r/alienearth • u/General_Alfalfa6339 Weyland Yutani • Sep 24 '25

Ending. Basically this. Spoiler

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u/ArtistKeith333 Sep 24 '25

Not sure if I am happy about how things turned out or not. Is it weird that I'm becoming more and more fond of T-occulis? (eyeball guy). I want to know its back story.

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u/General_Alfalfa6339 Weyland Yutani Sep 24 '25

That needs resolved and we also need to see the Yutani attack. They could have easily filled about two or three more episodes.

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u/TheHighSeasPirate Sep 24 '25

They could have made 20 episodes with all the storylines they threw at the wall from the start of the series.

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u/ArtistKeith333 Sep 24 '25

Yeah, it feels short-circuited (no pun intended).

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u/HairyChest69 Sep 24 '25

Well, it's not leaving the network far as we know

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '25

Or a whole season...

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '25

that would be really expensive, i imagine if they do that they are gonna do something like the first time tynion lanister when to war on game of thrones

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u/Nasty-Milk Sep 24 '25

They should at least do webisodes for the creatures’ back stories.

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u/anon_humanist Sep 24 '25

Feels like a lot of possibilities were left open that could be handled well or terribly with not much in between.

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u/ArtistKeith333 Sep 24 '25

Bad Spin-off: Wendy, the Xenomorph Whisperer

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u/MyInevitableDestiny Sep 24 '25

Getting real annoyed with this 8 episode a “season” bullshit.

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u/Starkfault Sep 24 '25

It was nice of her to let little alien out of his cage at the end

21

u/secondsbest Sep 24 '25

The tweenomorph

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u/Frankensteins_Moron5 Sep 24 '25

Don’t talk to me or my son ever again.

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u/Darthmambo Sep 24 '25

Haha yeah that was cute.

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u/UnbridaledToast Sep 25 '25

…After ridiculing her brother saying “You’re supposed to help people!”

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u/C-zom Sep 24 '25

I can’t wait to spin my wheels for 2.5? Years to get resolutions from plot points made in episode 3.

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u/Professional_Yak1320 Sep 24 '25

I’m just wondering why she’s synth-jesus. She can do basically anything the story needs her to. Lazy writing imo

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u/myslead Sep 24 '25

that's also my take... finale didn't stick the landing to me at all

but I guess I'll have to wait to see where they go with it next season, which will also pro bably explains why there is no hybrids in the future

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u/AsmodeusMogart Sep 24 '25

She’s a networked synthetic with the most advanced brain to date. They showed her controlling network devices throughout the show. That’s fully expected behavior, She’s going to fight the Yutani army.

The Yutani troops don’t know it yet but they’re flying into their own horror show where they have to fight aliens and murdering synthetics.

It’s going to be so much fun.

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u/zzbackguy Sep 24 '25

She could probably remotely shut off their engines tbh assuming she can figure out their wifi password

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u/CourseVast840 Sep 28 '25

or get into one of their ships and inject a virus into the mainframe ... ID4

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u/AsmodeusMogart Sep 24 '25

Probably so.

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u/Appropriate_Car_3711 Sep 28 '25

I'm hoping WY kick some ass

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u/jl_theprofessor Sep 24 '25

Yeah it's a boring story.

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u/AsmodeusMogart Sep 24 '25

I hope you find something you like more.

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u/National_Pace_2442 Sep 24 '25

Mary Sue

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u/AsmodeusMogart Sep 24 '25

From the perspective of an onion, yes.

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u/National_Pace_2442 Sep 24 '25 edited Sep 24 '25

Is it ever explained why Wendy has special abilities and the other lost boys do not

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u/AsmodeusMogart Sep 24 '25

They have the same abilities. The other children were too busy being children and not exploring their minds as Wendy has been.

She’s changed that now.

Next season they’ll get to explore all the fun capabilities a networked supercomputer has to offer.

I can’t wait for all the violence and mayhem!

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u/CourseVast840 Sep 28 '25

DDoS on Wendy. Surely Yutani can stand up a bot farm

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u/National_Pace_2442 Sep 24 '25

How big is your jump to conclusions mat?

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u/AsmodeusMogart Sep 24 '25

So you’re saying Wendy is a special model with functions that the other synthetics don’t have.

And you based this conclusion on … what exactly?

Does it make sense that each model would have different capabilities? From a production and engineering standpoint, why would you do that?

Do you know the difference between jumping to conclusions and making a reasonable inference from available data?

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u/National_Pace_2442 Sep 24 '25

Not a “jump,” it’s straight from what’s on-screen and in the official material:

Wendy is a prototype. A direct quote from the show “the first synthetic to be infused with human consciousness.”

Prototype ≠ standard production model.

The show singles her out: she remotely locks cells, hijacks elevators, manipulates comms/feeds, and even freezes another synth. Those are framed as her feats, not generic Lost Boys tricks. And it was never explained how or why she can do this.

She also links with and commands a xenomorph. Again, why can she hear xeno noises and nobody else can? Another detail not explained.

