We don’t yet know why Sydney Chandler’s Wendy can communicate with aliens, but we have some new insight into how the show pulled off the effect.
While Alien: Earth fans nervously await FX’s confirmation that the Noah Hawley show will be returning for a second season—that cliffhanger finale made it seem pretty likely—there’s still plenty to ponder about season one. There are lots of big lingering questions around exactly how the superpowered hybrid Wendy (Sydney Chandler) was able to talk to Xenomorphs—and why these apex predators decided to obey her commands.
The people behind the show aren’t divulging any details just yet, but we do have a little more sense of how Alien: Earth approached those crucial communications.
We get a visceral demonstration of Wendy’s special connection with the Xenomorphs when we see her close encounter with something entirely new in the sci-fi franchise: a sort of toddler-age Xenomorph.
