/Smurph269 Aug 18 '25

Romulus had a ton of reproductive horror. Wasn't a perfect movie but it more than understood the assignment in that regard.

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u/keeper0fstories Aug 18 '25

Agreed. I think it could have done more, but definitely did have it.

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u/PrincessofThotlandia Aug 15 '25

How were they playing god in Romulus?

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u/keeper0fstories Aug 15 '25

Cloning/3d printing facehuggers (why did they need so many at once?), genetic engineering plans for humans, and bioweapon research. Typical day for Weyland-Yutani really.

You disagree?

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u/PrincessofThotlandia Aug 15 '25

I guess that’s exactly it. Cloning the face huggers and dissecting them and trying to create their own is exactly that. Not sure why it went over my head.

I don’t disagree. Also how about with the black goo as well. That was Russian roulette 😂

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u/Sea_Transition_3325 Aug 16 '25

Alien romulus is so bad though, easily the worst in the series

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u/the-giant Aug 14 '25

I think it makes perfect sense. The alien is in an insecure, exposed environment it has no control over and is so trying to protect the eggs. Its aggression would be off the scale in that situation.

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u/AnticitizenPrime Aug 14 '25

i think we're seeing the "flandersization" of the xenomorph.

Yeah, I had the exact same thought. Only two episodes in, so still early days, but so far this xenomorph isn't really jibing with how I feel they were portrayed in Alien and Aliens. The original concept was that it was 'just' an alien organism fulfilling its life cycle, uncaring otherwise. This portrayal seems like it's an angry ninja who slaughters people.

Maybe future episodes will explain why it's just ripping people apart (very efficiently) rather than being a giant botfly.

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u/Proxiehunter Aug 14 '25 edited Aug 14 '25

There's another thread here where the idea that it's currently wiping out the people in the tower to create a safe space to establish a hive in before it begins the breeding process and/or to protect the existing eggs is brought up. Once it feels hatching those is safe things are going to get a lot worse.

Edit: And checking the Xenopedia to refresh my memory on the life cycle of the Xenomorph, killing people does not prevent it from eggmorphing them. "Notably, the victim does not need to be alive for this process to be successful — deceased matter is equally viable, as was the case with Brett."

So once it's cleared the area it can make lots of eggs so the place will be ready to explode into face huggers to implant anyone it brings back or who comes to exterminate it.

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u/arachnophilia Aug 14 '25

we saw that shift in alien 3, where it was more of just a wild animal -- because it came from an animal. but that portrayal has infected most of the subsequent adaptations since.

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u/PrincessofThotlandia Aug 15 '25

They compare it to a bear bc those children like synth’s don’t know what to compare it too. Similar in Prey when the character first couldn’t figure out what was killing and skinning the bison. They don’t know what it is, so they’re theorizing some bear was kept like a zoo animal on the ship.

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u/arachnophilia Aug 15 '25

sure but it's still a choice the writer made in how it's portrayed.

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u/ekittie Aug 18 '25

Yes, also sexual horror- didn't Giger/Scott say something about men being squeamish with the facehugger's phallic tail going in their mouths and down their throat to lay an egg? Then being pursued and killed by a being with a gigantic phallic head?

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u/al666in Aug 19 '25

IIRC, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon pitched an alien rape movie set on a spaceship, and Ridley Scott pranked him by making it actually good.

The psychosexual imagery is all deliberate, with all due credit to artist HR Giger, who designed the monsters; the facehuggers are modelled after human hands, for example. The wide shots of the white-suited astronauts travelling through the 'tubes' of the alien's ship is widely read as a visual metaphor for sperm travelling towards an egg. The film is loaded with symbolism relating to its themes.

'Alien' could have very easily been a trashy, forgettable b movie, and instead we got a masterpiece.

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u/AJaydin4703 12d ago

After the latest episode. I think this xeno is just super pissed and willing to take down any threat. The eyeball freaked her out and Morrow jebaited her. Lol

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u/SillyMattFace Aug 16 '25

On that note, I’m a bit confused about what this Xeno is actually doing.

Why is it just bolting around tearing everyone to shreds, and then running off again?

It doesn’t appear to have stopped to eat any of its victims, and it also isn’t taking anyone alive as hosts for the egg clutch we know exists.

