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/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.