- Alien: Earth‘s role crew has teased what’s next for their characters’ complicated relationships
- The persons they portray, reunite in sci-fi horror show’s second episode
- It’s a meeting that comes as a big shock to one of them
Alien: Earth‘s role crew has teased what fans can expect from their characters’ complex conditions after their reunion in section 2.
Talking with Techradar before Alien: Earth” s two-episode premiere, Sydney Chandley and Alex Lawther suggested that there will be many moments of “excitement” and “vulnerability” between their characters throughout the Sci-Fi Horror Show’s next six records.
Larger spoilers immediately follow for Alien: Earth Episodes 1 and 2. Turn back now if you haven’t seen them yet.
As I briefly touched in my Alien: Earth Review, Chandler plays a hybrid called Wendy. Created by Prodigy Corp., one of the Earth’s five multinational corporations, Hybrids are technological prototypes that see the awareness of a child transferred to the body of an adult-size synthetic. The reason children are used for such experiments is that their minds are more moldable than adults so that they do not reject the transformation process.
Episodes 1 and 2 of Alien Franchise’s first TV show ever reveals that there is more to Wendy’s creation than meets the eye. First, her real name is not wendy, but rather the name this hybrid chooses for her transcendence. As we learn, her actual name is Marcy and she was chosen to be the first hybrid because she had a terminal disease.
That’s not all. Marcy was the biological sister of Joe ‘CJ’ Hermit, a medicine employed by Prodigy portrayed by Lawther. Instead of telling Joe the truth about what happened to his younger siblings, Prodigy Marcy claimed was dead. Oh, and the dishonest megacorporation also lied to Marcy about why Joe couldn’t visit her in their secret Neverland – Headquarters – Wonder Child, who tells Marcy that he was always too busy to visit her.
But when Wendy is told that Joe is part of the search and rescue operation after a Weyland-Yutani Deep Space Research Fartal Crash Lands on Prodigy City-a spaceship filled with scary beings, no minor-overcaming the Prodigy CEO Boy cavalia to send her, Kirsh and her colleague Hybrids to help the rescue effort. Long story Short: Wendy/Marcy tracks his brother, but it’s not exactly the perfect reunion she hoped for.
Given that he had made peace with his sister’s passing, it is easy to see why Joe cannot understand that Marcy is somehow left from the dead. And while Wendy/Marcy manages to convince Joe, it’s really her via a trip down the memory track in Alien Series second chapter, it’s clear that things can’t return to the way they were when the couple were children.
“It’s really fun to play with the vulnerability and innocence she wears, and marries the fact that she’s basically a weapon,” Chandler said. “What does it do with a child’s mind? And what does it do with your sense of fear and your sense of identity?
“For Wendy, I think if she doesn’t have her brother and that tie for her real life, her understanding of her identity could begin to wing,” Chandler added. “It is also very important for other reasons, but he is the only other person on earth who knows her as her full herself. Everyone else tells her that she is something else so she needs Joe to continue to remind herself who she is.”
“No one sees Marcy as Joe does,” Lawther added. “It will be the thing to longing for this person [Marcy] to be the person they say they are, rather than what they seem to be [Wendy].
“And it causes tension between them,” Lawther continued. “Joe is stuck to this idea of her sibling, whom she can no longer be. He can’t quite understand this notion that this hybrid is his sister, but also to be something else. He has a hard time recognizing the person he lost and we see how it all takes place when time goes.”
Alien: Earth Episodes 1 and 2 are out now Hulu (USA) and Disney+(International). New episodes Air Weekly.
