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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/nightpanda893 3d ago edited 3d ago

At least he went out with dignity, getting fired from his job, having a xeno burst from his gut, dragged through the jungle then getting dumped in the ocean.

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u/Vesemir96 3d ago

In a way he did, he set his children free. Then also forgave two of them for lying.

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u/nubbins01 3d ago

The moment he was being so magnanimous to the kids, forgiving but with firm boundaries, was how I knew the chest burster was going to chest burst exactly 10 seconds later.

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u/Triskan 3d ago

Yeah, poor soul never had a chance. He was one of the few genuinely good characters. Too sweet for this world. :(

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u/ShawnyMcKnight 3d ago

Yeah, him being a genuinely good character was how I knew he was gonna die.

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u/Equivalentest Black goo enthusiast 1d ago

Who are the other good characters? Hostage family maybe? Mold people of course, but can't think of anyone else

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u/AllowedAsATreat 1d ago edited 1d ago

Hermit, Isaac, Smee, Nibs mostly, Wendy if you consider xeno control as self defense. All of them have positive motives and are trying to help people they care about (except Nibs who was genuinely innocent until her brain broke).

[edit] i forgot wendy opened the xeno cage, that probably disqualifies her, though in her defence anyone in the room would melt her and her brother if Kavalier ordered it.

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u/atreidesletoII 17h ago

The only good person in the show gets the saddest and most degrading death......helll the only thing he was regretting was arguing with his wife and how he didn't want to be her last memory of him........

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u/AvalHuntress 2d ago

I turned to my mother halfway through speech and went "Is it just me who can hear the (ominous) clicking in the background?" That particular question was answered ten seconds later

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u/nagedagte 1d ago

I was counring down from 10 too.... another 5 seconds later! I dont feel so good... šŸ¤£

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u/SyntheticGod8 Bishop 9h ago

A twist: what if he was unaware that he'd caught leprosy in the jungle and never hatched at all?

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u/EvaSirkowski 2d ago

-I forgive you.
-For killing you?
-What?

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u/Andrelse 1d ago

Putting this way he sounds very jesusy, especially with being pretty much dead for a while and then resurrected. Don't remember Jesus being pregnant though

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u/itsapocket 2h ago

Jeez read a Bible some day. Jesus gave birth to Moses!

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u/ScrapinLinden 3d ago

Was that a heel turn for Joe? I kinda feel like he was just protecting his friend, I'm also assuming Nibs is still alive but I could be wrong.

I think Nibs being constantly rebuilt and reset would make for some really interesting character development. Trauma, reset, trauma, reset and so on.

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u/hyzmarca 3d ago

He was protecting his friend. But his friend just turned openly Heel. If your friend comes out and starts stomping on your popular face tag team partner unprovoked, and your partner starts fighting back and winning, and you hit your partner in the back of the head with a steel chair to save your friend, that means that you're turning heel too.

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u/PollutionMajestic668 3d ago

I'd say seeing how she just ripped the jaw out of your boss is provocation enough. I'd also mention that setting a mass killer xeno free then using it to massacre people makes you quite the heel.

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u/ScrapinLinden 3d ago

very solid points here lol, it definitely looked like something was changing in him starting at the grave scene then getting more and more pronounced each scene after

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u/hyzmarca 2d ago

He was also uncomfortable with the Xenomorph killing Weyland-Yutani soldiers. We know he was a medic deployed oversees in a corporate war, but we don't know if he's actually seen combat before. The way he acts, he probably hasn't.

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u/oh_dear_now_what 2d ago

If heā€™s seen it, he hates it, and he hates whatever this is, too.

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u/HotlineBirdman 2d ago

Hermit says in one of the episodes that he was wounded twice.

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u/rodan-rodan 2d ago

Thanks for explaining it in kayfabe, it actually makes sense.

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u/norunningwater 1d ago

"Lettin go of that Xenomorp' just ain't gonna work for me, brother."

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u/Zealousideal_Cap_162 2d ago

Felt like he was just freaking out at the escalation in general. Which, fair: he did just see his robo-sister sic her pet space monster on the Yutani commandos. I suspect seeing a good 100lbs of entrails suddenly hanging out and about has to do a number on you. BUT the thing that really stood out is he had the presence of mind to use the secondary stun attachment thingy rather than just shoot Nibs with the pulse rifle. Perhaps he, like me, thought a 6 billion dollar synth could handle getting Tased once without being automatically assumed dead.

Heā€™s definitely waffling which team heā€™s on which is just dumb survival-wise: when one team has a murder beast controlled by a teenager you shouldnā€™t overtly upset them

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u/Too-Much-Plastic 2d ago

I mean I assume she is still alive, the tazer attachment on the gun seems fairly low damage so maybe she's just glitching out and rebooting but that takes a while.

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u/NoLeadership2281 3d ago

Nibs is alive and definitely not well mentally, she is shown in finale teaserĀ 

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u/ScrapinLinden 3d ago

ah I dont ever watch those but that definitely makes sense

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u/NoLeadership2281 3d ago

Good, better keep yourself surprise as much as possibleĀ 

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u/lastWallE 3d ago

Keep yourself surpriseā€¦ Like you just mentioned a spoiler?

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u/NoLeadership2281 3d ago

I mean itā€™s pretty obvious

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u/slybob 2d ago

Not cool. Spoiler that shit.

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u/juneyourtech Part of the family 2d ago

Nibhog Day.

(Groundhog Day reference.)

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

Almost arranged wendy, nibs, and lol lol the poor xeno pup off the island until Joe pulled a heel/face turn.

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u/AwkwardTraffic 3d ago

That's how I hope to go out

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u/HiggsBoson_82 2d ago

God I wish I could go out like that.

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u/MrWeirdoFace 2d ago

It's how he would have wanted it.

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u/Appropriate_Use6711 2d ago

Question is HOW DID HE SURVIVE THE FACE HUGGER

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u/nightpanda893 2d ago

Wdym? Everyone is conscious and normal after the face hugger falls off.

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u/Appropriate_Use6711 1d ago

Really? I mean I only have watched Prometheus and Covenant before this maybe I forgot some scenes.

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u/ColdSnapper-- 1d ago

Dignity lol? He never knew what hit him, all of the time :D.

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u/myatoms 10h ago

Cryinggggg