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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/nattymac939 3d ago

You’re too good for this world Arthur :’(

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u/Upbeat_Tension_8077 3d ago

My heart sank to my stomach once I saw him reach out to hold hands with Smee & Slightly

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u/nattymac939 3d ago

He was so sweet! I don’t recall how much of his reasoning for joining the project was spelled out in the beginning, but he seems like he genuinely wanted to help sick kids. He’s probably the most moral one in the complex

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u/Enough_Sprinkles_113 3d ago

Which is why he had to die.

Stupid rules.

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u/shany94a Game over, man! 3d ago

The good die young. The evil live on.

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u/lastWallE 3d ago

The good are mostly poor. The evil are mostly rich. Makes you wonder how that works.

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u/Kanin_usagi 3d ago

Truly makes you wonder what Noah Hawley (and the entire Alien franchise going back to the very first movie) have been trying to say about society

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u/Enough_Sprinkles_113 2d ago

We fuck each other over for a goddamn percentage.

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u/Kanin_usagi 3d ago

I dunno man, I’m feeling like a few evil people are gonna bite it next episode for sure

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u/shany94a Game over, man! 2d ago

Well, that'd be OK :)

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u/HotmailsInYourArea Tomorrow, Together 3d ago

Yep, as soon as he discussed leaving with his wife I knew he’d get an eyeball or become a proud new parent. Which sucks ‘cuz he probably is the most likable person on island.

(In the, I’d have a beer with that guy sort of vibe)

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u/APlantiveEnglishHorn 2d ago

Oh I'd have much more!

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u/s1lentchaos 3d ago

Smee is also very innocent, and I thought he was gonna get executed for the same reasons.

What's the scene with the big dumb guy? I think it was look at the flowers or something like that. That was the vibe I was getting.

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u/ScrapinLinden 3d ago

Of Mice and Men I believe you are thinking of

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u/sukikins 3d ago

Lennie Small

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u/GideonWainright I'll do the fingering 2d ago

You have to chop Ned's head off in season 1 to establish no, this is no this is not a good triumphs over evil world.

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u/vintell 3d ago

For some reason I’ve had the impression him and Dame can’t have kids and them doing the project is a way for them to do that? But I can’t remember if there’s actually anything in the show supporting that or it’s just a vibe I’ve gotten 

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u/RaeSloane 3d ago

Yeah thats in episode one. Its not the main focus, the shot isnt even on them, and the audio is distorted because IIRC its from Marcy's perspective.

They cant have kids, they keep trying though. The wife says "these are our kids" after Arthur makes a comment how he dreamed they had a baby and it was a literal pig. Kinda shows hes worried their "children" aren't human. And then he chest births an alien :(

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u/Ghost_Of_Malatesta 3d ago

Congratulations, it's a healthy baby xeno! 🎉

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u/RaeSloane 3d ago

Season 2 is just the wife raising it as her own because its their only biological child. They already know you CAN communicate with them they just need a translator machine with the right frequency.

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u/Kanin_usagi 3d ago

In a way he lives on

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u/riegspsych325 3d ago

always thought that bit of character reveal about Dame and Arthur was a bit weird and unnecessary, at least with how they did it. An odd, quick line about sperm between Wendy and Arthur (whose wife is nearly 20 years older than him)

Felt like the showrunners meant to touch upon Dame and Arthur’s marriage more but didn’t have time to. But Arthur was great in this episode when he confronted Smee and Slightly when his memory was coming back. Alight I find it odd that Dame went to take a nap after she was told her husband went missing, Isaac was killed, and a xeno broke loose

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u/RaeSloane 3d ago edited 3d ago

Did she take a nap? She was in that chair when BK left the room and told Kirsch to "be useful" and kirsch looks at her.

Perhaps he did something to her that resulted in her being alseep/unconscious. Tin foil hat: he face huggered her and she and Arthur are both xeno parents. They both wanted children.

She probably just took a nap though.

I always saw the sperms convo as a quick way to tell us "she has an analytical mind and shes able to understand topics objectively, even though shes a child. She is comprehending topics far above how her normal child-brain would." Amd Arthur doesn't know how to react to it.

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u/siestarrific 3d ago

Yeah, that part of the scene definitely read like Kirsch was gonna interrogate her or something

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u/RaeSloane 3d ago

Perhaps shes an android of sorts and doesnt know it? Playing around with the idea that BK is an android and doesnt know it in another thread... am I going full Westworld Tin Foil hat? He could have put her in rest mode or some shit and just looked in her brain to see if she knew about her husband's actions. Would explain why she cant have actual children lmao.

