Welcome Back Alien fans!
What we have all waited five years for has finally come to pass! It is the year 2120, two years before the events in Alien (1979) and fifty-nine years before the events of Aliens (1986). Although drifting from canon, fans should consider that it is likely the events in Alien: Earth may have led to the findings of the Nostromo as delineated in the first and expanded in then second films of the franchise.
NOTE: What is rather odd about this brand new broadcast science fiction series is that after Alien fans have been waiting over five years for it, the three major Social Media associated accounts on X (Hulu, Disney Plus and FX Networks) have failed to regularly post or even interact with Alien: Earth fans. Nor do they post anything promoting the series each week. Critically, FX Networks has not even posted since the Shogun on November 02, 2023!
Everyone in the entertainment industry, including FX Networks owner Disney Studios knows that X is without doubt the most important social media entertainment platform in the world as indicated by their use of X to promote other movie and television franchise products. Fans we have questioned want to know why Alien: Earth is being virtually ignored on X?
Before you proceed with my analysis, we suggest reading Lori’s detailed analysis of the first two episodes that clearly highlights the good and non canon aspects concerning Alien: Earth. The good news is that FX Networks has elected to broadcast the full episodes that are over an hour in in length so that important elements are not left on the cutting room floor for commercials.
This time around we are once again on a ship owned by the corrupt Weyland-Yutani Corporation that has been seeking extra terrestrial life forms for several decades (at least). Named the USCSS Maginot, the ship was on a 65 year mission returning to Earth with several alien specimens that will manifest into disastrous results.
What all this means is that the Xenomorph Egg proto specimens may have been on the Alien: Earth Maginot ship from as early as the year 2093.
This is well before the evil corporate android David (Michael Fassbender) created the Xenomorphs in the year 2104 during Alien: Covenant (2017).
All this happened after the events that occurred subsequent to the events in the year 2093 onboard the ship in the film Prometheus (2012) some twenty-two years before Alien: Romulus in the year 2142.
Viewers will recall that this was when a ship full of Xenomorph’s, with the help of a sickening synthetic humanoid android named Rook (Ian Holm), planned to take over and infect all the passengers on the ship portrayed in Romulus, then ultimately bring the Xenomorph’s to Earth for the Weyland-Yutani Corporation!
Fortunately two survive Romulus in cryogenic stasis and escape on a cargo ship named Corbelan before the main ship named the Renaissance is destroyed by impact with the rings of planet LV-410 apparently killing the hideous Xenomorphs. All of this says nothing about the events of Alien Resurrection set some 261 years after Alien: Earth!
Confused yet Alien: Earth admirers? Most Alien franchise fans are justifiably perplexed. Especially since series creator Noah Hawley stated in an interview before the release of Alien: Earth that he was going to largely ignore references made in the outstanding Alien prequel movies Prometheus and Covenant. Many Alien franchise fans agree that not referencing the prequels makes no sense!
Too bad Mr. Hawley, TeamWHR has news for you! Alien franchise fans and WormholeRiders News Agency have done all the mathematics and figured out that what is about to happen is all tied together. Your job Mr. Hawley (Ethan Hunt – Mission Impossible pun intended) is to maintain the veracity and sanctity of the Alien canon, something that seems to have eluded yourself and franchise creator and Alien: Earth Executive Producer Ridley Scott to some extent so far.
This time around, we learn Weyland-Yutani Corporation has competition. In specific Prodigy Corporation is named that has created hybrid humans by implanting the consciousness of terminally ill young people into the synthetic human bodies. Utilizing the film classic Peter Pan, unfortunately pandering to Disney Studios in the process, by naming the main Alien: Earth characters Wendy (Sydney Chandler) and Peter Pan’s “Lost Boys”.
Nevertheless, although a bad move by the creators of Alien Earth in our humble opinion, the third episode titled Metamorphosis, returns to Alien canon for the most part to the sighs of relief from the viewers. This after a lackluster 590,000 viewers on FX Networks for the premiere episode and only 380,000 for the second episode. This is compared to 2.6 million viewers for the Nautilus science fiction series premiere that Disney cancelled prematurely. After producing and broadcasting the first season in the UK, fortunately for North American fans, this superb science fiction adventure series was sold to AMC-TV.
