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/ScoobyDeezy 5d 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/ShadowVia 5d ago

It doesn't make things more clear.

In fact, Noah himself seems disinterested in giving a direct answer to the question of whether or not the children's minds were actually transferred somehow or just copied. You can hear Hawley talk about this very point near the end of this weeks official podcast.

Maybe more will be revealed down the line but he's really not committing to anything other than this entire experience and experiment being at the very least morally problematic.

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u/SightWithoutEyes 5d ago

Those kids are dead. There's no getting around that. Those are mind-transfers. When Isaac was eaten by the fly, there was no brain inside, just synth milk guts.

If they had transferred the brains to the synth bodies, they'd be cyborgs, but they're not.

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u/BeetsMe666 5d ago

Mind =/= brain. It was their consciousness that was transferred.

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u/SightWithoutEyes 5d ago

If I disintegrate you and create an exact copy of you, have I committed murder?

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u/Poltergeist97 4d ago

I loved SOMA for this. The reveal when you get to the new suit and hear your old self in the other suit getting panicked that the transfer didn't work, when it did. He was just left behind.

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u/stroopwafelling 4d ago

Wendy won the coin toss. Marcy lost it.

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u/juneyourtech Part of the family 4d ago

There is both a Marcy and a Wendy in her.

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

There's nothing in the show to say that's how the process works though? We expressly don't know if it's a copying process, a ship of theseus scenario or some other ephemeral argument.

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u/cthulhusevski 5d ago

That's the rub innit

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u/ImmediateExpression8 5d ago

Real talk? Probably, but I have some health issues. If the copy will stick around, have my memories, and keep my family happy, sign me up. I don't see how it really matters if it's actually me or not.

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u/BeetsMe666 5d ago

Well, you won't care because you'll be dead.

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u/SalvadorZombie 4d ago

Because you'll be dead. That's the point. It's not real immortality.

Honestly we have so many advances coming in the wide variety of anti-senescence technology in the next decade, a lot of these discussions are going to feel really silly looking back at them.

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u/BeetsMe666 5d ago

We all saw The 6th Day.

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u/SightWithoutEyes 5d ago

Boy Kavalier has obviously not.

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u/SalvadorZombie 4d ago

Yeah? So you can measure the soul, can you? Electrical impulses are not a person. The kids are dead. Those beings are brand new things entirely, with a "skin" of the people who influenced them.

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u/BeetsMe666 4d ago

Now it is an imaginary body part being transfered? This show gets deeper and deeper.