When the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, Wendy and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet's greatest threat.
Several of the characters in season one are terminally ill children who are put into (adult-looking) synthetic bodies via consciousness transfer.
Mentally, they’re still the same age as they were when they were transferred—and the majority of the adults in charge of the program are fine with putting them into dangerous situations they’re not emotionally or psychologically prepared to handle.
adding to the other comments. 19:21 - 21:18 if you want to skip the graphic scene with the sheep but okay with seeing the final form without missing a few scenes(bloody half face with T. Ocellus as the eye watching Tootles and Kirsch at first then, Boy Kavalier; he tried to talk to it) if not, skip until 22:59
An alien egg is forcibly opened in the lab, the facehugger inside is removed, killed with electric shock and cut open. Then they extract the small alien embryo (or whatever it is) inside of it.
At the start of episode 6 (around the 1:40 mark), there’s a quick shot of the sheep in the containment box with its bloody, bulging eye - the same one shown back in ep4.
Later, from about 32:00 to 37:00, there’s a longer sequence featuring the sheep. The focus shifts back and forth, but there are many close-up shots of it in the containment cell, again with the bloody bulging eye. Pretty sad sight.
The USCSS Maginot has a ship cat, not unlike Jonesy in the original film. Around 25:47 in the second episode, the cat is seen (portrayed in CGI) mangled and infected with some sort of alien parasite after the crash. The image is pretty brutal.
There is a "zoo" in a lab onboard a ship that contains multiple specimens of different space creatures, in cans or cells, which are later transferred to another facility. Some of the creatures look sort of like cockroaches, some look like giant wasps, and the scientists interact with them. Some escape their containers, into the lab.
The alien series consistently uses parasitic creatures like facehuggers which latch onto a person's mouth or eyes. To protect against this, characters mouths and eyes may be covered by another person.
No, but: one character predatorily strokes the glass of a cryopod occupied by an unconscious crewmember, and it is heavily implied that he gets up to worse when the rest of the crew is asleep.
I would say yes.
SPOILER: there are small alien creatures, somewhere between a scorpion and a tick, that drink the blood of two characters after biting their necks, resulting in their death. If that's potentially triggering for you, you will have enough time to look away
Par for the course for the Alien franchise. Aliens explode out of people's chests, very graphic attacks on humans and animals, two animals' eyeballs are ripped out and replaced with an alien.
There is a creature that is essentially an eyeball with tentacles. You see flashes of it in episode 1. In episode 2, when the Lost Boys enter the lab of the crashed Maginot, they see a cat in the shadows. The cat has one bulging eye (the creature) which then detaches from its face and runs towards them. You also see a full scan of the creature on a computer.
Children who are dying of terminal diseases have their consciousnesses transferred into synthetic bodies. Yes and no, but you do see the children lying down holding flowers beside their new bodies.
Genuinely shocked that so many people have said no to this trigger. I'd say yes, definitely. The first words out of Wendy's mouth when she wakes up in a synthetic body is "these feel weird!" and points to her chest. Mutliple times the adult female children describe pregnancy and I'm pretty sure it becomes a major plot point for one girl.
Meanwhile some of the first words out of the boys are "I want to be a scientist!"
So no I would not say they are outwardly or overtly sexualised but there's mutliple unnecessary and creepy plot threats/lines of dialogues about pregnancy and the female body which the boys NEVER express. There's a clear intention of themes of impregnation towards literal children and that in itself is sexual.
Episode 5
Multiple members of a spaceships crew are killed by alien bugs who suck their blood and by the xenomorph itself.
Episode 6
Tootles is partially melted by acid spat on him from the alien flies being contained in the science lab. A face hugger also escapes from containment and latches onto one of the crew's face, suffocating him.
An able-bodied child-actor (Lorelai Winterfrost) portrays a young girl bound to a wheelchair named Curly. Curly, just like the other children known as "The Lost Boys", has her consciousness transferred into the synthetic body of an adult in order to "cure" the unnamed condition and endow her with inhuman abilities.
Updated after watching all of season one: It’s mentioned one characters father died sometime in the recent past; I believe this character talks about being the only living member of their family. Later in the show another character talks about their father dying.
The show (as of episode 2) relies less on jump scares than it does atmosphere and tense, perilious situations for characters you care about but feel may not survive the length of the series. There are minor jump scares here and there -- notably several moments in which the alien is hidden in the background and potentially unseen by the viewer until it moves.
The lost boys are being watched and monitored through their own eyes and it’s not made clear if they know (but I lean towards they don’t know). Additionally a character is watched by a sibling through cameras all over the city.
A child in a wheelchair asks another character if they will be able to walk again after switching their consciousness to a synthetic body. The child is told they will be able to walk, run, dance, and do whatever they want.
Sort of. One of the characters has a habit of standing next to a cryo tube and creepily staring at a specific woman in her underwear while she is in cryosleep. He is told multiple times by other crew to stop or he will be reported to HR.