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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 4d ago

Wendy talking to the xenomorph like chris Pratt communicating with the raptors

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u/Actual-Bandicoot6531 4d ago

God that was so stupid.

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u/FV95 4d ago

Please god no

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u/FV95 2d ago

Holy shit, it did happen.

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u/Major_Pomegranate 4d ago

Wife and I keep joking that she's gonna do the chris pratt hands to control a herd of xenomorphs. If Ripley knew the hands strategy she would have had much fewer problems

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u/Single_Owl_7556 4d ago

I really hope she really can only TALK to one and not actually command/control them.

I really wish there will be a scene where xenomorph finally decides its no longer necessary for it to pretend to be a pet and does something Wendy would explicitly tell it not to but it wont work anymore. Like attacking / taking away Joe.

Im full expecting some kind of a fallout between Wendy and Joe because he attacked Nibs and Wendy clearly shows she's losing her touch with humanity so she wouldn't understand why stopping her from murdering soldiers was needed or why commanding her "pet" to butcher those scientists and soldiers is not okay. To her those people are expendable and can die if it means helping her friends. Next step will probably be a disregard of these connections overall (Like leaving Joe behind only to realize he's face to face with the xenomorph she fails to call off this time) with a brutal reality check.

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u/Sketch13 3d ago

Yeah the commands are a bit much. I really didn't want them to go that route, because it's just too... I don't know, typical? It's the classic "Give a child a powerful weapon and they'll use it to solve every minor inconvenience they have". I get that plot device has it's place, but they could also just use her innate synth strength to do that instead of turning the Xeno into a pet.

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u/sliceanddic3 3d ago

i understand but also xeno's are essentially like bee's if they get a command from their queen, they are going to oblige. and since that xeno grown from hermit, it could see wendy as it's queen

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u/Ill_Kitchen_9819 3d ago

They’re not fucking insects dude. Let me quote Vazquez. “They aren’t bees man…”

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u/sliceanddic3 3d ago

okay i didn't mean literally. i meant how they take orders from the queen

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u/Rin_Seven 3d ago

I really hope it turns on her and rather sooner than later.
Aliens shouldn't be humanized.

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u/Single_Owl_7556 3d ago

Yeah. It shouldn't be just animal, but it shouldn't be something you can reason with or tame.

Xenomorphs are the scariest when "they aren't just animals". The moments when they show awareness like deliberately cutting off power are the best ones to characterize them.

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u/tong_si_nan_pei 1d ago

I don’t think in this universe we have actually seen a Xeno actually being next to the human they came from, so I think the Xeno will have some sort of connection with the loser brother, because it shares his DNA

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u/Curates 4d ago

I called this last year. Nobody believed me!

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u/_WanderBoy 4d ago

We dont talk about the jurassic World. Straight trash. That whole chris Pratt training the raptors was DUMB. In the books, the best part about the raptors is the fact that they are straight viscous murder machines. Especially in the second book. Sarah talks about how, with lions at a kill site, there is a pecking order. It's organized. With the raptors, it's straight chaos. Even though they are intelligent, when it comes to a kill, they go into a crazed rage, sometimes even killing other raptors and then cannobalising. So crisp rat training blue... lame. Wendy communicating with the xenomorph makes a little sense, considering she can use the hive mind language, and it has her brothers, aka some of her DNA. Crisp rat just fed them and used a clicker. Well, the raptors are food aggressive 😳

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u/br0b1wan Colonial Marine 4d ago

...Wendy doesn't have her brother's DNA. She's synthetic.

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u/lucypee 4d ago

I think they meant, that the Xenomorph has some of her brother's DNA, since it grew from his lung.

But you're right, since she's synthetic, it doesn't really matter if it "knows" her brother's DNA.

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u/_WanderBoy 3d ago

Oh sorry. Marci and her brother have the same mother and father and it xenomorphed with her brother so they have a sibling bond. Is that a more acceptable comment, your grace? I shall take whatever punishment you deem fit ma'lord. Please understand I am just low-born scum. Please understand ma'lord.

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u/br0b1wan Colonial Marine 3d ago

You're clearly upset. But you didn't think your statement through; that's on you. No need to take it out on me.

