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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9740407" data-attributes="member: 11760">I thought this was a really strong episode.I loved that we get the characters acknowledging that "downloading" people into a machine is nonsense. At best, you're copying the personality and memories of a dying person into a machine. Realistically, this is just a ghoulish riff on the personality of dying children.And we're already seeing what a terrible idea that is. Nibs is going to be a lot of trouble, very soon.But synthetics (which I could have sworn were typically called "androids" in this franchise) and cyborgs seem to be done with humans generally which, fair. I think it's very interesting that Kirsh is far more capable than anyone around him seems to give him credit for and that he's also playing his own game. I think we might see an echo of David, when all is said and done, with him being happy to unleash hostile aliens on humans, trusting that synthetics will be ignored by them. (Which I suspect won't be true of all the monsters, including whatever the hell is in that dangling cocoon.)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.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.Morrow is also escalating pretty quickly, although -- as noted -- his plan isn't great, even without Kirsh listening in. If he knows the timeframe for xenomorph gestation, he also knows he has to get out of Prodigy territory fast and back to Weyland-Yutani, all without the hybrids showing up and pounding him into paste. I'm not sure that his armblade is going to stop many of them, especially Wendy and her rival.Finally, the eyeball monster appears to be the most intelligent alien we've encountered in this franchise, other than the Engineers. Hard to know what it wants to do, but I bet it won't be good. That said, if a murderous inhuman monster takes over Boy Kavalier's body, will anyone notice?</blockquote>

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