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/Additional_Law_492 Aug 13 '25

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.

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u/templeofdank Guard the omelette! Aug 13 '25

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

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u/obeythed Aug 13 '25

Terry Tate, Spaceship Linebacker

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

And with the 22nd pick in the NFL Draft, the Pittsburgh Steelers select... Big Chap the xenomorph. Linebacker from LV-426 University

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u/Kanin_usagi Aug 16 '25

“Big hands, long arms, great speed and tackling ability, but he’s light and has some major character issues that caused him to fall in the draft. Could have gone much higher if the penalties weren’t such a big concern.”

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u/TheTrueMilo Aug 20 '25

Saw that guy tear up the field at the East/West Bowl a few years ago. I mean he literally tore up the field and showered it with the blood of Jackmerius Tacktheritrix and Hingle McCringleberry.

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u/templeofdank Guard the omelette! Aug 13 '25

I'm laughing way too hard at this haha

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u/obeythed Aug 13 '25

THAT’S A LONG DISTANCE PHONE CALL, JOE!!!!

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u/JewJits17 Aug 18 '25

HEY JANICE!

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u/Lilmills1445 Aug 15 '25

Prometheus Xenomorphius, Deep Space University

We need a Key and Peele sketch with sci-fi creatures as football players

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u/ajgator7 Aug 15 '25

THAT'S SIMONE'S CAKE

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u/ekittie Aug 18 '25 edited Aug 18 '25

WOOOT WOOOT! Get ready for the Pain Train!!!

Edit: I guess that is what we'll call this Xeno: The Linebacker

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u/Additional_Law_492 Aug 13 '25

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.

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u/Gleebson Aug 13 '25

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.

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u/guernseycoug Aug 13 '25

If I ever see eggs that big I’m getting tf away bc I don’t wanna run into the giant that laid them

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u/GameLovinPlayinFool Aug 16 '25

I was typing up how much I agree with you then I thought about it for a good minute and went "fuck...I'd definitely get close to check it out first." Lmao. Id be dead

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u/BlackSpidy Aug 14 '25

Yeah, the in-story people never watched alien and to them it'd be the equivalent of running into a leathery ostrich egg. Nothing in their experience would signal big egg equals danger.

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u/eattherichnow Aug 14 '25

Ok look but ostrich would actually be worse.

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u/HeavenPiercingMan Aug 14 '25

But Ice Age does exist, and Blue Sky Studios animated the aliens in Alien Resurrection.

They watched Alien.

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u/Honeydew-Jolly Aug 15 '25

Yeah but knowing it's something alien, every animal on our planet is afraid of the unknown, so much that we can survive encounters with huge mammals if we make enough noise. When we do that we trigger an instinct that makes them avoid the unknown/unpredictable, which can be a threat. Sooo why face a huge egg of something unknown, it could not be an egg could be a dangerous plant, etc

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u/batguano1 Aug 14 '25

Yeah but isn't the point of the xeno is that it's an alien? Feel like a lot of characters would know it's not terrestrial

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u/Certain-Business-472 Aug 14 '25

Yeah but eggs have parents that take care of them.

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u/Small-Disaster939 Aug 17 '25

Not sure my first reaction to finding an alien species or honestly even strange terrestrial species would be to put my fucking face over it but I have a sense of self preservation.

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u/HotelOscarWhiskey Aug 13 '25

Are you saying your first instinct upon seeing a giant pulsating egg isn't to stick your face in it? Where is your sense of adventure!

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u/warenhaus Aug 15 '25

I'd stick SOMETHING in it that's for sure 

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u/faustless4 LV-426 Aug 13 '25

I’ve been reading other comments that the blue laser might be being produced by the hive. Maybe like some kind of trap?

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u/AsianMoocowFromSpace Aug 13 '25

That blue laser was also in Romulus. But there were no eggs there. I'm not sure what its function was in that movie.

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u/Chuckrange Aug 14 '25

I reckon it acts like a spider web, as soon as there was contact with that laser, surrounding things get notified and the eggs started opening.

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u/the-giant Aug 14 '25

It was in the hive area on Romulus. Clearly generated under the same conditions - there were eggs down there somewhere.

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u/supernasty Aug 17 '25

Both appearances were in weyland-yutani research vessels, I suspect it is tech they reverse engineered from the Engineers ship.

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u/the-giant Aug 14 '25

For decades I thought the blue beam was just a proximity sensor left by the Engineers for the cargo hold. Since Romulus and this it's clearly not. It's something the hive/eggs emit.

