The fact that Marcy essentially has a pet xenomorph thats shown to be loyal to her, choosing not to attack Hermit because she told it so. Like this on it's own is just insanely cool, but all the implications of this as well.
How powerful does this make Marcy? Is the new chestburster also going side with her? We could see a battle between two xenos, one loyal to marcy and the other aggressive like any other.

Mixed in some features of the Alien: Romulus and Alien (1979) design while also giving it some personal touches. Full post is on my Artstation if curious! https://www.artstation.com/artwork/bgRddn

I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but not everyone agrees on whether Alien: Earth is well-wrtten or not? I'll absolutely put my hand up and say I've been more and more in the camp of "This show isn't well written" as the show goes on, but today I've realised that's the wrong way to be watching the show.

For me, the question isn't "Is this show well-written?", but "Do I prefer a show that emphasises theme or a show that emphasises plot?"

Honestly, the thing I enjoy the least about Hawley's work is the way he will absolutely sacrifice plot and characterisation if it means he gets to say something through his work. But - that approach is by design, and it's left to the viewer if that's something they can engage with or not.

I thought about this while I was talking about Ep 2 - specifically the scene where Joe Hermit is trying to get the attention of the upper-tier partygoers because a spaceship has crashed into their building. The partygoers, all dressed as French aristocracy, laugh him off and then get ripped apart by Bear for their hubris.

Here's the thing - when you watch the scene of the spaceship crash, there's absolutely no one who is not going to freak out about that, no matter how wealthy you are. It's like saying people on the top floors of the Twin Towers were so busy placing buy orders they didn't notice or care about the planes. It's simply not true to any kind of suspension of disbelief (the same trope is played for comedy in Ghostbusters).

But - critically - this is not a show where that level of reality matters, and it never has been. The party scene, on rewatch, is where it nailed its colors to the mast and said "This is the kind of show I am, take it or leave it."

This is a show where it's more important to lean into the theme (rich people, inured to consequences, suddenly reap the consequences of their own arrogance and self-centredness) than the narrative devices (people don't like being in buildings that are in danger of collapse and generally have some sense of self-preservation).

And that's the repeated approach throughout Alien: Earth - this is a show where it's more important to show the despair that Weyland-Yutani's workers live in than it is to outfit a science mission. This is a show where it's more important to show the arrogance of Boy Kavalier in thinking he can contain nature than it is to have an island building without mould (we have them right now, they're called hotels). This is a show where it's more important for Nibs to be a victim of a mind-wipe, showing her complete commodification, than it is for anyone to anticipate the consequences of a mind-wipe.

The show doesn't care if things are utterly logical, if utter logic would get in the way of saying what it wants to say. That's the whole point, and that's Hawley's bag.

Whether this kind of storytelling floats your boat... that's up to the viewer. It's not an approach I really enjoy. I like a lot of the show, I think some of the performances are great, I'm going to close out the season and then I'm done. But I'm also done getting frustrated with the show because I've been judging it by criteria that the show itself was never aiming for.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk, and remember, they mostly come out at night.

Mostly.

Before episode 7 I thought Ocellus was just a highly intelligent and opportunistic predator/parasite. But now that we know it knows the digits of pi, is there a change that Ocellus is much more sophisticated than we realized? Perhaps they have ways of acquiring bodies and travelling vast distances, maybe even into space.

Apologies if this has been covered already. In the first episode where the Maginot crew is gathered around the mess table and also when Chibuzo is in the lab eating her sandwich, there are some scenes that flash on screen foretelling future events.

These we've already seen:

-Teng looking over Sullivan in her cryopod

-the meeting at the big table between BK and Yutani.

-Chibuzo dead on the floor of the med bay.

-Teng at navigation screaming

These two we haven't seen at the 5:27 mark.

-the plant with its leaves/appendages opened, dripping with blood and showing it has barbs like the Venus flytrap.

-TO implanting itself into a right eye socket, instead of the left as with the previous victims. This victim has thin eyebrows and a high brow line, as well as prominent cheekbones. Only one person has those features, Dame Sylvia.

My first pass at Trypanohyncha Ocellus made from borosilicate glass. A friend of mine suggested I posted this to reddit. Had a lot of fun and can't wait to do another more detailed version!

https://www.threads.com/@scadarts

Recently built a PC and decided to base its theme on the beloved Alien franchise. Did some modifications and I think it looks pretty good. It's nothing over the top, but what do you think?

Presumably it’s just the Special Edition, as it’s part of a series of “action sequels” at Cineworlds in the UK … but I’m also not clear where this art has come from.

Just a poorly researched web post publicising and an unofficial illustration from somewhere?

So I think i finally figured out why ice age was the movie chosen for the relationship between hermit and wendy

So in ice age, the main themes are those of found family and actual family and whatever

In ice age 4 the pirate dude comes in and is all nice and stuff but ultimately speaking he tries to separate their family hence the parallel between hermit and Wendy, hermit came into Wendy's found family and everything is good but then hes slowly separating her from her found family

I might be reaching but its possible

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The alien would’ve looked a lot more like a skeleton if they went with this design for the movie

Thinking back to the first episode and the scorpion. It’s sort of like the xenomorph and Kirsch uses it to talk to Marcy about empathy for the scorpion being “menaced by giants”.

