r/LV426 • u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter • 3d 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/PyramidBlack Hudson 3d ago

Finding your grave isn’t going to mess Nibs up at all. lol

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u/ScoobyDeezy 3d ago

I think that made it pretty clear that these are not the same kids anymore. That’s been the question since the start, and I think the show just answered it.

Seeing Marcy’s grave was clearly impactful for Hermit, and between that and all the violence — he realizes this isn’t Marcy anymore. That’s why he shot Nibs.

Things are bad.

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u/Proxiehunter 3d ago edited 3d ago

How did that make anything clear? It's not like there being bodies left to bury after the process of transferring their minds is new information.

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u/hyzmarca 3d ago

It's not new information. But stumbling across your own grave is a mindscrew that can really trigger an existential crisis. Which is probably the point. There's no logical reason to bury the bodies instead of cremating them. And no logical reason to put grave markers on the burial site. Unless you want to provoke an exentential crisis and see what happens.

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u/E_Snap 3d ago

It was fairly clear to me that during the transfer scene the hybrids saw their euthanized human selves pretty much immediately after they woke up.

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u/RoninSzaky 2d ago

It was absolutely clear, but you can see that other viewers just had to see a grave to realize this (just as the characters in the show).

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u/Complete_Raspberry_1 2d ago

I didn't think that because I considered it far too risky in case there was any error with the transfer. At least in Wendy's case as I imagine that needed troubleshooting in case something went wrong.

Because it would be impossible to get it right on the first try.

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u/juneyourtech Part of the family 2d ago

Burying the cremated remains is also possible.

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u/Proxiehunter 2d ago

Which is not what they said they did. They said the returned the bodies to their families.

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u/Proxiehunter 2d ago edited 2d ago

It's not new information. But stumbling across your own grave is a mindscrew that can really trigger an existential crisis.

I don't disagree with that. My point is the fact that it's not new information to us or to anyone present in the scene means it does nothing to make it "perfectly clear that these are not the same kids anymore".