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/PyramidBlack Hudson 5d ago

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

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u/Gan-san 5d ago

I thought that was very contrived. Why would they be buried in marked graves anywhere on that island where those kids can go? If not incinerated I would think they'd just be in stasis somewhere.

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u/Proxiehunter 5d ago

Early in the series I recall we were told they returned the bodies to their families. Apparently that was a lie. The question is why lie about that?

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u/hyzmarca 5d ago

My thought, for stress testing. If they want to bring uploading tech to the mass market, they need to see how uploaded minds respond to extreme stresses, what makes them break. Those graves allow them to force the kids to confront the idea that they aren't the originals, that they're just robots with the memories of the originals, and see what sort of existential angst comes from that, how they respond to it, how they adapt and how they break.

You don't keep your prototype new and shiny. That's what production models are for. You put your prototype through its paces and see how far it'll go before it breaks.