"So it's oddly fitting that "Observation," the fourth episode of Alien: Earth and the show's first-ever dud, actually feels like we're watching things unfold through the filter of a glass pane. A lot of important stuff is indeed happening on Alien: Earth, culminating in Wendy (Sydney Chandler) fostering a disturbing connection with a chestburster that practically sees her as its caretaker, if not its mother."
"Rendered immobile after last week's cliff-hanger, Wendy wakes up with Prodigy's scientists, the married Sylvias, and Kirsh (Timothy Olyphant) observing her as she struggles to regain her hearing. The psychic noise of the embryo that Kirsch was testing in the lab was clearly too much for Wendy's synthetic body, resulting in the disabling of her audio settings. Thankfully, it's nothing a little maintenance can't fix."
Wendy regains consciousness surrounded by Prodigy's scientists, the married Sylvias, and Kirsh while struggling to recover her hearing after a psychic overload from an embryo. The embryo's psychic noise disabled Wendy's audio settings, prompting maintenance and further tests to explore her connection to the embryo. Boy Kavalier demands tests and provokes others, including Kirsh and Dame Sylvia. Hermit protests Wendy's treatment and is reminded that his replaced lung belongs to Prodigy. The episode confines most action to Prodigy's island and a few rooms, resulting in a plodding pace that creates emotional distance despite graphic, unsettling scenes.
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