Alien: Earth Episode 7 Recap & Review

I am getting together with Gil and Daniel from OneTake to talk about the new Alien: Earth episode right after it airs! Join us to hear what we thought. Art by Nick Coad: https://www.instagram.com/nickcoad_designs/

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Tonight.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
We're talking about Alien Earth episode seven, Tony.

Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's called emergents, I think, right.

Speaker 3 (00:07):
I don't know, yes, the emergence.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
This is an emergency Tonight's let's get into tonight's recrap.
I'm Gil from one take here with my friend Tony
from Hack.

Speaker 4 (00:18):
The Movies, and uh, Gil, I'm having a I'm starting
to think the Queen Alien's not going to be in
this season, so I made sure to put her on
my mic stand today.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Yeah, so that way.

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, the people who are all disappointed they're getting the
Alien Queen.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
You got the Alien Queen. It's on my mic stand
right now.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
I couldn't talk to it. Are you like controlling the
mad and stuff?

Speaker 2 (00:41):
And I think recrap, by the way, appropriate title for
tonight's episode.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Yeah, because of that.

Speaker 4 (00:47):
Yeah, there is a there is a lot of crap
in it in one part. Oh, prediction is that gonna
be on Adam's thumb nail, just the goat crap, the
sheep crap?

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Does he do? Oh? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:00):
He releases a couple of days after say you take
it and put like googly eyes on it. It will be perfect.
Oh yeah, what did we think of tonight's episode?

Speaker 3 (01:12):
Interesting?

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Oh, that's a change of tune every every time I ask,
You're always like, I'm enjoying it.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
It's i'mintaining it's bad, not to say it's bad. Yeah,
just interesting. I'm really liking the whole being able to
communicate with the alien but not really know what you're
saying to it. I really like that the alien is
I mean, obviously the alien is not going to be
loyal to them in the long run, but it's interesting

(01:38):
that it's at least entertaining them and listening to her
commands and following her orders.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Yeah, yeah, I like that the commands are simple, Yeah,
you know, follow us and hide. So it's not lifting
the curtain on the depth of xenomorph intelligence. It still
allows for the fact that it's basically animal intelligence.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
It's the kind of thing like.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
A monkey or a chimp could understand, and like you said,
the fact that she's not one hundred percent sure how
to communicate, she's sort of doing the best she can.
But I do interpret it as like somebody raising a
tiger or a lion or a bear where he had
his loyalty up to a certain point, especially this particular
xenomorph that's never seen another of its.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
Kind as far as it knows.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
It's like, I know I look different from you, but
I assume that's just like the next stage of my growth.
But once I hit puberty, I'm gonna look like Wendy. Yeah,
that's these other xenomorphs. It might start to question, like,
wait a minute, what the hell are you?

Speaker 4 (02:32):
Yeah, it is still growing, like its head is little
like this colored. It has actually like the alien like
Alien three or Alien Resurrection kind of brown kind of
going on. So, yeah, it is still very young, but
I like that. It's I like what they're setting up
there with them to like, where does the allegiance lie?
What did you think of the bumbling idiots trying to

(02:53):
move a body storyline?

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Well, hey, the nice thing is to some extent, they're
justifying it because this whole time we're wondering, Hey, justified
starring tim Atiola fant Yeah, we're talking about kersh.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
What's he been up to? He's just sitting there observing
and watching.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
It was all part of his plan because he wants
Marrow and his people to show up so they can
surround them and arrest them or take them into custody.
And I guess they couldn't have done a preemptive strike.
But if he lets them show up, he can tell
the five the other corporations, they infiltrated our island the
broad daylight.

Speaker 4 (03:30):
They just I would have included some other people into
the plan. It seems like he was keeping a lot
of that to himself. Fine, he's like, I know humans
have a habit of gossiping, so I have to keep
this all to myself.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Right, I mean yeah, and so you still have to
give that benefit of the doubt that if you want
to explain all the dumb stuff happening on the show,
it seems to boil down to boy Cavalier, in very
cavalier fashion, has essentially outsourced all of his curready under Kersh,
and that's that's it. There's nobody else watching the kids,

(04:06):
there's nobody monitoring cameras. So when Kersh goes with this
plan of let's allow Marrow and his people to come
to the island, it works. Those kids can walk into
the hallway with a body and nobody's gonna see or notice.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
Yeah, I like that.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
It was a long con with him, but uh yeah,
he's puts his face is trying to get his friend
to help move slightly. Yeah, with the face hugger. I
like that he tries to give the guy water with
the face hugger.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Yeah, we do get more up close and personal with
the face hugger in action than I think we ever
have before. I've always wondered, Yeah, what happens if you
kind of just like pry it up. I never thought
about this, but if you shove a straw underneath and
try to feed somebody and just make.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
Though he doesn't, We've seen in alien if you do
touch it, it will just tighten its tail. But an alien,
they mentioned that it is like feeding him like oxygen
and everything, so he doesn't actually need the water. The
alien into supplying him whatever he needs, Yeah, to keep
him alive until you know it implants the thing.

