# Alien: Earth **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, disney-hulu\ **Created:** [August 13, 2025, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996 "2025-08-13T04:25:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996/141 "2025-08-28T20:29:51Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if the writers didn’t put as much thought into this as we are. The ships travel as fast as necessary to advance the plot. This is almost certainly the case. I would wager that the writers and Ridley Scott would go back and change the original Nostromo 2-year journey timeline to something completely different if they could. Alpha Centauri is 4.4 light years away. Thedus and Zeta II Reticuli must be a lot farther afield. So the only way that 2-year timeline works is with FTL travel. It’s basically warp drives at that point. If FTL were invented between the departure of the Maginot and the Nostromo it seems like a thing worth mentioning in somewhere in the script. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996/142 "2025-08-28T22:17:02Z")
> [@vislor](#): > > The Maginot might have been on a 65 year tour because it was an old ship and didn’t have whatever the AU uses for FTL We don’t know where the Maginot went or how many planets they went to. It could’ve been more of an exploratory mission, checking a ton of planets that _might_ have life but not have anything. It’s also likely that the capital-X Xenomorph was found on the last planet they went to, probably on the return trip to Earth, otherwise it would’ve broken out and killed them a lot earlier. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996/143 "2025-08-28T23:12:33Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > Zeta II Reticuli must be a lot farther afield. 39 light-years. > **[Acheron (LV-426)](https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Acheron_(LV-426))** > > Acheron,\[3\] formerly known as LV-426, was one of three moons orbiting the gas giant Calpamos in the Zeta Reticuli System, 39 light years away from Earth. The moon was given its common name by the early human colonists who settled there. The main... ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996/144 "2025-08-28T23:14:25Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > We don’t know where the Maginot went or how many planets they went to. It could’ve been more of an exploratory mission, checking a ton of planets that _might_ have life but not have anything. Right. It might have checked 50 planets before finding suitably weapons-grade critters on 5 of them. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996/145 "2025-08-29T04:19:37Z")
> [@vislor](#): > > Therefore, I think Kirsh knows and will put it in a report but it doesn’t mean anything to him. The cute thing is, Kirsh flat-out asked Slightly what he thought about snitching. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2025, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996/146 "2025-08-30T06:10:38Z")
Interesting TikTok theory I just heard. When the Maginot retrieved the Xeno eggs they must have used a Synth. Using a human would have caused them to hatch and attack. It’s possible that when the Synth was working he might have encountered David from the prequels (since David was trying to recreate them) and then David could have swapped bodies with them. Both David and Morrow use the phrase “don’t let the bed bugs bite” which is the possible hint for that. It seems like Morrow can approach the eggs without them hatching, but he’s not a Synth. Teng seems like a Synth on the Maginot but that’s never confirmed. Who knows, but I thought it could be an interesting way to bring the prequel lore into this show. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2025, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996/147 "2025-08-30T06:21:38Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > It seems like Morrow can approach the eggs without them hatching, but he’s not a Synth. He’s probably without organic lungs and therefore useless to them. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996/148 "2025-09-03T01:42:39Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > I think that there is a flashback episode coming up showing what happened on the ship. You smart. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996/149 "2025-09-03T04:30:14Z")
It was an interesting twist, in the first episode it implied that Morrow was as cold and complicit in the destruction as Ash from _Alien_ but he was really more of the lone survivor in a sudden clusterfuck of corruption and incompetence from just about everyone else in the crew. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996/150 "2025-09-03T05:07:45Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > It seems like Morrow can approach the eggs without them hatching, but he’s not a Synth. Why, no— this is early on shown not to be the case. The eggs definitely react to him. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996/151 "2025-09-03T05:19:33Z")
So xenomorphs and optopuses are mortal enemies? A bit of obvious foreshadowing. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996/152 "2025-09-03T05:23:51Z")
T. Ocellus can speak Xenomorph so it seems like they have had diplomatic relations in the past. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996/153 "2025-09-03T08:15:46Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > So xenomorphs and optopuses are mortal enemies? I assumed that Eye Gal (I want to call it Eye Guy, but they called it a “her”) wanted tge Xeno as a host. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996/154 "2025-09-03T12:22:12Z")
I thought just resource guarding: Xeno would steal the body it was using to lay eggs. Once Xeno killed that body then it went after Xeno … but Xeno’s eyes, such as they are, ain’t ideal spaces. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996/155 "2025-09-03T17:19:18Z")
I think Eyeball just wanted a new host. It’s not some kind of blood feud. What I found interesting about this episode is instead of the audience yelling at the screen that the crew was stupid; their stupidity was kind of the point. They were disengaged and overworked and did everything half assed (except the Engineer. Every team has the one person that is competent and keeps stuff going). Especially the scientist lady. She was absolutely the Worst. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996/156 "2025-09-03T20:33:47Z")
But why was the The Eye Creature trying to warn the scientist about the escaped tick? ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996/157 "2025-09-03T23:48:06Z")
Was it? I thought it saw what the tick did and was trying to also escape. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996/158 "2025-09-04T00:09:20Z")
It just seemed very interested. I suspect it is the only sentient critter among the cargo. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996/159 "2025-09-04T01:26:29Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > You smart. And the show is kind of predictable. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996/160 "2025-09-04T03:48:52Z")
I’m not sure if it was distracting her to help the tick, or trying to call her attention to it. It seemed more like the latter to me. I think it considers the other creatures as competition for the limited exploitable resources. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-earth/1021996.md?page=9)