Alien: Earth Hints At Villain’s Death
Warning: SPOILERS For Alien: Earth.
Alien: Earth has shown it won’t shy away from killing characters in disturbing, bloody ways, and one main character already seems marked for death thanks to some key teases. After Alien: Earth episodes 1 and 2 saw Wendy and the rest of the Prodigy team discover the aliens, Alien: Earth episode 3 followed them into even more dangerous territory.
Alien: Earth‘s hybrids returned home with the specimens and a severely injured Joe, allowing Boy Kavalier and his employees at Prodigy to get their hands on the aliens. This choice raises huge safety issues for those inside the compound and sends Morrow on a quest to get the specimens back, setting up a confrontation and violent death for the show’s villain.
Boy Kavalier’s Death Is Already Being Teased In Alien: Earth
Alien: Earth has already created a pretty frustrating character in Boy Kavalier. The genius inventor’s treatment of his synthetic-child hybrids has been at best cavalier and at worst reckless and cruel. To his human employees, he is equally disrespectful and dismissive. Boy Kavalier is anything but a sympathetic character.
Viewers are likely already ambivalent about the obnoxious young billionaire’s survival, and Boy Kavalier’s brazen disregard for those around him only makes his death seem more likely. More than that, though, Boy Kavalier’s demise is already being teased by Alien: Earth. Compared to many of the show’s hybrid and synthetic main characters, Boy Kavalier is far more fragile.
Even Boy Kavalier began to realize his fallibility in Alien: Earth episode 3 when Kirsch ordered him out of the lab where the aliens were being kept. While the synthetic characters can withstand an attack, Boy Kavalier can be killed much more easily, and his decision to bring the alien specimens to his compound foreshadows this dark end.
Boy Kavalier’s Hubris Harkens Back To The Weyland-Yutani Employees Of Previous Alien Movies
Boy Kavalier may be a genius, but his hubris is already pointing him toward a gruesome fate. After the first three episodes of Alien: Earth, it seems safe to say that Boy Kavalier is only interested in his own success, regardless of the cost to others, and that will be his downfall.
The Alien movie franchise has played with the hubris of humans before, and it has never turned out well for those characters. This has given the franchise a great way of exploring how the greed of Weyland-Yutani, and now Prodigy, swallows up everything in its path.
Boy Kavalier’s current attitude toward the aliens is similar to Paul Reiser’s Carter Burke in Aliens. Arguably, Burke is better at pretending to help than Boy Kavalier, but his ultimate goal of creating a weapon and profiting off the aliens is the same. Alien: Earth‘s current reminders of Kavalier’s fragility hint that his fate may be the same too.
Across each of the Alien movies, corporate greed and the collusion of the individuals who aid those corporations (whether human or synthetic) is a prevalent theme. Alien: Earth is sure to explore this even further through the competition between Prodigy and Weyland-Yutani, and Boy Kavalier’s potential death is the perfect vessel for that.