Speaker 3 (05:06):
But yeah, like he was trying to be helpful.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
But like, aren't they they're super strong and fast, right,
I don't know why it's two of them carrying him
through the jung I don't know why the dude just
wesn't throw them over his shoulder and run really really
fast to the beach.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
I don't know why they both have to carry them.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
They're stupid kids, That's the beauty of them being kids.
It justifies all their dumb behavior. I mean, honestly, in
this show, the way the kids act, the fact that
only a couple of them have bothered to download infinite knowledge,
like I can learn French. You probably learn kung fu
if you want to. So many of them don't know
they can do that. A bunch of them probably also

(05:45):
don't know they have super strength, like Wendy in episode
one jumps off a cliff, lands no problem and then
runs off super fast. Unless they've tried that. A bunch
of them probably have no idea they can do any
of that.

Speaker 4 (05:58):
What did you think of them examining the crime scene,
like the flies vomiting all over?

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Yeah? I that.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
I mean that stuff is my favorite stuff in the show, honestly,
anytime they're dealing with the aliens. That was one reason
why I thought this episode was pretty much on par
with everything that came before. Yeah, But one thing that
was disappointing was it had less of some of the
stuff I really like. Probably number one is just interacting
with the aliens and kind of coking and prodding, and
then number two is.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
The what does it mean to be human? Stuff?

Speaker 2 (06:30):
The you know what happens when you erase someone's memories
and the answer turns out. In this episode, they go
looney without just mister Strawberry, I'm gonna rip your face off.

Speaker 4 (06:38):
Well, yeah, that is that is interesting because like Wendy
sees the dissolve was a tootle's face dissolved, and she
like now knows what like is underneath her right, and
so she's kind of coming to grips with like coming
to terms with that, and also she's upset that they
erased a dirp face's memory. And then like again, I

(06:59):
love that, Like you told her all these weird things
and they're like, no, I told her the truth.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
It's like you really fucked it up. They were trying
to help.

Speaker 1 (07:05):
Her, she had a fighting chance before you showed up.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
Yeah, she was totally fine, and then you came in
here with your memory of the truth.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
I love.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
I love when they stumble on the graveyard where their
physical bodies are.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yeah, it's it's an interesting idea. But I was also like,
why do they have graves? Like if the whole idea.

Speaker 3 (07:30):
Have a scene where they stumble upon it.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Yeah, I was afraid that was the answer, because if
you're really trying to sell the idea, and that's what
this corporation is trying to do that this is a
continuity of life. We're not killing you, We're putting you
into a brand new, better body. Having those graves out
there is a pr nightmare. And if those kids ever
take a stroll outside and they're allowed to go wherever
they want, you don't really want them to see that, especially.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
You mark them. That's the weird part.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, I don't think boy has any sort of sentimentality
for anything other than Peter Pan. So I feel like
he would have just once those bodies were depleted of consciousness.
For him, it would just be meat. He would say,
burn him. I don't need this, we don't need marked.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
Great you think Lady doctor did it?

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Probably Dame Sylvia and the spouse.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
That poor son of a bitch.

Speaker 4 (08:25):
They drag his body all through the jungle and then
they like if they lose track of it at some point, well.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
So they put him down. They get distracted. I think
when they hear or when they see a patrol coming by.
While they're distracted, that's when the face hugger falls off.
So Arthur just stands up and he's like the hell's
going on.

Speaker 4 (08:46):
I will say so, I appreciated the face hugger being
on him for a bit. I do feel like the
chest burst burst it a little early.

Speaker 1 (08:53):
Early, as in it should have taken a few more hours,
like another day.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
Yeah, you feel like, well, the one they put in
the lung took a while.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
Yeah, this one I feel like should have taken a
little bit more. Unless maybe it could be just aware
of its surroundings. It could be like I'm by the
ocean and life and everything I have brilliant, I should
just burst out now.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
It could be stress induced, like it's a premature birth. Basically,
the Slightly Sme and Arthur's story, I will say on
just a pure human level of just watching two characters
way in over their heads. This was probably my second
favorite storyline of the episode, and I did find it
emotional watching Me, especially the one who's been the most

(09:37):
childlike of all the characters, finally have to deal with
some real stuff and the heartbreak when he finds out
that Slightly lied to him.

Speaker 1 (09:45):
He's like you said, he would be Okay.

Speaker 3 (09:47):
He's dead. Why is he dead? Oh no? Oh no?
Yeah that was kind of rough. He was not ready
for any of that.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
No, I don't know who I felt worse for him
or slightly. When slightly he's one hundred percent right. When
he's talking tomorrow, he's like, I did everything you said.
You didn't tell me there was going to be another monster.
He said, I have more time.

Speaker 3 (10:06):
No, No, he dragged his feet.

Speaker 1 (10:09):
That's true.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
He waited a really long time to get that body
out of there. He was. Definitely, it's his fault. I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (10:16):
That's fair. He's a child.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah, but it also goes back to your earlier point
where he's like, I needed help.

Speaker 1 (10:21):
You're a robot. Just throw it over your shoulder and
bring them over and really really fast.

Speaker 4 (10:25):
I appreciated the original sound effect of the chest Burster
when it came out.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
It did like the original, like it just scuttled away.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
Speaking of sound effects, they did have the pulse rifles
making the actual pulse rifle sound.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
I always appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (10:40):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
Now, that's why I wanted to collaborate with you on this.
Remember stuff like that, well, I.

