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All I gotta say is that someone doesn't know the Texas Elementary Science Safety Standards.  Never eat or drink where you're doing an experiment.

And, yes.  Amazing episode.  

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All joking aside, that crash was still more successful than anything Space X has done this year.

bald asian guy as a major weirdo, research lady his grossly incompetent.  And yeah the captain and 1st officer boinking.

That ship was doomed long before they took on that alien cargo.


Teng gives off some creepy synth vibes as well, he for sure was a weirdo.

I remember Ridley Scott talking about cutting th e romance plot out of Alien between Dallas and Ripley because he didn’t want it interfering with the suspense and horror. Wonder if Hawley put it in here to switch it up. That woulda been almost the same roles, captain and warrant officer (executive officer in A:Earth)

Twas the best hour-long Alien movie ever

13 hours ago, Speedtrucker said:

Eyeball squid is an interesting take. So he/she had different experience during the sabotage

That crazy fucker gave the alien all it could handle and got away. 

The aliens movement was weird when its not hunting or killing. Its like it iss trying to figure out what its going to do the way it sniffs the air.

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1 hour ago, Js1 said:

Twas the best hour-long Alien movie ever

Except for, once again, the xeno has a target dead to rights and then the victim somehow gets away at a slow jog. It’s such a lazy plot device and they could have done that better imo. 

5 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

That crazy fucker gave the alien all it could handle and got away. 

The aliens movement was weird when its not hunting or killing. Its like it iss trying to figure out what its going to do the way it sniffs the air.

Was the eyeball trying to warn the scientist of the escaping bug?  Gonna be interesting if the eyeball race ends up being good or helpful.

26 minutes ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

Was the eyeball trying to warn the scientist of the escaping bug?  Gonna be interesting if the eyeball race ends up being good or helpful.

I think so. It banged on the glass when the space tick was getting free. Then the lil bastard freed itself to brain squid a human and fight the alien. It called to the alien when it was in the mechanics brain.

Its got a plan and i cant wait to see what it is.

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11 hours ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

All I gotta say is that someone doesn't know the Texas Elementary Science Safety Standards.  Never eat or drink where you're doing an experiment.

And, yes.  Amazing episode.  

Oh god when it crawled into the bread. I gagged

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1 hour ago, MissingInAction said:

I think so. It banged on the glass when the space tick was getting free. Then the lil bastard freed itself to brain squid a human and fight the alien. It called to the alien when it was in the mechanics brain.

Its got a plan and i cant wait to see what it is.

That is interesting 

Apparently Hawley stated on the official show podcast that the eyeball was trying to facilitate the ticks’ escape by distracting the scientist.

Great episode. Any minor qualms are greatly outweighed by all the awesome shit in this show. I’m pleasantly surprised at how well executed it has been, and I had high hopes. Fun stuff.

Apparently Hawley stated on the official show podcast that the eyeball was trying to facilitate the ticks’ escape by distracting the scientist.

Great episode. Any minor qualms are greatly outweighed by all the awesome shit in this show. I’m pleasantly surprised at how well executed it has been, and I had high hopes. Fun stuff.


So I wondered which it was doing. Which I originally mentioned it was a man interesting take.

Additionally we commented was it trying to attack or protect Zaverni? And then it called to the Xeno for a fight…

It’s gonna be real interesting to see how it inserts itself(pun intended) going forward
On 9/2/2025 at 8:59 PM, MissingInAction said:

Eyeball squid is my favorite character.

Eyeball Squid absolutely fucks. 

However, these sick mother fucking writers combined a god damn tick, leech and fluke worm to come up with the creepiest crawling, god damn monster that hits on every fucking one of my hard core twitch icks in the Vampire Tick-Leech-Worm. The Count TiLeeWorm of evil that I'm sure were tribal monsters of our ancestors. Fuck those writers!!! 

Also, yeah, that ship could have been a geology freighter with rocks and it was never making it home with all the god damn dysfunction. 

