After Weyland was bludgeoned to loss of life on the finish of Prometheus, David went rogue, worn out a planet of Engineers, and killed Noomi Rapace’s Elizabeth Shaw in Alien: Covenant. Much like David, Kirsh seems to don’t have any compassion for people, memorably referring to people as “meals.” Reminding Sydney Chandler’s Wendy that her brother (Alex Lawther) will finally die in the future whereas she retains on dwelling, a frank Kirsh reiterates: “Was once meals, you recognize. Humanity. Your lives had been brief and crammed with worry.” Whereas the Misplaced Boys have skilled this worry when their human our bodies died and so they had been became hybrids, it’s not an emotion {that a} pure synth like Kirsh is accustomed to. It’s been arduous to decipher what Kirsh feels for the Misplaced Boys, and whereas David cried over Shaw’s grave in Covenant, it’s unclear what his ideas are on the loss of life of Tootles (Package Younger).
It’s additionally possible that Kirsh’s viewpoint of people being weak has been exacerbated by serving underneath Boy Kavalier. Episode 7 “Emergence” noticed Kirsh being pushed to breaking level when the trillionaire advised him to “be helpful.” He at the least managed to show his value when he stopped Weyland-Yutani forces from storming Neverland. Kirsh’s episode 7 redemption arc noticed him getting his personal again on Morrow when he secured the newborn Xeno for Prodigy, additionally grounding Smee (Jonathan Ajayi) and Barely (Adarsh Gourav) for his or her idiocy. Was this all a part of Kirsh’s plan to lure Morrow to Neverland and take out a significant Wey-Yu menace, or is he nonetheless looking for himself?
Notably, Kirsh’s management of the lab within the penultimate episode proves he might’ve helped Tootles, with some theorizing that he sabotaged the hatch that led to the hybrid’s demise by the hands of the synth-munch Fly. It hasn’t gone unnoticed that within the Peter Pan analogy, Kirsh appears to be a jealous Tinkerbell. Posting on Reddit, one fan steered that Kirsh might even flip towards Wendy within the finale, musing: “He’s Tinkerbell. He’s envious and duplicitous. Bear in mind when Tinkerbell tried to kill Wendy?”
Covenant noticed David break firm protocol when he turned towards the colony crew and left us with a cliffhanger ending for a film that we’ll possible by no means see. Scott has teased the thought of returning to those dangling plot threads, whereas we’ve already pitched David as the right addition to the upcoming Romulus sequel. Noah Hawley has admitted he solely thought of Alien and Aliens when creating Alien: Earth, however even when we don’t get a David versus Kirsh showdown, the latter might be extra harmful.
Another person on Reddit highlighted Kirsh’s obvious disdain for the Misplaced Boys as a result of they’re synths who’ve stored their human feelings. As David is a full synth who additionally has this emotional flaw (as identified by Fassbender’s Walter in Covenant), the OP added: “I believe Kirsh would discover David even lesser than the Misplaced Boys. David is totally synthetic, however debases himself by creating more and more human traits, reasonably than being an environment friendly, logical, totally utilitarian machine. An android model of the boy genius (which means: an immense waste of potential). I truthfully see Kirsh immediately disabling David as dangerously defective gear.”