Speaker 4 (10:44):
Mean it's it's a nice little detail to make sense
in the universe. It's not like distracting or anything. It's like, yeah,
that is a sound in alien makes. Yeah, that is
the sound that gun makes. So yeah, I really like that.
I really like these I like these chess bursters. They
look like the most like the original, but just darker.
They just have a darker complexion to them.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
And it does feel like the most slithering like snake
form of the xenomorph we've seen.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
Well, I think it's because we don't really in any
of them.

Speaker 4 (11:10):
We don't get a lot of like scenes of the
chest burst or really right, it's always it bursts and
it either runs away or it gets taken away or
the predator snaps its neck and then does a little
shake of his head.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
Uh. I have to watch Alien Gros Predator a lot now.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
Because your niece and nephew they keep making they keep
making me watch it anyway, Uh Christ see where the
chestburster comes out and the predator grabs it STAPs a
deck and that goes.

Speaker 3 (11:38):
Like shaking his head in front of it, Like what
was that for? Oh? So they have necks that anyway,
like they have a neck boat break. I'm like, it's
just meat. So yeah, they look really cool. I like
that it gets caught pretty quick.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
In general, I like that about this episode, like when
they were analyzing the crime scene. They very quickly subdued
the fly and got everything back in place. I mean,
you have to overlook the fact that they know Wendy
has access to electronics, they know that she's been showing
weird loyalties to the alien. They saw her control it
this episode, clicking at it and it bangs against the cage.

Speaker 1 (12:15):
So there's no that you could.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
Not short of saying hey, I'm gonna let that thing
free later, you couldn't telegraph it more.

Speaker 4 (12:22):
I was shocked she let it free and just killed
a bunch of people.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Yeah, they kind of. I mean they've strongly hinted at her,
well hinted. I mean she basically said, humans kill each other.
Xeno morphs pure and nice. So we've seen her wavering
allegiance to humanity.

Speaker 4 (12:39):
She just lets it out and it starts murdering everyone
in there.

Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
And then she calls it again in the jungle and
Nibs loves it. She's just laughing.

Speaker 4 (12:49):
Yeah, and this is a world where people just forget
to shoot. Yeah, full ending of the episode where Nibs's
dirt face right correct.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
Yeah, yes, but she's just.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
Killing everyone on the boat and everyone's like everyone's on
the pier just aiming, and it's like, shoot, yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
I did keep thinking if these were the Marines and Aliens.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
I was like Kyle Reese, if he was here right now.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
But it wasn't Kyle Reese in that one. It was
Michael Bean. He was uh he was.

Speaker 2 (13:18):
I know that wasn't his name, but oh okay, Dante
Hicks Hicks, that's right, Yeah they could.

Speaker 4 (13:26):
Dante Hicks's Dante Hicks's Clerks, Dwayne Hicks is alien.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Sorry, uh yeah, they they could have handled one xenomorph
and like one Robot two I guess, but Whndy was
sort of just standing there. I do like it in fear,
it's a lot. I mean a few times I've said
about this show it feels like a rough draft where
a couple more revisions could have made this really good,

(13:53):
especially when a lot of the complaints are just little
logic things like it shouldn't have been that easy to
get out of the lab. Why is nobody watching them?
On a second draft, you'd come up with, well, somebody
is watching them, here's how they get passed. But in theory,
what I do like the vibe of this final scene
where you've got all these soldiers surrounding Wendy and Nibs.

(14:14):
But you're not worried about Wendy, the main character has
got a bunch of guns pointed at her in theory,
you're worried about Joe and all the people around her.
It is this weird, unsettling feeling having a robot that's
in the process of.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
Turning on humanity.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Never seen that before, but with a xenomorphat her side,
rarely seen that.

Speaker 4 (14:32):
Before, which, by the way, seeing a xenomorph just out
in the open and bright daylight awkward.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
The most awkward part was on the first walk into
the crime scene. The xenomorph is in the cell and
it's just a dude with like a hand on his knee.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
It's like I've never.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
Been sometimes it cgi.

Speaker 4 (14:50):
They go back and forth between the CGI bodel and
the just HiT's a dude.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
Was a little distracted, like that is like, honestly, it's
the least of my complaints because at the end of
the day to TV show, we don't have magic. You
put a guy in a suit and it looks pretty good.
It was just I cracked up at the one scene
where he's in the jail cell. Like, if you look
at it again, the only thing he's missing is like
a beer in his hand, because it just looks like
a dude chilling.

Speaker 4 (15:16):
No, but it was interested to see it out in
the bright daylight in the woods.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
Am I here?

Speaker 1 (15:23):
Uh you froze for a second. It's interesting to see
it out in the woods in the bright daylight.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
And then, yes, we have seen we've seen a little
bit of that before an Alien Verse PREDI requie.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
I'm kind of not.

Speaker 4 (15:34):
Really, but there was a deleted sequence. Actually they might
have not even actually shot this scene. But an Alien Resurrection,
there was gonna be a part of the ship that
had like, uh what do they call it?

Speaker 3 (15:48):
Then there's like a bunch of plants.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
It oh, like a greenhouse.

Speaker 4 (15:52):
Yes, there was gonna be like our greenhouse area and
you could find pictures of like the aliens and like
green bushes, and it's right. I don't think they ever
even filmed it. I think there's some promotional photos and
they decided not to do it. So this was kind
of cool to like see that unrealized idea. Finally, that
being said, now I know why the xenomorphs are always
in dark environments. I don't want it too dark, like

(16:15):
angrossus pread to Requiem, But seeing it out in the bright,
sunny stuff, I'm glad it exists. It's something I was
always curious with, and now that I've seen it, I went,
looks kind of dumb. Don't want to see that again.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
He just silently turned off the TV and just walked
out of the room.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
You're like, we don't need to anymore.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
Sometimes you just need to see something realize to know
if it was a bad idea or not.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
And that's one of them. But that being said, it
wasn't supposed.

