There’s a long-standing tradition in storytelling: If you introduce a parasitic alien eyeball in the first act, it had better take over someone’s brain by the third act.

While it certainly made for a stunning, downright demonic visual , the so-called “eye midge ” of FX’s Alien: Earth couldn’t occupy the orbital socket of that sheep all season. At a certain point, the little buddy known as T. Ocellus would have to find a human host like it did aboard the USCSS Maginot when it commandeered the engineer Shmuel (Michael Smiley). Fan theories regarding the eyeball’s next host ran the gamut from the obvious (Samuel Blenkin’s Boy Kavalier) to the unlikely (any of the hybrids) to the wickedly creative ( the xenomorph herself ).

In the end, however, the eye-opening moment doesn’t

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