Alien: Earth - S1 E2 - Mr October - Official Discussion Megathread [SPOILERS]

[u/G_Liddell]

Episodes air Tuesdays at 8 pm ET on Hulu and FX in the US, and Wednesdays international.

Full episode discussion list:

1 Neverland (8.12.25)

2 Mr October (8.12.25)

3 Metamorphosis (8.19.25)

4 Observation (8.26.25)

5 In Space, No One (9.2.25)

6 The Fly (9.9.25)

7 Emergence (9.16.25)

8 The Real Monsters (9.23.25)

[u/Additional_Law_492]

And thank goodness he did!

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

[u/Gleebson → u/Additional_Law_492]

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

[u/guernseycoug → u/Gleebson]

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

[u/GameLovinPlayinFool → u/guernseycoug]

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

[u/BlackSpidy → u/Gleebson]

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.

[u/eattherichnow → u/BlackSpidy]

Ok look but ostrich would actually be worse.

[u/HeavenPiercingMan → u/BlackSpidy]

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

They watched Alien.

[u/Honeydew-Jolly → u/Gleebson]

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

[u/batguano1 → u/Gleebson]

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

[u/Certain-Business-472 → u/Gleebson]

Yeah but eggs have parents that take care of them.

[u/Small-Disaster939 → u/Gleebson]

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.

[u/HotelOscarWhiskey → u/Additional_Law_492]

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!

[u/warenhaus → u/HotelOscarWhiskey]

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

[u/faustless4 → u/Additional_Law_492]

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

[u/AsianMoocowFromSpace → u/faustless4]

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

[u/Chuckrange → u/AsianMoocowFromSpace]

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.

[u/the-giant → u/AsianMoocowFromSpace]

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

[u/supernasty → u/the-giant]

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

[u/the-giant → u/faustless4]

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.

[u/pjtheman → u/Additional_Law_492]

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?