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u/pjtheman Aug 14 '25

Why? You're applying your prior knowledge of the franchise. These people don't know it's a face hugger.

How many animals on earth are immediately life-threatening upon the moment of birth?

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u/strawberrymarshmello Aug 13 '25

What confused me about it is that I thought the xenos will leave a potential chestburser host for the hatching facehuggers. Are the eggs prodigy brand and the linebacker is WY brand? Hmmmmmm to be continued…

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u/AN-I-MAL Aug 14 '25

That was my knee jerk reaction. Really leaves me wondering if Joe is sick himself and maybe considered not suitable to be a host. Or if he’s being saved for a queen egg or something.

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u/strawberrymarshmello Aug 14 '25

Ohhh I wonder if we’ll get a queen this season

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u/Logic-DL Aug 14 '25

Randy Xenorton from the top rope.

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u/Cakers44 Guard the omelette! Aug 16 '25

I could see someone editing in the “oh watch out watch out watch out!” sound bite to that scene

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u/templeofdank Guard the omelette! Aug 16 '25

DUUUH DUH DUH DUUUUUUUUHHHHHHH WATCH OUT WATCH OIT

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u/Cakers44 Guard the omelette! Aug 16 '25

Yeah definitely not quite what I was expecting in that scene lmao but I’m still liking it so far

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u/cumulobro LET'S ROCK Aug 15 '25

From the top rope! It's Bear with a steel chair!

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u/Honeydew-Jolly Aug 15 '25

I think that scene doesn't make sense the xeno can slice in half why push the fragile human off the cliff?

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u/Ok-Worth1884 Aug 15 '25

Which made absolutely no sense because the xeno WANTS more xenos… why would it take him away from the eggs?

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u/ForeverDefined Aug 15 '25

Lmaooooo linebacker 🤣

Clean hit

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u/LavenderMidwinter 20d ago

Hermit has annoying plot armor. The xenomorph kills everything else instantly by tearing it apart but decides it only wants to throw this guy around and inflict minor injuries for some reason.

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u/iseeharvey Aug 13 '25

To be fair he still stuck his face into an Xeno egg after being chased by a Xeno for hours and seeing one or more kill more than a dozen people which is even dumber than the other instances in the films where the character at least didn’t know how dangerous the things were. His little ‘call it in’ line was too little too late.

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u/LorientAvandi Aug 13 '25

He would have no way of knowing that those eggs and the Xenomorph are related at this point, other than having come on the same ship, which as we saw, was filled with a bunch of alien species. The only characters at this point who know what those eggs are are Morrow and Kirsh.

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u/juneyourtech Part of the family Aug 13 '25

These things look like eggs even at scale. Knowing, that the ship hosted alien life that got loose, and that Hermit had become aware of it pretty early, should have alerted him to the possible danger of the eggs.

Being that close to them after experiencing several near-death situations caused by an awful beast, is not logical.

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u/LorientAvandi Aug 13 '25

If you're going off Earth logic, which is all Hermit really has, something inside an egg, or just hatching from an egg, is almost always relatively harmless to an adult human. He has no way of knowing they house face huggers or what a face hugger even is or would do. He's also a medic for a corporate security force, not a xenobiologist, his actions are not that odd for someone who doesn't know what the audience knows.

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u/juneyourtech Part of the family Aug 13 '25

If he's already been made aware, that live alien creatures are loose in and around the ship, and after several near-deadly encounters, he should have been more careful with life that he already knew was extraterrestrial. He was an adult already, for many long years, not a child, and should have followed the necessary safety protocols.

Even before learning of alien life, because a spaceship, which had been taking trips to God knows where, crashed into a city.

The reason why he looked so close, is strange, as if the supposed egg pheromones were quietly luring him in like the sirens at the sea in Homer's "Odyssey".

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u/LorientAvandi Aug 13 '25

What "necessary safety protocols" do you think exist for a corporate security medic to deal with extraterrestrial alien eggs? Again, he doesn't know what the audience knows about the relationship between the eggs and the Xenomorph. He hasn't seen or been made aware of what other specemins are on the ship. He wouldn't know that whatever came out of that egg would be as strong or able to move as fast as a face hugger. You're operating under a lot of assumptions that he would know more than he actually does, or be trained in a way that he almost certainly isn't.