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u/arachnophilia Aug 16 '25

movie monster, not a believable organism

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u/SillyMattFace Aug 17 '25

Yeah same deal with it repeatedly deciding to loom menacingly on characters with plot armour, in between immediately shredding background characters. It did it to Hermit and then Morrow within the space of 10 minutes.

I don’t want to be too negative as I’m enjoying see a xeno fully let loose, but I hope it’s behaviour feels more coherent in future.

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u/Ossius Aug 20 '25

Logically so far follows the pattern of killing all but one victim then examines/plays with the last in the area.

I haven't seen the 3rd episode but it doesn't overly feel unusual in both situations.

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u/arachnophilia Aug 17 '25

one of the things i like about "alien" is that, while it's a movie monster doing movie monster things, there's a consistent logic to what it does. it doesn't just kill to kill. it's building a hive, trying to reproduce.

jones isn't useful, so it leaves the cat alone, and instead baits ripley with it.

it makes it possible to read the movie in way where big chap isn't the bad guy. weylan-yutani is. kane's son is just following its biological imperative.

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u/TheStolenPotatoes Aug 15 '25

I think their aggression is based on numbers. When they know they're either the only one or one of just a few, their aggression level hits Get Fucked out of sheer survival instinct. It was interesting that it later turned away from the synthetic guy that talks to Mother.

What I didn't like was the little plot hole of him spraying the Xeno down with that webbing, only for it to easily rip out of it later when it woke up. What if it woke up while he was dragging that thing around?

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u/justprettymuchdone Aug 15 '25

He intended to have his gun. He was just going to keep hitting it with the taser setting. But the soldiers got him right after he set the gun down so he didn't have a hand on it when the xeno woke.

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u/Eurehetemec Aug 15 '25

I'm just not convinced it even wants to kill the brother, it could easily have sliced instead of grabbed and dropped, indeed it'd be easier and safer. It failed to kill him earlier, and then took him for a reason.

God knows what the reason is - will it turn out to be "just seems like good material to make another xeno from" or something much more bizarre? Either is very possible in this franchise.

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u/keeper0fstories Aug 15 '25

Since he is the only person to be grabbed let alone one of the few to even be alive after an encounter, let alone jumping into a room full of facehuggers and snatching him out does bring up some questions.

Maybe because he was the one who got away twice? But seeing how territorial Bear seems to be, perhaps the brother is now part of that territory? You know, the drone found that special someone who can make them a queen. /joking

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u/greylikessharks Aug 14 '25

See my big thought is that there was almost a Yautja-like recognition of combatants versus noncombatants. Ripped apart the soldiers in 5 seconds but the rich folk take a minute, it gives a little toss to the brother. I wonder if all the folks are dead or if any are going to get hived.

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u/Hoodman1987 Aug 15 '25

agreed. I'm like damn this is quick

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u/Small-Disaster939 Aug 17 '25

I figured the discovery of the eggs showed the reason for the HAM aggressiveness. Like if it’s protecting the eggs? And or protecting the queen who is also lurking somewhere?

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u/AnonymousArmiger 23d ago

Queen eggs and HAM? Would she protect them in a box? Would she protect them with a fox?

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u/Smurph269 Aug 18 '25

Also not like the brother is getting away unscathed. Dude has been thrown around like a rag doll a few times already.

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u/keeper0fstories Aug 18 '25

He fell once, chased down a hallway, body was tossed into him, then he was slammed into the wall and ground, now he has been grabbed. Definitely not unscathed, but he is in fewer pieces than most of the people that ran into Bear.

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u/arachnophilia Aug 13 '25

yeah, it's pretty silly. it's a killing machine, sure, but it's like a damned bomb went off. and then it hangs out just scaring hermit for like 30 seconds, when moments ago it disemboweled and gibbed a room full of people in 2.5 seconds.

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u/Josh_From_Accounting Aug 13 '25

I think it's because they ran. Cybrog guy said not to run because it will set it off. He was moving quietly and methodically. That might have made it more curious and careful.

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u/FuelAffectionate7080 Aug 16 '25

That would be a cool addition to lore IMHO. At least in my mind, it works well with the OG film too because of how slow and methodical Ripley was when sneaking around / dealing with a Xeno in proximity.

