‘Alien: Earth’: All of the ‘Peter Pan’ references to this point

Now, consider the happiest issues, it is the identical as having wings, nevertheless it will not prevent from a Xenomorph in Alien: Earth.

Noah Hawley’s Alien TV sequence holds J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan near its coronary heart, as the first thematic impetus behind trillionaire Boy Kavalier’s (Samuel Blenkin’s) revolutionary hybrid mission. And since I am like this, I’ve rounded up all of the references to Peter Pan you will encounter within the first two episodes of Alien: Earth.

Prodigy’s Neverland analysis facility

Boy Kavalier’s secret island analysis lab is dubbed Neverland, after the fantastical world of Peter Pan. The world the place kids by no means develop up, Neverland is an apt identify for the Prodigy facility the place hybrids are made — the consciousness of terminally ailing kids implanted into artificial our bodies. They fairly actually won’t ever develop up.

The Misplaced Boys

Gang’s all right here.
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Not capable of preserve their very own human names on account of being a part of a categorized mission, the hybrids are renamed for the characters from Peter Pan. Marcy (Sydney Chandler) takes on the moniker of Wendy, named for the matriarch of the group. As for the remaining, all of them tackle the names of the Misplaced Boys, Peter Pan’s gang of child runaways: Tootles (Package Younger), Barely (Adarsh Gourav), Curly (Erana James), and Nibs (Lily Newmark). The one one of many Misplaced Boys to have the identify of a pirate from the story is Smee (Jonathan Ajayi), the villainous Captain Hook’s boatswain. Main all of them is Boy Kavalier, who fancies himself fairly the Peter Pan.

Disney’s Peter Pan

Consider the happiest issues…
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Within the lab the place hybrids are made, Boy Kavalier performs Disney’s 1953 movie Peter Pan in the course of the process that transfers their consciousness from their human our bodies to their artificial our bodies. You possibly can see in episode 1, they’re taking part in the scene through which Peter Pan teaches Wendy, John, and Michael to fly, whisking all of them off to Neverland.

Boy Kavalier’s nightly bedtime tales

“…tidying up her kids’s minds…”
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Every evening, Boy Kavalier reads a bedtime story over the Neverland audio system to the Misplaced Boys, although by Blenkin’s efficiency, the story takes on a extra sinister tone on this planet of Alien: Earth.

In episode 1, he reads passages from Barrie’s 1911 novel, Peter and Wendy (in any other case often called Peter Pan), all of which fittingly — and forebodingly — communicate to the “tidying” of youngsters’s minds and the character of Neverland, the namesake of the analysis facility:

From Chapter 1:

Mrs. Darling first heard of Peter when she was tidying up her kids’s minds. It’s the nightly customized of each good mom after her kids are asleep to rummage of their minds and put issues straight.

While you wake within the morning, the naughtiness and evil passions with which you went to mattress have been folded up small and positioned on the backside of your thoughts and on the highest, superbly aired, are unfold out your prettier ideas, prepared so that you can placed on.

From Chapter 4:

Within the previous days at house the Neverland had all the time begun to look somewhat darkish and threatening by bedtime. Then unexplored patches arose in it and unfold, black shadows moved about in them, the roar of the beasts of prey was fairly totally different now, and above all, you misplaced the understanding that you’d win.

There will be lots extra the place that got here from, we’re certain, so we’ll be updating this submit as Alien: Earth episodes drop.

Alien: Earth premieres Aug. 12 at 8 p.m. ET on Hulu and FX with two episodes, then weekly on Tuesdays.