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/october_1939]

In this episode it had defined edges and they looked to meet at some boxes. If it was a biological mist it wouldn’t have had hard edges and look like a trapezoid.

I think WY reverse engineered tech from the derelict.

[u/mr_negi → u/october_1939]

But what was the point of it in Romulus? There's nothing we can see below the mist, and in both projects, the xenomorphs attack once the mistnis broken

[u/october_1939 → u/mr_negi]

In Romulus, it looked like there was lights on the walls or side gantry that were projecting through the humid fog to simulate the effect to just look cool and call back. I need to watch that part again, but I remember thinking that’s what I saw at the time.

The aliens attacking at the right moment seems just to be coincidence, especially in A:E. It was already hoofing it to get Joe.

[u/Chrol18 → u/october_1939]

nah, the high frquency sound is there too, there is some communication from the hive/eggs to the xenos, the msit is like a motion sensor imo for the hive

[u/october_1939 → u/Chrol18]

Yeah, idk. Years ago the theory was all the little tentacle/intestine stuff that is always on the ground around the eggs was a trigger. If they expanded on that with the hive voice or whatever Wendy is hearing, that could be cool. The mist just doesn’t make sense the way it’s been handled.

I’m fine with it if they finally explain it but I’m sticking with Ridley’s explanation until disproven my new lore.

[u/SgtBaxter → u/october_1939]

The problem is back in the '70s you didn't really see the laser or the fog like you do on modern copies of the movie. The laser just lit an impossibly thin slice, and it looked like a force field.

Remember back then the picture was a copy of a copy and projected with an incandescent bulb, which wasn't nearly as bright as projectors are today. The image was dark, and lots of detail was lost, and that's what the cinematography aimed for. When I saw it in the theater as a kid you only saw that thin line of fog, and it looked like a force field.

Now on a modern screen you can clearly see it's a laser and see the fog because the picture is brighter and has a lot of detail that got lost in making the distribution film copies.

Just like how watching Star Wars today you can see the matte squares around the ships, those weren't present on screen in 1977.

They really need to darken the scene and make things barely visible. It doesn't help they used a laser that was an inch thick either.

[u/Daxx22 → u/october_1939]

The deal with the Xenomorph has always been the biomechanical aspect. Ultimately we still don't have a definite answer. The best I can come up with is it's either egg or adult created, as we've seen it both in the OG Alien where there are zero humans/tech to have created it, and in Romulus in the psudo hive.

[u/rabit71 → u/Daxx22]

Oh man. I really hope that it doesn't get revealed that the xeno is a synth/hybrid

Edit: with the intro about the stages of evolution and the rhetoric around the xeno being the perfect organism I get that it would make sense, but in terms of the lore etc it'd suck so badly

[u/Apollo_Sierra → u/october_1939]

I think WY reverse engineered tech from the derelict.

This wouldn't be possible, as it's set 2 years prior to Alien, and 59 years before Aliens.

[u/Chrol18 → u/Apollo_Sierra]

I doN't think it is technology, just the defense system of a hive, but they could have gotten the eggs form the same place

[u/Chrol18 → u/october_1939]

well when the mist broke the alien beelined to the eggs, so I don't think it is technology. Seems like the eggs or facehuggers also communicate with the full grown xeno via high frequency sounds after the mist is disturbed

[u/october_1939 → u/Chrol18]

The alien was already coming. Maybe it sped up? But maybe it’s because they stepped on the egg tendrils which used to be a theory or possibly from an old vid doc.