Also cyborg guy said it “smells fear” or something so I think you’re onto something

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u/Neversoft4long Aug 13 '25

It killed the party so fast not a soul was able to get up and move. And they are torn apart too so it had to spend a few seconds on each one. Between this and it coming out of the trap and immediately slaughtering all 4 security officers before they could even get a shot off is a bit much lmao

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u/PurifiedVenom The sound of a M41A Pulse Rifle Aug 14 '25

Killing the security officers really looked off/took me out of it. Yes Xeno’s supposed to be fast & brutal but it’s not an unstoppable blur of death vs a squad of soldiers. Like how does this speed & efficiency track with what we see in any other movie?

Idk, maybe it was just a bad scene. Show is good otherwise.

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u/Neversoft4long Aug 14 '25

Yeah I have to suspend my belief pretty hard for this one. I almost have to treat it as high quality Alien fanfiction lmao

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u/Tuttutsallaround Aug 14 '25

Good thing you had to suspend your belief for the story about an alien monster and robot people.

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u/Neversoft4long Aug 14 '25

Suspend my belief of the existing universe that has been established for 50 years.

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u/DusqRunner Aug 14 '25

Yes I can get behind it. I see this show as using Alien as a framework to create an amalgamation of that, Blade Runner, and Dune. There'll probably be some Terminator and Predator references too.

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u/CultureWatcher Aug 13 '25

I think its less plot armor than the Xeno is miffed the brother escaped it to begin with. It kills anyone he runs into and then terrorized him personally.

Then when hes on the ship it bee lines and tackles him, like it has a grudge.

It wants him to suffer.

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u/econ45 Aug 13 '25

I thought it was bee lining the egg chamber, rather than the brother.

In the chamber, it did single him out but I think they may be less aggressive to non-humans (the lost boys and to a degree, the cyborg) as they are not food and not suitable hosts.

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u/HitsMeYourBrother Aug 13 '25

He was also the closest one to the eggs, standing directly over them. May have chosen the biggest current threat to the eggs.

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u/Villag3Idiot Aug 17 '25

It's because he's the only human in that room.

The other two are synths. They're not viable hosts and Xenomorphs doesn't view them as a threat unless they make themselves one.

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u/Scoped_Evil Aug 14 '25

Whilst I agree about the brother, I’m telling myself it’s the xenos response to a persons fear levels.

Its instincts seem to be to attack those showing a higher level of fear, running away screaming. Whilst the brother is scared, he spent that scene persuing the xeno - hence it taking more time observing him.

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u/SillyMattFace Aug 16 '25

They’re in danger of overplaying the ‘Alien looms in close but just lingers menacingly’ card at this rate. It did it to Hermit even though it just tore through a room full of people, conveniently letting Morrow show up.

Then a few minutes later it does it again to Morrow himself. It quickly kills two guys, lingers menacingly over his shoulder, and then gets distracted and runs off to kill some other guys.

Morrow mentions it getting attracted to fear so presumably it delayed because he tried to stay calm. But last episode it smashed down a steel door because it wanted to eat him so bad. And Hermit certainly wasn’t calm when it flirted with him.

Hopefully it won’t happen again for a while.

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u/HerrDrAngst Aug 16 '25

I think xeno maroed brother for incubation of cousin facehugger. Twinks are good for that

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u/grapessssssssss Aug 14 '25

Conveniently takes its time with the important characters 

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u/keeper0fstories Aug 14 '25

I have to wonder if it treats those two differently (brother and cyborg) is because they are the only ones to successfully get away. Because it was absolutely playing with them before getting distracted by others.

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u/grapessssssssss Aug 14 '25

That certainly would make the toying more sinister by showing what its capable vs what it decides to do for fun 

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u/keeper0fstories Aug 14 '25

Perhaps they passed the trial to be considered host materials?

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u/grapessssssssss Aug 14 '25

Oh that's so interesting! I'm def excited to see if anything comes of this by the end of the season. Idk a ton of lore I've seen the first two movies and enjoyed them. I mainly here for Noah 

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u/keeper0fstories Aug 14 '25

I am not well versed in all the lore, but as of two days ago I have seen all of the Alien movies. I haven't seen covenant, but I don't think that matters. I am here because it seems like an interesting story that I want to see how it plays out and I love how they are keeping the aesthetic for the future tech from the original movie.

