Nibs' wild therapy session in Alien: Earth episode 4 raised an important question: are the Lost Boys actually human anymore? The Lost Boys are human-synthetic hybrids . As Alien: Earth has already shown, the consciousnesses of dying children were implanted into synthetic bodies. It's why the Lost Boys all behave like children, and the entire program is the Prodigy Corporation's effort to achieve immortality.
But we don't know for sure that's what actually happened. Several different members of the cast of Alien: Earth voiced concerns about the process. Arthur Sylvia, for example, voiced his concern that the Lost Boys are simply artificial intelligences that believe they used to be children. It's an important question that would change Alien: Earth at a fundamental level, a