Speaker 4 (16:39):
To be a scary scene. It was just like, it's
an action scene. Yeah, and now it's just like this, Yeah,
it's not like trying to spook you, like oooh, that's
when you need the dark stuff.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
No, I think the show rarely tries to spook you.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
It tries to unsettle you sometimes, which I mean they
keep going back to the same trick and I haven't
gotten sick of it.

Speaker 1 (16:58):
But every time I see the sheep just staring.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
Okay, show stealer, eyeball the eyeball.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
Tea, it's the best addition to the lore from this show.

Speaker 4 (17:11):
Which finally, I love that they're looking at the camera
and they're like that thing distracted them to like mess
with them.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
They're like, we have to let's talk about So they put.

Speaker 4 (17:20):
The goat in like a container and bring it in
and Boy Cavaliers like trying to communicate with him, and
it shows him pie. He's like any advanced life any
advanced life form would need to know the next this equation,
what are the next three numbers? I'm like, oh man,
what if that eyeball was like stupid like me and
just didn't know the next three numbers.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
It's like I know the first two, most people don't
know the one after that.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yeah, I'm just like I'd be like ah.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
On my planet, boy Cavalier, so.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
Only dweebs know that loser.

Speaker 2 (17:59):
I like, I love the idea in theory and I'm
captivated watching it. And even when he answers the question
and it's just like slow, like stomping with its hoof,
very effective. I did find myself wondering, Okay, advanced civilizations
would know the concept, but would they also have the
same Roman numerals? Like would they would he would he

(18:22):
recognize those numbers?

Speaker 3 (18:24):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (18:24):
That's weird to me, I guess you can assume maybe
at one point he was in a person's head, did
he say?

Speaker 3 (18:31):
I assume he takes.

Speaker 4 (18:32):
Some knowledge with him when he like infiltrates someone's head.
But that being said, they want to put him in
another person.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
Which I loved. Let's find somebody with low IQ so
we can see the difference. This is the side of
boy I like, not the fake genius, but actually he's stupid,
evil genius where he wants to do weird experiments.

Speaker 1 (18:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (18:54):
I like that he's really grilling the lady doctor because
rightfully he assumes that she might be in on it
because her husband.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
Well, or assumes that she would have had even one
conversation with him after he was fired. And I don't
know if they're ever going to see each other again
because he's leaving the island that they don't seem to
ever leave.

Speaker 1 (19:13):
I don't know why they made Dame and Arthur husband
and wife. It is a weird addition to the show.

Speaker 3 (19:19):
It is and uh, yeah, poor that guy. They wait,
why didn't they have time to make a raft?

Speaker 4 (19:25):
Remember they have a raft full of bamboo that they
put his dead body on.

Speaker 2 (19:29):
Oh yeah, I guess maybe that's the one thing they
downloaded how to make a raft.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
That's the one.

Speaker 4 (19:35):
Piece when they use their super speed to get to
twine and tie a raft together, Like, what the fuck
is this?

Speaker 3 (19:41):
Where did they make this?

Speaker 2 (19:43):
I would have loved when Arthur is starting to remember stuff.
He's like, was that a raft earlier? I was on
a bamboo raft? You're crazy? What do you When they
start trying to gaslight him, there was a leak, a ghastleek,
that's right, which, if you recall, that was my theory
last time we spoke that all the dumb behaviors explained
by ghastly.

Speaker 4 (20:02):
I did like the conversations from Mersh, Kersh and Marrow
finally like yeah, when he finally like confronts him, but
I like, he's got the chest burster and a little
jar thing.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
Yeah it was.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
At first I wasn't sure who caught the alien because
you just see a net grab it, and I thought
it was Morrow, But yeah, it's revealed it was Cavalier
and it was all part of his plan. Right, I'm
gonna let Marrow come here and then we're gonna take
them all and throw them in jail.

Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yeah. Yeah, but he doesn't kill him, which is interesting.

Speaker 4 (20:33):
M I guess he needs them alive to prove to
the other corporations, like, look, we have them in captivity.

Speaker 3 (20:38):
There they are they, there's her, there's her dude, there's
her Waalan employee or whatever.

Speaker 4 (20:45):
Especially Morrow, because he was like so tight with the
U Tanny family, so right right.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
Yeah, I wonder I mean, at first she was reluctant
or there was sort of a tacit alliance at first
where she wanted him to come home and he wanted
to stay out. And now he's out, and now he's
in prison. Is he going to is she going to
disown him? And then he becomes sort of like a
rogue element. Where do we go from here? I'm not sure?

Speaker 4 (21:09):
Yeah, yeah, but yeah, I thought that whole confrontation was
gonna be like a little bit more exciting.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
I thought there would be more shooting.

Speaker 2 (21:18):
He feel like I keep saying they were surrounded. I
don't know that they were surrounded. It was sort of
like one group of people with guns face to face
with another group of people with guns.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
I guess Prodigy had a few that were higher. They
had the high ground.

