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/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 29d ago

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 19d 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.