#boy kavalier

The whole Peter Pan metaphor with the hybrids in Alien: Earth seems fantastic to me. I’m a Peter Pan geek and whenever allusions or metaphors about the work are made, people usually miss the point, but in this case I think it’s very well done. Boy, like Peter, wants to gather lost children so he can have fun and not be alone. He literally admits that his goal is to have someone “at his level” to talk to, which is a very obvious parallel with what Peter did by taking children to Neverland. The difference is that while Peter retains that innocent cruelty of childhood, Boy has a level of awareness that makes him much more dangerous, because his actions aren’t naive, they are intentional. That transition between unconscious childlike cruelty and the conscious cruelty of adulthood is what makes the metaphor work so well.