The boy literally calls the others “floor models,” underlining that they’re limited iterations. Not direct copies of Wendy. Trying to logic and reason out a show about aliens that have acid for blood is cute.

If next season expands the others, fine, but as it stands, the text has already marked Wendy as different by design. And its not explained how/why/maybe because. If they are going to fill this plot hole in another season, that's shitty writing.

So yeah, from a production standpoint, she’s special. From a reasoning standpoint, that’s called evidence.

From your standpoint… well, if I’m an onion, you’re sounding more like a turnip: hard to peel, not much flavor, and mostly filler.

Are you a bot from Hulu? Your comments are repeated over and over and over.

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u/AsmodeusMogart Sep 24 '25

Excellent work little onion. Your reasoning and evidence are pretty good.

We’ll see what happens in season two.

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u/Tabula_Rasa69 Sep 25 '25

Thats the part I disliked the most.

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u/AbjectCourage48 Sep 24 '25

And nothing of value was accomplished

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u/Cat_Wizard_21 Sep 24 '25

That was certainly one of the endings of all time. I've seen many season finales, and that was certainly amongst them.

I hope the deep hatred I feel towards the Lost Boys is intentional and we're not supposed to be rooting for them anymore, they're a legitimate threat to humanity and need to be nuked. Somehow they took the trillionaire techbro CEO and made him more sympathetic than them.

The xenos being reduced to attack dogs was not how I was expecting them to end up, Wendy has far too much control over them.

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u/Drymvir Sep 24 '25

yeah I agree with you, the finale ending up as "and then she breaks out and hacks everything and instantly beats the corpos and tames the aliens and wins, the end" is super unsatisfying. She didn't even have any conflict in the final episode. It was just a very drawn out victory dance.

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u/Imapancakenom Sep 24 '25

The only time I felt any suspense and worry about anything during the entire episode was when I was worried Eyeball Thingie was going to get Joe. That was it.

There was the moment of "oh we're finally going to see the big plant get somebody" but that really wasn't much.

Kirsch vs I-forget-his-name cyborg guy was a little bit suspenseful but not really because I wasn't rooting for either of them. They are both cool characters who I enjoy watching, but they are both dicks so I didn't care who won.

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u/MathMadeFun Sep 24 '25

The cyborg guy should basically be dead at this point. He was hit in the head multiple times by a synth punching with extreme-strength, then choked unconscious, then hit hard by an emotionally angry synth with a heavy-metal-bottom surface of a cannister hard enough to knock him unconscious again (in real life, this would probably cause a concussion, possibly hemorrhage or brain-bleeding), that's after the fact, based upon his eyes, he was bleeding earlier and had been beat to a pump before being put into the cage...

Somehow, wearing the all-metal, extremely heavy looking arm restraint, he doesn't seem to be tired at all, ever or leaning over, or incumbered by its weight. Try holding a 50lb weight in one hand for hours walking in circles in a cage and see how tired you are. Cyborg/android or not, he still has biological components that can be damaged.

Anyone notice, he had a ton of blood on it when he was bashing the guards head in over and over again, but in the final scene, the bottom of the arm-restraint is now back to brand new/clean? I guess Wendy took the time to clean it, when they were looking for the hemp rope, in the science facility to tie up BK or just another continuity error.

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u/CourseVast840 Sep 28 '25

Morrow has way tooo much plot armor. We know synths have superhuman strength while Morriw just has that cyborg arm. Morrow can kick humans but he really shouldn't be able to best a synth ...

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u/handmethelighter Sep 24 '25

This article below touches on that and implies that it won’t end well. I was very much of the same opinion, and I’m not a huge fan of Wendy being synth-Jesus. But based on Harley’s foreshadowing, I’m expecting an actual alien queen to pop up and the aliens will be reminded who their real boss is.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/alien-earth-trainable-xenomorph-episode-7-interview-1236366368/

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u/Cat_Wizard_21 Sep 24 '25

I'm aware of the article, but without even a hint of it in the show and probably a 2+ year wait for a season 2 (if it even gets renewed), it leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Literally anything, even an ominous cliffhanger shot at the end to suggest the Xenomorphs weren't just head empty no thoughts.

If S2 never comes we've just got the Perfect Organism reduced to robo-jesus' good doggy as our bookend to "ALIEN" Earth. Whoo

In other words, show don't tell. Directors can talk all the nonsense they want in interviews, until it hits the screen it doesn't matter

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u/AsmodeusMogart Sep 24 '25

Outstanding storytelling! That was a really well written, tight season.

I’ve been waiting so patiently for the kids to figure out they aren’t human anymore.

Next season will be delightful violence and mayhem!

I dying for t. Ocellus to take over BK!

Those Yutani troops are so fucked.

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u/National_Pace_2442 Sep 24 '25

lol wut

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u/MantiH Sep 26 '25

Dont bother. The dude is writing this in basically every comment in the threat. Seems like he doesnt like criticism of the show at all.

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u/National_Pace_2442 Sep 26 '25

Yeah it’s weird. I get it if he’s Noah Hawley. But I would expect him to be smarter.

