Season 2 of the earth must continue to explore the greatest rivalry of the show

This article contains spoilers For the final of season 1 of “Alien: Earth”.

The protagonist of “Alien: Earth” can be Wendy, alias Marcy (Sydney Chandler), and the main villain can be the CEO of Prodigy Corp., Kavalier (Samuel Blenkin), but the dynamics of the most interesting character in the series probably does not imply either. Most of the history of season 1 of “Alien: Earth” follows the hybrid children of the installation of Neverland, whose spirits are transferred from their prepubesic bodies to the terminal phase to immortal synthetic adult bodies. During this season, we have seen many disturbing ramifications of this procedure take place, but the final increases the conflict to show a complete military conflict between Prodigy and the Weyland-Yutani Corporation rival.

This corporate rivalry was personified throughout the season by the individual rivalry between two support characters: Prodigy Android and scientist Kirsh (Timothy Olyphant), and the loyalist of Weyland-Yutani and Cyborg Morrow (Babou Ceesay). The two crosspieces at the start of the show, and it clearly emerges from the jump they do not love each other. This is partly due to their respective loyalty of companies, but it has more to do with science fiction racism. Cyborg hates Android, and Android hates cyborg, both declaring their own supremacy as the future of the human race.

In the final of the season, this ideological rivalry becomes physical, with Morrow and Kirsh Duking in a brutal fight with melee in the Neverland lab, which leaves them both near death. Although they only spend a handful of scenes throughout the season, this culminating battle is one of the most interesting components of the final, and the show should absolutely continue to explore the rivalry of season 2.

More than extraterrestrials themselves, as the name of the show suggests, “Alien: Earth” concerns human conscience. It is a very classic science fiction story at its root, showing several different ideas from what a futuristic “human” could look like. Androids – or synthetics, as they are called in the show – have incredibly strong bodies and very advanced minds, which are also capable of certain forms of emotion, but they are entirely created by man, and therefore lack certain ineffable elements of humanity. Cyborgs are the opposite – humans who allow their bodies and their minds to be modified by robotics and computers until they become something very different, but always keeping their origins as a fully organic human.

“Look at,” said Kirsh in Morrow in episode 6. ” almost Human and hateful machine. How you should avoid me. “Morrow turns around quickly, calling Kirsh” yesterday, the incredibly unrelevant robot “, and later an” old toy “. The conversation, led in the elevator after a meeting between the leaders of Prodigy and Weyland-Yutani, quickly turns into a grotesque and counter-journal on the quantity of character who benefits from the members of the other.

So clearly, there is no love lost there.

With the hybrids of Prodigy which make cyborgs and obsolete androids, it is as if Morrow and Kirsh both fight the wave of history, trying to assert themselves as the thing necessary for the future. Morrow even refers to how he could theoretically obtain one of the bodies entirely synthetic for himself, because he has a human mind – something that would not be really possible for a complete synth. And yet, the two men are always the same kind of servant of a business ruling class, left to fight against each other while richer interests see them simply as tools.

While they are both getting great moments in season 1, culminating in their frantic fight in the season’s final, Kirsh and Morrow deserve more projectors in “Alien: Earth” season 2. There are also so much amusing thematic material linked in this particular relationship of character, the tension of different ways of artificial human evolution The earth.

“It’s not over,” said Morrow to Kirsh after being captured by prodigy soldiers at the end of episode 7. “Nothing is,” replied Kirsh. It is a vague and somewhat confusing response. Perhaps he simply says that he likes to hold resentments, but with the artificial longevity possessed by the two characters – illustrated by them literally fighting to the death in the season and always surviving – the line can also be read as a kind of declaration for the hope that things will go to a time when death is optional … at least for some.