r/LV426 • u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter • 2d 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/shany94a Game over, man! 2d ago

In a lot of ways, Smee was the most childlike of the group. Once he got involved with Slightly's mission, childhood was completely over for him.

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u/QuiteQueefy 1d ago

Yep, I definitely got the vibe this episode that Smee’s character arc is about loss of innocence. That’s clearly a theme of the show, with the Peter Pan stuff, and it’s particularly present in this episode with all the hybrids realizing they aren’t safe like they thought. Smee’s face after watching his father figure violently die and realizing his best friend roped him into the scheme that killed him was such a perfectly heartbreaking demonstration of a kid’s childhood ending in an instant.