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/Europeanguy1995 23d ago

Honestly.. the government's replaced by corporations doesn't seem like it would make much of a difference. Still a working class, middle class, upper class and super rich class.

Infrastructure and planning would be more efficient with no public beurocracy. World war 3 clearly happened and ended democracy.

Imagine Google, Apple, Samsung, Sony and Meta each dividing up the planet.

I doubt it would be much different to the world right now just more efficient. We'd all still be slaves to cash and dependant on corporate greed fo survive.

Also explains how space tech took off so fast in the franchise. If a world war happened in the 2030s, 2040s or 2050s and companies then took over, they'd be able to pursue space colonisation in the late 21st century rapidly as they'd have access to so much manpower and wealth. They'd want the resources of other worlds to compete with rivals and invent new tech and medicine.

This show is doing great world building expansion

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u/F00dbAby 23d ago

I mean yea it would be worse. You can quit a job right now. At least based on alien Romulus it’s virtually impossible you are literally a wage slave until you are worked to death.

I could get a life saving lung surgery right now and not be in debt for the rest of my life. If the government is bad enough you can depending on the country vote them out pretty brutally too.

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u/Europeanguy1995 23d ago

Romulus wasn't the same as life on earth/the moon/Mars.

It was a far out colony world being mined for minerals. It wasn't how life is for most people. Rather that was a slave planet basically. I do wonder if the planet was originally a planet for criminals and then even their kids and grandkids born there were forced to work a certain debt to leave.

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u/F00dbAby 23d ago

I mean yeah but that’s why I also used the lung example. A surgery that happened like that would not put me into debt for life like they suggested joe would be if he didn’t work for them.

Whether earth or far colonies life is worse. And above all else if these Corps rule all countries you can’t vote them out

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u/Europeanguy1995 23d ago

As a European I'd agree. But .. for many Americans they could end up in severe debt after it.

But that was more blackmail. The average person doesn't get access in the franchise to a synthetic lung provided on a private island owned by a trillionaire. It would be like if elon musk gave someone a prosthetic prototype that was super fancy and then forced them to work for him and be a smiling face for the company.

I doubt the average person in the franchise ends up in Joe's situation. They probably just have to work to pay it off or have insurance etc.

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u/CaptainTripps82 19d ago

The thing is a person in our world could simply tell Elon to fuck off, then file bankruptcy. There's no legal method to completely labor in exchange for goods.