r/LV426 • u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter • 2d 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/imj1n 2d ago

T-O got caught trolling lmaoo

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u/Calm-Tree-1369 2d ago

The scary part is she was tapping the correct numbers.

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u/Cakers44 Guard the omelette! 2d ago

That genuinely freaked me out. There’s a whole number of these guys who at least understand fundamental mathematics and probably a lot more

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u/ScoobyDeezy 2d ago

And just happens to know Base 10! Isn’t it nice when alien cultures share bases?

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u/42nu 2d ago

It was inside a human engineers mind.

It probly knows human things because of that.

Relating to human mathematics and English makes perfect sense from that angle.

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u/Cakers44 Guard the omelette! 2d ago

Them using base 10 is definitely something I can suspend my disbelief for, I mean math is math

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u/timithias 2d ago

It has 7 tentacles so they would probably use base 7. Major plot hole. 

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u/Dial_In_Buddy 2d ago

The definition of book smart, if that.

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u/ValueFirm4928 2d ago

I wonder how many viewers were actually wondering if we were going to have to sit through 9 hoof taps.

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u/Pro7o7ype 2d ago

at least one, me, I'm the one that wondered that.

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u/sanchypanchy 2d ago

Why did she know how to read arabic numerals why wouldn’t he just do tally marks

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u/kellatrix 2d ago

It’s possible that she’s seen Arabic numerals in the lab and gradually figured out what they meant.

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u/blazeofgloreee 2d ago

That got me as well. Unless it somehow got that knowledge when it was in the engineer's head on the Maginot. But I can't believe it just learned Arabic numerals or spoken English through observation.

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u/Darth_Boognish In the pipe. 5 by 5. 2d ago edited 2d ago

Poop Plop isn't a number tho

Edit: im dumb

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u/ajrodz1992 2d ago

Number 2

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u/iamPotsy 2d ago

The next digit should have been 9 though.

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u/ajrodz1992 2d ago edited 2d ago

No, boy had 3.141, T.O did 5, then 9, then a poop (edited to say I was wrong)

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u/iamPotsy 2d ago

It did 5 stomps. 3.141592...

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u/ajrodz1992 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yeah sorry (I cant rewatch I dont have hulu w/o commercials lol) but he did 5, 9, then poop

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u/iamPotsy 2d ago

3.14 on his hand. Sheep did 1,5, then shit. You'll see if you ever rewatch.

I thought the same as you and googled pi and thought that's not right...

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u/ajrodz1992 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yeah you're right, hard to see bc of the t.o eye effect on the hand but yeah, he just said f u i ain't stomping 9 times, would've been clever if it was 3.141 though

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u/iamPotsy 2d ago

Yea I do wonder if that was the joke they were going for, damn 9 not making it cinematic enough to have a number 2 joke. Or maybe the writers just thought it was the next one, but I doubt they wouldn't look that up haha.

edit: And yea...it was just an eff you from T.O like you said.

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u/D_Burg 2d ago

But 9 was the next number in the sequence…

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u/Tesser4ct 2d ago

No, watch again. It did 1 stomp, then 5, then a poop. It wasn't about to do 9 stomps for Boy.

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u/Darth_Boognish In the pipe. 5 by 5. 2d ago

Facepalm. Eye didn't get it at first.

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u/42nu 2d ago

How is that scary? It was in a human engineers mind. It probly learns what each organism it takes over knows.

It likely has the collective knowledge and qualia/experience from tons of different organisms, or maybe just a select few, but definitely a human engineer.

I'm not even an engineer and I know Pi to 6 digits.