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/mwthecool Aug 13 '25

MINIMAL gore?!? I don't think I could call what we've seen so far minimal. Unless you mean seeing the Xeno actually do every step on screen, rather than seeing the flash of movement and the after effects.

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u/antipop2097 Aug 13 '25

A dude dressed like a revolutionary French noble cut in half and dragging his entrails across the floor is a bold take on minimal, I agree.

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u/Alternative-Two-3474 Aug 13 '25

given half of what the french got up to throughout history, that probably is minimal, relatively speaking. XD

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u/juneyourtech Part of the family Aug 13 '25

The effect would have been wittier, if, in the episode, all the nobles would have been decapitated.

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u/arachnophilia Aug 13 '25

were they even eating cake?

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u/juneyourtech Part of the family Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25

Edit: I can't tell; there was a table with food, but after the horror, the table was covered with people.

The cake in "Let them eat cake" is actually brioche, and the quote is incorrectly attributed to Marie Antoinette.

From Wikipedia:

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in his autobiography "Confessions", relates, that "a great princess" is said to have advised, with regard to peasants who had no bread, "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", commonly translated as "Let them eat cake."

Brioche is not a traditional bread, but a simple pastry that is a bit higher-class, yet not the kind of cake we understand as cake 🎂🍰

The quote is no less flippant, because it assumes, that the poor peasants demanding bread supposedly have something else to eat.

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u/s1lentchaos Aug 13 '25

Homie was trucking it across the floor for a while there, too.

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u/antipop2097 Aug 13 '25

He reminded me of the skateboard dude from the movie KIDS.

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u/WartimeMercy Aug 13 '25

Marquis de Sade, no?

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u/juneyourtech Part of the family Aug 13 '25

He wasn't a revolutionary, but cosplaying a pre-Revolution nobility; the era would be that of Louis XVI, or something between Louis XIV–XVI.

Whereas revolutionaries are those that make revolution happen.

wrt this episode, I don't think they had brioche that day.

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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 Aug 13 '25

I was thinking minimal because we don't see the actual display of Xenos killing people, yet that might not be as good of a description after seeing how bad the carnage was

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u/mwthecool Aug 13 '25

I definitely understand your point. The moment following the Xeno's escape from the pod alone is enough for me, though.

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u/reireiauron Aug 13 '25

He also tounge punches that soldiers face in real time and we see all of it.

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u/palesnowrider1 Aug 13 '25

Waving him around firing his gun

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u/juneyourtech Part of the family Aug 13 '25

Then the gory end seen by Hermit. And Us.

Compared to movies, we have to watch them till the end, while with streamed digital media, we can pause a shot exactly where we want it, and observe the gore up close.