The Reel Rejects - ALIEN: EARTH 1x08 Breakdown & Review!!!

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Starting point is 00:01:34 Check out these shirts. Check out Patreon and check out the finale of Alien Earth. Let's get it. Ended on the Pearl Jam. I mean, I was pretty close at the ending. Yeah, what was your preaching? It was going to be her and the alien

Starting point is 00:01:52 walking and inherited the earth. And instead it's her aliens and the hybrids inheriting earth. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's it's close. Yeah. I thought it was going to be a dramatic walk into the sunset. Instead, we get the little bit more of a, you know, season one cliffhanger energy. Yeah, for sure.

Starting point is 00:02:09 Well, I got a lot to say, but I, uh, first of all, want to thank Prepper for making this possible on the YouTube. It's a very violent intent show. So without their editing prowess, we would not be able to do such things. Before we get into our review and thoughts, normally we would have Patreon questions. We were lucky enough to get this a little early so they didn't get out to folks in time. But I want to hear

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Starting point is 00:02:48 Um, I enjoyed this finale, but I actually don't know what I want to say yet. So Tara. I think the most exciting part for me was realizing Wendy or Marcy's actual powers. When she stops the freaking dickhead robot and like I was like, wait, what is happening? Oh, right now, like the haunting is such smart writing. And I, I mean, I just had a lot of fun because there were times where I thought when like the soldiers went into the elevator it kind of leaves you on a cliffhanger like wait is the xenomorph going to be in there and then you're like no wendy's going to fuck with them right now in the elevator

Starting point is 00:03:37 which was so much fun um and then i i got the path that i wanted to of really seeing her communicating with the xenomorphs and her now like ruling because i'm like yeah if she can communicate with them she can make them do whatever and we saw in the last episode and she reaches out to like pet it it's like we've never seen that before ever in our entire lives um and i think it's really cool and i i would love it if because one of you guys said oh maybe she can teach the others to communicate with them which i think that would be a lot of fun too but um i don't think that the xenomorphs are going to kill like kersh and cavalier and the the therapist i think she's just going to maybe toy with them a little bit because as we as we heard um cavalier calling them toys he

Starting point is 00:04:32 literally calls them toys so i'm like now is the time for these guys to toy with them and not necessarily kill them i think like make it last like not torture full on but they did fuck with you a lot and i i'm not sure how hermit is going to fully help all of them but i'm not sure how hermit is going to fully help all of them but I'm glad that like they're all together and they have the power now and that is very exciting. But

Starting point is 00:05:01 Waylon Utani was arriving as yeah there's not going to be a lot of time for that's why that's oh my God yes we're about to get a holy difference season holy tamale I'm just saying I'm just that was a yeah that was a really good finale

Starting point is 00:05:16 yeah you know it's funny because I really enjoyed the finale I think just because of the nature of the franchise of Alien, I was expecting something a lot more bloody and a lot more people to die. But I guess I am happy for the fact that I enjoy the cast that we've culminated over the course of these eight episodes. And then we get to see more of them in the second season. And I appreciate Noah Hawley's restraint in not having that be the case. This grand finale where they get there come up, it's just a big blood bath.

Starting point is 00:05:50 But more so, it's a, it's wrapping up what we started at the beginning of the show where these kids are in a position looking up to these adults, feeling powerless and looking to them for guidance. And now they are the ones in control of their own narrative and their own destiny. And in the face of, you know, more problems to come for the second season. But at this point in time, they are the ones in charge. They are the ghosts. They are ruling. And I think that's very cool. I think that's very awesome.

Starting point is 00:06:20 like hey there is another light something's happening in here it's the same it just goes on and off they're just dimming it it was very alarming yeah um but yeah in ghosts uh in short i really liked everything we got in this episode i think it was tense they built upon all the character drama and relationships that we have come to see over the course of the season i like that we ended with the reunion of of hermit and wendy slash Marcy or whatever she's going to call herself for the next season and I like that

Starting point is 00:06:55 NIMS wasn't dead and that she didn't kill the scientist lady slash mother figure and we get to see what happens next. I like that that his name Robert

Starting point is 00:07:05 who now is the holder of the eye his body. Arthur Arthur. Arthur, my bad. Arthur is now going to be possessed by this good for that actor man.

