Alien Earth Open Spoiler Thread

so what the hell is the little octopus eyeball supposed to be doing exactly? it takes over the host via it's brain cord to the eyeball and then what?
 
Grildon Tundy said:
It's been a while since I watched Fargo the TV series. I remember thinking it was well made and written. But did characters in that make idiotic decisions? I know some in the movie did.

What I'm getting at is that maybe Noah Hawley learned he could lean on characters making dumb decisions to move a story forward from Fargo, but that doesn't translate as well to characters in the Alien universe.
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Even Alien relied on characters making dumb decisions, but still believable, like everyday worker dumb decisions.

From Aliens onward I think it started to be more than just dumb everyday decisions, I mean, from what point do these decisions become more than dumb and just straight idiotic to even laughable?
 
I couldn't even make it through the first episode. The female lead is like nails on a chalkboard to me. I started souring on the show the minute she did the "UGH WHAT ARE THESE BOOBS?!?" bit.

To those of you still watching though, I genuinely hope it gets better for your sakes.
 
Pejo said:
I couldn't even make it through the first episode. The female lead is like nails on a chalkboard to me. I started souring on the show the minute she did the "UGH WHAT ARE THESE BOOBS?!?" bit.

To those of you still watching though, I genuinely hope it gets better for your sakes.
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I'm just watching the show due to eventual shit going down and the body horror 👀
 
Nocty said:
so what the hell is the little octopus eyeball supposed to be doing exactly? it takes over the host via it's brain cord to the eyeball and then what?
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The writers don't know either, but somehow its highly intelligent for making a goat stand up on its back legs lol
 
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My biggest problem is not the weird behavior of the Xenomorph or how it seems to be a sci-fi drama with some aliens, but the lack of reactions of the characters.

People don't talk to each about the alien. It's like a causual friday and aliens is just some common thing. I can't remember one conversation between Joe and Wendy about the murder alien that has tried to kill them several times.

It's like nobody is scared and nobody cares.
 
kpopSuperstar said:
My biggest problem is not the weird behavior of the Xenomorph or how it seems to be a sci-fi drama with some aliens, but the lack of reactions of the characters.

People don't talk to each about the alien. It's like a causual friday and aliens is just some common thing. I can't remember one conversation between Joe and Wendy about the murder alien that has tried to kill them several times.

It's like nobody is scared and nobody cares.
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You've obviously never been in a life threatening situation before, it's scientifically proven that all you need to do is watch Ice Age or reminisce about 1 very specific baseball match from decades ago and all your mental health issues will be resolved
 
Just watched episode 4 and it's probably the best one so far. I liked how creepy the redhead with her pregnancy was, completely unstable. I still think that the Indian dude with the Weyland-man is the weakest part of the show and would have preferred to have seen the inevitable fuckups to have originated from Prodigy itself only. But the whitehaired android intercepting the conversations makes that storyline a little bit better, especially if he just lets things happen for his own reasons. I also like that the scientist actually wants to do something and suspects that things are about to go apeshit in the future. I get so bored when every character in a show or movie acts super retarded and without any sense of self-preservation so this hints at somewhat skilled writers.

Right now I feel intrigued enough to keep watching the show and I hope it builds up to something exciting and worthwhile.
 
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The pacing is infuriatingly stupid. FX corpo twats. Editing for tiktok addicts. Couldn't make it past the first 15 minutes, pissed that I resubscribed to Disney plus for this.
 
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I actually missed episodes three and four so this is the perfect episode for me to get back into. I was hoping they would show us what happened on the ship.
 
Episode 5

Although it is a rehash of Alien, this episode is the most consistent - because it's not flitting between multiple stupid storylines on Earth, and just concentrating on one - the episode is actually interesting, but also very predictable

Ah, now we're getting to the interesting parts! The alien species, or at least the eye octopus, is smart enough to distract the scientists whilst the blood leech got loose, hoping it would lead to its own chance at escape

Mr teng...is a robot? Lots of background chatter about him being robotic. He knows about the empty cyro pod, missing crew, but doesn't raise it with anyone. Walks strange, makes weird noises

Is a saboteur a frenchman? 🤣 what an idiot lol

The writers need to learn how to respect the watchers time. The episode is an hour long, and they have a few slow interview sections just as things start getting interesting.... move the story forward please...