Speaker 3 (21:32):
That's sure.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
I've learned anything. Once you have the higher ground, that's it.

Speaker 4 (21:36):
Yeah, well, I mean Darth Maul had the higher ground
and then Obi Wan just did a flip over him.

Speaker 1 (21:41):
It was Darth Maul we're talking about.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
Yeah, Darth Baull. He was so overcompeting.

Speaker 4 (21:46):
He was like, I bet you that guy won't get
his lightsaber when he jumps.

Speaker 1 (21:50):
So, oh no, he's the Nibs of the scyth or
the Toodles. I will say Nibs.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Is the biggest fall from Grace for me in this show,
because I was genuinely interested in her journey at first,
where I'm like, it's interesting to watch her snap from
no longer having a human body, and there was some
logic to the insanity, But now she is just pure,
just looney, just talking to his stuffed animal, laughing when

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people die. And I understand insanity is not always going
to have logical underpinnings. That's almost a definition of being insane.
But there was a sort of more logical insanity before
that was interesting. Once you're just making stuff up and
going crazy, it's just not interesting anymore.

Speaker 4 (22:39):
Yeah. I do like that the brother killing her, and
I even know if she's really dead. To be honest,
he did electrocute her, but does that actually kill them.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
Or right, it's not like Toodles who got his face
and possibly brain melted, and even for him, they were like,
well it's theoretically possible, we can reboot.

Speaker 4 (22:56):
Yeah, So I thought that was where that Wendy had
a big reaction to her brother doing that, like fitting
out and he stops her from calling the alien to
that pier.

Speaker 3 (23:06):
And normally I would say, well, they would.

Speaker 4 (23:08):
Just shoot the alien because they'll see it coming from
really far away and there's like fifteen of them, but
this is a universe where the alien attacks and everyone
with a gun goes huh yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
We never like it took so long for us to
find out they have acid blood because nobody wants to
shoot them.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
It's so bizarre.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
Oh man.

Speaker 4 (23:27):
I early on I did like when the girl was like,
I'm gonna tell everyone you erase the memory and then
that this guy's dead, and boy, Cavaliers like, oh shit,
God get everyone and stop her from doing that.

Speaker 1 (23:42):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (23:42):
Yeah, boy, He's interesting because okay, when we're at the
crime scene and he finds out like, oh, there goes
six billion, you know when Toodles died, yea, And I
guess we're starting to see some of why everyone's had
such free reign and it feels like people are dumb.
It's because boy, to some extent, he just doesn't care. Okay,
six billion dollar machine got destroyed. That's fine, as long

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as Wendy's okay. Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
He's just he's I don't know where I'm going with that.
He's just a dumb character.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
And I know some people try to say, well, he's
supposed to be dumb, like he misquoted Isaac Asimov for
something a couple of episodes ago, But I don't trust
the show enough to believe he misquoted it.

Speaker 1 (24:25):
And not that the writer of the show.

Speaker 3 (24:28):
You know, someone did.

Speaker 4 (24:30):
I saw one of the comments, which, by the way,
in space, no one can hear you scream, but they
can't hear you super chat. We totally totally forgot to
do that.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
Yeah, I was really confused because I'm looking at the
screen right now and I'm not seeing anything.

Speaker 4 (24:47):
Normally, we would have fifteen hundred dollars super chats, and
right now we're at zero. Gil, did you know I
made a lot of last minute expensive repairs on my car?

Speaker 3 (25:00):
Are super chats? Please? Anyway? Before that? Sorry, I got
we were.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
Talking about, Oh you were talking about a comment somebody left.

Speaker 4 (25:14):
Oh yeah, they were talking about how like the reason
everything's dombin and everything is that it's mocking how big
tech guys are now where they're just like, Harry up,
move fast, break things.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
Yeah, I get that. Sorry, keep going No.

Speaker 4 (25:28):
No, no, I I know, like this is in the future,
but it is supposed to represent like what's going on now,
like most science fiction does. And I kind of see
what they're saying, like all these tech guys like, hey,
let's just do all this stuff without thinking about the consequences. Really, Yeah,
so I see it from that point of view.

Speaker 1 (25:45):
Yeah, that makes total sense to me.

Speaker 2 (25:47):
And I think the move fast break stuff mentality works
for software. Maybe does it work for xenomorphs and aliens?
Probably disastrous consequences. The only thing is, is it believable
that this person would have been running a successful company
up until this point. And that's where I'm like, it's
not quite believable because he just doesn't feel like a

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very intelligent person, because you can be intelligent but be
flawed in the sense that you're too cavalier that you
do just break stuff and move.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
Too quickly back to that last name.

Speaker 1 (26:22):
I know. The character development is amazing. It's right there.

Speaker 3 (26:25):
You know, when you when you're bored with these kind
of naimes, you just kind of have.

Speaker 4 (26:28):
To do what you're supposed to do. It's like the Decepticons.
They're very deceitful. They don't we have a choice, Gill.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
I know what that's like. Uh Odin in Thor his
daughter the goddess of death. You needn't stop killing people,
and it's a locker up in prison. Finally he learned
with Thor calls him the god of thunder.

Speaker 4 (26:47):
Just the sound lightning made. So what do you think
next episode, Predator's coming right right?

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (26:57):
Definitely yeah, Noah, Hally definitely seems to be the fan
service guy.