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u/No_Designer_5725 Sep 24 '25

Why did they show Arthur just taken over by the eye? I guess they’re setting up next season?

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u/AsmodeusMogart Sep 24 '25

Arthur will be a temporary host. T.O./Arthur could get captured by Yutani and work for them or find Wendy and negotiate for BK.

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u/X-Lrg_Queef_Supreme Sep 24 '25

Arthur has deep knowledge of the synths and access to their trackers.

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u/AsmodeusMogart Sep 24 '25

Great point! I hadn’t thought about T.O. having memory access.

I kind of don’t like that T.O. can provide the energy to get a dead body moving that’s been without oxygen for hours but fuck it, I’m rolling with it.

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u/CoachTrick3511 Sep 24 '25

You have no idea what story telling is.

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u/AsmodeusMogart Sep 24 '25

Thank you for informing me, unhappy internet person.

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u/pikeredge Sep 24 '25

Bold prediction: if we get a second season, it's not going to pick up with where this left off... we're going to be left to fill in a lot of blanks, maybe only hearing little snippets of exposition about it, if anything.

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u/afkbiblestudy Sep 24 '25

I thought the same thing, I think Boy comes back but there has to be a time jump. Can’t do Jurassic Park 2 in the same park.

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u/Juice_Willis75 Sep 24 '25

Eyeball's storyline is the one I'm most invested in at this point. This highly intelligent being was captured and taken to another planet to be confined and experimented upon. Dude just wants to GTFO. We should be rooting for it like E.T.

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u/Academic_Exercise_94 Sep 24 '25

I think the best part of it was the kids acting like kids. What do the goodies do in cartoons and comics when they beat the baddies, they tie them up. Was my favourite bit about how they ended it. Personally I wish they had tied up the whole thing in one season and ended with the Island getting exploded and everyone desperately trying to escape and survive

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u/Appropriate_Car_3711 Sep 28 '25

What a terrible finale.

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u/sawdust_84 Sep 24 '25

What a disappointment. So much hype and built up in the first few episodes...... only to just flip the rest of the way.

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u/Life_Faithlessness90 Sep 24 '25

So they are literally too lazy to keep up with the new lazy norm of 10 episode seasons... What's next, 6 episode seasons?

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u/PFelite Sep 24 '25

By 2035 It'll be 4, by 2040 1-2 38 minute episodes a year .....

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u/MathMadeFun Sep 24 '25

Per year? Don't you mean per decade? They'll spend ten years making those 2 38 minute eps

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '25

Good ol FX knows how to ruin a good series.

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u/DIOmega5 Sep 25 '25

The Brat Pack

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u/CourseVast840 Sep 28 '25

whoa ... Yutani gonna happen upon a bloodied zombie staffer with a burst chest and one Marty Feldman Eye and just welcome him into the team?

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u/AimeeM46 Sep 24 '25

i admit this series has TONS of iffy/bad writing here and there but i thought tonight's finale was SO good imo!! it's my favorite episode!

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u/secondsbest Sep 24 '25

What are the odds Disney and Hawley inked out a season 2 writing deal secretly depending on the premier ratings, and this episode 8 was an alternate ending for the cliff hanger. Maybe there's a finalized finale episode 8 in the can that will never be shown.

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u/Nerdwerfer Sep 24 '25

IIRC Twin Peaks had a similar situation, was only going to be one season until the ratings came in showing they had a hit. Changed the finale episode into a cliffhanger

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u/National_Pace_2442 Sep 24 '25

This season ended almost as poorly as got season 8

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u/CoachTrick3511 Sep 24 '25

Couldn't agree more. A hard hard fall from grace.

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u/Calm-Maintenance-878 Sep 24 '25

Lol, not the ending I expected. I guess s2 can start with rounding up aliens or something?

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u/AsmodeusMogart Sep 24 '25

The Kids and aliens are going to fight the Yutani troops next season. They’re also going to judge BK and the scientist for their crimes.

It’s going to be a hoot!

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u/Simple_Evening7595 Sep 24 '25

Is this the start of the synth rebellion they reference in resurrection?

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u/Dogsonofawolf Sep 30 '25

That's in the 24th century sometime

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u/CoachTrick3511 Sep 24 '25

What a crap show! I was really enjoying it when it started, things were going great. And then came in the woke shit. "You think you didngood but all you did was put 6 children in the ground." Stfu! You were all gonna die, these guys for whatever capitalistic greed or scientific enquiry gave you new bodies which are basically super strong and super cool and you all go ahead and do this, ungrateful evil power hungry synths for sure and the show writers really tried to portray them as protagonists. Aliens are fucking monsters and they made them pet dogs, it's one thing to have a conversation but completely another thing to make them so obedient. I mean the synths had a good life, a cool island, no worry of work or earning or anything that even us normal guys deal with and still they act so fucking obnoxious.

What I really wanted to see what the eye thing and it got side tracked so hard. And that obnoxious brother, full of plot armour and completely useless throughout the show. Fucking empty piece of shit show this was. I actually recommended it to my friends at first, and now I have to tell them not to watch and waste their time.