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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9753416" data-attributes="member: 11760">As expected, Noah Hawley is really cranking up the dread in these final few episodes, Fargo-style. (This show in many ways feels like a season of Fargo to me, just set in the Alien universe.)It says something about how awful the megacorps are that I'm kind of rooting for Weyland-Yutani in their arbitration scene. (The arbitrator is a synth, right, and not just a cold fish attorney? Or is the difference between those too minor to worry about?) Anyone who shows up to a serious meeting and puts his bare feet on the table and sneers about living in the future -- as though everyone in the room aren't his peers -- totally deserves what's coming to him. The ultimate nihilistic twist this show could have would be letting Boy Kavalier live.The face-off between Kirsh and Morrow was fantastic and their contempt for one another was both believable and fascinating. Looking forward to them having it out. And if Kirsh hasn't killed humans (or cyborgs) before, he's certainly imagined doing so.I also hope we learn more about Kirsh soon. He's now concealing things that his knows the boss would want to know and that everyone needs to know, if only to preserve the island's safety and their alleged goals of studying the aliens and evaluating the hybrids. He feels more complex than David did in Prometheus/Covenant -- he has more emotional range than any synth we've met previously, even if that's still not saying much -- and I suspect he's got a much bigger agenda than we realize. Maybe he's working for another megacorp or maybe he has some ideas of synths getting free of humans. This franchise certainly does make it seem that Skynet may have some arguments worth listening to.As previously teased, the missing alien species, the Fly, is indeed bad news and, as expected, it turns out that being synthetic is by no means magical protection against extraterrestrial life. (If you're feeding them silicon-based dinner, maybe don't have synths be the ones in charge of that.)Watching Slightly maneuver various trusting humans into what the audience know is certain death is chilling, even if Slightly seems horrified by what he's done. It's a shame everyone involved in the hybrid project is likely to die before they ever get a chance to admit that maybe, just maybe, sticking traumatized kids' minds in the bodies of high-end synths was a terrible, terrible idea. Also, straight-up lying to Nibs -- speaking of traumatized kids -- is not going to work out well for anyone, even if they somehow manage to contain the rampaging aliens. (Narrator: They don't somehow manage to contain the rampaging aliens.)Oh, crap, they're going to end up nuking this island from orbit, just to be sure, aren't they?Also, the 1990s hard rock/grunge/alternative rock needle drops feel aggressively targeted at Gen X dudes, and I am here for it. Put these together on an album already.</blockquote>

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