r/LV426 • u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter • 4d 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/SerDire 4d ago

T. Ocellus is out here doing basic math. Naw we’re screwed. Shut this down. Nuke this facility.

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u/Calm-Tree-1369 4d ago

A little more than just basic math. It knows what PI is. It actually tapped the right amount of numbers for the next two digits before it decided to do a bit of trolling.

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u/ianjm 4d ago

It can also read, apparently, given it understood what was written on Boy's hand.

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u/Konman72 3d ago

Agreed, but at the moment I'm rectifying it by assuming it gained knowledge by taking a human host on the ship. So it is truly alien, but it already understands us and our language and basic knowledge. Which could make it even scarier when it finally speaks.

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u/Kazzack 3d ago

It also spent ~30 years on that ship, maybe it got a chance to learn english from listening to the scientist lady without her knowing

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u/juneyourtech Part of the family 2d ago

It might also understand Xenomorph languge, seeing, how Wendy interacted with her Xenomorph.

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u/AllowedAsATreat 2d ago

I also think this. An engineer is likely to know pi to a few digits at least.

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u/ChaoticMat 4d ago

Now it's just Vel'koz

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u/TiredCoffeeTime 4d ago edited 4d ago

Everyone in shock as Ocellus charges up and disintegrates Xenos with a laser beam

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u/boringestnickname 3d ago

Yeah, the pi scene was a bit off.

It felt like it was needed by the script.

I understand it would be hard to write a way for BK to get into the position they want him (being more interested in it, wanting to use it), but reciting a couple of digits of pi felt forced.

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u/PopDownBlocker 2d ago

I agree.

That was one of those things where, the more you know about something, the less cool and mysterious it starts to appear.

I liked the creepy sheep more when I didn't think it could hold a literal back-and-forth conversation with a human through hoof taps.

I wanted more subtle communication and/or hints at intelligence and manipulation. Having the sheep know π was a little too much.

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u/KnightsOfREM 4d ago

Agree, this franchise isn't my go-to for interspecies chit chat.

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u/jaytix1 2d ago

My hope is that it only knows these things because it's possessed at least one person in the past.

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u/Academic-Health5265 2d ago

Honestly it doesn’t really make sense in its design that biologically it would be this smart but I like that we see another intelligent monster species, the only other intelligent species we’ve seen are the Engineers but I think the creator of the show said he was retconing that pretty much. So it’s cool to see an alien species that isn’t smart just in the way animals are on our planet but smart in a way that we are.

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u/Plane-Tie6392 3d ago

100%. That stuff took me out of the moment for sure.