Should you noticed the animated film franchise Ice Age changing into an integral a part of the Alien universe, you then’ve acquired some severe soothsaying expertise.
Because it seems, the family-friendly movies created by screenwriter Michael J. Wilson play a pivotal function in Noah Hawley’s FX sequence Alien: Earth, serving as an important connection between two primary characters. This is the way it performs out.
The place does Ice Age come up in Alien: Earth?
Joe (Alex Lawther) watches “Ice Age” for unhappy causes.
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First issues first, it is not simply any previous Ice Age — it is Ice Age: Continental Drift.
The fourth film within the franchise seems in Alien: Earth‘s first episode, when Prodigy navy medic Joe (Alex Lawther) will get dwelling to his house in New Siam, Prodigy Metropolis. He sits down to observe the movie, and it is apparent he is seen it many occasions earlier than, as he quotes it aloud. (Notably, this film got here out in 2012; given Alien: Earth is ready in 2120, it is an 108-year-old weeknight screening Joe’s going for right here.)
However he isn’t the one one watching. Joe’s sister Marcy (Sydney Chandler), is watching Joe watch Continental Drift via safety cameras again on Neverland, Prodigy’s secret analysis facility. The factor is, Joe thinks Marcy is useless — she’s not, her consciousness has been transferred right into a hybrid known as Wendy by Prodigy. However regardless of her new artificial physique, Marcy remembers watching this movie along with her brother (there is a flashback), and in addition quotes the scene aloud.
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It is particularly a scene wherein mammoth Manny, smilodon Diego, and floor sloth Sid encounter large ape pirate Captain Gutt. “Surrender your ship or face my fury,” says the captain. “Or face your furry what?” replies Sid.
Why is Ice Age: Continental Drift essential in Alien: Earth?
Seems quoting films is probably the most human factor you are able to do within the actuality that’s Alien: Earth.
Ice Age: Continental Drift comes up once more when Joe tries to resign from his put up as medic to go to medical faculty on Mars, whereas Marcy watches on the cameras. He is rejected by the robotic attendant, who says he has seven months left on his Prodigy contract. “Have a heart,” Joe says. “Or face my fury.”
At this second, Marcy locations her hand on the display screen, in some way rewrites the code, and makes the robotic attendant say, “Or face your furry what?” Within the second, Joe is surprised not solely to listen to this company robotic quoting Continental Drift, however the particular response in Joe and Marcy’s favorite scene.
It is a signal, an in-joke despatched from Marcy to Joe, that she won’t be gone for good. And fortunately, they will not have to attend lengthy to observe the entire film collectively once more.
Contemplating each the Alien and Ice Age franchises are produced by twentieth Century Studios (previously generally known as twentieth Century Fox), it is also extraordinarily handy IP to drop into the narrative — very like these Disney films on Boy Kavalier’s roof. And truthfully, if you have not seen all of the Ice Age movies, then doom on you, doom on you, doom on you…
