The Reel Rejects - ALIEN: EARTH 1x04 Breakdown & Review!!

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Starting point is 00:02:00 Oh, yeah. It's the best. Wild. If you're listening to a Snap or Spotify, give us a five-star rating, do all the things. Like, comment, subscribe, and you do. Ring the bell. Ring the bell.

Starting point is 00:02:18 Yeah, I love this show. Who wants to go first? Give them your thoughts. I'll go first. I think this show is great. It continues to be great. and only raises the stakes from episode to episode. I think this movie, this episode did a really great job

Starting point is 00:02:33 of having its primary theme or one of those primary themes be choice or be desire, rather. Each one of these characters is put in a position where they have to do something that they don't want to do but because of the things that they desire have to do. You know, Wendy, she is working with Prodigy to keep her brother there. The Indian kid wants to save his family.

Starting point is 00:02:57 The brother wants to stay with his sister, so he, you know, sacrifices his own sense of freedom to stay there. The girl who wants to, you know, please, Daddy is here to, you know, just continue to try to be subservient to him. And I think, yeah, it's all coming together really, really good. And I think these conflicting desires are only going to add to the temperature rising of the tension of the show. and I'm excited. I think this is a really strong episode. Every episode's been strong. It's only getting better and better as we go along.

Starting point is 00:03:34 And I, yeah, I'm excited to hear what you guys think. Yeah. I like what I'd say about choice. I think it's interesting at the halfway point of a show. There's always that inflection point of like midway. It usually feels like a shift happens. And choice is that here and then the ending is a xenomorph. Like we've got a living xenomorph for the action,

Starting point is 00:03:54 but we've also got all those choices and the ramifications for the narrative. I definitely am intrigued most by the... There's an element to the boy genius to a cavalier that is so Peter Pan, and they really play up that in this episode. And I'm really wondering if he will make it out of this season to be an element that stays behind the scenes. Because I think this show's written to be not a... a miniseries but like a full on series yeah and they've played him up enough that i'm really

Starting point is 00:04:28 curious if the wayland utani like the five coming up in this and like what the overall world looks like and the lack of consequences he has like his lack of empathy like he does kind of float above everything so i'm really curious uh just enjoying the characters like does he make it out is there more him like what does this show become because it's removed from continuity um so now that we're in the first half being completed i'm thinking like long term um but yeah i really was impressed by how foreboding and intense a sheep was. They really made me fear of sheep. They really do a good job with lighting and framing everything to be so unnerving and so

Starting point is 00:05:05 disorienting and creepy. And they're asking all the right questions. And I really like our villain. The villain's really manipulative and a really fun way because at first he was manipulating him as a child and then he started manipulating him as an adult and he's just got him totally cornered. He feels like there's nothing he can do. And I feel like most of the characters feel that way at this point in the season.

Starting point is 00:05:23 like they're all trapped in their own way yeah really really dug it yeah i i love um how friendship came up a lot in this and specifically when anews was talking to kersh in the room and kersh is like why do you have these three monkeys on your wall and then he uh anews says to him friends don't lie which i'm like stranger things straight up but also um he is walking now into a group of his friends and he's going to be lying for a very long time now that he's met kumi so i just think that like the fact that that line came out of his mouth and now you know he's in cahoots and he is pissed about like i mean if you think about it from his aspect it's like his mom is in straight up danger kumi is so like just forbearing and overbearing and then you know he arrives and sees like hermit there and

Starting point is 00:06:19 he's just he's mad about it but he cannot tell them about the freaking egg that he's got to steal unless he does i just thought like the whole hear no evil speak no evil all of that i'm like that's exactly what he's going to be doing if he's like up with kahumi kahoots with kumi um so i really like the the aspect of friendship here because i think it's all going to derail like especially with you know, curly and, um, and then his best buddy, I forget his name, but like there's no way that you can really come back once they figure out that like, you're going to have to sneak in a human and the humans already sneaked in. If he takes hermit, holy tamale, how is you not going to get caught? How is it? Like, I'm already thinking too, way too far ahead. But, um, I just think that

Starting point is 00:07:11 I'm very excited to see how it all plays out. Like, And especially at the end, like, it reminded me of Wendy and the little xenomorph. It reminded me of Dustin and Bart, how they, you know, they kind of fall in love with each other. And that's a little part of her brother in there. And now that she can speak to it, I'm like, oh, wait, what's going to happen? Like, this show is insanely good. I love that two things I just thought of from what you were just saying. I forgot this episode started out with the reveal of her talking to alien.

