Episode 6, The Fly is probably one of the strongest episodes yet, packed with tension and some crazy stuff happening both on the sci fi and political aspects, but I have to admin writing has been slipping from time to time but cant ask much about a tv series based on a franchise with decades of existing. After all that buildup were finally seeing the chaos start to unfold on this island and man do things get messy quick with the lost boys going down, one "dead", another crazy, another getting blackmail, another thats basically worthless but who knows might safe the day and then there is Wendy on her own journey as Xenomorph Queen. The episode starts with Wendy trying to talk to the baby Xenomorph, which by the way looks incredible since we starting to watch more of the hole Xenomorph development as they grow. This thing has grown from that tiny chest burster we saw before into something thats still small but way more dangerous looking and have an attitude too, the way Wendy sits there making those clicking sounds trying to communicate with this apex species is completely nuts. She really thinks she can make friends with these things and maybe shes right but it still feels like playing with fire and gasoline on her hands, this can backfire so quick but at least we know she can kill one. The Xenomorph actually responds to her too, which is wild to think about, these creatures have their own language and social structure apparently, kind of like bees or ants as Wendy puts it. Her brother Joe is not having any of this though, he keeps telling her these things are just killers but Wendy pushes back saying humans kill too, I dont see error on her logic lol, she got a point there even if its making everyone uncomfortable or her opinion been to extremist too. The way she talks about the creatures never choosing to come to Earth really fits the idea of them be either scared or defensive, like they are prisoners just like the hybrids in a way but might be worst as its against their will without option, probably with the T Ocellus might be piss at the hole situation, that sheep looks mad af. That whole conversation between Wendy and Joe about saying yes versus saying no was pretty heavy, especially when Joe tells her that sometimes saying no is the only thing that gives you power over your life but Wendys starting to question everything about Prodigy and what theyre really doing on this island, although she still remains on the Yes camp with Boy Kavalier after all he is the one making all this possible and she is having all of it, she is totally facinated with the Xenomorph.
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The meeting between Boy Cavalier and Yutani was absolutely the political crazy part I mention before, it look silly too how Boy Kavalier behaves during the meeting as a child but in his mind its the reason why people like him are genius so he basically embrace his childish side. Boy shows up to this formal legal proceeding barefoot and dirty acting like a complete child, the way he sprawls across that conference table like hes at home watching TV instead of in a billion dollar negotiation might be infuriating for many but you got to take the series for what it is, this is not a Nolan movie. Yutani is trying to be professional but you can see shes getting pissed off at his actions, answers, the whole thing about whether the crash was intentional had me thinking because we know Boy orchestrated the whole damn thing although he makes it look like he didnt and to a certain point make it look believable that he is the victim but with that context dump we got the other day its clear whats going on here and Morrow definitely knows it more than anyone. For some reason Morrow doesnt say anything during the meeting which seems weird at first but he just want to rip off Kavalier's head or turn him into a Xenomorph, he did took his work life, the job he took and couldnt be with his daughter, so yeah Morrow has strong reasons and is saving that information for later and his own plans. When Boy accuses Yutani of smuggling illegal alien specimens to Earth and she has to admit it, that was a great moment and I laught becaue the lawyer guy seems shocked by the existence of these creatures on the planet, which makes sense since bringing Xenomorphs to Earth is probably against every safety protocol ever written. The negotiation gets wild when they start throwing around money like its nothing, going from 15 billion to 50 billion in damages, but Boy doesnt even care about the money, he just wants to keep the specimens for as long as possible under quarantine laws. Yutanis desperation shows when she offers 50 billion to take them immediately and Boy just laughs it off saying its unsafe for the whole planet, he is using the rules when they benefit him while breaking them when they dont under the table, makes Yutani look stupid.