Speaker 4 (27:01):
The Predator's gonna be like you took our hunting game
from our ships.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
Although the Predator, So it'll be like rock Rock Rock Rack.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
It'll be subtitled, and then Wendy's gonna have to learn
another language.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
Why do all these aliens click? I don't understand.

Speaker 2 (27:17):
I do remember when the one of the trailers came
out before the season started, and there's like one part
where you hear a click and everyone was like Predator
this is gonna be a predator in this Aliens click
sometimes too. Predators don't have like a they don't have
a monopoly on clicking.

Speaker 4 (27:33):
When is she gonna make the weird elephant scream the
aliens make when they get shot. They make that weird
like when they get it's supposed to need aliens when
they're getting shot, they make that sound.

Speaker 2 (27:46):
I want to see her get shot and goes, You're
really good at that, that one specific sound.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
You're very good at that.

Speaker 3 (27:55):
But I hope that one alien turns in. I just
want to see a queen. Well you see.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
So, yeah, it might not be coming.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
I mean, it doesn't seem like there's any indication that's
coming next episode, but they've got several season plans that
could be coming.

Speaker 4 (28:08):
I mean there are like according to the law, obviously
you can have a face hugger that just lays a queen,
but there is law. I think one of the the
Xbox three sixty Alien versus Predator game explored this idea
where a drone can become a queen. In the absent
queen sometimes there's like an in between face like a
preytorian is what they call it.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
Oh, that's right, Yeah, this was in that Alien Versus
Predator's game from like ten years ago.

Speaker 4 (28:34):
Well, it was even in the older ones like Aer's
Predator two from like they show up in like the
expanded Lord's like, hey what do we and that's like
something like bees have I think there's like proto queens
and in case like a queen dies or something, there's
one that could turn into queens. That'd be fun to see,
like a new a new stage of the evolution that
doesn't really break the lore, it will enhance it.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
I would like to see that.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yeah, that would be cool. I mean, honestly, the thing
I'm most excited for is the Sheep. I will be
disappointed next episode if we don't see it go into
a person.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
I think we have to.

Speaker 4 (29:09):
Are you gonna get the sheep funko pop with the
eyeball coming out?

Speaker 3 (29:13):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (29:13):
They have that right? Yeah, I've never bought a funko
pop in my life. Am I going to start now?
Is Alien Earth the show to start on?

Speaker 3 (29:20):
I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
I mean they're clearly setting up like that to me.
I guess I don't know going into this season if
they knew the Sheep was going to be such a hit.
I mean, at least I assume it's a hit for
everybody else too, Like everybody's talking about that sheep.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
Anyone who likes the show loves the sheep.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
And so they must they must have known that was coming,
because they cut to the sheep so often.

Speaker 1 (29:46):
It's so unsettling. Every time it's just staring at you.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
So I feel like the big thing for next episode
is that eyeball is going into a person, and are
we going to hear it speak?

Speaker 1 (29:56):
And is it gonna say something like? Is it gonna
blow our minds?

Speaker 4 (30:00):
And when he a rematch with the alien, it wants
to match with the alien.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
That's all it wants. That would be so disappointing.

Speaker 3 (30:06):
More for him.

Speaker 4 (30:07):
Now, the last time I tried to bite the alien
not knowing about the ass.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
I'm like Batman. I could beat anybody as long as
I have preparation. It wasn't a fair fight.

Speaker 4 (30:15):
That fight was so much fun because like, the eyeball
doesn't know that it can't bite the alien has acid,
and the alien doesn't know that the eyeball is the
one in charge, So it's like stabbing and biting it everywhere.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
That doesn't doesn't work Oh yeah. It was the most
mismatch fight I've ever seen.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
That's when he was in a person at that point
and he just took leapt onto the Xenomorph right because
I don't.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
Think he knew.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
I don't think they know what he's like, the kids
and the robot bodies.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
He doesn't know his own strength at all.

Speaker 4 (30:44):
Like Xenomorph like, I'm gonna bite its neck and I'm
gonna stab.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
It with my tail. It's like, why is it at work?
I'm excited for a rematch there.

Speaker 2 (30:54):
Yeah, I don't know if we'll get that. I'm excited
to hear it speak. That's the thing I want to hear.
But I just I have a feeling it'll be disappointing.
Because I was thinking about it, I was like, that's
my favorite storyline so far. And that is also the
storyline that so far is coasting almost entirely on promise,
the promise of something coming, and so far when this
show has delivered. I'm not saying it was. I have

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not hated the show, but it's often disappointed, but at
least so far.

Speaker 1 (31:22):
Right now, I'm living in the in the midst of
the promise of that sheep.

Speaker 4 (31:26):
What if it just what if it's just like Independence Day,
it just goes die.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
God. Yeah, you know it's funny because I was I
was watching Killer Clowns from Outer Space.

Speaker 4 (31:37):
Oh yeah, and I went with scare Pros today and
I not I tripped over one of their cotton candy pluck.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
I love how like that movie. It's such a small movie.
It's never had a sequel or any other media other
than a game from a couple of years ago. But
it's like it snuck its way. It's like little corners
of pop culture.

