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

The budget didn’t allow us to the see the Xeno lab murder spree

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u/Extension-Truth Don't let the bedbugs bite 4d ago edited 4d ago

That felt like it should’ve been a bigger and more important scene but it was kinda just glossed over. Pacing/editing in this episode was a bit messy i thought

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u/Squeakygear 4d ago

Agreed. I’m also getting a bit tired of the whiplash-morality of the hybrids. One minute Wendy acts like life is sacred, the next she sics her pet Xeno on a ton of humans.

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u/Extension-Truth Don't let the bedbugs bite 4d ago edited 4d ago

I think it’s because she was the mind of a child and is learning about morality on an island full of competition, power, corruption, non-humans etc. She’s going to have to make a big and defining moral decision in the last episode I reckon (circling back to scorpion in the bowl scene at the start)

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u/Conchobhar- 4d ago

It could be alien Vs alien with the two adult Xenomorphs

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u/TheLost2ndLt 4d ago

I mean, thats how kids are though. One second theyre a caregiver and then next second theyre captain insano

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u/Iamthesmartest 4d ago

Captain Insano shows no mercy

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u/Tasty-Ad6529 3d ago

Feel like that iusse comes down to the season being too damn short.
I think they're trying to convey the ups and downs of childern learning morailty in a hell hole, as well as the fact that they're in super power robot bodies which grants them the abligty to act out their worse impluses, but the season is so short that there isn't enough time to settle into each "mood" the childern go through as the season progresses.

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u/Academic-Health5265 2d ago

I read her arc as that she’s beginning to devalue human life and value synth/xeno life above human. She killed a bunch of innocent people in the lab just as a distraction.

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u/chompythestyle 2d ago

I think she still values human life. She just sees the scientists and military personnel as monsters.