Joe (Alex Lawther), Wendy (Sydney Chandler), and Nibs (Lily Newmark) in 'Alien: Earth'
Despite all the mayhem and gore, there are still a lot of heartwarming moments to be found in Alien: Earth. Noah Hawley's FX series is filled to the brim with bad guys, scary aliens, and tragic twists, but none of that matters if you don't have protagonists to care about first.
In Alien: Earth, this is found primarily in hybrid Wendy and her human brother Joe . Their strong love for each other, which has continued on past physical death and into the realm of the impossible, has been the emotional center of the show. Without each other, they wouldn't make it through this chaotic world, and it's together that they will try to escape. However, at the end of the series' most recent episode,"Emergence", a new twist emerges as Joe fights back to defend his friends against Wendy's fellow hybrid, Nibs . The final scene sees Wendy screaming in anger at her older brother, which is the last thing Joe needs when his sister now has super strength. On top of that, the xenomorph Wendy can speak to watches from the woods, waiting to kill anyone who dares try to hurt her. Is there anything that can save Wendy and Joe's relationship now? Wendy and Joe's Relationship Is the Heart of 'Alien: Earth' When we're first introduced to Wendy, she's not Wendy yet at all, but a young, dying girl named Marcy Hermit . When she's offered the chance to live on as a hybrid, with her consciousness transplanted into the adult body of a synthetic, she takes it. Wendy is a child filled with hope, and in her new body, she excels. She's the strongest of the Lost Boys, with strength and power way beyond any mortal human. That intrigues her, but the only thing that truly matters to her is her older brother, Joe. Wendy follows Joe's movements by spying on him through various camera feeds, and when the Maginot crashes into the city of New Siam, she wants to be there to find her brother. When they reunite, we wonder how long it will be before Wendy's true identity is revealed, and how Joe will take it. The moment comes quickly thanks to an excited Slightly , and although Joe is in obvious shock, he doesn't respond with anger or dismissal. He misses his sister so much and is reluctantly ready to believe that she lives on. Just a few answers from her that only Marcy would know, and Joe accepts her new form. We see them bond again over their childhood love of Ice Age, and, wanting to stay connected, Wendy pleads with Boy Kavalier to allow Joe to be brought back to Prodigy's Neverland research island. Joe's Actions in 'Alien: Earth' Episode 7 Could Drive Brother and Sister Apart We see how much they love each other early on in Alien: Earth when a xenomorph attacks, impaling Joe with its tail. Fighting for her brother, Wendy shows her impressive strength for the first time by battling the alien and ripping its head right off. However, these powers are also used against her when Kavalier realizes that Wendy can talk to the xenomorphs. If Wendy wants Joe to stay on the island, then she has to do what he says and continue to learn how to communicate with the monsters. Because all she cares about is Joe, a scared Wendy, who is still just a little kid, agrees immediately. Their strong relationship doesn't mean that Wendy and Joe don't disagree, as the brother doesn't like that the sister is talking to the xenomorph. As an adult, he knows this is incredibly dangerous and wrong. Because Wendy's mind isn't developed enough, she can't understand that she's being used. Her mind is full of wonder, and determined to do good. Even when she accepts that Boy Kavalier isn't as great a person as she hoped for, Wendy still wants to keep communicating with the xenomorph. The kid sees the aliens as sympathetic creatures who didn't ask to come here, and this connects her to the iconic monster in a way language can't. This sympathetic connection could be Wendy's undoing, but it ends up helping her. Finally convinced by Joe that they need to get off the island, she not only brings along the troubled Nibs but sets the xenomorph loose to follow and attack any soldiers who get in their way. For much of the journey, this strategy works, but then comes the final minutes, when a security force partially made up of Joe's fellow Prodigy soldiers, Siberian and Rashidi , surrounds them at the boat dock. In a heartbreaking moment, Nibs' frayed mind finally snaps, and she attacks, ripping off one soldier's jaw and knocking others around like they're ragdolls. When Siberian shoots Nibs, who barely flinches, the hybrid almost snaps her neck. Seeing the damage she is doing, Joe shoots Nibs. This finally takes her down, leaving the Lost Boy either dead or badly damaged, but Wendy can't see that Joe just saved the lives of others. With tears in her eyes, she screams at the only person she loves,"What did you do?!" Wendy and Joe Can't Survive if They're Not Together on 'Alien: Earth' Talk about a cliffhanger! The tension is increased even more by a shot of the xenomorph watching it all go down from the woods. How will it react? Despite its connection to Wendy, in its mind, it surely now sees Joe as a threat on par with the other forces. Will the xenomorph kill Joe the first chance it gets, or will Wendy be able to talk to it and get it to stop? Even if the latter happens, there's no guarantee that her chittering language will say the right thing. In"Emergence," she hoped she was telling the xenomorph to hide and follow, which worked, but she had no clue if her words were actually coming out right or not. There is the option that Wendy, in her rage, could let the xenomorph kill Joe, or even do it herself, but that seems extremely unlikely. It would betray her entire character arc and completely destroy her role as the heroic protagonist. There is no redemption arc for something that graphic. Instead, Wendy could kill Joe accidentally, having forgotten the power of her newfound strength. The mournful rage born of this would send her slicing through every soldier in her way, and perhaps take her straight to Boy Kavalier himself. If that's not what happens, Wendy will find a way to escape by herself, perhaps even taking the xenomorph with her. Imagine that nightmare wherever they dock next. Whatever happens, we're seeing the moral center of Alien: Earth being destroyed. Wendy and Joe love each other, but they also have their own goals. The empathetic hybrid wants to save others like her, which, in her mind, includes the aliens. Joe wants to save his sister, but when he sees Nibs attack his old friends, his instinct tells him to fight for humanity. This decision means that he looks at Nibs as less-than, even if he didn't know it until the moment he pulled the trigger. Does this mean he sees the updated version of Marcy as lesser, too? Wendy has already spoken about how much she has come to despise the worst in humans, but her brother might have just proven her right. Alien: Earth TV-MA Drama Horror Science Fiction Thriller 8 10 31 9.4/10 Release Date August 12, 2025
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