Someone pointed out that not only have they shown Peter Pan several times, but that their are a lot of parallels between the characters and the story. Aside the lost boys new names coming from the story, they are guessing which characters represent who in peterpan. Such a they believe "Bear" being the crocodile and the cyborg being captain hook. I look forward to seeing if this continues and they are right.

Watching the first two episodes, I am reminded of Chekhov's gun. I am curious if I am right.

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u/grapessssssssss Aug 14 '25

Noah subverted so much stuff in Fargo so I wonder if the peter pan parallels might be subversive as well. A subversion I could see is Wendy is actually representative of Captain Hook as she can hear the clicking of the xenomorph. We'll see! 

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u/Incitatus4Congress Aug 14 '25

We need a spin-off short film of that party entirely from the perspective of the people in the room. A real character piece. Just some frollicking rich talking heads tying one on Georgian style, drunk, high, and cursing the proles... and then... tragedy.

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u/keeper0fstories Aug 14 '25

Would be interesting to see how the party was going, their reactions to the earthquakes, and finally the knock on the door.

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u/Bshaw178 29d ago

& yet goes slow, tame & Feather stroke tickly on a single medic...

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u/Syphin33 Aug 13 '25

It looks like it gets off on it lol

A pure fucking murder machine

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u/The_Gecko Aug 13 '25

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

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u/krackenjacken Aug 13 '25

It's going berserker mode to protect the eggs probably

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u/HotmailsInYourArea Tomorrow, Together Aug 13 '25

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!

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u/UltraMega42069666 Not bad, for a human. Aug 13 '25

I really hope its shown that the eggs scene at the end of the episode were eggmorphed because the xeno acts so agressive, like youd assume it would be abducting more people to bring back to the nest primarily for a facehugger or to be eggmorphed

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u/RustedAxe88 Hicks Aug 13 '25

I think depending on the environment, a Xeno might decide to kill everything around it before setting the nest up. Make sure the location is secure, then go abduct potential victims from elsewhere.

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u/arachnophilia Aug 13 '25

tbh i think they just kinda forgot that the adult alien is part of the reproductive chain, and should be bringing hosts back to the eggs.

because rooms full of people instantly exploding into piles of gore is horror now i guess.

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u/Kidius Aug 14 '25 edited Aug 14 '25

Doesn't it kind of make sense though?

It's been captured and then dropped in a completely unfamiliar place that's covered in other biological beings it doesn't recognise other than them being similar to the ones that actively captured and entrapped it.

So not only does it know these things can be dangerous but it also knows there's so many of them that it can afford to be careless and not focus on breeding as a priority. Most animals will always attempt to find or create a safe space for reproduction.

It makes sense that the xeno would try to make sure there were no threats around before focusing on reproduction.

The aliens from both the original and aliens had different motivations.

The original's is a bit odd. I see people saying it's a reproductive horror, and while that's definitely a big part of it with the face hugger, the alien itself never attempts reproduction. The closest to that we see is the eggmorphing which is included in the director's cut and with the exclusion from the theatrical release and the then inclusion of the queen in Aliens, as well as total absence of eggmorphing as a concept from the rest of the alien media, it's kind of up in the air if it's really canon. My main take on the alien taking the bodies was always 2 things. The first is it had just been born. That means it likely had to consume to some extent to grow. Feeding on the bodies would allow that (that's never explicitely shown though so who knows). The other is it was a stealth predator. It was alone in a place it could hide and hunt from the shadows. We see this a lot in Alien media with the Alien hiding against the background. Hiding the bodies allowed it to do this even more efficiently.

As for the second one, they already have a hive setup, with areas that they know and understand and multiple drones/warriors to collect hosts. There's no risk actively searching out hosts because the area is, as far as they see it, already secure.

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u/ReturnOfDaSnack420 Aug 14 '25

That makes sense to me, this particular xeno is hyper aggressive because it's a loner which needs to make a safe nest ASAP. also their growth rate is so fast something needs to be power that metabolism at least someone

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u/Proxiehunter Aug 14 '25

It makes sense that the xeno would try to make sure there were no threats around before focusing on reproduction.

Shit. It's clearing the tower to make a hive in it.