I feel ripped off I didn't get to see the conclusion of Squid Billy vs Xenomorph but otherwise what this show keeps on raising the stakes with each episode. Great shit. 

4 hours ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

Was the eyeball trying to warn the scientist of the escaping bug?  Gonna be interesting if the eyeball race ends up being good or helpful.

 

4 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

I think so. It banged on the glass when the space tick was getting free. Then the lil bastard freed itself to brain squid a human and fight the alien. It called to the alien when it was in the mechanics brain.

Its got a plan and i cant wait to see what it is.

Not at all! Eyeball Squid is an evil mother fucker and was HELPING TiLeeWorm by distracting the scientist so it could get out. She got careless and quickly put Eyeball Squid back without locking him in so he could do his tango escape. 

Bro was playing chess against a bunch of regards who struggled with checkers. 

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1 hour ago, Drifterwood said:

Apparently Hawley stated on the official show podcast that the eyeball was trying to facilitate the ticks’ escape by distracting the scientist.

Great episode. Any minor qualms are greatly outweighed by all the awesome shit in this show. I’m pleasantly surprised at how well executed it has been, and I had high hopes. Fun stuff.

Sorry missed this prior to my response. But yeah and it helped it too as she had to get back to that work. Brilliant!

16 hours ago, Buzzrock said:

That was my favorite episode yet because I like that plot line the most. No dumb kids, but still plenty of incompetent idiots on this space crew. I guess that’s our future when billionaire oligarchs run the world. Hashtag team Morrow, I hope he gets to kill the boy genius. 

The rock n roll credits music doesn’t do it for me. It’s all songs I like but it doesn’t fit with the vibe of the show. 

I watched that PBS aircraft carrier documentary almost 20 years ago when I was getting ready to go to OCS for the USMC because they offered a flight contract if you could pass all the tests, and I'm not convinced that things are any different today. 

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Rewatching now.  Of all the incompetence on this ship, and there's a lot of it, the scientist lady is the most.  A sammich and Stanley of water while your tossing a dead rat into a cage.  Even on Temu Space X Starship, that's bad.

Rewatching now.  Of all the incompetence on this ship, and there's a lot of it, the scientist lady is the most.  A sammich and Stanley of water while your tossing a dead rat into a cage.  Even on Temu Space X Starship, that's bad.

I saw something that stated the best and brightest aren’t signing up for a 65 year long mission where you have to give up all your friends and family.

The more I think about this episode, the more it sucked.

They’ve been on mission for 65 years. Boy Cavalier wasn’t born until like 25 years ago. The engineer would’ve had to be compromised well before then. Otherwise, he couldn’t get out of cryosleep on his own. Also, Prodigy didn’t exist back then anyway because it can’t be more than a few years old.

6 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

The more I think about this episode, the more it sucked.

They’ve been on mission for 65 years. Boy Cavalier wasn’t born until like 25 years ago. The engineer would’ve had to be compromised well before then. Otherwise, he couldn’t get out of cryosleep on his own. Also, Prodigy didn’t exist back then anyway because it can’t be more than a few years old.

We don't know at what point he corrupted the contact. The corrupted contact also clearly had in depth knowledge about the ship, so he could have modified the cyropod himself potentially. There could be thousands of these ships and they were hacking data remotely to determine which had content for pirating. The contact could have been woken up in route in order to accomplish some task. Not everyone was sleeping the entire duration of the 65 years. They could also hack the cyropod remotely to wake the guy up. Also, there are no real Squid Billies, Xenomorphs, or TiLeeWorms in real life. 

It's an honest point of contention regarding continuity but there are a lot of logical work arounds that the writers chose to forgo. If you choose to refuse suspension of disbelief based on a singular easily debatable continuity item that writers saved us from having to sleep through, and instead shit on a great episode of TV, that's certainly a choice. 