Actually interesting plot twists!

The xenomorph is the worst alien in this series. Its been dumbed down, its slower, makes stupid tactical decisions. This is the "perfect organism"? #notmyxeno

Actual good episode BUT, it hasn't moved the main plot forward at all, and we're another hour down, meaning that all the "interesting" stuff on Earth is going to get shifted into Series 2, so 3 more wasted hours

This episode was the perfect chance to show us the last 2 species and how they move, attack, feed, breed... and they didn't bother 🙄

Loved the eye octopus bits, even it scuttling across the camera lol

Is an arrow more dangerous than a missile in the future?

All the young/apprentice members of the crew are brain dead. The kid engineer has an IQ of a potato, the security kid wants to sweep the "zoo" room with a chair as a weapon

Letter to cyborg from his daughter about college - "I'm starting to look at schools" meaning what, she's 16? That letter looks and sounds like its written by an 8 year old

Leeches are called species 19 or Ticks in this episode. They are smart! Before they escape, the episode specifically shows the scientist eating that sandwich, and drinking from the container. They speculated that the best way to infect her is through one of these objects

Realistically, if those containers weren't secured properly, there wouldn't just be 1 small red light to warn you, there would be other visual clues (blinking light, computer screens with warnings) and audio cues too

"She said doodie" I see that the childish behaviour has also infected the episode without child synths 😒
"When life gives you food, eat. That's what my mum used to say" mate, your mum belongs in books next to other philosophers 🤣

Xenos can be tracked using Geiger counters from gamma radiation

Xeno wanted to put Mr Teng at ease, so provided a lovely light show before attacking him 🙃
 
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FatallyYours said:
Episode 5

So far....

Although it is a rehash of Alien, this episode is the most consistent - because it's not flitting between multiple stupid storylines, and just concentrating on one - the episode is actually interesting, if not predictable

Ah, now we're getting to the interesting parts! The alien species, or at least the eye octopus, is smart enough to distract the scientists whilst the blood leech got loose

Mr teng...is a robot
Is a saboteur a frenchman? 🤣

The writers need to learn how to respect the watchers time. The episode is an hour long, and they have a slow interview section just as things start getting interesting.... move the story forward please...

*still watching *
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I thought the octoeye was trying to warn her. Thinking in terms of the wild it has no reason to help a competitive species. Little guy was so cute banging on the glass. 🥹

I thought Teng was a synth from the first episode. One that is acting oddly but no one really knows how to deal with them because he is not human.
 
I don't care anymore about the moronic stuff and writing, a nostalgia episode, an Alien-dressed episode without the things that made that movie great, an episode that feels it isn't part of the show.

Lol at the eyeball infected human sitting on the back of the xeno and biting its neck. It was hilarious when it started to panic when the eye was on its head searching for its eyes I think
The xeno's movements are so weird, moving like a zombie one minute, the next it's like a puma, even so, that chick outran it, that whole interaction was weird.

The best thing so far is Yutani having a different wardrobe and hairdo every episode. Also, her Imperial Guar... sorry, bodyguards were top notch.
 
Episode 5 was great. For about 20 mins it felt like an Alien movie.

Wondering if the Ocellus is actually somehow a predator of Xenomorphs?

The way it instinctively began attacking it without hesitation on two occasions (once in the host body and once on its own) suggests it has experience with them.

The hijacking of the human host was slightly underwhelming but I suspect they are building up to what the Ocellus can do. Also, it's a female.
 
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Neff said:
I just wanna know why he's dancing all the time. Also he looks like a rubber dildo.
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The xeno in this episode is very weird. Its slow, much slower than weve ever seen a full sized xeno move before, it doesn't attack from advantageous positions or from the darkness, instead happy to square up to the woman, letting her grab her gun before flooring her, not impaling her or grabbing her

The CGI for the alien is bad in this episode too, looks like the CGI from Aliens³ with a blue shimmer to it

The practical effect Alien looks better, although the suit looks very green now ive looked at it again, but still moves like a retarded version of itself
 
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FinalBossWithTheMostPower said:
Wondering if the Ocellus is actually somehow a predator of Xenomorphs?