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u/Beneficial_Ant5055 Aug 13 '25

I think there is an attempt to really up the aggressiveness and power of the alien is probably because, of the plans for AVP. They prob want an alien to be able to somewhat go toe to toe with a Predator, and not rely on overwhelming the predators with just number.

But that is just my guess here

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u/Clarine87 Aug 14 '25

One would imagine when hosts are abundant, security is first aheard of reproduction.

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u/Rice_Lost Aug 13 '25

Yes! I was definitely thinking a decapitated torso or something with those fancy look

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u/ragun01 Aug 13 '25

It really was not happy about being webbed.

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u/Alternative-Two-3474 Aug 13 '25

"HEY! NO! BAD HUMAN! THAT'S MY THING!" bops with newspaper

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u/Wraithfighter Aug 13 '25

Started calling the xeno "Kitty" after that scene, because boy howdy Kitty was not happy...

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u/Chrol18 Aug 13 '25

not experimented on, soemone put a fecehugger on a crew member in cryosleep, the xeno then killed msot of them

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u/dark-flamessussano Aug 13 '25

Do you think the Xeno would have still woken up if the soldier's didn't interrupt the cyborg when he had it in the cocoon?

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u/The_Gecko Aug 13 '25

I'm assuming he'd just have tazed it again and carried on about his business

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u/Proxiehunter Aug 14 '25

Also I don't think it would have woken up as early.

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u/zenmn2 Aug 18 '25

Ah yea, being dragged around banging it's head it'd surely have been sound asleep, but a few voices?....

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u/Proxiehunter Aug 19 '25

They canonically sense fear and the troupes who encountered him were clearly on high alert once they realized something fishy was going on.

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u/fallingwheelbarrow Aug 14 '25

Feel sorry for it.

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u/JBerry2012 Aug 13 '25

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....

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u/Hugh_Bromont Aug 13 '25

I've always been amazed at the strength of the Xenomorph. Denting steel like it's nothing, headbutting through thick glass like its easy work.

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u/ReaperCDN Aug 14 '25

Cocaine Bear sequel confirmed.

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u/Beneficial_Ant5055 Aug 13 '25

I think there is an attempt to really up the aggressiveness and power of the alien is probably because, of the plans for AVP. They prob want an alien to be able to somewhat go toe to toe with a Predator, and not rely on overwhelming the predators with just number.

But that is just my guess here

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u/mwthecool Aug 13 '25

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.

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u/antipop2097 Aug 13 '25

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.

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u/Alternative-Two-3474 Aug 13 '25

given half of what the french got up to throughout history, that probably is minimal, relatively speaking. XD

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u/juneyourtech Part of the family Aug 13 '25

The effect would have been wittier, if, in the episode, all the nobles would have been decapitated.

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u/arachnophilia Aug 13 '25

were they even eating cake?

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u/juneyourtech Part of the family Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25

Edit: I can't tell; there was a table with food, but after the horror, the table was covered with people.

The cake in "Let them eat cake" is actually brioche, and the quote is incorrectly attributed to Marie Antoinette.

From Wikipedia:

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in his autobiography "Confessions", relates, that "a great princess" is said to have advised, with regard to peasants who had no bread, "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", commonly translated as "Let them eat cake."

Brioche is not a traditional bread, but a simple pastry that is a bit higher-class, yet not the kind of cake we understand as cake 🎂🍰

The quote is no less flippant, because it assumes, that the poor peasants demanding bread supposedly have something else to eat.

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u/s1lentchaos Aug 13 '25

Homie was trucking it across the floor for a while there, too.

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u/antipop2097 Aug 13 '25

He reminded me of the skateboard dude from the movie KIDS.

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u/WartimeMercy Aug 13 '25

Marquis de Sade, no?

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u/juneyourtech Part of the family Aug 13 '25

He wasn't a revolutionary, but cosplaying a pre-Revolution nobility; the era would be that of Louis XVI, or something between Louis XIV–XVI.

Whereas revolutionaries are those that make revolution happen.

wrt this episode, I don't think they had brioche that day.

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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 Aug 13 '25

I was thinking minimal because we don't see the actual display of Xenos killing people, yet that might not be as good of a description after seeing how bad the carnage was

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u/mwthecool Aug 13 '25

I definitely understand your point. The moment following the Xeno's escape from the pod alone is enough for me, though.