Although Alien: Earth now boasts 9.2 million premiere viewers on streaming service Hulu, this is a calculated estimate with no empirical evidence provided to substantiate their viewership. It is only calculated viewer time that has been provided to date, something easy to fabricate. Despite many reviews that (so far) discuss the potential of Alien Earth as a disappointment, we are keeping an open mind hoping the series continues to improve over time.
Additionally, as mentioned above, FX Networks, the creator of Alien: Earth, has not posted anything since November 2023 on X. Strangely, Hulu only recently began supporting the FX Networks flagship science fiction series on X with only three posts AND NONE on Disney Plus!
Many commenting on X hope that it turns out to be an accidental omission in this case up to now. However, even on Facebook, the official Alien: Earth posts are often liked by only a few hundred people, with only ~92,000 followers, not hundreds thousands of followers expected for a series with 9.2 million of viewers.
Metamorphosis:
This third episode invests in character development while returning to it’s Alien roots with a decisive battle between an escaped Xenomorphic alien creature and Wendy. Written by Noah Hawley and Directed by Dana Gonzales, it is confirmed that Weyland-Yutani‘s Morrow (Babou Ceesay) is the only survivor of the Maginot. Morrow unsuccessfully attempts to make a deal with Kirsh (Timothy Olyphont) regarding the cargo he has crash landed on an Earth island named Neverland. It is another Peter Pan Disney Studios pander that leaves many viewers scratching their heads in puzzlement.
Morrow escapes and reports to his boss Yutani (Sandra Yi Sencindiver) who is the daughter of the original Yutani who was in charge at Weyland-Yutani before he left on the Maginot sixty-five years earlier.
Morrow is ordered back to base, but convinces Yutani that he has a plan to salvage the extraterrestrial creature cargo he brought back to Earth. No doubt Morrow plans to steal it from Prodigy Corporation on Neverland research island complex. This element is left for future episodes to explore.
Meanwhile, Wendy is searching frantically against the orders of Kirsh. When she finds her brother Joe Hermit (Alex Lawther), viewers witness that he has been trapped in Xenomorph goo, obviously being prepared for implantation by a Facehugger egg.
In the process Wendy is witnessed battling the escaped Xenomorph that grew to full size after everyone, except Morrow, on the Maginot was slaughtered.
Wendy does battle with the Xenomorph and thankfully succeeds in killing the creature in a classic fight to the death confrontation. During the confrontation Wendy is damaged.
Fortunately, Wendy who was injured in the process, is saved by minions of Kirsh who take her back to Boy Kavalier’s (Samuel Blenkin) laboratory to have her injuries repaired. Here with Dame Sylvia (Essie Davis), Wendy’s human “mother” standing bedside, we learn that Wendy, unless completely destroyed by Xenomorph acid blood, can be restored to full functionality. Mighty handy for the future of the series that apparently all the hybrids can be repaired,
While this is happening, Nibs (Lily Newmark) and hybrid Curly (Erana James) who also looks a lot like Sigourney Weaver, wonder why they couldn’t keep their human names. They accuse Boy Kavalier of Wendy being his favorite. Kavalier admits Wendy is, but only because she was the first hybrid to be created, but that she (Curly) is in the hunt for favorite hybrid status as they work in the laboratory with other extra terrestrial creatures including the Eye-Ball monster among other horrors.
We also learn that Wendy, after she escapes the laboratory hospital, can hear the alien creatures being resurrected in the laboratory. We witnessed Wendy hearing alien chittering language during the premiere, but viewers thought it was due to the proximity of the Xenomorph.
From the story arc in the third episode, it appears apparent that Wendy is currently the only hybrid who can hear these foul creatures thinking. No doubt this will become a focal point in future episodes.
In Metamorphosis, during the ending sequences, we witness Kirsh extracting what appears to be a tadpole from a Facehugger specimen. This tadpole, a baby Xenomorph, is being inserted into a human lung. This delineation establishes that the Xenomorph’s do not gestate in the intestines of their victims before literally bursting upon the world killing their hosts per Alien canon.
