Ishould have seen it coming. Last week, I had fun guessing which poor unfortunate soul in Alien: Earth w ould be the new host for the eyeball octopus —sorry, Species 64. (Also the "Ocellus.") But the answer was staring right at me. All this time it was lying on its back on a crab-infested beach, waiting for the Ocellus to do its thing. I forgot that it can reanimate the dead. I got caught up looking at the trees when I failed to see the forest, or however that metaphor goes. I am mad at myself for how obvious it was, yet I applaud Alien: Earth for surprising me still. I feel like Boy Kavalier, actually: I'm gazing upon a thing that's destroying me in all the ways I want it to.

Episode 8, "The Real Monsters," is the final episode of Alien: Earth season 1. It's one hell of a fi

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