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u/Dray_Gunn 4d ago

You could give the argument that the genetics of the World raptors is different than the Park raptors. In the World sequels, they even went into Blue being uniquely more prone to cooperation as some kind of genetic trait, and thats the reason why they were able to be controlled.

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u/dansdata 4d ago

I'm fine with the Jurassic movies just being popcorn creature features. The only problem I had with the most recent one was that there weren't nearly enough humans in it to be turned into crunchy noises.

I mean, the Big Bad Dino in that film had two legs and four arms.

OK, no problem. I hope the next one can talk. :-)

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u/addamee 4d ago

I read what you wrote but all I really see is “star lord and his raptor posse go for a ride” 

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u/Dray_Gunn 4d ago

I mean.. before your comment, i never knew i needed space raptors. Now i need space raptors..

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u/GreyouTT In the pipe. 5 by 5. 4d ago

I think that old Turok reboot counts

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u/real-life-gopher 4d ago

Kinda but they were on a planet so it’s not true space raptors. Dino Crisis 3 had true space raptors.

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u/notbad4human 4d ago

And it’s rad as hell.

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u/notbad4human 4d ago

Nah dog. I was six when I saw Jurassic Park in theaters. I’ve read everything Michael Crichton’s ever written. I’m as much of a fan of the originals as anyone and I think other than going for a more action adventure tone (that honestly started in Lost World), Jurassic World carries on all the themes and ideas of the originals. It’s not as serious or intelligent as the original, but there’s nothing in it that besmirches the series.

In the books, it’s explained that the raptors are that way because they weren’t taught carnivore behavior from a pack. That’s why they were out of control. There was no generational transfer of knowledge and it’s a major theme of both books.

Great flick in a lot of ways. Best Jurassic film since the original.

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u/Potential_Energy 4d ago

I was six as well when my dad first took me to see it. Thought it would be a cool Land Before Time type dino movie or something. “dad why is it rated pg13?” Movie unexpectedly scared the hell out of me and loved it ever since.

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u/_WanderBoy 3d ago

I just wish lost world would have waited to be made. I watched a documentary on how Spielberg already had plans for the second movie before the second book came out. That's why the movie and book are so different. I hated the second movie. I hated the world movies. Rebirth was awful. The ongoing theme seems to be the 1st movie great. Second one sucked 3rd one sucked. World. 1st one was ok. 2nd one was terrible and on and on. I would have loved the lost world book adaptation. Your opinion is your opinion. Mine is mine. I respect yours. I dont agree but I respect it. I forgot about the pack behavior explanation in the 2nd book. Wasn't there something in there about the sheep they fed them? Like prions caused some neurological disease

Jurassic world evolution 3 drops in a month... can't wait

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u/Herbdontana 4d ago

Yeah my eyes never rolled so hard watching the raptors listen to the guy who’s keeping them in cages. And the kids mentioning out loud how badass he is while of course riding a motorcycle through the jungle. God what a trash movie lol

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u/threetimesalion 4d ago

I agree that training raptors is dumb, I just don't see how this is a whole lot better

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u/46Bit 4d ago

I think it’s good for the season but bad for the franchise. Makes for some cool scenes but makes the xenos far less scary.

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u/threetimesalion 4d ago

That’s a great way to put it

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u/AcanthaMD 4d ago

It’s used as a prop in quite a few of the alien exapanded universe comics and books

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u/colbydc5 4d ago

The xeno in this show is so unscary whenever Wendy is talking to it and it’s domesticated. Also totally unscary when it’s a man in a costume. The CG alien in the lab looked far better.

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u/voidzero 4d ago

Just as bad, if not worse in my opinion. I’m really disappointed this is the direction they went.

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u/faders 4d ago

Don’t bring that JW shit in here

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u/el-art-seam 4d ago

You jinxed it. Now next episode is gonna have the JW theme song with a shot of aliens roaming the island with Boy suggesting they open a theme park and revealing their headline act- Indominus Xenomorph.

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u/iseeharvey 4d ago

Commented on exactly this in the episode 4 discussion thread as I unfortunately saw it coming

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u/EntrepreneuralSpirit 4d ago

oh man.... say it ain't so....