An interesting development, to say the least, is proof that both Prodigy and Weyland-Yutani corporations have long planned to develop the Xenomorph as a weapon of mass destruction despite the obvious threat to humanity. The real question to consider is if Prodigy in the process of making a Xenomorph queen? Our opinion is yes and this factor will be to investigated further in future episodes.
Observation:
The fourth episode is directed by Ugla Hauksdóttir and was written by Noah Hawley. “Observation” creates an Alien canon pivot point regarding what happened subsequent to Wendy and Joe Hermit (her brother) in their life and death struggle with a fully formed Xenomorph that escaped the Maginot.
Fortunately Wendy successfully killed the creature in the previous episode much to the disappointment of Prodigy Corporation. However, Boy Kavalier’s Prodigy Corporation has plans to rectify that situation!
The episode opens with a scene of Wendy on a hospital like table being examined by Kirsh, Dame Sylvia, her scientist husband Arthur (David Rysdahl), and Boy Kavalier. Wendy relates she has experienced “hearing the Xenomorph’s thinking”.
This fits the episode description “An unexpected connection is formed while a covert plot puts everyone in danger”
When Wendy awakens, brother Joe Hermit arrives and is told that his damaged lung was replaced and that he will never guess what they did with his old lung.
Viewers will recall that Wendy saw Joe’s lung being experimented on and that Kirsh implanted a Facehugger tadpole in it. Although Wendy did not know at the time it was her brothers lung because Kirsh took her hearing “offline” so that Wendy cannot hear he and Boy Kavalier talking.
This is a disturbing development because it means that Boy Kavalier’s Prodigy Corporation has complete control over the hybrid human beings. Wendy later surmises it was her brothers lung when she learns her brother received an artificial lung from Kirsh in the Prodigy Corporation research laboratory.
After her hearing is restored, Wendy shares with Boy Kavalier and Kirsh confirming to them both that she can hear the Xenomorphs thinking and that she suspects a baby Xenomorph is in process of being born elsewhere in the Prodigy research laboratory complex. Do they know about this?.
Kirsh expresses concern that it could affect their plan to manipulate the extraterrestrial life forms. Boy Kavalier blithely states that everything and everyone on the island is his property!
In a particularly vivid scene, viewers learn that this includes Kirsh using the Eye- Ball monster to take over a sheep, an innocent life form.
Despite objections expressed by Arthur as expressed to his wife Dame Sylvia, It is at this point viewers learn that Prodigy Corporation in general and Boy Kavalier in specific have no ethical objections to utilizing anyone or anything to achieve their nefarious goals.
Meanwhile Morrow recruits Aarush Singh renamed to hybrid human Slightly (Adarsh Gourav) to infiltrate Kirsh’s laboratory. Although reluctant, Slightly is convinced when Morrow blackmails him with implied threats to his family. Unknown to Morrow and Slightly, Kirsh is observed monitoring their entire conversation!
The episode continues with brother Joe Hermit also being blackmailed. Unless he cooperates with Prodigy Corporation and helps keep an eye on Wendy, he will be sent off the island, never see his sister again, and a hefty bill for his lung replacement will be forthcoming.
To make matter worse for the hapless hyvrids, Nibs confesses to Dame Sylvia that she believes she is pregnant. The result is Dame Sylvia Nibs is to be locked in her room. Will Nibs survive what Boy Kavalier and Prodigy Corporation have in store for her?
The episode comes to an ending with Wendy back in the research laboratory where the sounds she has heard are coming from. Kirsh observing Wendy without her knowledge. Wendy, while looking at lung that is the source of the Xenomorph thinking she hears witnesses a baby creature erupt from the lung taken from her brother.
Amazingly, Wendy, with a smug smile on her face, is not afraid and actually pets the hideous baby Xenomorph who does not attack Wendy! The only conclusion we can draw is that Wendy is in communication with the baby monster, Is this what Kirsh and Boy Kavalier planned or is it a surprise they didn’t know was coming? Tune in for future episodes to find out!
We will be back with more on Alien: Earth after we complete our reports about the Press Room interviews and Panels we covered during our time at San Diego Comic-Con this year. In the meantime, please feel free to share this article with your friends, co-workers and or your family!
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