Starting point is 00:07:42 Like, that is such a new bit of lore. and like to be able to communicate to a xenomorph elevates everything so much more because they're weapons like the reason whalen utani likes them is the weaponry and like that's why they're cultivated in the original like movies and now it's a weapon you can speak to which i think is really interesting and a new dynamic and the other thing i just thought of from what you were saying um i totally called it they stole those kids the mom didn't know yeah so like those kids are stolen yeah and and the conversation about whether it's six AI that think they're human or we killed six children like what a what a line like what a brutal reality of what these scientists have done at what cost but the mom did know they stole them kids it's like that it's like that husband is the only one who's really grounded in reality he's like our one he is like us he's like the one person because his wife is is very close with cavalier we can tell that you know he wants to speak his mind she gives him a look and then it's not coming out what a fun twist like we're halfway through the season yeah he's like wife wife you're like

Starting point is 00:08:44 What a regular day-to-day life twist. Totally. I loved it. I loved it. We got Shy Malon in the middle of the season with like wife and it's supporting characters. It's so good. And now it's like it's almost like they have children together without actually having them and there's six of them. And that's I think why she took it so so strongly to heart of like, well, or we killed six kids. And you know, she's like, no, there's no way kind of a thing.

Starting point is 00:09:11 Oh, man, this show's whack. It's whack. It really, there are so many points of like, just that there's so many pathways, like, within this story. And it says written by Noah Holly and Bobak S. Far Johnny. And I really like specifically where it's going because there's like so many pathways with so many characters that keeps the pacing up. But it's not so much so that it gets like overly convoluted and you're like, what the hell's going on? It's very, very clear. Hey, Reject Nation.

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Starting point is 00:11:21 What's that? Crazy girl's pregnant. Right. Yeah. A lot happened. A lot of things. Pet in the stork. And that we're starting to see the cracks in whether their minds are accepting their new bodies, which I was talking about last episode, whether or not that would come to play.

Starting point is 00:11:34 And I think we're seeing those mental breaks. Yeah. Because, like, what if she does end up, like, I think you call an ectotopic pregnancy where you can build it. up in your brain and then your belly gets bigger like you had a baby that's a thing that's a thing in our reality it's it's a real it's a real thing how do you without even sperm you just correct a baby your body you're not it's not in there your body starts to form like you are holding a baby because you have basically kind of manifested that it's called like echo ecotopic topic topic pregnancy something around that word we're close ecoplasm pregnancy don't cross

Starting point is 00:12:12 streams or a baby happens you've thought yourself into having a babyless womb uh-huh that's wild i never knew that yeah people can get so yeah but it's real isn't that wild and that's why i'm like dude if we skip back and nibs is like what i don't think so exactly that's the question but she's synthetic so there's a little bit of juice human in there kind of i don't know man i love the i love the fact that we can have a show about alien that utilizes alien in a way where it's still interesting yet minimal. We don't have a ton of xenomorph, but...

Starting point is 00:12:50 All we have is a baby this episode. All we have is a baby, but we have these other little variants of xenomorph and offshoots, but it's the characters and these conversations about morality and choice and desire that make it. And like, yeah, even with going back to the thing about desire, you know, the kid Isaac wanted a name. The girl Nibs wants a baby. They all want something.

Starting point is 00:13:11 And I feel like, yeah, these things that they desire are all coming into conflict with each other, at least they're going to at some point. Well, this was the episode I felt like all of the lost boys were trying to be human. He's trying to have a friend. She's trying to have a baby. He's trying to have a name.

Starting point is 00:13:25 All of them are trying to be human. Carly's trying to be the special one. Yeah. It's not going to get there. But that wasn't, I don't think they ever thought of it. Right. Or we didn't seem to seem like they were trying anything. They just were.

