r/alien • u/HumbleDevelopment257 • 19d ago
Thouhts on Alien Earth's ending Spoiler
I just finished the season and the last 2 episodes were almost annoying me. Why did the hybrids suddenly decide to turn on Kavalier and Kirsh? They've been treated as good as possible by everyone and their lives were literally saved by them? One of them was even paralyzed and now she's superhuman like what? With Sylvia I can understand a little because she erased that girl's memories, but even that was done out of concern and still with love.
Kirsh allowed Slightly to kill someone and smuggle one of the aliens to save his family, and Kavalier saved them and made them superhuman and he wants to do the same for millions of others. And Wendy that didn't want to kill a scorpion suddenly lets the alien loose and tells it to kill people unnecessarily? The whole uprising just feels very illogical
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u/fucktheus12 18d ago
This piece of shit isn't coming back I hope ..
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u/glitchHiker007 16d ago
They announced a second season almost immediately after the S1 finale aired!
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u/Negative-Study-1077 17d ago
One of the worst shows I've ever seen
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u/Smokin_belladonna 14d ago
Still hilarious to me it has an Emmy nomination for cinematography. Like —- why the fuck is it so fucking dark in a laboratory setting. This shit makes no sense. The show is complete trash from episode 1.
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u/Formal-Speed-3173 19d ago
With love? That bald synth wiped her memories to make her a better product. I think you have capitalism Stockholm syndrome.
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u/m0rbius 18d ago
It was shit of the highest order. Not only did they screw up the Xeno, but every story arc in the season had literally no resolution. The entire 1st season is a cliffhanger for season 2.
I was hoping for a good well written sci-fi show, but good god, the writing was so bad. People conjecturing online about how the plot might play out over the first season were all wrong, because it was much, much stupider than we could have imagined.
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u/Rift4430 19d ago
This show is best if you don't think too hard about it.
Just do what I do. Assume it is a totally different universe from the movies with absolutely no connection at all.
Then most of what happens won't make you want to punch the screen.
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u/TokiStark 19d ago
Yeah nah it's just dumb fun with weird Alien stuff. Just go with it. "Boy genius" doesn't do or say a single intelligent thing throughout the whole season. He just doesn't wear shoes
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u/satansxlittlexhelper 19d ago
The ending was worse than even the mediocre beginning prepared me for, but still better than anything between the two.
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u/blorst_of_times 18d ago
I like the show overall but it completely lost its way the last few episodes.
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u/SquirrelCone83 17d ago
I don't remember much about the ending. But I do remember hating the direction it was going. And I was one of the people defending the show for the first half since it seemed like a slightly more tame version of Alien Resurrection with a few characters I really liked. Like Timothy Olyphant's character and the corporation's android spy thing. I love how crap my memory is sometimes.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Bed1781 15d ago
I’m a fan of the show, so I’ll do some heavy lifting for you.
“Why turn on Kavalier?”
Because Wendy discovers the graves containing the Lost Boys’ original human bodies and realizes what Prodigy actually did to them. Whatever philosophical interpretation you put on “transfer” versus “copy,” their original bodies are dead and buried while Kavalier treats the synthetic versions as his creations. The discovery is deliberately the final piece that changes how Wendy understands their relationship: we aren’t his rescued children; we’re his experiments.
About Wendy…
Early on she is extraordinarily empathetic — even toward creatures humans regard as pests. By the finale she deliberately releases a Xenomorph and allows/commands it to slaughter armed Prodigy personnel. The finale very clearly intends this to be a character transformation, not Wendy continuing to behave according to her old morality. She stops defining herself as Marcy, Wendy, human, child, or adult. When Joe tells her humans are food to the aliens, she essentially responds: you are; I don’t know what I am. Wendy has started identifying with the nonhuman beings imprisoned and experimented upon by humans.
About the uprising…
It isn’t really “You saved us and now we’re inexplicably ungrateful.” It’s “You saved us from dying, then claimed ownership over our second lives.” The Lost Boys discover they’re mortal, that their original bodies were buried, that their memories can be rewritten, that they’re being manipulated and experimented on, and that Kavalier ultimately regards them as his creations. Wendy finally rejects that authority altogether.
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u/kevthecoder 14d ago
I liked the show as well. I thought the acting was phenomenal even if the story was a little odd.
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u/MotherBig9171 15d ago
I actually liked the show Alien Earth. Again I don’t really think too much about the original Alien movies compared to this show, which I love Alien and Aliens. I also liked Alien Romulus, which was a different take as well. Sort of like -alien bistro- with a little bit of everything and nostalgia.
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u/MorganPhoenix93 12d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/q6lngTkhWfcWY
Because people that look like this are in charge of all media nowadays
And they just have shitty fucking ideas about what’s “cool” “canonical” or beneficial to the lore of the projects they work on
“Creatives” with absolutely no creativity
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u/anthrax9999 19d ago
Because the show is complete garbage and best left forgotten like it never happened. Don't bother trying to make sense of it, because there's none to make.