{"id":132700,"date":"2025-09-10T02:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/132700\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T02:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T02:26:07","slug":"alien-earth-recap-season-1-episode-6-the-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/132700\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien: Earth recap – season 1, episode 6, “The Fly”"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was never a doubt that everything would go belly up at Prodigy. It was a question of when. A week after the show\u2019s successful flashback<\/a>\u00a0reestablished its Alien bona fides, Earth returns to Prodigy for debates and dinner. As the conversation over what a human is rages on, the Eye, the Fly, and Wendy\u2019s Xenomorph friend have an answer: Humans are dinner.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The transhumanist dilemmas pile up quickly, with the first half of \u201cThe Fly\u201d devoting itself to conversations over the differences between human, machine, and Xenomorph. One conversation feeds into the next. As Wendy gossips with her Xeno pet, Hermit clumsily plans to abscond with his sister. Tonight\u2019s episode is filled with scenes of Hermit asking, \u201cSo, uh, what would it take to escape this island with one of these very expensive hybrids?\u201d But Kirsh sees right through him, sticking to his long-held belief that Wendy isn\u2019t a human. Her potential extends beyond Hermit\u2019s dreams for Wendy to live and be a part of a family. She\u2019s starting to realize that potential, too. Communicating with the Xenomorph has given her an expansive worldview that further distances her from her brother. All that chittering and clicking has changed her perspective on the Xenomorph. Like humans, they can kill, but they also might have the capacity for good.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Written by Noah Hawley and Lisa Long, \u201cThe Fly\u201d complicates those conversations via Nibs. Her existence as a proprietary corporate product and a human with a prosthetic body comes into sharp focus as Atom argues to clear her cache and erase the memories of the Maginot crash. Arthur refuses, arguing that the consequences could be dire existentially. As Dame puts it, they don\u2019t know what wiping her RAM will do to her identity. But that doesn\u2019t matter when Prodigy has a keynote in a few weeks, and Atom needs Nibs on her best behavior for the canape chomping crowd. If that means firing Arthur, a key architect in the whole program, so be it. It doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019re the captain of the Maginot, on patrol in the jungle, or the low-key inventor of the technology; humans are expendable.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Fly\u201d wasn\u2019t through with these conversations, as the episode showcases a critical facet of the tech industry: arbitration. Given the numerous conversations between humans and machines over what the hybrids are and how they should be treated, the show gives us a counterexample: how humans discuss other humans. And it\u2019s not pretty. Channeling his inner Jack Dorsey, a barefoot Boy Kavalier takes a seat on the desk and holds Yutani\u2019s creature cargo hostage by using the thousands of injured and dead Prodigy citizens as a bargaining chip. Kavalier shakes Yutani down for another couple of billion, but the money isn\u2019t the point. This whole thing is about domination, and by cynically abiding by the Brubaker Accord\u2019s quarantine rule, he\u2019ll get to keep the creatures for another six weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Alien: Earth gives in and becomes an Alien movie<\/a>Alien: Earth is a pressure cooker ready to pop<\/a><\/p>\n

As a bonus bout, we get one final conversation between the different humanoids, cyborg and synthetic. Frankly, Morrow and Kirsh\u2019s bot-based barbs are the most entertaining of the lot, mainly because we get to hear Timothy Olyphant say, \u201cThat moment when you realize you\u2019re not a machine after all. When the first eyeball pops.\u201d The conversation lasts the length of an elevator ride, with Morrow\u2019s farewell (\u201cI\u2019ll see you soon, old toy\u201d) setting up a final fight between them in the last two episodes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All the best laid schemes of bots and men fall apart quickly. After Dame agrees to cut out the trauma, Nibs wakes up to Wendy immediately quizzing her on her short-term memory. We know Prodigy is short-staffed, but why not give the kids a heads-up about Nibs\u2019 memory issues? But Nibs\u2019 memory wipe fuels Wendy\u2019s belief that she\u2019s beyond human and that if humans can just quickly wipe away the Hybrids\u2019 feelings, maybe Wendy should do what Krish suggests and stop relying on emotions. She\u2019s again finding the limits of humanity because humans don\u2019t cure their trauma through medically induced amnesia; they merely squash the pain down deep inside and carry it with them every single day of their miserable lives until they can explode on a loved one. That\u2019s the problem with using children: they expect people to act ethically.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Children are also eager to impress and show off their maturity. As Slightly begins to recognize that being an adult sucks \u201cbig time,\u201d Tootles wants to show off his scientist skills to Kirsh, who enlists the newly christened Isaac to feed and water the creatures. \u201cRemember, the scientific method is a method, not a suggestion box,\u201d Kirsh tells him. Unfortunately, Tootles was programmed by the same idiot who trained Chibuzo because, like her, he doesn\u2019t heed the threat of these creatures. He also doesn\u2019t know his own strength. With a smidge of plot contrivance, Tootles rips the door off the flies\u2019 feeding hatch, and rather than waiting for assistance, he unlocks the door and enters the nest. As Tootles drops off the flies\u2019 tech junk dinner, the Eye headbutts the glass, causing Tootles to stumble and close the door behind him. From there, it\u2019s routine. The flies descend, shoot acid in the bot boy\u2019s face, and leave him for dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Tootles\u2019 death allows several plots to converge and gives Slightly a freebie. As the recently fired Arthur is packing his things into a box, Hermit makes his way to his office to ask if his sister is safe. As Arthur gives Hermit the boat code and instructions for escape, he turns off the Hybrids\u2019 AirTags as a final fuck you to the company. That\u2019s when he notices that Tootles is offline, sending Arthur conveniently into Slightly\u2019s lap. Slightly lucked out with this one. While Arthur collects Tootles\u2019 body, Slightly unlocks the egg crate, and Face Hugger latches on to the scientist, making this, without a doubt, the worst day of this guy\u2019s life.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Back on the airship, Kirsh watches silently. Again, we have another curious synthetic like Prometheus\u2018 David. But is Kirsh interested in the outcome, or is he merely chaos-curious? With two episodes remaining and many questions left to answer, I\u2019m ready for everyone to stop talking and start becoming dinner.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Stray observations<\/p>\n

\u2022 Tootles to Tootles; we hardly knew ye. Why couldn\u2019t you have brought Curly with you? She hasn\u2019t had anything to do in weeks!
\n\u2022 No spoilers, as I am not watching ahead, but I\u2019m already pre-grieving Smee, who is clearly too pure for this world. An adult hug for Slightly? Aww, that Xenomorph is just going to eat him up.\u00a0
\n\u2022 \u201cThat is like an onion asking, \u2018How do I take care of a star?’\u201d
\n\u2022 Not that we want Yutani to get a Xenomorph, but it really speaks to Kavalier\u2019s unique strain of awful that I\u2019m quietly rooting for Weyland-Yutani on this one. Admittedly, this is a \u201cwhoever wins, we lose\u201d situation.
\n\u2022 Every time I spot a plot hole in Prodigy\u2019s handling of the hybrids, I must remember that Apple still makes a rechargeable mouse that still can\u2019t be used while charging.
\n\u2022 Tonight\u2019s episode of the Pancast really homes in on the sinister side of J.M. Barrie\u2019s Peter Pan And Wendy. \u201cThe boys on the island vary, of course, in numbers, according as they get killed and so on; and when they seem to be growing up, which is against the rules, Peter thins them out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was never a doubt that everything would go belly up at Prodigy. It was a question of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-132700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}