Alien: Earth

[ASL_v2.0]

That would be a really interesting plot development. No notes.

[DigitalC]

@SenorBeef

If we weren’t told he was a genius a dozen times, would we have any idea that he was even smart?

Well, we don’t actually see him create a brand new technology that would revolutionize the entire human race, but the entire plot of the show is based around it.

[DPRK]

@Quimby

I don’t get that impression of him at all. Nothing about him says chaos. He’s a Narcissist who thinks he is always the smartest guy in the room.

One of the background articles Morrow dug up was about how, when he was 16, he badly crashed his e-bike he insisted on driving himself despite already having made a name for himself in AI, including self-driving AI specifically meant to avoid that sort of thing.

@Omniscient

After Alien Earth, that pretty much goes out the window, and we’re left with 2 possible ideas. Either W-Y knows exactly what’s going on on LV-426 and they know Ripley’s story is true and are gaslighting her. Or the knowledge is lost somehow in the intervening 57 years and all but the most clued in people at the upper echelons of W-Y know anything. In which case these execs and managers are just as ignorant as she is.

There is something wrong with the continuity, but about LV-426 specifically, how would they know, before the Nostromo even launched, anything about it? The Space Jockey might not have even crashed there yet. The Maginot travelled an order of magnitude longer and farther to collect their specimens; is there any indication they went anywhere near Zeta Reticuli?

[DWMarch]

@DPRK

The Maginot travelled an order of magnitude longer and farther to collect their specimens; is there any indication they went anywhere near Zeta Reticuli?

They didn’t necessarily have to. Remember, the eggs didn’t originate on LV-426, they were brought there in a ship. So the Maginot could have found another source of eggs on a totally different planet.

[Quimby]

Probably not though because it’s a Plot point in Alien that the Company wakes the crew of the Nostromo to check the planet out. WY knew some was there and used the Nostromo to get it. Part of what this prequel does is show how the company knew. So I think it’s implied the eggs came from LV-426.

[DPRK]

@DWMarch

They didn’t necessarily have to. Remember, the eggs didn’t originate on LV-426, they were brought there in a ship. So the Maginot could have found another source of eggs on a totally different planet.

I am suggesting exactly this.

@Quimby

Probably not though because it’s a Plot point in Alien that the Company wakes the crew of the Nostromo to check the planet out. WY knew some was there and used the Nostromo to get it.

They check the planet out because they receive a distress call. W–Y seem to have known, or strongly suspected, xenos were involved, though:

DALLAS
Some of you may have figured
out that we're not home.

	BRETT
What the hell.

	DALLAS
Mother's interrupted the course
of the voyage.
Mother is programmed to interrupt
the course of out voyage if
certain conditions arise.	They
have...
	(pause)
We've received intermittent
transmission from quadrant points
QBR 157, 052.	Somebody's gone
down.

	BRETT
So what.

	KANE
We're obligated under Section B2...

	PARKER
Christ.	We're a commerical ship
not some rescue team.	This kind
of duty's not in our contract.

	ASH
You better read your contract.
Transmissions received in non-
commercial lanes...

Dallas gives Parker and Brett a look.

	DALLAS
We're going in, that's it.

[…]

ASH
Special Order 937 in essence
asked me to direct the ship to
the planet, investigate a life
form, possibly hostile and bring
it back for observation.	With
discretion, of course.

	RIPLEY
Why.	Why not tell us.

	ASH
Would you have gone.

	PARKER
It wasn't in the contract.

	ASH
My very point.

	RIPLEY
They wanted to investigate the
Alien.	No matter what happened
to us.

	ASH
That's unfair.	Actually, you
weren't mentioned in the order.

[Omniscient]

@DPRK

There is something wrong with the continuity, but about LV-426 specifically, how would they know, before the Nostromo even launched, anything about it?

It was cited upthread that the Maginot explicitly recovered their eggs from LV-426. I forget where that I was communicated.

I started with the same rationalization, but it appears that this show is saying that W-Y and Prodigy both know about LV-426 and the Xeno eggs in 2120, 2 years before W-Y reroutes the Nostromo.

[Darren_Garrison]

@Omniscient

It was cited upthread that the Maginot explicitly recovered their eggs from LV-426.

Actually, they just said from a moon. And LV-426 is a moon.

[Omniscient]

I saw on a TT breakdown the same thing. Supposedly there was some supporting content outside the show that confirms it. Haven’t seen it directly but the creator has interviewed the cast and showrunner on his show and seems like he’s reliable on the topic. Will see if I can find it.

Found the comment:

@MovieDeathBlow: They released this teaser earlier in the summer with the cat walking around and it says it in there on this blurry screen you see LV426

Assuming this is reliable, it seems canon that LV-426 is the source of all the eggs.