Speaker 4 (31:56):
It was no, it's been a cult hit like my
whole life, and then until recently it's now blown up.
Now it's like it's spirit Halloween. Yeah, rge everywhere.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
It's so sad listening to the commentary track recorded over
twenty years ago, and on the track they were like,
it's been over ten years, it's time for a sequel,
and we've got ideas, and I'm like, it's been so long.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
I hope they do it now.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
There's enough interest in it. I don't see why they
wouldn't do well.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
There was a news story about a year ago that
Ryan Gosling is producing a reboot, which is just I
don't believe it, but it was reported by like variety
Hollywood reporters, a legitimate news article.

Speaker 3 (32:39):
What's his face? Oh God, hold on, hold on, hold.

Speaker 1 (32:43):
On while you look that up.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
The reason I brought it up is because Killer Clowns
from Outer Space beat Independence Day to that scene. Yeah,
because in nineteen eighty eight Killer Clowns from Outer Space
one of the clowns sticks his hand into a guy's back,
turns him into a human puppet, and somebody asked, what
do you want?

Speaker 1 (33:01):
He goes, we want you to die.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
It's like, that's exactly what they said in Independence Day,
and probably what the sheep is going to say next
episode when they put him in a human.

Speaker 4 (33:09):
What I said about Ryan Goslin doing that? Who would
have thought Danny McBride would produce three Halloween movies.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
That's the world we live in.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
Yeah, and be in an alien movie with James Franco
for two seconds.

Speaker 3 (33:23):
God, that was that was rough. That's rough, Yo.

Speaker 4 (33:29):
We got the first of ten thousand supercats.

Speaker 1 (33:33):
I'm just gonna be a long night, that's right. This
is like those collectithons. I'll let you do the honors.
You can pull it up.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
Oh I can't click it.

Speaker 1 (33:45):
Oh, you can't click it the stream. I thought we
were like co in charge of the stream. I didn't
know it worked like that.

Speaker 3 (33:52):
All right, doesn't work like that.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
Matthew Snyder, thank you for the two dollars. The eyeball
will say, Hey, how's it going? Actually has a question
mark and an exclamation point, So this sounds like a hey,
how's it going?

Speaker 4 (34:04):
That is what the alien was. That is what the
eyeball alien would say. I think.

Speaker 1 (34:10):
Would it say that, how's it going? He might he
might say that.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
Yeah, I've had my eye on you.

Speaker 1 (34:17):
That's good, that's good.

Speaker 4 (34:21):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
But yeah.

Speaker 4 (34:22):
I I like the episode. I like the episode. It's
a it's trying some fun stuff. I liked Kursh's long con.
I'm interested in the alien communication. But I don't think
the aliens should be able to be manipulated by anything
other than other aliens. So that's kind of been the
theme for all of them, like you can't control the
aliens even if you try.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
But a child in a robot's body has never tried before.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
Yeah, but I think.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
But still, I think once you get.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
A colony going, the aliens are gonna be like, fuck her.
There's a Queen.

Speaker 1 (34:59):
I think we got to this.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
Uh, David tried this in Alien Covenant, right, but he
was kind of justs he never really got to spend
much time with that baby zenomoorph fright.

Speaker 4 (35:09):
And also he's not biological matter, so they don't tend
to care about them.

Speaker 1 (35:15):
And neither is Wendy.

Speaker 2 (35:19):
Okay, Yeah, so this precedent hint of this an Alien
Covenant if you want to take Alien Covenant.

Speaker 4 (35:26):
Well, no, also a think Resurrection. When the nota Ryder
gets shot and falls in the water, she's able to
sneak around the aliens because the aliens don't actually care
about her because they know it's not human.

Speaker 3 (35:38):
We'll see what happens there.

Speaker 4 (35:39):
Yeah, we'll see, I think coming next episode obviously gonna
unfreeze Arnold, Schwartzenegger.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
Danny Glover.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
Even if they don't, they could just a month later.
They can say, hey, we changed the season finale. If
anyone wants to go back and be added, if you see.

Speaker 4 (35:57):
Everything should cut to a frozen Danny Arnold from now on.

Speaker 2 (36:03):
I would say, I the show's fine. I do I
wish it was better. It is that thing where there's
some stuff I love in it. Surrounded by some stuff
that's a bit annoying that I was giving it a
lot of benefit of the doubt at first, and i
feel like I'm just running out.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
But I'm enjoying it. I'm more enjoying it than not
enjoying it.

Speaker 4 (36:24):
I'd say, I'm I'm taking the pad with the good
I was not expecting anything from this, that's fair, and
I'm ending up enjoying it at that. Hopefully it all
ties it up at an EPO next week. But overall,
I'm having fun. It's the most fun I've had with
alien in a very long time. So I'm kind of
letting something slide.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
Yeah, but we'll see, we'll see fair.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
You know what hasn't disappointed me at all? What it's this?

Speaker 3 (36:54):
Yes you did it?

Speaker 1 (36:58):
I did it.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
I tracked it down the Reese's Oreo, not the Oreo
with the Reese's filling, but the Reeses with the pieces
of Oreo in it. Yes, I would. It's hard to
track down. If you're looking in stories that sold out everywhere.
At the end of the day, you can go on
to Target dot com and order them. That's what I
finally did. It's not as satisfying, I know, I should
have just done that from the start, but I really

(37:20):
wanted to, Like it's it's about the hunt. No, I'm
like that guy in Lost World Jurassic Park where all
he wants to do is take down a t Rex rolling.

Speaker 3 (37:30):
You're rolling, I'm rolling.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
I've spent enough time in the Company of Death. It's
time to just order it online.

