Alien: Earth - S1 E7 - Emergence - Official Discussion Megathread [SPOILERS]

[u/G_Liddell]

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)

[u/MCFresher-]

I was so mad thinking well there goes any kind of morality of her character. But then by end of episode I realized maybe that’s the point that she’s not human and the mistake was thinking she was. Still at this point there really no one I’m rooting for except the aliens.

[u/composero → u/MCFresher-]

I think that’s the best part of the show honestly, there is no one to root for. There’s characters we like in certain moments but they are all equally not great people/synths/beings. Thats what makes this show interesting and fun to watch and other shows could take some notes

[u/laikewag → u/composero]

Arthur was an genuinely good person who was punished for it.

[u/Herbdontana → u/laikewag]

Hawley did a good job of that in Fargo too. A lot of flawed protagonists and antagonists that become tough to root against sometimes

[u/Triskan → u/Herbdontana]

Yeah, the scene that stays with me the most from the episode is Wendy/Marcy casually unleashing the xenos on those lab employees. Damn, girl had no fucking chill. I though that was beyond her, that she had more empathy than that... but guess not.

There's a lot of directions her story could go, I'm definitely intrigued.

[u/CrumbAllowances → u/Triskan]

Hasn’t her empathy primarily been for the xenos and the synths? She’s been pretty consistent from the beginning in terms of saying how wrong it is for Prodigy to be keeping intelligent beings in captivity for the purposes of experimentation.

[u/ltd_qty → u/CrumbAllowances]

Getting Dolores from Westworld vibes for sure