Spoilers Alien: Earth Spoiler Thread

[Paul Farquhar]

They were having to tune each hybrid manually, I believe. It could well be that these are all bespoke units at this point and Wendy's hearing was either tuned differently or she had different parts installed.

You don't need a robot to turn ultrasound into frequencies audible to humans though. A common bat detector does that.

It's possible, I guess, that the calls are being deliberately targeted at Wendy.

 

[Swanosaurus]

Tangential to Alien Earth, but here's a theory:

As far as can be seen from Alien-Alien3, Weyland Yutani isn't an all-powerful megacorp; and they aren't obsessed with the alien. Much more likely, the alien is a side-project to them that's on a strict budget.

Look at Alien: The Company knew where to look. But they don't send in a specialised team; they re-route a freighter that's on its way, anyway, and task an android with the retrieval of the lifeform. This sounds a lot more like the gamble of one executive who wants to make it big, pushing something the board is not necessarily convinced of, than a megacorp mobilizing all their ressources.

Then, the whole thing obviously gets forgotten about. Which makes sense: It was a failure, whoever was pushing for it took the fall, and the people who sent colonists there didn't know about this side-project.

Then they find Ripley adrift, and the whole thing starts again: They dig out the old files, realizing that "Oh, yeah, there was this alien project that didn't work out." Burke pushes for it, he wants to make it big. Then the comms black-out. The Marines are sent in ... but by whom, exactly? WY doesn't own them, obviously, because if it did, they would have clear orders to bring back a specimen. No, as far as they are concerned, they're there for a bug-hunt/search and rescue. The company sends Burke along, who is hardly that impressive an operative. So everything points to this being HIS gamble, with WY saing: "Sure, give it a try. But we're not throwing buckets of money at it."

It all points to ambitious lower-tier executives taking a gamble. And to a company that actually turns every penny, trying to get a lot of things done on the cheap.

Now, Alien Earth obviously doesn't share this interpretation, but I'd still be delighted if, should it come to this, the "Nostromo project" would just be a project among many, and not what's WY is suddenly all about.

 

[wicked cool]

Did anyone else notice the mold thing just outside the living quarters. I know it’s been in previous episodes but there has to be a big suprise beyond that wall

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

And while Kirsh might keep it from him, I could also see him be willing to let Boy Kavalier get himself killed by playing around with Radio Xeno.

All right all right all right! Thanks for tuning in with Wolfman Kirsh. I've got the latest vinyl, hot off the presses. It's climbing the charts. It's from a solo act called ... wait for it ... BOY KAVALIER! Hope you enjoy it, because I have a feeling this solo act won't be with us much longer.


I ignore all of my shareholders
When I see acid that makes metal smoulder
I tune the frequency and check the number
I dream of Peter Pan in bed when I slumber
I have a microphone so I transmit
Talk to me not some braindead half-wit
I hear the screeches, something 'bout I'm prey?
Can't understand, just what does an Alien say?

I'm on a Xenomorph radio
I'm on a Xenomorph ... woah-oh ... radio

 

[pukunui]

Sorry if this is slightly off-topic. I didn’t feel it warranted a whole new thread.

Anyway, I was scrolling through FB yesterday, and there were some ads for Amazon Prime shows, one of which was Alien: Rubicon.

What is that? And why is it on Prime, not Disney+?

 

[Morrus]

Sorry if this is slightly off-topic. I didn’t feel it warranted a whole new thread.

Anyway, I was scrolling through FB yesterday, and there were some ads for Amazon Prime shows, one of which was Alien: Rubicon.

What is that? And why is it on Prime, not Disney+?

It’s nothing to do with the Alien franchise.

 

[pukunui]

It’s nothing to do with the Alien franchise.

Oh OK! Weird. Thanks.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Alien: Knockoff

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

They're using the same sort of incredibly obvious name idea, though.

 

[Laurefindel]

And we're already seeing what a terrible idea that is. Nibs is going to be a lot of trouble, very soon.

Yep

Also trouble is that Boy Kavalier seems to be motivated by envy of anyone getting more attention than him from hostile alien life forms. It'll be great to see something terrible happen to him, of course, so no loss there. His extremely on the nose Peter Pan stuff is another good reason to kill him off. Dude's a trillionaire and doesn't seem to be able to afford a subtext.

Well, like my grandmother used to say, “you’ll never get rich if you keep wasting all your money on subtext!”

Hermit definitely feels lost and overwhelmed by all of this. We'll see if he lives through all of this. I'd say there's a good chance he doesn't.

Of all characters in the show, I think he might be the sole survivor because Alien movies typically have at least one, typically the most ‘human’ of them, and my money is on him. But my instinct for these things usually sucks.

It could also be Wendy (if only by virtue of her namesake character in Peter Pan making it back to London in the end) but continuity tells me I shouldn’t keep my hopes up…