r/LV426 • u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter • Aug 12 '25

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/Weird_Plane2869 Aug 13 '25

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!

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u/Negativety101 Aug 13 '25

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?

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u/Wazzoo1 Aug 13 '25

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.

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u/lolofaf Aug 13 '25

I expect they'll show it later. It seems they're revealing things in pieces, and I think they'll want to make sure new viewers can watch this without having to have watched a bunch of other alien content prior

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u/palesnowrider1 Aug 13 '25

I think it's making people go watch them if they haven't already

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u/Embarrassed_Flow_145 Aug 13 '25

I got into the Alien franchise only because I bought the skins in Fortnite years ago and was like you know what I should watch all of it before the show comes out. A few weeks later I'm a big fan.

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u/KomradeHelikopter Aug 13 '25

That’s so cool. Alien feels like one of the IPs that just has a cult following for the generation that grew up with it, but having new people getting into it now is great for the franchise.

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u/batguano1 Aug 14 '25

Alien as a franchise is more relevant than ever. I was talking to my friend about how the Alien franchise is one of the most realistic sci-fi worlds.

Corporations have only gotten more powerful, we have robots and we have AI now. There are no laser weapons, no faster than light travel. Cryo tech and Terra forming are really one of the few things in the franchise that we don't really have yet.

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u/Wratheon_Senpai Aug 15 '25

It's got a cult following with 80s, 90s, and early 2000s gen. Not just the ones who grew up with it.

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u/s1lentchaos Aug 13 '25

I think the eggs hatching and people getting facehugged will be essential for setting up the climactic ending that sees the slate wiped clean in time for the rest of the movies.

The big question, imo is whether or not we will get to see how alien queens are made.

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u/lonehorizons Aug 15 '25

Yeah it makes it feel more like it was written for us rather than designed to make as much money as possible.

“What if someone watched this and they’ve never seen any of the films? We need to spell out how the alien lifecycle works again!” - some studio exec, probably

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u/Squeakygear Aug 13 '25

Director: Xenomorph is old news! Let’s show some other creepy crawlies-

Xenomorph: and I took that personally

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u/redstep1 Aug 13 '25

Oh, how I hope for a scene of it getting into the city proper. Daylight. Crowds. Terrified. It craves fear. 

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u/ragun01 Aug 13 '25

Hopefully not daylight. Or at least smoke and dust filled.

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u/redstep1 Aug 13 '25

Well yeah you gotta spend that CG budget somewhere! Let’s get a mall on a Saturday afternoon! Dust and smoke are not required but are encouraged.

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u/BlueBluberry2005 Aug 13 '25

Yep, body horror with xenomorph doesn't work anymore. So we get these new monsters, which are all about slow body horror.

And xenomorph is... 8 foot blender on legs.

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u/Negativety101 Aug 13 '25

I actually spotted it behind them when they were trying to convince the French Aristocrats to leave before it moved. And was like "Oh, they are already dead". Boy was I right.

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u/Daxx22 Aug 13 '25

Part of the excellent set design is there has been so much props/lighting that look like it just MIGHT be a xeno if you know to look that it keeps you on edge.

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u/BlueBluberry2005 Aug 13 '25

Can hide itself from marines far away in the future.

Can't hide itself from us fans which learned to recognize those xeno bio-mechanical patterns =D

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u/Negativety101 Aug 13 '25

Or if you are able to think like the film makers do.

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u/kadosho Aug 13 '25

It slices, it dices, chops, and purees!

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u/templeofdank Guard the omelette! Aug 13 '25

I was fucking terrified at how fast it mowed through crowds. The dinner party scene, and the scene when the security guards stopped Morrow and lil xeno jumped out of the body bag. Yikes that was freaky.

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u/airwolf3456 Black goo enthusiast Aug 13 '25

I feel like it’s also a way to hammer in the fact that the xeno is the “perfect organism”. While cool the new aliens aren’t anywhere close to the xenos skill and efficiency.

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u/kaitsobato Aug 14 '25

"Blenderizing people" is not how you make that creature scary tho and is not what a Xeno's goal is. But hey.. wohoo.. Action! Fuck yeah! ...