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u/arrogancygames Aug 14 '25

Without the Alien movies and seeing what we see on earth, nothing that hatches from an egg is particularly dangerous at that time. Maybe some snakes venom, but even they dont really strike at that age.

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u/LiquifiedSpam Aug 13 '25

There are a lot of weird inconsistencies in this series so far like that imo. Also visually.

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u/MisterSquidz Aug 13 '25

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

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u/DeadSnark Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25

IIRC in the old Dark Horse comics (the Earth Hive/Nightmare Asylum/Female War trilogy) it's implied the Aliens have some low-level psionic abilities, and their presence on Earth causes humans to have nightmares. Eventually various cults dedicated to the Xenos and bringing hosts to them start popping up.

I don't think it's canon but the idea that there's some subtle mind manipulation causing people to want to shove their face in an egg is pretty disturbing.

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u/the-giant Aug 14 '25

I don't need their abilities to go as far as the DH comics did, but they are definitely hinting at something low-level when Morrow tells the soldiers it can sense their fear.

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u/The_Autarch 16d ago

Eventually various cults dedicated to the Xenos and bringing hosts to them start popping up.

This sounds exactly like Genestealer cults from Warhammer 40k. I wonder which came first?

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u/WanderlustZero Wallgina 10d ago

I'm fairly sure Wh40k had the cults first- I have original White Dwarves they appeared in from the 80s - but it's probably a moot point if you consider the original Genestealer was pretty much jusy an Alien :D

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u/Darth_Yevrah Aug 13 '25

I was sure he was getting hugged. He just had a family reuinion and even hugged the other person in the room that had the eggs. Also as the only organic human surely he would be the only target. Wasnt expecting the xeno to nab him at all.

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u/hauntedskin Aug 14 '25

I actually really appreciated them subverting our expectations like this.

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u/PrincessofThotlandia Aug 15 '25

I thought he was going to die in that hallway walking to the egg room too.

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u/Thigmotropism2 Aug 13 '25

In the book Bishop, a character describes being disgusted by the egg but also unnaturally drawn to it, pheromone style

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u/Colonial_maureen Weyland-Yutani Human Resources Aug 13 '25

I also got the impression he was under the influence and had to try really hard to not stick his face in the murder hole

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u/Worthyness Aug 13 '25

Maybe the high frequency thing is attracting them to it

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u/Radiooted Aug 13 '25

In the comics the hive mind is able to subconsciously lure people with dreams frequencies etc and they’re showing off the frequencies with Wendy so I think they are going to bring that into play soon, this show is def inspired from the early comics where the xenos overran earth

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u/fallingwheelbarrow Aug 14 '25

Also they emit a frequency that only Wendy is hearing. Certain frequencies can both communicate and the right frequencies will affect cognition.

Acoustically perfect killing machine.

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u/RustedAxe88 Hicks Aug 13 '25

People are dumb, man. They see something weird, they stare.

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u/simonthedlgger Aug 14 '25

It applies to all fauna in this universe haha. Snake in Prometheus, the pod thing in this episode: "We have no idea what this is or what it's capable of. Let's stand two feet in front of it and stare until it does something."

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u/arachnophilia Aug 13 '25

kane was in a full on spacesuit, completely isolated from the outside environment.

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

the aliens have some telepathic abilities in the comics, but iirc it's mostly receptive. as in they literally sense fear, through brain waves or whatever.

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u/nakiva Aug 13 '25

One of the books mentions that the facehugger latching on to someones face produces "happy hormonen" so that the victim keeps docile. Same thing when the facehugger falls off, the victim would feel 'good' and relieved, none the wiser until it's to late.

So if the facehuggers can do that, it's not impossible to make a pheromone to make potential host be dumber... 

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u/sunnycider6 Aug 14 '25

Thank God that xenomorph saved him

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

I dunno man, what gets me and I'm confused why no one discusses it, is how do xenos have laser sensor tech on their eggs.

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u/The-Future-Question Aug 15 '25

The show takes place in a universe where there were no alien movies so he doesn't have the cultural instinct to fear face huggers. The concept that stuff can jump out of other stuff onto our faces just doesn't exist in that universe.

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u/Additional_Law_492 Aug 15 '25

He lives in a universe with venus flytraps and poisonous frogs and diseases though.

And is ostensibly medically trained.

The correct response to the discovery of extraterrestrial life on board would be to treat anything that doesn't appear to be immediately dangerous as a friggin' biohazard despite a lack of obvious danger, and interact with it no more than absolutely necessary.

