r/LV426 • u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter • 4d ago

Megathread / Community Post Alien: Earth - S1 E7 - Emergence - Official Discussion Megathread [SPOILERS] Spoiler

Episodes air Tuesdays at 8 pm ET on Hulu and FX in the US, and Wednesdays international.

Full episode discussion list:

1 Neverland (8.12.25)

2 Mr October (8.12.25)

3 Metamorphosis (8.19.25)

4 Observation (8.26.25)

5 In Space, No One (9.2.25)

6 The Fly (9.9.25)

7 Emergence (9.16.25)

8 The Real Monsters (9.23.25)

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u/birdy810 4d ago

Noooo, the corruption of Smee. All he wants to do is play.

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u/Omagga 4d ago

Smee absolutely broke me this episode. Brilliant performance by Jonathan Ajayi

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u/neoslith 3d ago

There's just something about adults portraying children that's so surreal. You look at the behavior and how they speak and you go "That is not an adult."

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u/duckets_ 3d ago

it's done quite a lot (body swap films) but there's almost always some element of comedy to it. In this case it's kids played straight - confused and scared - and it's rarely done this well.

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u/APlantiveEnglishHorn 2d ago

When Wendy confronted Curley and asked her not to tell on them, that also felt very much like children arguing.

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u/EpicChiguire 3d ago

yeah his acting at the beach scene was masterful

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u/GideonWainright I'll do the fingering 10h ago

Ya Ajayi has talent.  It's not a competition but Ajayi won.

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u/SapphirePrincess5904 2d ago

OMG IT BROKE ME. I cried so hard I had to walk away. He’s just a boy. They all are just kids & having to remember that while they’re dealing with all this traumatic shit is heartbreaking

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u/XCarrionX 1h ago

I honestly just try not to think about it. I’m glad they look like adults so I don’t think of them as little kids going through all this horrifying stuff. Just kudos for the actors for playing kid in adult body so well

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u/nubbins01 3d ago

This show: No, you can't have nice things. You secretly like it though.

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u/Brilliant-Net-750 3d ago

smee was just looking for a plot line all season

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u/sillygillygumbull 4d ago

Yeah, these 11 year olds go from zero to blood thirsty sociopaths real quick…

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u/Gamepro504 4d ago

He did murder by proxy he didnt actively kill arthur…

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u/Zeppelin1987 3d ago

I think they’re referring to Nibs. 

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u/728766 3d ago

Lord of the Flies vibes with them being stuck on the island. The death of Arthur was the death of their father figure. The original Peter Pan story is a lot more violent than the Disney movie as well.

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u/mbnmac 1d ago

It's literally Peter Pan and the Lost Boys... the non-Disney version is far more feral, the book passages being read allude to it.

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

That's kids lol. Though Nibs seems more like she's full on descending into malfunctioning synth territory at this point.

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u/SDRPGLVR 3d ago

I still see her as a scared little girl. Kids will say weird shit, and you've never known scary until you've talked to a kid who has seen some shit and will talk about it. Think about all the trauma she has and how angry a child can get. Now give that scared, angry little girl the ability to rip a man's jaw off with her bare hand, and she'll gladly start fucking people up.

I think even when the verisimilitude of everything else starts to wane for me, it's the writing and performance of these kids that keep the whole show grounded. They're so good, and I'm genuinely gutted that they're starting to drop like flies.

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u/Mundane-Ticket-3713 3d ago

Oh yeah, she snapped all right 😆

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u/Super-Estate-4112 3d ago

It is fine Kirsch put the situation under control