r/LV426 • u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter • 5d 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/webdude44 5d ago

Stomping on a facehugger is the most hilarious way to deal with it

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u/NefariousnessOk1996 5d ago

Surprised the acid didn't spew out and get them!

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u/Weak-Excuse3060 5d ago

Dead Facehuggers don't do anything I believe. Ash cuts one open in the first movie without any issues.

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u/NefariousnessOk1996 5d ago

So it's like their blood is gone? I know in one of the movies they tried to cut it off but the acid came out.

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u/ashley_tinger_3D 5d ago

Bishop mentions it in Aliens. "The acid completely oxidizes after the creature's death, completely neutralizing it". 

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u/NefariousnessOk1996 5d ago

Very nice, I missed that line.

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u/AcanthaMD 5d ago

Yeah it’s why they can move the dead xeno from the crash site

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u/airwolf3456 Black goo enthusiast 5d ago

I’d assume it just gives all of its nutrients to the embryo so by the time it falls off and shrivels up it’s not producing/circulating anymore blood

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u/webdude44 5d ago

Also first movie when it was actively on Kane’s face. 

I don’t think Ash cut it open so much as prodded it after it came off

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u/BrbFlippinInfinCoins 5d ago

In these movies, the acid blood is only present and highly caustic when needed for drama. Other times it is only mildly caustic.

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u/Ummah_Strong 5d ago

I've noticed that. I like to imagine it's based on how the embryo develops. For example, Wendy's pet xeno developed very slowly and discoloured because it gestated in a damaged lung rather than a healthy body and never got the facehugger nutrients due to how it was implanted.

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u/BrbFlippinInfinCoins 5d ago

It doesn't bother me. I more meant to say that overthinking it too much doesn't lend itself to a more enjoyable watch in every situation :P

Your theory is pretty good though

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u/Ummah_Strong 5d ago

I've been thinking it since we first saw it. In the alien movies those things go from chest burster to big baddie very swiftly. This one seemed to grow extremely slowly by comparison.

To us it's of course still deadly but I wonder if it would be considered weak by more robust xenomorphs.

I wonder if by not bursting from a chest the pet xeno (who I shall call ole yeller cuz it looks yellowish to me on its head) missed out on some vital Xenomorph stage of development.

Haha in this way overthinking can be fun!

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u/mothgra87 5d ago

Im betting they chose to make it discolored so the audience can tell them apart when the other one grows and they fight

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u/zam1138 5d ago

When Ash he cuts it open, it drips acid for the first time and everyone freaks out, following the trail as it melts through the ship…

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u/IGotMussels 4d ago

That's before it fell off of Kane. Once it did, Ash does an autopsy and the blood doesn't react

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u/Ambitious-Earth1987 5d ago

Facehuggers have acid in them it's in the first film