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Alien: Earth

1.3 - I liked it again, taking Wendy out for most of the episode was a good move for showing more of the other characters and establishing them. I like that all the kids have something going on. The scene where Kirsh and Morrow faced off was great and I'm guessing they'll have a big fight by the end (the two boys hiding behind Kirsh was cute.) Boy is giving Michael Jackson vibes (I'M NOT SAYING HE WAS GUILTY, MENTY.)

So could Wendy actually feel the facehugger's pain at the end or was she just reacting to the noises it was making that only she could hear? Also, they put the cute little alien tadpole in Hermit's lung? That's fucked-up.
 
So it's 2120, and the sister ship of the nostramo has come back from a 65 year long mission.

So I guess we can build those type of ships 30 years from now.
 
You could just stop watching since you seem determined not to like it.

1.4 - It's a slower episode but everything is getting ready to explode. Kirsh not telling anyone he's listening in on Morrow and Slightly is intseresting. Is he going to trick Slightly into killing Boy?
Poor Nibs is just completely insane now.
Ade makes a good corporate bastard.
The sheep trying to walk around on two legs was creepy.
 
The Irish guy who's always in everything is good at playing an Irish guy and an Irish guy controlled by an eyeball alien.
So Teng wasn't a synth (judging by his scream) and just a guy who liked wanking over frozen women.
Maybe the eyeball monster will get a rematch with the xenomorph (well, the new one) before the end of the season.
How did Boy manage to talk live with the engineer? He's so rich he can defy relativity?
 
TOO SCARY FOR ME. TOO MANY SCARES. Srsly, I don't know what is even going on because I am only listening. I don't like flashbacks anyway.

It was good to get a little of the cyborg's backstory.
 
Been super busy this past week so just catching up now. Not reading anything yet because I still have the latest episode to watch, but I thought I’d give a few thoughts on 3 & 4.

Obviously, you can’t have alien jump scares every 10 minutes. It wouldn’t work, and it wouldn’t be interesting. So the other threads have to pull their weight. The twisted Peter Pan allegory does, and Mr. Intensity himself, Morrow, off on his twisted side quest, has me hooked too.

One thing I really hoped they’d explore (though I had no idea if they actually would) is whether the kids’ minds were truly transferred into the synth bodies, or if what we’re seeing are just copies. If it’s the latter, then the kids actually died and that’s pretty messed up. (I know they were terminal, but it’s still ethically weird ground.)
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Well, I asked and I received. It’s now confirmed they don’t actually know if (to paraphrase) “We made AI that thinks it’s human, or we killed six kids.” Which, yeah, is a pretty bad predicament to be in.

The girl thinking she was pregnant was suitably ominous too. Not just the idea of super strength in the hands of a mentally ill kid (or an AI convinced it is), but the whole existential weight of it.

These episodes were noticeably slower and more about setup for what’s to come. But we already got plenty of good old-fashioned alien-killing in the first two to set the hook, so it’s fine to ease back now. It’s a bit like GLOW: Alison Brie flashes you in the first episode to make sure you’re watching, but you stay for the story. Weak analogy? I don't care lol.

If I had a critique, it’d be some of the back-to-back monologuing and moustache-twirling. It's a bit heavy-handed. But it's minor.

I’ll come back and drop my thoughts on Ep. 5 later which I expect will ramp things up quite a bit more.
 
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