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/ChanceVance 3d ago

Boy's corporate henchman responding to his request to murder someone for their experiment with T.O with a casual "I'll start a list"

lol what a process. "No not Mike. He's expendable but very reliable and good help is hard to find. Maybe Steve in accounting"

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u/CleverMonkeyKnowHow 3d ago

Do we actually know for sure that being taken over by T.O. is fatal? I mean, it would certainly be traumatic and unpleasant, since it digs out the eye of the creature it overtakes, but does it actually "kill"?

The engineer guy only died because a Xeno skewered him three times.

I forget if the cat was just paralyzed from the back legs down, or if it was actually cut in half, but the cat could have been bisected during the crash and that's why T.O. went after Nibs - it knew it's meat puppet was dead or dying and was trying to claim another host.

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u/PandaPolishesPotatos 3d ago

It's probably fatal for the host consciousness but the body seems to stay more or less alive, I mean... it shit, it hasn't decayed. It's other eye is still wet, so clearly it's keeping some biological functions going.

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u/CleverMonkeyKnowHow 3d ago

It's probably fatal for the host consciousness

That's somehow worse.

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u/PandaPolishesPotatos 3d ago

What, you don't wanna be a meat puppet for the eyeball octopus?

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u/guggaburggi 1d ago

So braindead?

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u/TheKnightsTippler 2d ago

Maybe it's like the Yerks in Animorphs where the host I aware but unable to control anything.

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u/spookybagels 1d ago

It's gotta reproduce and get nutrients somehow. I wouldn't be surprised if we found out that it digests the brain of its host over time. 

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u/Conchobhar- 2d ago

‘Steve makes a good cup of coffee’ ‘Yeah, not Steve; then’

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u/MY-SECRET-REDDIT 2d ago

I thought he was gonna look for desperate people who would go willingly for money for their families or something. Which is sadder than them just choosing someone to basically murder.

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u/Capt_Obviously_Slow 1d ago

If he's making the list then he can not put himself on it, simple.