Starting point is 00:07:17 He gets to come back. to me and like, I'm barely in this. And then at the end, you're like, it killed me and then nope. Nope. Also, how nice of it to not like rip his face apart and just kind of sneaks slyly into that spot.

Starting point is 00:07:29 You know, because he messed up the, the sheep's eye fucking real bad. But yeah, he just like replaced the eye real gentle, real, real demure with it. I'm a little worried, though, because Arthur was on their side and now that that's in there, will he not be? We don't know what it wants. I know. I know. That's what I'm like,

Starting point is 00:07:44 I'm genuinely curious. Yeah, I like the fact that Utani's coming to the island now. I think this episode did a really good job of positioning our characters and now getting them all on the same side. I like that what was her name? She goes by Jane now.

Starting point is 00:08:01 Curley? Yeah, Curley goes by Jane now. Cavalier betrayed her. She wanted Daddy's love or Peter's love and she's like, no, I am my own person. I'm not what he defines me to be. So the fact that we are now entering the rise of the hybrids is a interesting place for us to start this second season and yeah there's more monsters

Starting point is 00:08:23 and aliens afoot on here i don't know what's going to happen with them but it seems like we potentially have a a war on our hands between our five synthetics and our two xenomorphs but against uh will and eutani so yeah we'll see what's to come next season coy uh two big thoughts broadly uh i think it's really interesting how little uh we get shows that are confident in their season 2s. I feel like so many shows write themselves to be single season experiences.

Starting point is 00:08:52 And I like that this is something that is presuming more to come. I like having a building up of cast because so much this first season had to be acclimating to these characters. And there was a moment I didn't expect

Starting point is 00:09:05 where it was like a team up with the hybrids that felt like a team. And I was like, oh, I have invested in more of them than I thought. Like I did feel that. Oh, they're all together. And like you kept pointing out

Starting point is 00:09:14 like the five shots. It's like those moments did hit, and I wouldn't have thought they would have. So I was like, I want more of that. So I like that the show, formatting-wise, was confident to not have, you know, this kind of wrap-up. And shows are continuous, like serialized. So I like a cliffhanger. So I like a show that doesn't feel like a limited series. So I appreciate that from a macro standpoint.

Starting point is 00:09:37 And storytelling-wise, you know, there was this running conversation of when is a machine, not a machine. and I think the answer to that being a ghost in the machine is a really interesting philosophical question. I kept bringing up the ship of Theseus, and the ship of Theseus is a concept. I've wondered a lot because I'm a believer in the cocoon theory. I think that humanity is aggressively heading towards its own demise to become an amalgamation with technology. I think that we are aggressively destroying our planet. I think we are aggressively building AI when we've made a lot of art about how. how dangerous it is.

Starting point is 00:10:14 I think we are shepherding ourselves towards a new consciousness where there'll be a period of cocooning, and then we emerge something that is a mix of organic and synthetic. And I think that's probably only four or five generations away. That's as an optimist. I want my kids to live full lives as humans. But I think that the concept of hybrids ties into that organic, synthetic blend that I think our reality is experiencing. But there's also a philosophical concept of the ghost and the machine.

Starting point is 00:10:43 what it is that separates a machine from life and what it is to have that spark of life. So I love the language of a ghost is when a machine is not a machine. And I really like that this landed that in a horror way by making the haunting, but also it made a lot of very big horror decisions. Like this was a very haunted house episode. This was haunting a dead body. You know, this was very much a ghost thematic tie-in to the end that I didn't expect. So just as a philosophy junkie, ghost machine, cocoon theory, all of my weird, I like doing mushroom thoughts. I love that.