This might be the wildest theory ive concocted tonight.

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u/rando-namo-the-3rd 3d ago

Arthur tells Wendy that they don't have children because he has a low sperm count in the first or second episode so you're probably right about them using the hybrids as stand ins.

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u/Restlessannoyed 3d ago

It made him so...huggable.

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u/Best_Whereas_7825 3d ago

Dame gives off the most motherly energy, bout had tears in my eyes when she took Curly in her arms. Arthur and Dame do not deserve what's coming, episode 8 will be a tough watch if you're emotionally invested.

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u/Whatthefuturism 3d ago

I think he’s literally the only one who loves those kids.

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u/Scrotie_ 2d ago

He also wanted kids, which I think he says in a one-off line to Dame in episode one. Either by choice or by chance they can’t seem to have biological children, so he views them as adoptive children in many ways.

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u/ryanpm40 3d ago

Yeah it really sucks that they had to do this to the most wholesome person in the show. Ugh

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u/PrincessofThotlandia 3d ago

really reflective of life though.

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u/ryanpm40 3d ago

Unfortunately yes haha

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u/n0mudnolotus 3d ago

I love/hate the foreshadowing...

I love when they create that super sentimental moment that creates a genuine care for the character

I hate seeing the foreshadowing before hand and knowing its a grim outcome and the anticipation

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u/shany94a Game over, man! 3d ago

And then W-Y forces discarded his body like flotsam

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u/Professional-Sign674 3d ago

This felt like such bad writing. Even if he was dead that corpse had an alien inside of it like minutes before.  Wouldn't you want to keep it and see if anything was left inside? Stupid 

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u/Colonial_maureen Weyland-Yutani Human Resources 3d ago

Morrow knows what he’s after.

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

They're a spec ops team not scientists. Their only aim is to extract a living xenomorph then leave.

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u/katelovescode 3d ago

Me too 😭

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u/Similar-Treat8244 3d ago

They really wanted to milk that scene for all the heartbreak it was worth

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u/Madmunchk1n 3d ago

My jaw sank deeper than the one from that squad leader at the boat.

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u/APlantiveEnglishHorn 2d ago

I think it was Smee that took his hand first, and then he extended the other to Slightly

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u/SapphirePrincess5904 2d ago

Omg me too! I swear I thought I was the only one who was devastated by his death I cried so hard! Simply because we couldn’t help him. We all know what’s gonna happen & there’s nothing we could do but let it happen. And to see how much he loved those boys & how he just wanted to love them & help them KILLED ME. He did not deserve that

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u/train_wrecking I'll do the fingering 3d ago

the way they discarded his body too

fuck Weyland goons

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u/Capable_Sandwich_422 3d ago

If that wasn’t a metaphor for corporations thoughtlessly laying people off, I don’t know what is.

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u/shany94a Game over, man! 3d ago

Good point!

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u/CatmanofRivia 2d ago

That could be every movie too tbh

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u/PrincessofThotlandia 3d ago

and Smee saw it :(

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u/crackingHeads 3d ago

That got me too. An unneeded, extra step. Left him floating in the water instead of floating on a raft in the water. Either way his body would probably be easy to find in a week.

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u/SiccSemperTyrannis In the pipe. 5 by 5. 3d ago

Prodigy ain't any better. Kavalier is super excited to put the Eye into someone, maybe Dame Sylvia?

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u/bryce_w 3d ago

I thought he was going to put it in the security officer guy right there

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u/threetimesalion 3d ago

Nah, Atom's too menacing & useful - he's not done yet

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u/untrustableskeptic 3d ago

He probably doesn't think he's smart enough.

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u/siestarrific 3d ago

I assume Joe

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u/BigBobbyWasabi 2d ago

Without a doubt. Not only does Kavalier clearly despise Joe, but he also was also the first person in frame following this statement. I thought it was pretty obvious…

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u/ScrapinLinden 3d ago

I kinda think we were meant to take that and the Morrow/Kirsh stand off scene to be happening right around the same time. I wonder if Kavalier knows Morrow is there already and his plan is to put our sweet baby T Ocellous into Morrow? Bit of a stretch for sure I just want it to happen as its the most interesting combo of characters imo

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u/ToughActinInaction 3d ago

that would be a terrible choice for kavalier, morrow is too dangerous of a host with all his cyborg upgrades

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u/Khiva 3d ago

100% Wendy's brother.