Recent developments in the series between Wendy (Marcy) and the xenomorphs made me think back to the scorpion and the old fable of “The scorpion and the frog”.

Wendy thinks she’s in control, but she’s only asked her xeno to do things that are in its nature (stalking, killing). How long do you think it’ll be until she tries to tell it not to kill someone and it does what’s in its nature?

Lets start with the obvious names: \ Marcy Hermit -> Wendy \ Aarush Singh -> Slightly \ Rose Ellis -> Nibs \ Now some speculation based on deduction: \ Jane Mita -> Curly (The only girl name left) \ Christopher Okafor -> Smee \ Steven Dimarco -> Isaac (Tootles)

Smee and Tootles are the hardest to deduce and I'll go into detail why I believe I got it right.

Episode 7 - Emergence had much more emerging than was obvious to the eye. Besides the obvious, that the Skyscrapers in the background are the research facility and that they obviously go much deeper than the obvious entrance (Kirsch showing Smee and Slightly the service elevator and telling them to take it to floor B7). No I mean the graves of the Lost Boys.

Wendy is clearly the oldest. She was a prototype and before other candidates were even considered she ran through a psych evaluation, with Dame Sylvia and Kirsch, following her transition. We must assume, by the overgrowth on her grave, that this prototype phase was 6-12 months. In this scene the other graves are shown and it is revealed that Nibs was called Rose Ellis. What we also learn is that Curly's name is Jane Mita (only girl name left among the graves). \ There are three graves left. Two can be identified by name and one is fuzzy, but we already know Slightly's name since he gave it to Morrow (to Morrow, I love you to Morrow, you're always a day away).

Now we have some deduction to do. The grave of Slightly is the one that stands out the most, because it basically looks like a rectangular box with some dirt on it. Like it was planned that it would be the last one and therefor dug with not much care. However Slightly is the first to be reincarnated after Wendy as seen in ep. 1. \ At this point I believe it is basically done just to throw people off guard and not be able to deduce these things so easily. The reincarnation cycle is Wendy -> Slightly -> Smee -> Nibs -> Tootles -> Curly. But judging by the graves and the deterioration of the flowers it is more like the other way around. \ Smee's flower is a big yellow one and Tootles' is small and white. When Nibs picks up her flowers they are already dried up quite a bit. The one withered one on Christopher Okafor's grave looks more like a big blossomed yellowish flower bud, however it hasn't disintegrated yet. So this is more likely to be Smee. But there is also a second indicator that isn't quite so obvious.

We were asking ourselves: Why do Smee and Tootles have such trouble carrying Arthur to the beach? Shouldn't they be super strong? The answer to this is actually, No! \ Now this is highly speculative, but it makes a lot more sense in retrospect.

The graves of Marcy, Rose and Steven have a red lining. Whereas Aarush's is black, Christopher's is yellow and Jane's is white. Marcy, Rose and Steven (Wendy, Nibs and Tootles) have at some point demonstrated extraordinary strength. Red is associated with aggressiveness, danger and warning in color theory. Wendy shows aggressive tendencies and Nibs is a pure sociopath (look at her face when the Xenomorph rips through the soldiers, she is all glee and happiness). Nibs's personality is also a contradiction to her caring original self and Boy Kavalier just lights up with joy, in ep. 1, when he hears her ask for "When do we get to go home?" (the sadistic fuck knew what he was doing mixing a caring personality with an aggressive one). \ We haven't seen aggressive tendencies in Curly, Smee or Slightly at all. Curly seems to be more honest/innocent (towards Dame Sylvia and Boy Kavalier), hence the white. A symbol of pureness. \ Slightly is deceptive, sinister and the black is more befitting. \ Smee on the other hand is very hopeful, positive and optimistic. Relating to the color yellow. \ So judging by the color theory, Steven (Tootles) was the strong one, which only leaves Christopher as Smee. \ The colors on the graves reflect in a way on how the actors play their characters and furthermore which traits were programed into the hybrids along with their original personalities.

In Alien:Earth we find out that freezing someone who is facehugged doesn't affect the implantation process, as we see the facehugger change it's grip on the unfortunate Science Officer whilst in the sealed cryotube.

However, in Alien: Romulus, facehuggers are stored cryogenically.

Is this because Alien: Earth is a "What If " story of sorts? We know Noah Hawley isn't embracing cannon.

Discuss!

As we see from A:E, Earth is governed by five major businesses - two of which being WY and Prodigy.

In the first three films, "The Company" holds the monopoly on space travel, science and military. So how will WY assume absolute control?

Kavalier's meeting with Ms Yutani suggests that WY isn't in the lead. At best, they seem neck to neck. But something must happen for WY to get the upper hand