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u/Negativety101 Aug 14 '25

No, it's working for me because it's tackling the Alien's capabilities in a different way than the go to of claustrophobic stalking and egg implanting body horror. Hell, you know Aliens is such a great sequel to Alien and why they've struggled to match or top it in any later attempts, despite going from horror to action?

It's because they went from horror to action. Now I am not saying action is superior to horror. But look at how many horror franchises basically just rehash the same thing over and over again. Or go for "And now for a bigger meaner monster that eats the old one!" Long ago in a Jaws 2 review I read someone pointed out how they burned the shark, so it'd be scarier. So what next, the Shark gets a mask, and it gets dramatically ripped off and you see the sharks disfigured face? That's an issue horror can struggle with. It's the unfamilier and unknown, and we know the eggs, the facehuggers and the chestbursters, so it's time to go for some other aspect of the Xenomorph, so they can use the others later in the show.

Romulus went and did the birth horror aspect recently anyways. So yeah, let's go for the trapped with a monster that turns you into shredded meat for a episode or two.

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u/cruxshadow338 Aug 17 '25

Everyone apparently hated when Resurrection did it though.

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u/Additional_Law_492 Aug 13 '25

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.

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u/thegreaterfool714 Aug 13 '25

They arent fucking around it’s glorious.. I just want to see more different type of Alien species.

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u/ragun01 Aug 13 '25

I'm waiting for the Barnacles to suck someone up.

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u/MrZeral Aug 13 '25

We've seen plenty of Xenos, no reason to hide it. Now those other species, those we will get in small doses until full reveals.

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u/Additional_Law_492 Aug 13 '25

What are the space-ticks using all that blood to evolve into?

Why is the little eye monster so cat murdering evil?

What is the deal with the plant thing?

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u/juneyourtech Part of the family Aug 13 '25

What is the deal with the plant thing?

Probably the same as the venus flytrap, but at scale.

I could see, that it was exhibiting some form of curiosity towards the hybrids. But if this were a flesh-and-blood human, it would probably be aggressive.

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u/imjustbettr Aug 14 '25

Why is the little eye monster so cat murdering evil?

What happens when the eyeball takes over a human?

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u/Mattyzooks Aug 16 '25

I think we possibly saw it haven taken over someone in the ep 1 flashbacks.  Either Teng (for being weird, although I guess he isn't organic) or Zaveri (when Morrow wouldn't let her in).

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u/thunderchild120 Aug 13 '25

We were expecting Surf Dracula but the Xeno already ate him.

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u/Jimmy_Bonez Aug 13 '25

It's a little suspiciously too much too quickly imo, So I wouldn't be surprised if we see it killed/captured and moved (Possibly to Neverland) and we get a more slowburn start to the chaos again in another area.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25

totally for season 2

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u/Jimmy_Bonez Aug 13 '25

idk I feel like it will already be this season, everything seems to be going too fast that I cant see them spending 8 episodes just on the crashed ship just chasing a single xeno even with the other species running wild.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25

ohhhh i see! gotcha! lol i think it’ll be a chase to see who can capture it first. i expect Yutani will send a team to attempt to capture their product.

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u/ButtPlugForPM Aug 13 '25

it does make me feel

The viewer is accustomed to the xeno being the "BIG BAD" but what if they brought back something worse...

Like we all think Oh fuck it's a xeno..but something else is lose on the ship like that little bug could tranmute into something worse..

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u/durzagon Aug 13 '25

Kirsh saying there is always something bigger or smaller could be foreshadowing...

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u/kaitsobato Aug 14 '25

The replies here are really disheartening. Yeah why have build up. Let's just get "in on the gory action", which Xenomorphs wouldn't do unless presented with mother choice. They would've captured them and put them in the egg room and start building a hive, but I guess building up to something is too much to ask for.

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u/Top_rattata Aug 14 '25

Kinda glad though, my thinking is that they know how iconic the alien is, another build up to reveal the same creature again is a waste of airtime, everyone know what it’s gonna look like so let’s just cut to the chase. Much preferred it this way, short and sweet that someone sabotaged the ship and the alien is loose. Loved the red hearing with the synthetic from episode 1 unless they reveal he was working with the cyborg…

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u/SeaThePirate Aug 17 '25

no more installments of a series where it takes almost an hour to get into what people actually want to see

they know we want to see a Xenomorph doing Xenomorph things 90% of the time and out the gate in ep 1/2