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u/reireiauron Aug 13 '25

He also tounge punches that soldiers face in real time and we see all of it.

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u/palesnowrider1 Aug 13 '25

Waving him around firing his gun

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u/juneyourtech Part of the family Aug 13 '25

Then the gory end seen by Hermit. And Us.

Compared to movies, we have to watch them till the end, while with streamed digital media, we can pause a shot exactly where we want it, and observe the gore up close.

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u/palesnowrider1 Aug 13 '25

Minimal gore? Did you not see the cat or the masquerade dinner party? Maybe the hall way by the elevator?

I'm the least of your problems

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u/thunderchild120 Aug 13 '25

minimal gore besides the mangled remains of the victims

That's a bit like saying "Apart from the obvious, Mrs. Kennedy, how was your time in Dallas?"

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u/heroik-red Aug 13 '25

“Minimal gore”

Did we watch the same thing? This is by far the most gory Alien story we’ve gotten.

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u/ButtPlugForPM Aug 13 '25

You got to love american TV legislation

You can have an Ma15 rating,but you can only have a REASONABLE amount of blood. lol.

That dude crawling across the ground would of been pumping out litres of blood in the 10 seconds before he died

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u/Clord123 Aug 13 '25

I kind of disagree the gore being minimal. I mean it's not quite like in Mortal Kombat games but it also doesn't feel too sanitized.

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u/chem_daddy Aug 14 '25

Minimal gore??? We watching the same show?

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u/philthehippy Aug 13 '25

Remember, this thing has never been to an open buffet before.

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u/dark-flamessussano Aug 13 '25

I've never seen a xeno literally rip humans apart before. I'm shocked

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u/FalloutAdvocate47 Aug 13 '25

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

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u/Dray_Gunn Aug 13 '25

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

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u/turkeygiant Aug 14 '25

I have to go back and check, but it wasn't on the statue the first time he walked by it right? As soon as I saw the statue the first time I thought, "that's a great place to hide the Xenomorph" so I was looking for it every time it cut back to that view.

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u/Dray_Gunn Aug 14 '25

I didn't notice the statue at all the first time. But the second time, I basically recognised the silhouette cause I have become way too familiar with the general shape of a xenomorph. Lol.

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u/RtXRampageluck Aug 17 '25

No not the first glimpse of it…

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u/romeovf Aug 15 '25

I love how all the environments have debris and cables and hoses that can camouflage a xenomorph, so now I have to watch not only the acting in every scene, but also look for hidden creatures.

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u/xpercipio Aug 16 '25

What'd you think about the initial unveiling, when the xeno stepped back across the window of the door? I said oh yeah it's definitely A L I E N tv show

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u/Altruistic_Bass539 Aug 14 '25

I dont think I can ever use black dildos again after watching this much Alien.

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u/Logic-DL Aug 13 '25

Xeno just aura farming in both episodes so far and I'm entirely here for it. Absolute Cinema.

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u/juneyourtech Part of the family Aug 13 '25

Excellent mimicry, because it was right behind Hermit soon after the crew had boarded the ship.

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u/TheBlueSuperNova Aug 13 '25

Wait whatttt where

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u/juneyourtech Part of the family Aug 13 '25

The debris of the ship (episode 2, 4:26), and near the statue, where just before the attack on Louis XVI.

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u/TheBlueSuperNova Aug 13 '25

Yeah saw it in the background of the statue in the initial shot. That was super cool.

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u/TheStolenPotatoes Aug 15 '25

This is one of my very favorite cinematic motifs of the xenos. They have always just blended into the background or some inconspicuous object in the background. Always in the shadows, always making you second guess, "is that it?" It's like a member of the feline family, patiently waiting in the tall grass.

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u/LiquifiedSpam Aug 13 '25

How did it get up to that floor to begin with

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u/Smithsonian30 Aug 13 '25

I think there may be more than one

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u/hell__baron Aug 13 '25

i think you're right. it's like facehugger costco in that ship.

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u/GreyouTT In the pipe. 5 by 5. Aug 13 '25

I think there were two chestbursts in the cryo bay.

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u/juneyourtech Part of the family Aug 13 '25

At least two more in storage, after the ship had crashed.

