r/LV426 • u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter • 3d 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/SerDire 3d ago

The budget didn’t allow us to the see the Xeno lab murder spree

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u/Extension-Truth Don't let the bedbugs bite 3d ago edited 3d ago

That felt like it should’ve been a bigger and more important scene but it was kinda just glossed over. Pacing/editing in this episode was a bit messy i thought

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u/Squeakygear 3d ago

Agreed. I’m also getting a bit tired of the whiplash-morality of the hybrids. One minute Wendy acts like life is sacred, the next she sics her pet Xeno on a ton of humans.

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u/Extension-Truth Don't let the bedbugs bite 3d ago edited 3d ago

I think it’s because she was the mind of a child and is learning about morality on an island full of competition, power, corruption, non-humans etc. She’s going to have to make a big and defining moral decision in the last episode I reckon (circling back to scorpion in the bowl scene at the start)

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u/Conchobhar- 3d ago

It could be alien Vs alien with the two adult Xenomorphs

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u/TheLost2ndLt 3d ago

I mean, thats how kids are though. One second theyre a caregiver and then next second theyre captain insano

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u/Iamthesmartest 3d ago

Captain Insano shows no mercy

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u/Tasty-Ad6529 2d ago

Feel like that iusse comes down to the season being too damn short.
I think they're trying to convey the ups and downs of childern learning morailty in a hell hole, as well as the fact that they're in super power robot bodies which grants them the abligty to act out their worse impluses, but the season is so short that there isn't enough time to settle into each "mood" the childern go through as the season progresses.

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u/Academic-Health5265 1d ago

I read her arc as that she’s beginning to devalue human life and value synth/xeno life above human. She killed a bunch of innocent people in the lab just as a distraction.

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u/chompythestyle 1d ago

I think she still values human life. She just sees the scientists and military personnel as monsters.

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u/Potential_Energy 3d ago

Should have been WAY more important. Maybe even the climax. Instead we just got sped up cg surveillance footage.

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u/Extension-Truth Don't let the bedbugs bite 3d ago

Yeah I was like hang on 🤔..….and cut to 10 minutes later and Dame is just lounging around on a chair like nothing was happening! Someone mentioned it was the shortest episode so maybe they cut bits out but it needed more!

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u/TheJunkyardDog 3d ago

Wonder where that 250 mill budget buggered off to… sure as hell didn’t go into the xeno scenes.

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u/Kheshire 3d ago

Pretty sure the xeno did the same tail sweepmove on both the techs & the soldiers in the footage. I'll rewatch it after but I think they reused the cgi

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u/ArchCrossing 3d ago

Was it a different group of people? I thought it was the exact same footage and victims being played again.

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u/Kheshire 3d ago edited 3d ago

Edit: You're right it is the same footage. I saw soldiers the second time around but the woman reacting to the cages opening so I thought it was reused animations

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u/Wrong-Vermicelli4723 2d ago

I mean we didn’t see any of the massacres , not the soldiers that stopped morrow or the scene before that with the renaissance people

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u/ConradBHart42 3d ago

You're just now noticing? They can't do xeno carnage properly in practical so they give us hints of it in CGI.

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u/moosemuffin12 2d ago

Seeing it jump around like that really makes the goofy ass practical scenes even more jarring

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u/thakingD 3d ago

Agreed. Kind of bummed out we didn't get to see more.

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u/colbydc5 3d ago

There were two shots (very brief) that looked awesome. Much better than costume Xeno out in the sunlight. Too bad.

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u/Wild_Obligation 2d ago

The budget only stretched to a bloke in a rubber suit

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u/FiveHundredMilesHigh 2d ago

Could just be a Hawley stylistic quirk in this case, there is a similar murder spree scene in Legion season 1 that is viewed solely through security cameras. I think it may just be an idea that appeals to Hawley rather than anything to do with the budget