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Starting point is 00:13:15 what does power do to her though like is she yeah is she going to be you know will she will she abuse her power will she use it just enough to be peaceful because this is the first time they don't have to answer to anybody or have to bent to somebody's will i suppose so what is what does that mean in the face of because they have they have the cyborg in there they have the fully synthetic androids in there and they have humans in there they are something else entirely

Starting point is 00:13:46 because they have the physicality of something that is greater than a human but the minds and feelings and memories of what they've experienced plus their processing power of being something that's not human so it's to create something both mentally

Starting point is 00:14:02 and physically other than anything we've experienced or people in this world have experienced before, and I think that alone is fascinating. Does she become corrupt? Does absolute power corrupt absolutely in the face of someone who is not human or robot? Yeah. I

Starting point is 00:14:18 think the moment to tie into that, that's interesting, is she doesn't like complicated. So what's the most linear path? Like, that's why she likes the xenomorphs. Is logical. They're honest. So is it something where she'll like Whalen Utani's clean, like, is it going to be where she's

Starting point is 00:14:34 like, take them? Give me this power. Give me this thing that I want, I don't care about this. Like what's it going to be when you're a child which is an immature thing that's fueled by emotion and when you claim to be something above that that doesn't like complicated? So I think that's going to be really interesting in Wayland Usani because we've seen her be very calm, cool

Starting point is 00:14:50 and controlled. And that last shot of her like the overlap fate of her like watching over as the ships descend. Like that I feel like is season two, a very big like anime inspired like the power struggle of a big billion trillion dollar corporation versus this new entity

Starting point is 00:15:06 on this island, all on earth. Yeah, I think another question I have is with her relationship with the xenomorph, does she view them as her children as something that, you know, that she connects with or she viewed as a tool more so? Her mentioning Jane was interesting, like Wendy's child. You know, Captain Hook stole Jane in the original, and that's something they brought up, and I don't think you'd bring that up. Right.

Starting point is 00:15:32 You know, so I feel like, you know, her calling out him for not being Peter Pan. is as important as her being like Jane is really the thing and the xenomorphs to me are Jane in the myth but yeah it's fun to like have Peter Pan be relevant like I love the myth of Peter Payne and I really

Starting point is 00:15:49 think they played around with a lot of lore mythology here in a very interesting way I like that they're all hip to like what they were named how it's going and now all these people that were controlling them are in there and what makes me think that's going to be harder between Marcy and Wayland

Starting point is 00:16:06 Utani is the last thing we heard is now we rule and I'm like that was dope as hell but now I'm like oh shit what like what yeah awesome but also what's gonna go down

Starting point is 00:16:22 what does it look like how does she rule like I'm and I think that hermit will still keep her grounded I think she'll still listen to her brother but then again maybe not I feel like at the end there was a lot of there was a separation right yeah so you know what I didn't realize it maybe I should have because it's on the uniform and I think sometimes they do that when I went to the grave it

Starting point is 00:16:44 showed that hermit's their last name and because it's Marcy Hermit's like what's his first name well I think because in Mill oh yeah I don't know they would have hermit written down because of the last name exactly right right they probably said yeah they probably did we can look at IMDBs yeah we don't know but I my last point I think is um what I'm finding interesting about like what's to come is they very specifically mentioned she could control the other android the original because he was on network so her power is within that environment what is that going to look like with these ships and things coming in what does that look like with you know obviously she's physically powerful in all those things but you know what's that war

Starting point is 00:17:25 going to my god she could stop their navigation they i mean they're not part of their network though oh right so she can control things outside of the island as well because remember uh when her it wasn't even on the island she controlled like when he was at the lady oh when he was at the DMV looking place remember that yes and she had the lady say welcome whatever whatever it was or play play the Ice Age

Starting point is 00:17:47 movie and that's what I'm wondering her level of power right she's mentioning the network I was like okay so it's controlled but yeah that's true a lot to discover season two yeah spooky any last thoughts no man love this show can't wait for season two

Starting point is 00:18:02 yeah I hope they we see obviously within the context of this show but I feel like Wendy's a really cool character and they've done some interesting stuff with the mythology and I would like to see Wendy outside of the context of just this show. Maybe she can mean other alien projects going forward

Starting point is 00:18:19 because synthetics technically don't age. So who knows? Maybe we can see her in like cryosleep or just like in another timeline of alien but yeah, I'm excited to see where she goes next in this journey in season too. I'm really curious if any of these seasons

Starting point is 00:18:35 ever connect to the original because I know they set this before and I like that they're going to be himself enough runway. Two years before. Yeah, so I like that there's enough runway that maybe like if they find out season three or four is their last, they then make that something that connects that'd be cool. Especially with how this opened so 70s. So yeah, I had

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The Reel Rejects - ALIEN: EARTH 1x08 Breakdown & Review!!!

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