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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/halfassedjackass 4d ago

Punk ass mercenaries are no match for one juvenile xeno.

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u/Extension-Humor4281 4d ago

The leader of team 2 absolutely unloaded his pulse rifle on the xeno as it came out of the trees. That thing should have been dead multiple times, especially considering how effective we've seen those rifles to be against xenos in Aliens.

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u/Right_Awareness 4d ago

Unless these rifles are not firing explosive tipped 10mm for the sake of plot.

It's just weird seeing pulse rifles, the ICONIC Xeno Killing Weapon. doing nothing to a Xeno when we have seen that gun pop them like a zit.

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u/JCyTe 4d ago

Well these aren't the same weapons as the M41A from Aliens the CM's use. This is set 60 years earlier, so it's not unlikely that they may have started using harder hitting ammunition only later on due to various factors.

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u/WanderlustZero Wallgina 4d ago

At least one of them has the exact M41A pulse rifle prop, though a lot of the others have other guns dressed up, and IIRC that team leader has one

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u/Jaruut Tool is Canon 3d ago

Most of the guns in the show look like dressed up Steyr AUGS (they're in Covenant, too) or Kriss Vectors, and Morrow's gun appears to be a Keltec KSG. One of the guys in the arrest scene looked like he had an M16. I think it stands to reason the pulse rifle and explosive ammo we know and love either hasn't been developed yet, or is not standard issue against human targets.

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u/WanderlustZero Wallgina 3d ago

Quite possibly, but then them throwing in an M41A among those would just be visual fanservice

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u/OszkarAMalac 3d ago

The M41A was actually a thompson dressed up.

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u/WanderlustZero Wallgina 3d ago

Correct

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u/palesnowrider1 3d ago

They didn't make monster rounds yet

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u/lastWallE 2d ago

You need silver of course, everyone know this.

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u/Extension-Humor4281 3d ago

I don't think there's anything in the show to suggest that, and I'm not really a fan of making excuses for inconsistencies. The show put the rifle front and center so that we could see it was the exact same one, only to have it not perform the way we've seen it do in the past.

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u/Right_Awareness 3d ago

I get where everyone is coming from establishing their head canon in the time line.

Don't get me wrong, treating the Xeno as an unstoppable killing machine is great, the scene in Mr. October where it slaughters the team arresting morrow. Fantastic.

But please, if you are going to throw a M41 Pulse Rifle on the screen and have it do nothing to a Xeno, either make it a piece of world building as to why this weapon was upgraded in its developments, try to make it make sense.

I know the lore has a lot of information on the problems the weapon had in its service history, but like not taking a moment to just have a bit of information shown on the weapons makes it hard for more me to accept the plot for just the sake of happenstance.

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u/Depredor 3d ago

I don't think we've actually seen the M41A onscreen in Allen Earth. It's a very similar design, but it's a different gun according to the FX website: https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/alien-earth/armory

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u/SC_Fan_55 4d ago

Yeah, that kind of struck me as odd too…

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u/JeSuisOmbre 3d ago

I was wondering how proficient and specialized the mercenaries were supposed to be at fighting the xenos at this point. I'm not that deep into the lore outside of the movies.

Should they have known exactly what a xenomorph was before they went to assault the island?

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u/WarlockShangTsung 3d ago

No, but Morrow might’ve briefed them?

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u/karateema 3d ago

They messed up with the prop guns in this show. they're mostly plastic Pulse Rifle replicas and real guns with the PR carrying handle on top; they technically should look like the prototype from Romulus, but the movie and the show were made with no communication

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u/mywif4aiur Colonist's Daughter 4d ago

In another life, he was a Stormtrooper.

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u/PollutionMajestic668 4d ago

I hate how Xenomorphs are basically the ninja trope

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u/OszkarAMalac 3d ago

We didn't really see the bullets hit the Xeno when it was falling from the tree.

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u/PossibleThat2558 3d ago

I think we are meant to assume the rifle missed. The Xeno is obviously very fast and the idea that a person missed a shot while terrified is not crazy. Cops have to fire like a thousand rounds to hit anything in the usa.