Speaker 4 (37:37):
You mean a Pete Pustelwaits character who was one of
the prisoners in Alien three.

Speaker 1 (37:42):
And it all comes together.

Speaker 4 (37:44):
Yes, by the way, shout out to the guy in
the last episode that said I say Reese is weird. Now,
I said it right there. But I am definitely one
of those reces pieces people. It's one of the I'm
not alone. It's one of those like that's how I
said it as a kid. No one corrected me, but

(38:04):
like I try my best not to say it, and
I let I let one slide and a nice comment
or caught it.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
That really is like, if you want to know if
you mispronounced something, you just say it on YouTube and
a lot of very nice people will politely tell.

Speaker 1 (38:19):
You how you're saying it wrong.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
But my quick review of the Oreo Reses, I would say,
unlike the Oreo that has the Reese's filling where it
feels a little bit heavy because it's just chocolate and
peanut butter and it's not very milky chocolate. This avoids
that problem because if you look closely at the picture,
the bottom half of the Reeses is milk chocolate, but
the top half is white chocolate, so you get the

(38:44):
cream from the Oreo represented. They have less peanut butter
than your average rises, and it's more of the Oreo crunchiness.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
I feel like the flavor of the Oreo.

Speaker 2 (38:54):
Chocolate doesn't come through that much, so it comes across
as more of a white chocolate.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
It crunchy Reeses.

Speaker 3 (39:02):
Gotcha.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
If you like white chocolate and you like peanut butter,
you will love these. And I would say, Tony, I
saw your progress picture. You're doing great on your weight
loss journey.

Speaker 3 (39:12):
Thanks.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
So I was going to send you some of these
as a gift.

Speaker 3 (39:15):
Please don't.

Speaker 1 (39:15):
I'm not gonna do it. Please very addictous.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
I went a little hard this weekend. Please don't.

Speaker 4 (39:20):
I got a birthday on Friday. Please don't send me anything.
It is funny because I still haven't really overall lost
so much weight. I just turned it into muscle mostly.
Uh but yeah, yeah, that progress picture was fun.

Speaker 3 (39:36):
Although people a.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
Little bumble brag right there. I lost so much weight,
but I just keep turning it into muscle.

Speaker 4 (39:43):
No, because people keep it how much weight, I'm like,
not that much, but I look better, So I don't
know how to feel about it. Although people, all the
people who like to make big head jokes about me,
they pointed out that now that I've gotten rid of
like a lot of the fat here, it's.

Speaker 3 (39:56):
Not making my head look bigger.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
Well, it'll we have the for me.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
When I lose weight, the first place that goes is
my face and then everything else follows. You might just
be the opposite anyway.

Speaker 1 (40:12):
All right, stalled as long as we can. Time to
wrap up.

Speaker 4 (40:15):
Yeah, I'm about to lose my voice and I have
to film tomorrow, so we should probably revel.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
All right. Well, thank you everybody for joining us.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
Next week is the season finale, so tune in as
always around nine to thirty pm Eastern Standard.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
Time, where we'll be live to break down the.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
Grand finale, and it's gonna be streaming on One Take
and on Hack the Movies, and then it'll be available
for listening on the Hack the Movies podcast stream.

Speaker 4 (40:42):
Yes it will oh what we got one last one.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
Wats hod two dollars, thank you very much, Tony love
the mug.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
Nice looking face there.

Speaker 4 (40:55):
I don't know if he's talking about like my actual
face or is he a patron who got the Tony
face mug recently.

Speaker 3 (41:01):
I don't know which one. I don't know which one
he's going for there.

Speaker 2 (41:05):
You should clarify, and remember we can only hear your
clarification if it's a super chat.

Speaker 4 (41:13):
Yes, a hundred dollars super chat, so you can add
more words to clarify it.

Speaker 3 (41:20):
By the way, someone.

Speaker 4 (41:21):
Tried to leave me like a five hundred dollars super
chat or something recently, and they sent me the screen
shot where YouTube was like, there's an error with this.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
I went, motherfuckers.

Speaker 1 (41:32):
It's the equivalent of like a check bouncing.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
Yeah, I was hold, can I find a picture of
that one second?

Speaker 1 (41:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (41:38):
Notification?

Speaker 4 (41:39):
Yeah, yeah, five hundred dollars from William Sam's and then
he sends me the screenshot underneath it goes unable to
send message.

Speaker 3 (41:47):
I was like.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
I had there was when we were covering House of
the Dragon over on one take, there was one live
stream I had to miss.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
I was like a wedding.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
So I was at the wedding and took out my phone.
I had a little bit to drink. You shouldn't send
super chats while you're drinking, because I was like, oh,
I send out like one hundred dollars superchat and I.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
Was like, who are these handsome devils?

Speaker 2 (42:10):
Then someone immediately was like, you know, YouTube takes a
thirty percent cut of those superchats because I like, it's
out one pocket into the other. That was an expensive joke.
That wasn't that funny?

Speaker 3 (42:23):
Oh shit, hold on, can I hear you? Hello?

Speaker 1 (42:27):
Hello?

Speaker 4 (42:28):
Okay, I'm back. I yanked my headphones out a little bit.
I'm falling apart here.

Speaker 1 (42:32):
Let's wrap it up, all right, Thank you everybody for
joining it. We'll see you next week. Have a good night.