(episode review) - Alien: Earth- Episode 6

 

This show just seems to get better and better, and honestly, this is peak sci-fi. Aliens, Robots, Cyborgs, Hybrids, Alien: Earth has it all. And it is not all just action-based, there is actual science involved, the watching and testing of specimens, whether it be Aliens, Robots, Cyborgs or Hybrids. And like I said before, it could be my personal bias talking here, but this show is just that good, because whilst Alien was great and Aliens was different but better (in a different way), this show manages to juggle the two (with a bit more of Alien), so that this episode has turned the villain on its head. What I mean by that is that there is an argument to be had that the main villain of the Alien franchise is the Alien organism, the Xenomorph, but if you have watched any of the movies in the franchise, it has ALWAYS been Weyland-Yutani. Moreover, Weyland-Yutani is human, so this episode shows us how it is not just one corporation or two (or all for that matter), but humanity is the problem, humans have always been the problem, and Wendy explicitly states this.

Last week, we got the flashback that humanised Morrow; this week, we further understand his motives that make him a multilayered person. We also get Kirsh, who seems to be up to something because some of the children want to remain as children but are being forced to grow up, and some seem to want to prove themselves to a point where an "accident" occurs due to a timely knock on the wall. The Boy Kavalier simply does not care and is onto the next best thing, the Alien that Weyland-Yutani are after, even setting up a deal with the Weyland-Yutani corporation, but this is likely to go badly for him, not to mention Slightly, who is under so much stress with Morrow being on his back about the specimen. Wendy sees firsthand what Boy Kavalier is capable of, and her brother Hermitt is going to do whatever he can to save his sister and get off the island. Nibs is not in a good place right now, and Arthur, the only person who seems to be a good person, just got fired.