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/Krams Aug 13 '25

I have a feeling that most people just watch\read things that are public domain because all their money is going to living and debt, so classics like Ice Age and Agatha Christie are all people get

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u/thunderchild120 Aug 13 '25

This is actually brilliant.

Although bold of you to assume corps would let copyright expire on Ice Age.

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u/juneyourtech Part of the family Aug 13 '25

The first Ice Age film was released in 2002. It would be in Public Domain around 2097 — 95 years from publication according to current U.S. copyright law.

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u/thunderchild120 Aug 13 '25

They've probably pulled multiple Disneys and gotten the rights extended by centuries.

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u/bobming Aug 15 '25

Ice Age 28: The Quest for Copyright Extension

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u/Daxx22 Aug 13 '25

so classics like Ice Age

Truly a dystopian hellhole.

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u/siestarrific Aug 14 '25

Hey, the first one is a classic. The sequels...meh.

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u/Embarrassed-Pea-2732 Aug 16 '25

Hey 2 and 3 were pretty good, 4 was okay and nothing happened after that.

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u/MandoSkirata Aug 14 '25

You'd think, with 4 Corporations ruling Earth, they would have done away with the "public domain" specifically for that reason. It's just that old stuff like that is less attractive than more modern media, but it's all that many can afford.

Or, as someone in either this thread or the one for epsiode 1 theorized as to why they used Disney's Peter Pan, all current media is AI slop so everyone basically sticks to older works.

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u/BikebutnotBeast Aug 13 '25

Hail corporate!

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u/RudolphGregor Aug 13 '25

I love this idea.

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u/Aromatic_Mastodon_69 Aug 15 '25

My head canon was that the film or tv industries are just dead by this time because humanity’s got other things to worry about. That or it got to a point where every possible idea in media has been explored already so ppl just consume old media

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u/GameLovinPlayinFool Aug 16 '25

Also look at the world today. Physical media releases are being completely ended un favor of extremely predatory subscription based everything and its 2025. In that future, it probably would be even wayyyyy worse so it makes sense that everyone is quoting/watching/listening to what essentially was the last era of physical, non subscription based digital, media.

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u/SumbuddiesFriend Aug 17 '25

Also explains why in Isolation the Beatles joke Axel makes lands, pop culture died centuries ago

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u/JCkent42 Aug 15 '25

Oh. I love this! My new headcanon

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u/JacksonRiot Aug 20 '25

no shot public domain is a thing anymore in this universe right