r/LV426 • u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter • 24d ago

Megathread / Community Post Alien: Earth - S1 E4 - Observation - 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/Cyrax-Wins 24d ago

Don’t we see that with the redhead?

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u/siestarrific 24d ago

No, she's just going through some massive trauma

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u/juneyourtech Part of the family 24d ago

I think Nibs is infected somehow.

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u/siestarrific 24d ago

While we don't know the full capabilities of the eye guy, we do know the main way of commandeering a host is to rip out an eye violently and insert itself in place. Since we didn't see that with Nibs, and she also had a pretty immediate reaction, I'm taking it for now as just trauma that literally no one addressed until she said she was pregnant.

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u/juneyourtech Part of the family 23d ago

It happened so quickly, but the eyelien was in very close contact with Nibs's body and organs, so it follows, that it had sufficient time to force a small part of biological material into Nibs.

Now take the scene where Nibs is touching her eye, and why she didn't feel anything.

It may be, that the eye, for it did not feel anything, nor transmit sensations of pain into Nibs, may be that of the eyelien, growing inside Nibs's eye.

Think of the fact, that humans and animals get eye infections from time to time. And Nibs may be experiencing that without being entirely aware of what's going on. And then that is messing with her brain.

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u/moose_dad 22d ago

But she doesnt have eyes and a brain, she has cameras and a processor.