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I gotta start keeping track of things better. Was thinking this came out on Sunday nights (but I guess who would do that to themselves during football season) and was all excited...

Now I'm watching the original which ive only seen a couple times because it is older than I am and at some point in my adult years I got too busy to keep up with everything current, go back and watch the "classics," and have a life outside of watching TV/Movies. 

17 minutes ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

I gotta start keeping track of things better. Was thinking this came out on Sunday nights (but I guess who would do that to themselves during football season) and was all excited...

Now I'm watching the original which ive only seen a couple times because it is older than I am and at some point in my adult years I got too busy to keep up with everything current, go back and watch the "classics," and have a life outside of watching TV/Movies. 

there are some movies that are genre defining.  IMO, Alien is one of them.  A few others, Jaws, 2001 Space Odyssey, Psycho, Public Enemy.  Might make for a good topic.

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I said this to a coworker last week on the topic, but I appreciate them (Scott I’m sure) sticking with the late 70s tech aesthetic from the original with the CRTs and the lit keys and such, even though it’s anachronistic.  Gives it an alternate universe/timeline feel. 

54 minutes ago, dcar00 said:

there are some movies that are genre defining.  IMO, Alien is one of them.  A few others, Jaws, 2001 Space Odyssey, Psycho, Public Enemy.  Might make for a good topic.

For sure. That's something I realized as I got older and saw all these references to movies that came out well before I was old enough to watch them, but may have been spurned a bit by the time I reached that age because they didn't have the special effects that I grew up to expect. Once I was old enough to appreciate the stories of a lot of these movies while realizing that the special effects were secondary to the story I went back and started watching them. But by that point I was old enough for other pursuits and then that transitioned into raising a family, so while ive gone back and watched many of these films, I didn't get the benefit of watching them several times over in my adolescence. 

22 hours ago, BurntEyes said:

We don't know at what point he corrupted the contact. The corrupted contact also clearly had in depth knowledge about the ship, so he could have modified the cyropod himself potentially. There could be thousands of these ships and they were hacking data remotely to determine which had content for pirating. The contact could have been woken up in route in order to accomplish some task. Not everyone was sleeping the entire duration of the 65 years. They could also hack the cyropod remotely to wake the guy up. Also, there are no real Squid Billies, Xenomorphs, or TiLeeWorms in real life. 

It's an honest point of contention regarding continuity but there are a lot of logical work arounds that the writers chose to forgo. If you choose to refuse suspension of disbelief based on a singular easily debatable continuity item that writers saved us from having to sleep through, and instead shit on a great episode of TV, that's certainly a choice. 

Single?

Tootles got wrecked 

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Episode 6.  Again, the lab safety protocols.

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You don't have 2 people in the lab at all times keeping an eye on things but instead treat your dangerous creatures like hamsters in a cage.  Then you send a child (himself a science experiment) in to do chores.  That goes to crap.  The guy who catches it doesn't hit the alarm but just goes in alone.

But they sure are creepy, especially the sheep.  And it's gonna be fun watching Boy Wonder getting his.  Also.  I like Godsmack.

I’ve said it before but everyone in the alien universe acts in the most foolish and dumb no matter the education level, work background etc.

The Kirsh “the scientific method is a method not a suggestion box” had my wife and I laughing and commenting “no one in this universe has ever exhibited a working knowledge of it!” And I added “well Newt maybe”

Good episode but sheesh so many characters drive me crazy! [emoji1787]

7 minutes ago, Speedtrucker said:

Good episode but sheesh so many characters drive me crazy!

That feels like the point. It’s the only way the Xeno keeps winning 

1 hour ago, Speedtrucker said:

Good episode but sheesh so many characters drive me crazy! emoji1787.png

This was probably the weakest episode for me and relies on too many of the characters acting in inexplicably dumb ways to table set the xenomorphs going bananas.  

Gotta admit that the end of the episode left me chuckling at all the stupid decisions, and then closing with that wonky-eyed sheep staring into the audience’s souls while fading to black.