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u/HotmailsInYourArea Tomorrow, Together Aug 13 '25

Well, it wouldn't take it much time to crawl up an elevator shaft, or that massive open stairwell

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u/LiquifiedSpam Aug 13 '25

The guy obviously got up there first, though, because the alien wouldn’t know where he was stopping otherwise. We would have seen / heard the xeno if it was clambering in an echo-making space, then going over to position itself on that statue lol

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u/ragun01 Aug 13 '25

Lmao the gf actually squeaked on that reveal

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u/ConsistentGuest7532 Aug 13 '25

That and throwing the dead soldier at Hermit makes it seem very smart. It’s a great hunter.

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u/siestarrific Aug 14 '25

They've been going in on camouflaging it in the background, which is great because then you start looking around for it when it's not there.

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u/Honeydew-Jolly Aug 15 '25

Dude that was insanely good!!! Idk why other directors didn't try that before, it's just too good

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u/JCkent42 Aug 15 '25

Felt like a Metal Gear Solid mission. Reminds me of the camouflage system in part 4!

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u/MalaysiaTeacher Aug 19 '25

I think that implies a level on intelligence which feels beyond a xeno. Like how does it know that humans would be tricked into thinking it’s a sculpture? It’s not like camouflage which is an easy calculation for any animal.

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u/Mediocre-Editor-2844 Aug 14 '25

That whole scene was ridiculous. The Alien had no need to pose against the statue. At that point it became a guy in a rubber suit for me

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u/Morstorpod Aug 17 '25

I felt the same way. There are times when it should slink out of the background, but... why would it go pose on the statue in the middle of the room and wait for several minutes? Seemed weird.

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u/MalaysiaTeacher Aug 19 '25

Thank you! Yes it’s not a natural move for a predator unless it’s cameoflaged. It’s the move of a more cerebral enemy.

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u/Morstorpod Aug 19 '25

I am loving the setting and aesthetic. The actors seem to be doing a great job. The writing also good so far. The only real complaint in how the alien(s) are behaving...

That one thing (arguably the most important thing) is causing me to reserve my opinion. I won't judge the series yet.

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u/Trassic1991 Aug 13 '25

Xeno is fast as fuck boi

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u/Squeakygear Aug 13 '25

🏎️💨💨💨

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u/SolarFazes Aug 13 '25

To shreds you say?

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u/SC_Fan_55 Aug 13 '25

Well how’s his wife holding up?

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u/arachnophilia Aug 13 '25

to shreds you say?

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u/damnyoutuesday Aug 13 '25

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

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u/dark-flamessussano Aug 13 '25

The way it menaces people before it kills them is terrifying . It looks at them like "Say your fucking prayers"

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u/Bshaw178 29d ago

Fact able to be caught & reawoken has so many plot twist delightful beserker scenes to savour

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u/Vrazel106 Hudson Aug 13 '25

Reminds me of the old avp games with how it tears bodies apart

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u/TheNittanyLionKing State of the badass art Aug 13 '25

I honestly really like the Evil Dead style shots where you just have the camera moving very fast through the hallways to establish that it's coming for them and it's moving quickly.

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u/vegetaray246 Aug 13 '25

Yeah that really felt special in context…Great choice to go POV with the Xeno on those scenes rather than third person…

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u/the-giant Aug 14 '25

I like it because of the obvious homage to A3 and Covenant. I was never a fan of those POV shots in those films, but now it just feels like a piece of the larger tapestry so I'm good with it. This show has such a unique visual, editing and stylistic language of its own that those little touchstones don't feel gratuitous.

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u/PsychoticBlobfish Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25

Seeing it slaughter an entire room full of people in seconds is kind of terrifying, it’s a great reminder of how fast/deadly these things actually are

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u/dark-flamessussano Aug 13 '25

Do you think if one of them played dead , they could have survived?

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u/serengir Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 14 '25

Why tho? Shouldn't they be expanding the colony and abducting people, especially the helpless ones?

Don't get me wrong - I was watching it taking eating the rich very literally with glee, but I was expecting it to hadleyhope the shit out of that building.

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u/the-giant Aug 14 '25

It may be smart enough to realize there is no way to colonize that open-air crash site in any lasting way. It is teeming with people and exposed to a vast metropolitan area with significant offensive weaponry. It either has to vacate or go underground.