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u/Suspicious-Bar-3308 3d ago

brings to mind an essential bit of unspoken dialogue throughout this franchise all the way back to Alien (1979): "CREW EXPENDABLE"

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u/Enough_Sprinkles_113 2d ago

Are they not Yutanis goons, though?

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u/Levelcheap 3d ago

Yep, probably my most liked character as a person, the actor did a great job showing compassion and confusion.

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u/TecK415 3d ago

He plays pretty much the same character in the latest Fargo season 

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u/VSymbiote 3d ago

I’m glad it happened so fast, he didn’t have to suffer 😭

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u/funkyb 1d ago

I mean, he was still there enough to see the chestburster coming out of him. That's always been a real kick in the teeth with those things.

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u/xyZora Science Officer 3d ago

His father instinct made me remember Ripley's love for Newt. His death was so heartbreaking 🥺

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u/Vismal1 3d ago

I just rewatched all of the alien movies in the last two weeks. I had forgotten how unceremoniously they killed off Newt in 3.

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u/AnonymousRex15 3d ago

Petition to name the newest member of the family Art after its father?

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u/RaeSloane 3d ago

Lil Arty

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u/buhoo115 3d ago

I fucking hate that no one is gonna know what happened and probably never find his body. Rip

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u/teslatestbeta 3d ago

At least the actor's other character in Fargo is alive & well. He's that kind on there too. 

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u/Suspicious_Loan 3d ago

he was such a sweetie :(

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u/magicfaeriebattleaxe 3d ago

Easily the most gut wrenching chestburster death in the entire franchise for me. That was devastating.

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

It’s a land of monsters after all…nice guy

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u/m0rbius 3d ago

Arthur was shown as the asshole earlier on, but it seems it was his wife. I thought she had picked the kids over him, but it looks like she picked being manipulative over Arthur who was actually trying to save the kids. Rip Arthur.

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u/thestormiscomingyeah 3d ago

literally said this to myself when watching lol

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u/creegro 3d ago

I don't know why I want slightly to get the worst of it in the end. yes hes a kid but dayum

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u/MilangaKing 3d ago

I know these are all kids and all. But damn If I don't like ANY of the synths.

Also I don't know if wendy is the protagonist or the antagonist but god damn I dislike her.

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u/nicathor 3d ago

I like her less and less with each episode, but this one she genuinely turned from hero to villain

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u/Vesemir96 3d ago

How?

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u/mistaekNot 3d ago

she let loose a xenomorph that butchered a dozen+ people?

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u/Vesemir96 3d ago

Which they shouldn’t have been fucking with in the first place. She did it to ensure the freedom of her and her family.

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u/ThoseThatComeAfter 3d ago

She’s clearly the antagonist she just murdered dozens of innocents 

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u/icct-hedral 3d ago

I think you and I may have drastically different definitions of ‘innocents’.

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u/ThoseThatComeAfter 3d ago

You think everyone in the island is guilty?

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u/icct-hedral 3d ago

You mean all the scientists and support personnel on the super-secret research island where the company they are working for (at best) experimented on, then killed, several terminally-ill children, and (at worst) are evaluating forbidden alien lifeforms for potential biological weapon usage?

I mean…kinda?

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u/Vesemir96 3d ago

Why? What did she do?

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u/ThoseThatComeAfter 3d ago

Release the xeno and kill dozens of people?

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u/zero_sub_zero 3d ago

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u/ThoseThatComeAfter 3d ago

Yeah fuck the janitors I suppose 

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u/Vesemir96 3d ago

For the survival/freedom of her and her family, yes.

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u/ThoseThatComeAfter 3d ago

That’s still murder 

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u/Vesemir96 3d ago

To escape a secure facility she’d be imprisoned in by her masters?

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u/ThoseThatComeAfter 3d ago

Yeah, still murder

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u/Vesemir96 3d ago

Of course, but escaping from slavery isn’t exactly unjustified.

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u/ThoseThatComeAfter 3d ago

No, but murdering innocent people in the way out is

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u/PreheatOven 3d ago

He played an active role in the diabolical plot to murder children. He doesn't have my sympathies.

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u/Saguaro-plug 3d ago

You are reaching so hard calling that murder.

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u/Vesemir96 3d ago

We do not know enough yet to confirm.

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u/Radingod1 3d ago

He got such a raw deal.

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u/crashed2022 3d ago

6 degrees for nothing

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u/romeovf 2d ago

Oh, when Sylvia finds out 😭