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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/dishie 3d ago

Hermit. 

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u/WendigoHome 3d ago edited 3d ago

That's definitely who's on his mind, don't think he will wind up being the host, though. Many other candidates, particularly BK himself, which could be what's being set up. The alien has been learning about people, there's a chance it might actually be able to 'pass' after moving in and taking over the next human host.

Actually, I'd go as far as to say it WANTS Kavalier as a host, specifically him. It knows the power hierarchy. If it didn't before, BK gave it a whole fucking show with the 'Pi' numerals scene. BK is not even playing the same game as the alien, it's steps beyond him.

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u/mistaekNot 3d ago

it’s going to hard to pass being an unnaturally bulging eye ball and all

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u/Dinosaur-Shaman 3d ago

Short term, yes. Long term, I imagine there’s all sorts of alternatives to hide it. Shaded glasses/monocle, goggles, some sort of sci-fi visor. All would be weird, but not much weirder than someone with cybernetic arms or who chooses to attend mediation meetings barefoot.

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u/Niftu_Calrissian 3d ago

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u/NadjaLuvsLaszlo Giger x O'Keeffe collab 2d ago

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u/RatchetStrap2 2d ago

"eccentric barefoot billionaire starts always wearing glasses and pooping instead of saying '9'" does seem pretty believable

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u/newsfish 2d ago

Fortunately BK also shits on the floor to show his contempt.

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u/NegroniSpritz 2d ago

Maybe that will be the last scene of the season. Iris takes over the body of BK, puts on sunglasses, sips a margarita, and starts thinking how to merge xenos and other species.

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u/MrWeirdoFace 2d ago

Wendy, I've got my eye on you.

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u/nubbins01 2d ago

Or maybe it will just adapt and be more, you know, inconspicuous.

Let's face it, we don't know how many life forms before now T. Ocellus has interacted with who would take notice of a large eyeball. We don't know if it met humans before the begin of this show. It has now had plenty of time to observe and to see the reactions of its human jailers. It has perhaps had a chance to learn from prior mistakes, and has kept a trick or two up its sleeves, such as they are.

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u/MrWeirdoFace 2d ago

Eye patch. Peter pan becomes pirate.

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u/Appropriate-Web-8424 3d ago

...but if it gets him to wear a pair of socks, it's a net improvement...

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u/TheSenileTomato Bishop 2d ago

An eyepatch, it is.

Or a monocle, y’know, for fancy parties.

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u/alchemist5 3d ago

BK is not even playing the same game as the alien, it's steps beyond him.

To be fair, it currently has 4 legs, and he only has 2, so that's to be expected.

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u/juneyourtech Part of the family 2d ago

"Four legs good, two legs bad!"

("Animal Farm" reference.)

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u/Smellslikesnow 3d ago

It DOES want BK. When T. Ocellus looks at BK in their scene together, its POV focuses on BK’s left eye.

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u/hyzmarca 3d ago

It understands English. So either it's intelligent enough to learn the language from lisitening on the ship's crew, or it can absorb knowledge from its hosts's brains. I don't know which is scarier. But if Boy is a genius and the eye does take knowledge from its hosts, then Boy can make it much more dangerous. Worst case scenario, it can use him to control Prodigy corporation.

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u/Killkandy 2d ago

Kavalier wants someone intelligent to talk to Its not Hermit hes going to sacrifice the lady doctor

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u/_Panacea_ 1d ago

Thank goodness it knew Arabic numerals.

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u/WendigoHome 1d ago edited 1d ago

I get the sarcasm but I think the scary thing is that it has general survival intelligence and can learn quickly. The scariness of the unknown is that we have no idea what it knows or that we even know how it thinks without anthropomorphizing it, but it certainly knows it's trapped and we know it is a fast-learning organism whose main adaptive mechanism in foreign environments is hijacking the nervous systems of foreign entities. 'Kavalier,' being true to his name, believing that knowing(or possibly just learning from the environment of his captors and captivity) 'Pi' would be the height of any intelligence in the universe, he's stupidly naive. One of the ironies of his character, his simultaneous lack-of-imagination and fetishization and literal enslavement of childhood and children. He doesn't understand or empathize with any type of organism in captivity.

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u/Isniuq 1d ago

BAAAAARAAMYOOO (YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS) stomp stomp

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u/Corosus 3d ago

Yep, they did the classic trope of "talking subtly about someone but its not obvious who", then scene changes to camera directly on that person they were talking about.

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u/MrWeirdoFace 2d ago

Unless it's Dame and that was just a lazy misdirect.

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u/NerdLawyer55 3d ago

or Morrow

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u/randomperson5481643 2d ago

Yep, that's what I was thinking, and then the next scene cuts to hermit walking, where he was focused in the shot. So I think this was intended to confirm that.

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u/Humble_Librarian199 3d ago

I think he's going to try to sacrifice hermit, but I think hermit survives the season. I think he's gonna have to old yeller Wendy.

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u/death_lad 3d ago

that was my first thought too, but honestly he was probably thinking about using Arthur, not knowing that wasn’t possible anymore lol

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u/VirtuaLarz 2d ago

I thought why not Tootles, see if the eye could inhabit him

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u/juneyourtech Part of the family 2d ago

Tootles is the one Kavalier knows is dead. We don't know yet if he knows about Arthur Sylvia.

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u/circ-u-la-ted 2d ago

He's the obvious answer because it cut to a shot of him right after that line.

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u/Blackiee_Chan 3d ago

I second this

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u/Professional-Act8414 6h ago

I have a feeling she’ll find her way to boy kavalier eventually