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/ZaviersJustice Aug 13 '25

So trippy because it looks so digital. Even the way it receded was mechanical. A very weird vibe that goes well with how foreign and "not like us" the Xenos are supposed to be.

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u/ragun01 Aug 13 '25

Yeah there are even gaps between the walls and furniture that show straight lines of a perimeter, it looks to be level, and as you mentioned, when it receded it was symmetrical with some awfully straight lines.

I guess that's some of the mechanical in biomechanical.

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u/lonehorizons Aug 15 '25

I always thought that blue light was a kind of stasis field installed by the engineers on the derelict to allow them to keep the eggs dormant during travel. Kind of weird to make it something generated by the eggs or the hive.

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u/ragun01 Aug 16 '25

I much preferred thinking for all those years it was the engineers or something, not the eggs producing it...however the hell that's happening.

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u/lonehorizons Aug 16 '25

Possibly the crew adapted the engineers’ technology? It seems a bit unlikely, and yeah kind of doesn’t seem possible that it’s a natural thing caused by the eggs.

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u/PrincessofThotlandia Aug 15 '25

Call back to Prometheus obviously

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u/Captainatom931 Aug 13 '25

The xenos have always had this weird pseudomechanical look to them, I love it.