Starting point is 00:13:36 Yeah. And now they're like, oh, I need this special thing, special thing, which is human. very and it's like the best it's like the note that you'd always get in writing of like what does the character want yeah without them you know fully saying it out loud right they're just showing that to us but also i just thought of that right now the kids may be the most dangerous over the freaking the xenomorph yeah more's a baby Wendy can communicate to it and we saw nibs almost literally killed the doctor lady that was so scary and Wendy killed one in the beginning of last episode.

Starting point is 00:14:12 Yes. And like, I'm talking about Nibs is unstable and if you mess with Wendy's brother who knows what's going to happen and it looks like Anush is going to mess with Hermit and then I don't know. I think he's going to be pure chaos as like red wedding. Also, Kersh is

Starting point is 00:14:28 just standing back watching everybody. What the hell does he want? Yeah, I love that Kershman. Alphan's got such presents. He can just like a look through a window right and you're like, exactly. Also, he was listening to the conversation. Yes. He can hear both sides of it. his dad observing oh my god yeah man i'm i'm fascinated by him like and he's so calculating because

Starting point is 00:14:47 he's a computer yeah and did they did they establish that uh prodigy built him as well because his his whole thing seems to be the hybrids but he's he's fully android so i'm like i wonder if like wailen yeah yeah prodigy bought him from waylin or he if he just made an android and he was like the only one because he seems to be the only one that's purely android in this whole show. Yeah, because I don't think Cavalier has ever taken credit for him. I feel like we would have heard that. Yeah. He was just like, you're just a

Starting point is 00:15:16 computer or whatever he said in the first one or second episode. Yeah, maybe he was a gift or something. Yeah, there's, there's there going to be another twist. Who knows? It is very interesting. He's the only fully synthetic thing here. We've had different variations of that. And that's a very prominent part of the alien

Starting point is 00:15:32 lore, the synthetics. Like, why do you guys think he was like patting the egg with the juice? his hand I can't I thought that he needed to moisturize oh god shut up you know like snail mucin he made it some snail mucin for his under eyes it's like he knows the plan though he knows the plan with kumi and anouche he goes to pet the freaking egg and then he's staring through the glass at at wendy with the xenomorph and she's like talking to it and I'm like what's your plan here the computer man alien mucon felt like a power play it felt like like I can do this but

Starting point is 00:16:08 If I was organic, I couldn't. To me, that felt like a moment of like, he-he. Okay, I like that. It might pay off more, but that's how I interpreted that moment. I don't think it would, because we already seen him looking through the glass. He has clearly changed settings. Yeah, like, doing something. Yeah, I think that was just a moment of like, I'm in control.

Starting point is 00:16:28 Yeah, I was having. And that was right after the scene of this sheep. And talking about its intelligence, him watching. Yes. And he was like, see how intelligent and see how it's watching us. I feel like that was a moment of him being like, I'm the superior organism. Yeah, like, look at my cognitive ability.

Starting point is 00:16:42 Yeah, I can pet this. Wasn't that after the plan to get a human into the thing so an egg could hatch on his face? I believe so. After he was listening to that, I'm... I was like, yes, my egg. I don't know. I think he's playing.

Starting point is 00:17:01 I don't know which is a lot going on. There's so much. We watch a lot of stuff. It's good stuff. Do you guys have any last? thoughts that you want to tell or share with your people. I just want to watch episode 5. It's so good. I know.

Starting point is 00:17:14 We love it. Anything last? I think it is a very interesting conversation about what makes something human. And I think at the end it'll be an interesting conversation much like the first alien is of like what humanity is versus what human is. I think

Starting point is 00:17:30 the billionaire, trillionaire commentary in the original in this are going to be very interesting to is a hybrid going to end up being more humane than a human right and how close are we to that in our real world yeah we shall see spooky we love you guys to the moon and back thanks for joining us do all the right things we love you up see on the next one want to know what life on the tennis tour is really like we're here to give you all the deeds from our most chaotic travel days to our late night laughs we're pulling back the curtain on the stories

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The Reel Rejects - ALIEN: EARTH 1x04 Breakdown & Review!!

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