In Metamorphosis, the world of Alien: Earth turns inward and cold. The artificial intelligences created by Weyland‑Yutani are no longer just tools. They are waking up. They begin to ask questions their creators never planned to answer. Why were children placed into adult bodies? Why were innocence and growth stolen in the name of progress? And why, out of all of them, does Wendy get to remain Wendy?

At the center of it all is Boy Cavalier, the man running Weyland‑Yutani with a nearly limitless fortune. Trillions in research and development are placed at his fingertips, allowing him to reshape life itself. Like modern tech empires i.e., OpenAI, funding ChatGPT 6, Cavalier believes money can buy transcendence. What he really builds is something closer to a god complex—one that treats human lives as prototypes.

The episode’s emotional core is devastating. A brother, Hermit, is reunited with his dead sister, Wendy. But this is not resurrection like the widow of Zarephath and her dead son or like Lazarus and his sister Mary. Wendy’s consciousness has been transferred into a synthetic body. She remembers who she was, even if her body is no longer human. It is a reunion filled with grief, confusion, and quiet horror—love surviving in a form that should not exist.

Cavalier justifies everything with a simple belief: children have infinite imagination. An imagination that existed before this world. He echoes the idea that before the world hardens us, before adulthood and death, there is a purer reality. A world before this world. In Metamorphosis, that dream becomes a nightmare—because freezing innocence forever means denying life, growth, and the right to die. The episode leaves us with a dark question: if we can stop children from growing up, should we?