The way it instinctively began attacking it without hesitation on two occasions (once in the host body and once on its own) suggests it has experience with them
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This is an interesting concept!
Also may explain why the xeno has evolved or whatever to not have eye sockets, or at least external eye sockets for the ocellus to easily get control of it
 
FinalBossWithTheMostPower said:
Episode 5 was great. For about 20 mins it felt like an Alien movie.

Wondering if the Ocellus is actually somehow a predator of Xenomorphs?

The way it instinctively began attacking it without hesitation on two occasions (once in the host body and once on its own) suggests it has experience with them.

The hijacking of the human host was slightly underwhelming but I suspect they are building up to what the Ocellus can do. Also, it's a female.
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How do you know Eye Octopus is a female?

Just finished watching this one. Loved it which was a surprise due not usually liking flashback episodes
 
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt said:
How do you know Eye Octopus is a female?

Just finished watching this one. Loved it which was a surprise due not usually liking flashback episodes
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The female scientist describes it as a female. Something along the lines of "she's escaped"

It could just be a way to describe it though, like ships are always female
 
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FatallyYours said:
If there's one thing Joe knows, its how to sex an alien species, its his super power. It'll be shown off in series 6
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I noticed him calling the xeno a she back in ep 2, but that's really nothing compared to the piggyback riding and the xeno trying to break dance or what the hell are those moves.
 
Am I the only one who was annoyed with the xenomorph? the way it walked and swayed his head looked so weird.

The eye-alien is great, but I was slighty disappointed with what happened when it took someone over. I thought it would try and hide and mingle with others, that would be cool, instead it tried to run at people and choke them? and how could he hold unto a xenomorphs back? did it make the human body grow superpowers?

Also, did I see right? did the eye-alien talk to the xenomorph?

I hoped we would get some more information on how they caught the aliens and where they found them. But overall a decent episode that sets up the "corpo war" between Yutani and Prodigy.
 
TheGrat1 said:
I thought the octoeye was trying to warn her. Thinking in terms of the wild it has no reason to help a competitive species. Little guy was so cute banging on the glass. 🥹

I thought Teng was a synth from the first episode. One that is acting oddly but no one really knows how to deal with them because he is not human.
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This is what I got from the episode. The octoeye seems to be an enemy of xenomorphs.

Great episode. I'm enjoying the series so far.
 
Havoc2049 said:
This is what I got from the episode. The octoeye seems to be an enemy of xenomorphs.

Great episode. I'm enjoying the series so far.
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It's been confirmed its distracting the scientist, not warning her
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Question:
Do we think that the eye octopus/ocellus has its own base intelligence, that may or may not increase situationally depending on its current host, or that it retains some or all intelligence from every host its ever come into contact with?
 
FatallyYours said:
It's been confirmed its distracting the scientist, not warning her
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Question:
Do we think that the eye octopus/ocellus has its own base intelligence, that may or may not increase situationally depending on its current host, or that it retains some or all intelligence from every host its ever come into contact with?
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Where was that confirmed? some after the show podcast?
 
zaga said:
He was kind of correct !

Wiki:

"The English word derives from the French word saboter, meaning to "bungle, botch, wreck or sabotage"; it was originally used to refer to labour disputes, in which workers wearing wooden shoes called sabots interrupted production through different means"
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I don't think that lad has been correct about anything in his entire life 😅 can't even look after his pies the feckless idiot
 
Alien, Blade Runner, Idiocracy share the same fictional universe

5 megacorporations rule Earth with a handful of educated persons, department of education is abolished, robots do all the hard work, your everyday person is dumb as a brick
 
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All the talk about the xeno and the eyeball and how dangerous they are. But the blood bugs get the win for most dangerous to earth. They lay tons of eggs in water supplies and then anything that drinks the larvae die and then their bodies are hosts for tons of new bugs to form and spread. Oh and when you forcibly try to remove the new hatched bugs they spray a deadly gas cloud that seems to kill near instantly.

So yea. Earth is fucked with all those new hatched bugs that spread out to god knows where.
 
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