In episode six, Scott Douglas Jacobsen hears Rick Rosner’s mid-watch recap: Slightly is blackmailed by Morrow to lure Hermit into a facehugger trap as Prodigy braces for Weyland-Yutani. Rosner pivots to the shooting of Charlie Kirk, noting online grief-policing and Jacobsen’s satirical “heaven press release.” He contrasts 1979’s eroticized Alien—phallic menace, vulval eggs, Sigourney Weaver’s empowered Ripley—with the series’ new dread: technological displacement by synthetics and erased sexuality, including trauma edits of a red-haired child. He flags bomb threats shutting campuses, including HBCUs, and a West Point scare, while observing the right’s rush to scapegoat colleges and broader political anxieties.