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“Observation”

Being honest, episode four of Alien Earth was my least favorite of the series so far. It felt like an episode that is just there to build to things in the future. I wouldn’t call it a filler episode, but it just did not feel as if it had its own purpose outside of prepping for the future.

That does not mean that there were not a bunch of things that happened.

• Wendy recreating that Alien language was creepy as hell. I found it very disturbing.
• Then, at the episode’s end, we get the baby Xenomorph explode out of Hermit’s removed lung, but it sure seemed as if Wendy was treating this creature like a child of her own. That was another disturbing moment.
• We hear about the “Five”- the corporations that were now the government of the world.
• The sheep and the Eye-opus was yet another gross and disturbing image from the episode. Poor sheep.

Where as some of the previous episodes of this new series were tense and anxiety-filled, this was more of a disturbing episode that needed more than what was here. It was a slow burn episode with imagery that was designed to bother you.

I am sure things will pick up once again with the killer Xenomorphs.