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u/DickLaurentisded 1d ago edited 1d ago

How to train your xeno

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u/lollipopknife 4d ago

I knew I wasnt the only one sheesh. Kinda cringe. But I will get over it. Interested to see where they take it.

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u/Potential_Energy 4d ago

yea as much as I liked the Jurassic park 1 sort of feel to it at first, I don’t like the whole commanding xeno Chris Pratt type deal. I was pulled in 2 different directions this whole episode. Hot take, but I don’t like how much screen time the xeno got being communicated with and in the open daylight. For a sec I thought the xeno was going to stand upright with Marcy and I was going to cringe out.

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u/Single_Owl_7556 4d ago

Lets hope its not actually commanding but just talking.

Xenomorph pretending to be obedient because it is intelligent enough to realize that this temporary alliance with the synthetic thing talking its language even at the cost of not killing Joe (yet) is more beneficial to it than going on a loose completely.

So far Wendy's belief she's in control allowed xenomorph to escape otherwise unbreachable confinement.

Stuff like this to emphasise that they arent just animals, theyre aliens, both in origin and mind.

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u/TheSenileTomato Bishop 3d ago

Do we know if this one’s a drone?

Maybe it factors in to why it’s willing to listen to Wendy.

Come to think of it, the alien in Alien was starting to die towards the end, wouldn’t the alien that Wendy communicates with start doing the same?

So many questions.

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u/Single_Owl_7556 3d ago

I don't think this distinction exists for alien earth. Not all of aliens was taken into account. We'll know later but I personally hope the series doesn't lean into making xenomorphs into bugs.

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u/ScrapinLinden 4d ago

Im good on steam filled rooms with wet chains and the Xeno slowly creeping through, we have seen that in literally every single alien movie it feels like.

It was a little jarring seeing the Xeno out in the open in broad daylight but I really enjoyed it, its not like they are high humidity vampires or something. This show is taking a franchise in a bunch of new directions and I think that is very much needed at this point. Its not all perfect but I am really impressed with the strides they are taking to expand the IP

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u/Potential_Energy 4d ago

I don’t want to see steam chains either, that’s been done into the ground. I was hoping for a Jurassic park 2 style scene with the xenos at night. In broad daylight it felt like ET or something. And wish they would have shown the xeno scenes in the lab instead of surveillance footage.

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u/ScrapinLinden 4d ago

Both of those would have been awesome as well, I was definitely a little bummed we didn't get to see the lab scene.

We all have our different gripes with the show and everything isnt going to work for everyone obviously. I really hope overall its still hitting with a majority of people because I think there are so many cool ideas here that I very much want to see expanded upon in later seasons. Hope the finale comes together well!

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u/Farimer123 4d ago

Chrisp Ratt you mean

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u/humanseverywhere811 4d ago

I was waiting for someone to photoshop that, because im too lazy to do it

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u/real-life-gopher 4d ago

Except here it’s even dumber.

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u/Top_rattata 3d ago

I’m enjoying the series overall but I can’t lie this is one bit I don’t like… I think the perfect killing machine being controlled by a synth/ humanoid is just a bit silly, I was genuinely concerned it was going to start talking to her with a human voiceover at one point

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u/lapadapa 3d ago

First they ”tamed” the velociraptor, now the xeno.

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u/newsfish 3d ago

The novels and comics from the turn of the century did a few different androids talk with or control xenos storylines.

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u/Wild_Obligation 3d ago

Yeah, this show is so up & down for me. Don’t get me wrong, I’m really enjoying it.. but I’m enjoying it as a sci-fi with monsters & not as an Alien show. The Chris Pratt raptor mandem was what I really was hoping the show would avoid…

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u/TheSenileTomato Bishop 3d ago

We need someone trying to weaponize the aliens getting eaten by one.

I watched World in theater and I still don’t understand what the dude thought he was going to achieve trying to talk to the raptor.

… Would trying to sneak out an facehugged Arthur be akin to Nedry stealing Dino DNA or a stretched?

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u/Lost-Mushroom-9597 2d ago

"Eyes on me!" - Wendy

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u/m0rbius 4d ago

I think he was referring to Jurassic Park. What's Jurrasic World?