Spoilers Alien: Earth Spoiler Thread

[Paul Farquhar]

Does the eye have some sort of psychic powers?

 

[Older Beholder]

Does the eye have some sort of psychic powers?

I mean, it does have second sight. Or is that seventh sight?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I mean, it does have second sight. Or is that seventh sight?

I mean, it did look to be communicating with the "flies" (I notice we are still taking ques from real world biology here). It has been suggested that it controlled the ticks to engineer their escape. It may even have been able to implant a suggestion in Nibs.

Whatever, I would suggest it's intelligence is "a lot smarter than a human".

 

[Older Beholder]

I mean, it did look to be communicating with the "flies" (I notice we are still taking ques from real world biology here). It has been suggested that it controlled the ticks to engineer their escape. It may even have been able to implant a suggestion in Nibs.

Whatever, I would suggest it's intelligence is "a lot smarter than a human".

Yeah, I definitely wouldn’t rule it out.

 

[Aellic Mornbringer]

Kirsch continues to surprise

Yeah...his actions in the episode pull in seemingly two different directions. First we have the charged conversation with Morrow in the elevator. No ambiguity there, they do not like each other (to put it mildly) and they are both expecting, I daresay wanting, a confrontation. So Kirsch is Team Prodigy, right?? Well...no as we learn more later.

Second we see him monitoring everything going down in the lab, watching with a detached scientific interest. At this point, it's only a matter of time before one if or more of the specimens escape the lab so the facility is going to be in big trouble very soon. So, is Kirsch on Team Kirsch? Seemingly and yet I feel there is still more to be revealed here. Is he letting the events in the lab happen because he's scientifically curious? Is he letting them happen because he doesn't like Kavalier and wants Prodigy to collapse?

One random question and possible attached theory is this. We know Prodigy is working on the hybrid solution. Do they also build their own synthetics? Or are all synthetics (including Kirsch) manufactured by Weyland-Yutani? If the answer to that is yes, then, could he be a WY sleeper agent who for personal reasons, has a beef with Morrow even though they have the same employer? I don't know that I buy into that theory but I'm sure we're going to continue to learn bits and pieces about Kirsch's motivations in the next couple of episodes.

 

[Aellic Mornbringer]

I mean, it did look to be communicating with the "flies" (I notice we are still taking ques from real world biology here). It has been suggested that it controlled the ticks to engineer their escape. It may even have been able to implant a suggestion in Nibs.

Whatever, I would suggest it's intelligence is "a lot smarter than a human".

Given it's intelligence, the Eye also has the benefit of having watched the experiments conducted on the other specimens so even if it doesn't have an ability to communicate with them directly, it knows a lot more about them (probably including little details that the scientists didn't notice and document so in theory the Eye could know more than Morrow or Kirsch since they're relying on the science team's observations.)

I will say at this point, I'm tempted to start a betting pool on which experiment is going to kill/eat/make a meat puppet out of Boy Kavalier. I'm thinking the Eye is in the top spot at the moment. What happens if the Eye bores its way into the head of a (creepy) genius?

 

[Vael]

I will say at this point, I'm tempted to start a betting pool on which experiment is going to kill/eat/make a meat puppet out of Boy Kavalier. I'm thinking the Eye is in the top spot at the moment. What happens if the Eye bores its way into the head of a (creepy) genius?

My money is on the plant. We've yet to see it in action, and I'm sure it will be both novel and satisfying.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I loved the last episode. Although ... I may have had some creepy Octo-eye (Eyetopus?) dreams.

Maybe it's because when I'm counting sheep, all of them are staring at me ... and each of them has one slightly disturbing eye.

Ahem. Anyway, I'm enjoying the show so much I've been postponing cancelling my Disney/Max bundle just so I can watch the conclusion. Can't stop now.

 

[Morrus]

I loved the last episode. Although ... I may have had some creepy Octo-eye (Eyetopus?) dreams.

The production team call it the Eye Midge.

 

[Aellic Mornbringer]

Another fun episode, man I felt the creep factor when tootles went for the cage.

So a lot of the Alien franchise does run on incompetence which has been established in previous movies, but with the kids it adds a degree of believability. One moment the kids are able to make adult decisions and do adult things, but at other times they are still just kids....trying to prove themselves, not wanting to get in trouble, and so you can see tootles just wanting to please Kirsh and do his job, and getting himself killed for it.

How did Arthur actually get access to the lab? I thought it was strictly off limits to all non-synthetics? Could Kirsch actually have changed that to allow the scene to happen?

The one area where incompetence did reign this episode was with the mind wipe. I actually get why they did it, that part makes sense to me. What I can't believe is they didn't talk to the kids before waking up Nibs.....telling them that Nibs had a malfunction, that she won't remember everything, etc. I mean what did they expect to happen, they would talk about the crash, Nibs would be like "huh"...and everyone would just be totally fine with it? Because they just let it ride it made everything 1000 times worse.

Great points. I felt the same way with the mind wipe, that was the one thing that strained believability. I get the point in that the conversation needs to end with Wendy/Marcy realizing that Neverland ain't all it's cracked up to be but I think they could have reached that point by having the Dame Sylva wiping Nibs memory, show the Lost Boys gathered together where they learn that Nibs "got sick" and needed to be treated and then later on, Wendy talks to Nibs and realizes that not only has her memory been wiped but some of her abilities (whatever they said to dial down with her settings) have been messed with. Upon learning that, then she starts to question Neverland being a "yes" place.