This episode did get a few things right and provide some more context, almost like gloves off, Prodigy Corporation and Boy Kavalier were absolutely the real monsters the entire time and watching Wendy finally team up with her Xenomorph friend to take down these corporate bastards felt so damn satisfying, even when she told Joe "no you are food for them", he was this close to turn Wendy totally against him, its like finally someone made these tech bros pay for their immortality bullshit scam. The whole Peter Pan twist where Kavalier believes hes the hero but actually ends up being Captain Hook was brilliant writing, now about the writing there are some questionable arguments about the franchise that Im sure the internet is running wild with it because this series changes and adds a lot of things specially that relationship human / hybrid / xenomorph. It was brilliant when Wendy calls Boy out for becoming exactly like the abusive father he hated so much, that moment when she tells him he turned into the daddy that he despised hit diferent because you could see how much it destroyed him inside. That Eyeball Creature taking over Arthurs dead body at the end though, now thats some next level creepy stuff, the first thing that came to mind was The Walking Dead, both me and my wife were laughing at it, and I cannot wait to see what kind of chaos that thing brings to season two with all of Arthurs knowledge bouncing around in there, well Im not sure how that works since Arthur was dead? how can he still use his neural system?, imagine having access to all the codes, all the systems on the island, all the techology understanding that Arthur had but now inside this parasitic alien creature, well thats a bit IF though.
- IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13623632/
- Platform: HULU
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The plant creature finaly showing its true colors and basically digesting one of those military guys was gross but awesome, like we been waiting all season to see what that thing actually does besides sitting there looking like some weird vegetation and when it opened up those wing like and wrapped around that poor bastard it was satisfying, I was amazed last night how my wife cant watch horror movies but did enjoy Alien Earth, she was all 7 episodes behind and catch up in 2 days so we watch episode 8 together. Another character that really satisfied that need of violence was Nibs, going full Xenomorph mode and riping through people has been building up for episodes and it paid off perfectly here, the way she moved and attacked felt more animal than human which makes perfect sense considering what shes become, its like watching someone embrace their monster side completely without any hesitation or remorse, the series managed to make the hybrids the good guys without it feeling forced, like these kids have ben through hell, died, got brought back as AI copies or whatever they actually are because at this point not even Wendy knows who she is or what she is and she is way smarter than any of us, and still managed to keep more humanity than the actual humans around them who lost theirs completely along the way.
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The episode does such a good job building up tension through the whole episode but the truth is that it lack that punch at the end, you can feel something big coming but you dont know exactly what its gonna be until everything starts falling apart for the corporate side, when Boy Kavalier finaly gets slightly beat up its so satisfying because this guy has ben manipulating and hurting these kids all season long. The background story about him killing his father when he was six years old using a synth he built himself was dark but honestly felt a bit exaggerated, at six years build a synth? tf?!, plus the reveal that Adam was probably that first synth was shocking and makes everything even more complicated, only trying to imagine how that hole situation of him growing up alone, idk it just doesnt make much sense. Wendys once again show off her power of controlling technology but it feels like she is limited some how, not sure if its because of her imagination because she is basically the same as Lucy on the movie, how she was able to control the network and anything in it, the way she could manipulate the elevators and camera systems and everything else showed just how powerfull she realy is.
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The fight between Morrow and Kirsch was exactly what I wanted to see but it was too damn short, there were things on the episode that happen but needed more screen time, 9 episode was needed so bad, but still watching a cyborg go up against a full synth in hand to hand combat while they told that John Henry story about man versus machine was perfect, even though it didnt last as long as I hoped it was still brutal and showed the difference between someone who still has human parts versus someone who feels no pain at all. Hermit does get some revenge some revenge by the hand of Wendy, after everything hes ben through this season, losing his lung to help create Wendys Xenomorph, yup its hers, dealing with all the betrayals and double crosses, the guy deserved some justice too even though he was not always impartial, during an argument with Wendy it amaze me how she told him "thats what powerless people respond and Im not powerless" that was like damn she is going full super saiyan. The hole lab sequence where we finally see what happens when the specimens escape was chaos in the best possible way, watching that plant creature reveal its true nature while Eyeball Creature made its move with Arthurs body was like the perfect storm of everything going wrong for Prodigy at the same time, Neverland turn into the Zoo and all aliens are running wild now, very Jurassic Park like.
Season two is gonna be insane with Weyland Yutani forces coming to the island, two Xenomorphs running around like some twisted family unit at that point the second one would be just as big and the first fully develop and I doubt the eye ball creature going to stay on Arthur body, its not a living and healthy host eventually its going to start decomposing, its like the perfect setup for even more chaos and destruction and its going to be interesting if Yutani can draw the line, Morrow once capture a full grown Xenomorph but it didnt have Wendy guidance, this last episode made me think how fragile this synth and hybrids are, looking back when the fly melted Isaac too and how Kirsch getting all fucked up. Its the ending where all the adults are locked up in cages while the hybrids take control what felt lacking that punch because this time when the music at the end hit I was like NOOO you cant end it like this, its like the patients finaly took over the asylum and now they get to decide whos the real monster, there was Boy Kavalier laughing like the Joker at the end while everything burns around him was the perfect final image for his character but again it was still annoying watching the episode end like that. Dame Sylvia wanted to switch sides and help the hybrids but Wendy put a stop to her when said "you help killing kids" which makes sense because she always thought of them as her children but as Wendy realize, they are not the same children anymore. If you are a LORE guy you probably wont like the series or this episode, it runs wild against many other things form the franchise, its Halo TV Series all over again, I did enjoy season 1 and give it an 8/10 overall.
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