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Alien: Earth - Episode 3 'Metamorphosis'
🕑 Added 2025-08-25 05:00:06 +0000 UTCCh ch ch ch chaaaaanges
It's time for episode three of Alien: Earth, and the title of the episode is 'Metamorphosis'. Which is a reference to our showgirl, of course, but also the Lost Boys, Morrow, and humanity itself in this show about making machines, becoming machines, putting children into machines ("this is fine" - the ethics board, distractedly), and sometimes thinking about machines when an alien comes along and tail-whips you into cutlets.
Turn and face the strange, children. Which reminds us - that spinning eye octopus is back this week, certainly in the thoughts of Nibs.
Other areas of discussion include Wendy and Joe's fight with a xenomorph (whose Opta stats take a beating this episode), Smee and Slightly saying "bro", Kirsh vs Morrow, Blade Runner vibes, and the fact we're suddenly all really bloody excited about where this show is going.
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Comments
Jennifer
The chat about how this series is..... well, forgive me, it's bravely going where no one has gone before. I stopped what I was doing to think about this: that it's giving us the bits we're used to, only so that we can be present and ready for the way the show is planning not use them. It's trusting and respecting our history with the IP, and walking us through this change, where some media would just refuse to even address it in the spirit of trying something new. It's meeting us where we're at, and ushering us into a new world. And I FUCKING LOVE THAT. It is SO important for this series to have done, and I'm so happy they've taken this approach. I feel as if we're being honored. I remember very little about this ep, but I can say I'm excited to see what happens. And, uh, learn the rest of the names of the characters lol
Cara
What I'm getting from these is that I need to watch Fargo. Which I maybe haven't done until now because I'm not a massive Martin Freeman fan. Enjoying the series and this breakdown afterwards which is always interesting because you've thought about it a lot more than me.