Felt like dark, dark comedy.

ALIEN: EARTH Introduces Its Most Terrifying Creature, and It's a Sheep

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3 hours ago, Speedtrucker said:

Good episode but sheesh so many characters drive me crazy! emoji1787.png

Well there are a few less now...

If your billion dollar robot can't even do basic chores, what's even the point? Back to the drawing board, kid.

On 9/9/2025 at 8:55 PM, Parliament said:

Episode 6.  Again, the lab safety protocols.

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You don't have 2 people in the lab at all times keeping an eye on things but instead treat your dangerous creatures like hamsters in a cage.  Then you send a child (himself a science experiment) in to do chores.  That goes to crap.  The guy who catches it doesn't hit the alarm but just goes in alone.

But they sure are creepy, especially the sheep.  And it's gonna be fun watching Boy Wonder getting his.  Also.  I like Godsmack.

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Yeah, I agree on this one. A wunderkind disappeared in the lab. He's found lying on the floor partially melted and idgit decided to open the door pull him out of a cage with Acid Wasp. Then when Xenomorph egg opens there is no "oh shit" button in a lab with these fucking critters. 

Nope.

There was a required suspension of disbelief that I struggled with in this episode. 

Squid Billy pulling the look over here, again, had me smiling. "These fucking idiots, fall for it every time. Can't wait to kill them all. Need to find a 12 gauge.". 

10 hours ago, Js1 said:

That feels like the point. It’s the only way the Xeno keeps winning 

Agreed on whatever it takes to loose the hounds. Beg to differ on Xeno winning thus far. On the done fucked up some "humans" count, Squid Billy is doing gods work on these morons. 

Sure Xeno straight romancin' one before he lays down his pimp hand but... Squid Billy taking skins. 

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7 hours ago, bolverk said:

Gotta admit that the end of the episode left me chuckling at all the stupid decisions, and then closing with that wonky-eyed sheep staring into the audience’s souls while fading to black.

Felt like dark, dark comedy.

ALIEN: EARTH Introduces Its Most Terrifying Creature, and It's a Sheep

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36 minutes ago, BurntEyes said:

Squid Billy taking skins. 

Man, Squid Billy ain't gonna do shit but sit in that cell and watch each and every one of those fuckers get kilt off.

His big ol' eye is feastin' on some serious eye candy. This is some kind of cinematic spectacle for that creepy motherfucker.

1 hour ago, bolverk said:

Man, Squid Billy ain't gonna do shit but sit in that cell and watch each and every one of those fuckers get kilt off.

His big ol' eye is feastin' on some serious eye candy. This is some kind of cinematic spectacle for that creepy motherfucker.

Squid Billy gotta muthafuckin' plan man. Biden' his time, jess gettin' the numbers right. Then he gonna fuck up Xeno and them all them bots n shit. Probably stick TiLeeWorm on Xeno, and put Acid Wasp on the bots all while he rainin' 12 gauge on anyone who steps to the square. You jess don't know man. Never mess with a sheep runnin' redneck who dun been locked up for no damn reason.

Setting up for squidbilly to be highly intelligent. I wonder if it will be able to talk/communicate if it digs into a human brain.  It’s just watching and learning. 

What an incredible indictment of the human condition this show is: corporate and individual greed, hubris, using and controlling others, overconfidence.  
 

Freaking great show, each episode is a 60 m roller coaster ride through hell.

41 minutes ago, Minute Bull said:

What an incredible indictment of the human condition this show is: corporate and individual greed, hubris, using and controlling others, overconfidence.  
 

Freaking great show, each episode is a 60 m roller coaster ride through hell.

Yeah man, I mean.. I'm starting to lean pretty heavily toward #teamSquidBilly

Hermit seems like the only character left (since the death of Professor Married a smoke show older woman) with a really solid moral compass. And I'm honestly perfectly fine with it. 

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