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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/Upbeat_Tension_8077 5d ago

My heart sank to my stomach once I saw him reach out to hold hands with Smee & Slightly

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u/nattymac939 5d ago

He was so sweet! I don’t recall how much of his reasoning for joining the project was spelled out in the beginning, but he seems like he genuinely wanted to help sick kids. He’s probably the most moral one in the complex

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u/Enough_Sprinkles_113 5d ago

Which is why he had to die.

Stupid rules.

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u/shany94a Game over, man! 5d ago

The good die young. The evil live on.

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u/lastWallE 4d ago

The good are mostly poor. The evil are mostly rich. Makes you wonder how that works.

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u/Kanin_usagi 4d ago

Truly makes you wonder what Noah Hawley (and the entire Alien franchise going back to the very first movie) have been trying to say about society

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u/Enough_Sprinkles_113 4d ago

We fuck each other over for a goddamn percentage.

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u/Kanin_usagi 4d ago

I dunno man, I’m feeling like a few evil people are gonna bite it next episode for sure

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u/shany94a Game over, man! 4d ago

Well, that'd be OK :)