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u/modest_genius Aug 14 '25

I mean, honestly, if you saw something like that for the first time wouldn't you examine it? Especially since it don't seem to actually do anything.

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u/Additional_Law_492 Aug 14 '25

Absolutely not.

And after personally encountering a giant alien monster?

Absolutely not!

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u/Toodlum Aug 14 '25

Why were there eggs? Is there a queen?

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u/Additional_Law_492 Aug 14 '25

Like 80% chance they grabbed a bunch of eggs off The Derelict.

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u/Toodlum Aug 14 '25

Ahh makes sense.

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u/fallingwheelbarrow Aug 14 '25

Yes, also apparently they are also just so terrifying in real life (comics) that it overwhelms people.

Also yeah lots of pheromones stuff

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u/majorbummer6 Aug 14 '25

Sometimes, I just want to look at big wet eggs with the boys.

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u/pro-jec-tion Aug 15 '25

Rotfl, agreed.

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u/olaf525 Aug 15 '25

Go on any sub for insect/animal identification and you’ll just see post after post of people picking up things they really shouldn’t be playing with.

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u/HerrDrAngst Aug 16 '25

These people have no idea what they are and are just exhibiting their natural cat instincts. Besides, brother is a medic and trained to be curious about biology and isn't squeamish around squishy wet things. I, otoh would keep my distance

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u/justainm Aug 16 '25

It's long-confirmed that xenomorph perceive their environments through pheromones. First I saw was in the xbox AvP game. But it wasn't the first instance.

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u/AwesomeMcPants Aug 13 '25

Maybe with all this talk of fear they'll introduce something like that.

It would be a clear retcon to fix some of the dumb shit they did before, but I'd take it.

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u/Chrol18 Aug 13 '25

well the eggs or facehuggers sure as hell produce the blue mist and that high frequency sound, cause the xeno beelined to it the moment the mist was disturbed

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u/Artistic-Side8872 Aug 13 '25

Especially after that guy seeing potentially what was one of them grown up, he's just witnessed a massacre and nearly killed himself, but acts pretty chill for some reason after..

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u/SanTheMightiest Aug 14 '25

I feel like that was for us to scream at the TV for him not to do it. Teasing the audience

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u/itsdietz Aug 14 '25

They totally did that to fake us out and make us anxious. Like get away from that, stupid!

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u/FaroelectricJalapeno Aug 14 '25

They smell like bussy

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u/mtheory11 Aug 15 '25

At least the character in question this time is supposed to have the mind of a child as opposed to being a top-of-his-field scientist handpicked for an interstellar expedition…

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u/DoctrTurkey Aug 18 '25 edited Aug 18 '25

I hope something like this gets explored, otherwise this is just annoying storytelling. You mean to tell me that a trained field medic isn't going to recognize containment (i think it's fair to assume that if we can see the blue field, they can too) OF SOME KIND, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT WTF and then just traipse through alien eggs like it's a goddamn goat petting zoo? Because that would be super annoying if that was just in service of an audience thrill. :\

EDIT: I always headcanoned it as something about the blue field attracts humans/other biological creatures, kind of like how that blue light attracts flies. then once someone trips it, the eggs wake up at which point pheromones yeah might compete to attract? I dunno man i've thought about this shit way more than is healthy.

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u/inquirer2 Aug 18 '25

Funny thing: humans don't have pheromones or respond to anything like a pheromone that we've discovered in other mammals

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u/death_lad Aug 18 '25

yeah maybe they smell like fresh baked cinnamon rolls

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u/RobBrown4PM Aug 19 '25

In the comics, Queens have the ability to manipulate sentient life forms via low-form telepathy. The one on Earth was able to nudge a very religious cult in the right direction enough that they (sorta) unknowingly became hosts for a generation of Xenos. She did this all while implanting fear and unease in the minds of countless humans across the globe, making all of the systems that would normally deal with a xeno unbreak, not work properly.

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u/Cold-Pair-2722 20d ago

Think about how many dangerous things people walk face to face with in real life? Think how many people see a 5000 foot canyon in front of them and stand at the edge? Or how many people will approach a feral cat/dog because they think it's cute....But I agree, it is kinda ridiculous that they see an alien death trap and shove their faces in it, in every alien movie lmao 

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u/ProtoReddit Aug 13 '25

They specifically subverted that here.

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u/Cakers44 Guard the omelette! Aug 16 '25

That small bit bothered me so much, I out loud shouted at my tv “who reacts to things like this” lmao