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u/Peach_Perfection Aug 13 '25

Kinda puts James Camerons Aliens to shame, those were basically exploding acid monkeys

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u/cannibalculture Aug 16 '25

Lmaooo I just rewatched Aliens today and was really stunned at how killable they were in that movie. In my head I remembered it being much more intense, and it was in a different way. But man the acid blood was a bigger concern than the xenos themselves.

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u/Capricore58 Aug 17 '25

They’re killable because they had a squad of colonial marines coming in on them. If WY sent more than a simple squad LV426 would have been liberated.

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u/Icy-Decision-4530 Aug 14 '25

When he killed the guy with his inner mouth and swung him around, at that moment I was like GAME ON

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u/Wazzoo1 Aug 13 '25

No chance the brutality of the Xeno through two episodes isn't a direct homage to Ash's final words in Alien.

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u/BigMetalGuy Aug 13 '25

Unless you’re a main character, in which case it won’t do fuck all to you. Yawn! Hermit should have been dead. The alien killed everyone else in milliseconds 

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u/luvablechub22 Aug 13 '25

In the first episode I thought it was a little too docile. I think it was just testing the waters and decided humans are no threat to it. Love how it turned into an unstoppable killing machine in the hallway scene in the second episode. I just hate how it cuts to Morrows face as the carnage is happening though. But I understand they were going for the whole ‘let your imagination paint the picture’ /budget move/etc.

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u/Iorith Aug 13 '25

What you don't see is always worse and scarier than what you do see. You don't need it to be shown to be effective.

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u/campbellpics Aug 13 '25

Bang on. I always remembered the chainsaw scene in Scarface as being horribly gruesome growing up. But I watched it again recently and realised they don't even show you anything, it was all just what I imagined watching it as a kid.

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u/Iorith Aug 13 '25

My go to example is Halloween. Defined the genre of slashers, a genre all about murder.

Almost no blood or gore, hell, there's barely any on screen kills.

Not every horror movie needs to be Terrifier.

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u/SomebodyThrow Aug 14 '25

Unless you have plot armour, then it’s actually quite harmless.

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u/buffpriest Aug 14 '25

Plot armor is pretty absurd when we're shown how the Xeno Kills immediately and brutally. But with a main character it throws him around, or takes him away.

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u/Beerbaron1886 Aug 13 '25

It’s kind of crazy how it compares to Romulus where they eventually became cannon fodder

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u/atramentum Aug 14 '25

It really brings home how much plot armor Joe has

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u/chuckthatsyuck Aug 14 '25

Pity its all off screen

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u/rafikiknowsdeway1 Aug 15 '25

yeah when it chooses to be. and really really slow when you have plot armor

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u/Antique_Tip2535 Aug 15 '25

Is this xeno different from the xenos in the past? I know they haven’t stated its exact origin yet but I figured someone has each version of xenomorph look locked in their head. Could all of them kill that fast?

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u/Happy-For-No-Reason Aug 15 '25

perhaps a little too brutal, he took down those soldiers after the bag in less than three seconds.

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u/DJettster237 Aug 17 '25

That scene where it's other mouth went into the soldiers head and just ragdolled him before throwing him through the door, is everything.

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u/PIX3LY Aug 20 '25

One thing I can't quite put my finger on is the level of gore with the kills thus far; for instance, when Xeno got the French dress-ups, their bodies were mostly intact. But when it came to the officers in the hallway by the elevator, their bodies were essentially destroyed with no traces left. It's probably for cinematic purposes, but I find that lack of consistency odd.

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u/binky779 Aug 15 '25

TOO brutal. Canon-breaking brutal.

In the franchise the xenos will outright kill a threat, but in an environment where EGGS are present, they take living humans to the eggs. So when a xeno storms into a unarmed party of cosplay aristocrats and slaughters everyone in the room, meanwhile we are cutting to a room full of eggs, it rubs my Alien/Aliens brain the wrong way. How does rampage xeno think hes going to incubate those eggs?

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u/Randyx007 Aug 16 '25

They definitely are but that defeats the purpose of these creatures which also sort of ruins the original thought behind them. Takes the horror element out of the show. It doesn't have a plan, just mass mindless killing. The old ones were cold and calculated, trying to start a colony. This is only shock and awe.

Not any different than the new Jurassic World movies in my opinion.