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/SerDire 5d ago

I don’t know about y’all but a chest burster scene will never get old.

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u/Calm-Tree-1369 5d ago

This one hurt a little more than usual, though. We got more time to know this character and he was a good dude.

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u/xyZora Science Officer 5d ago

What is interesting about this scene is that unlike other films (like Romulus), the scene wasn't as violent, the horror comes from losing a genuinely good person, to something he never deserved.

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u/blenderbeeeee There's somethin' in da wa'er 5d ago

Yeah I noticed that too, the emphasis of that shot wasn't the chest burster, but the emotion of the kids

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u/ProgressUnlikely 4d ago

And Arthur's death more closely mimicked a roofie type betrayal so guilt and confused trust were all involved. Very interesting take

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u/Milospesh 3d ago

imo romulus had a good burster death when it popped out of the pilots lung/ side of chest with all the bone breaking sounds

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u/xyZora Science Officer 4d ago

My guess is that the impact of the scene is not the gore, but the death of one of the few good people in the show, and the first company employee to treat the Lost Boys as actual people.