So I just finished binging (forwarding through) this show and I just want some feedback on a stupid theory I have
Legit terrible writing and all that, I'm not making this post from a particularly positive assessment of the show, and it seems I'm not the only one. HOWEVER I need to get this stupid theory out there, and if this has been brought up before, sorry.
So I feel like these "apex" aliens of season 3 are not whose in control of this whole business. They come across more as workers withing a larger construct. They frankly quite literally seem too dumb to properly communicate any type of larger, sophisticated goal. I got the idea that the entire Mothership is itself alive and perhaps one actual being. Or all the ships are basically beings and their passengers are symbiotic, in the way bacteria are in our body etc? But what is the actual brain and how did it come to be? How did this thing grow or get built? Because for one thing, those sentient aliens introduced in s3? Yea, I understand we shouldn't bank 'too much' on things truly making sense in this show, based on what we've seen, but I don't buy whatsoever that those aliens were capable of building these spaceships. They come across as workers to me, not as things in charge. Lastly, that ship gets EMP'd, but a portal still works and beams Mitscotty up. So what is really behind this all? More mind control towers in other motherships? Who built those then? Even if we consider it a living organism, it still looks engineered. I feel like we're missing a better embodiment of the actual beings behind it all. And it feels on purpose too, as clearly this show is all about putting off... everything.
So that brings me to this crackpot idea, maybe they've spoiled the puppetmaster alien(s) since almost the beginning. Did anyone notice this alien head on that drawing Casper made for Jamilla? It's upside down on the drawing, but I turned a cutout 90 degrees. (The text is from subtitles I forgot to turn off, who cares.)
Now, maybe I've missed something, maybe this is a joke, it's a cartoony drawing. But that alien Casper drew has something striking that all the aliens in the show have lacked thusfar: two humanoid eyes, on a humanoid head. So what if all the alien stuff we've seen are just enslaved, or otherwise working for this dude up here? What if these ships and all their crew are grown organisms sent to terraform planets at the behest of other aliens. Perhaps they designed them, perhaps they grew them, perhaps they grew on their homeworld, who knows.
Maybe I'm about to be the butt off a joke and this drawing is just some dumb cartoon sketch, or a reference to another franchise I've happened to not see. But I wanted to know what other people thought?
Cheers for any replies.
Posted Aug 28, 2026, 7:42 AM UTC