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There is this elevator scene with Morrow and Kirsh where they throw a few japs, it was intense and you can tell these two are heading for a major showdown but can Kirsh face Morrow 1v1? he is not suppose to be a combat unit, I think so. The way they talk to each other with such barely contained hatred makes both feel dangerous, Morrow calling Kirsh yesterdays model and asking how it feels to work for a company thats made him obsolete was brutal, but Kirsh fires back talking about how satisfying it would be to destroy a cyborg because they can still feel pain when their body parts start failing, Morrow is still human so he use this cheap shots word and also is weak against Kirsh because of his anger. The tension between these two characters has been building all season and this felt like the calm before the storm. Morrow mentioning getting one of those hybrid bodies for himself was interesting too, like maybe he sees them as an upgrade from his current cyborg situation. The whole conversation felt like two apex predators circling each other waiting for the right moment to strike but there is Kirsh watching everything unfold with Slightly and not reporting it to Boy Cavalier makes me think hes got his own agenda, so now we got everyeone coming from multiple angles Kavalier, Yutani, Morrow, Kirsh, Wendy, things going to get wild soon.
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The stuff with Nibs getting her memory wiped was pretty disturbing when you really think about it, but I can understand that instead of dealing with her trauma from the Maginot and helping her process what happened, they just delete the whole experience like its corrupted data on a computer, this are experiments and they also have to show them off soon on an event so no time for debuging. Dame Sylvia doing the procedure while Arthur refuses because ethics and stuff... just different people handle these moral dilemmas in their own way, yes they are ""kids"" but they stop been human long time ago, besides theyre is an agreement and if they didnt turn them were dying too. Atom threat to have Arthur shot if he doesnt leave by the end of the day was cold as ice but this people probably just realizing on the deep sht they are in, yes he is married to Dame but tf does that mean to the corporation if nothing?. The way Nibs wakes up afterwards with no memory of claiming she was pregnant or fighting the eye creature is kinda sad but then there is Wendy trying to explain what really happened just confuses Nibs more since she has no framework to understand these experiences anymore. Its like they took away part of who she was as a person, even if that part was traumatic, the whole situation with Nibs falling apart mentally and them just hitting the reset button instead of providing actual help feels like a preview of how Prodigy treats all their hybrid investments when they become inconvenient, but then I wonder if Wendy have the powers to dump everything she knows about Nibs back to her, remember that scene when she locate her brother and control the robot, like on the Lucy movie.
The ending was a mix of everything, stupid, laughable and intense when Tootles gets trapped in that containment cell with the fly creature and things go sideways fast. The kid was just trying to feed these specimens like Kirsh told him to do but his hybrid strength made him break the feeding door without realizing it, that was stupid. When he tries to fix his mistake by going inside to place the food manually, that was stupid too, the eyeball creature in that sheep body scares him so he falls completely into the cell and gets trapped, that was the intense moment like this eyeball thing is becoming the protagonist orchestating everything, shows just how intelligent and manipulative it really is. Those fly creatures are nasty as shit too, spraying acid that melts Tootles face off before they start drinking his synthetic blood like its a damn milkshake, I thought like he aint that super human at all because of how easy he got fucked up but then again their minds are not that strong, they are kids so trauma kicks in. Watching this kid get killed was upsetting even though we knew something bad was coming, the fact that more fly creatures emerge from their hive tells me this is just the beginning of a much bigger problem, the zoo is going wild rn. But more upsetting was Slightly who uses the chaos to finally carry out Morrows plan, getting Arthur out of all others, he got him face hugged by one of those eggs after unlocking the containment systems. Poor Arthur never saw it coming, just trying to help what he thought was an injured hybrid and ending up with a parasite attached to his face, PROTOCOLS DUDE!!!. Kirsh watching all this happen and choosing not to intervene or report it confirms hes playing some kind of longer game. The episode ends with everything going to hell, the series so far has its ups and downs but for me its more ups than downs specially when new aliens pop out with new abilities same for Wendy, but I have to admit that many of the characters dont take their job seriously and forget that they are not dealing with humans anymore.
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