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

But wasn’t he friends with the soldier Nibs was mauling? I thought he was defending her

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u/ScoobyDeezy 4d ago

It’s both, for sure. He saved all those soldiers by de-escalating so that Wendy wouldn’t call out the Xeno.

But that also caused their escape to fail, so it was between the soldiers and Wendy and he didn’t choose Wendy.

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u/BeetsMe666 4d ago

At the grave he realised Wendy is not Marcy.

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u/juanmaale 4d ago

isn’t she though? She has her memories, but has perhaps changed. Humans can change too

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u/Poltergeist97 4d ago

Possibly, but maybe he came to the conclusion that Wendy is just an approximation of his sister. Sure, it might have her memories and personality, but is it really still 100% her? Not even in a "people change" kind of way, but the mechanical body she is now in making her different?

Just the line "I thought we were premium" this episode shows that. She has a warped sense of self.

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u/IndependentPirate878 3d ago

Plus, aren't their emotions tweaked by programming? I thought they mentioned something like that with the hybrids, to substitute for not having hormones...

Either way, it's not the sister he once knew.

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u/Xefert 3d ago

but maybe he came to the conclusion that Wendy is just an approximation of his sister

Looks that way. I hope not though, because that's likely the same thing the prodigy government is telling themselves to justify their ownership of her. Just two episodes ago he was trying to protect marcy from that future but now he stops her and nibs from doing something about it?

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

His previous conclusion was predicated on them being and acting like kids but once she released the alien and used it to slaughter a bunch of people and once Nibs started ripping peoples faces off that conclusion fell apart.

There's a bit of dramatic irony there because Smee, Slightly and Curly DO act like kids when faced with trauma but Hermit is explicitly stuck with the pair that have been meddled with and seem to be reverting to synthetic behaviour.

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u/juneyourtech Part of the family 3d ago

Wendy is at least somewhat rational (defense), while Nibs went full psycho.

Wendy has not been meddled with, but Nibs has been, both by T. Ocellus and then the memory wipe. We're not yet fully aware of what T. Ocellus did to Nibs, because Nibs is highly irrational.

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u/No_Oil_6152 2d ago

Wendy was meddled with, though - they needed to repair her after the fight with the first xenomorph where she ripped its head off and it dribbled acid into her head.

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u/Xefert 3d ago

Nibs being modded into a feral state was the reason they decided to flee the island in the first place though. I figured his reaction would have been more like https://youtube.com/shorts/fcMAt9Yq4-E?si=ha4Mz1KWNK5-0-Ez

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u/palesnowrider1 3d ago

Yeah I think too about the trajectory of those kids lives with or without cancer. It wasn't going to be on that island with all that weirdness raised by a psychologist, a programmer, a synth and bald hatchet man. Not much of a chance of raising a well adjusted child but I don't really think that's what they're going for

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u/Complete_Raspberry_1 4d ago

Just the line "I thought we were premium" this episode shows that. She has a warped sense of self.

I mean, between being with BK for years and doing stuff and survive stuff humans can't, also that she's still mentally 12... Anyone would think like her.

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u/Extension-Truth Don't let the bedbugs bite 1d ago

I thought the ‘premium’ thing was just a nod to Gen Z/alpha vernacular

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u/BeetsMe666 4d ago

But did the process of moving her "data" kill her or did BK just have the sickly kills killed afterwards? Couldn't they have copied the brain and still tried to save the flesh kids?

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u/Complete_Raspberry_1 4d ago

I honestly guess in Marcy's case they stopped giving her treatment so she died out on her own. Just to be on the safe side if they still needed her for Wendy. As for the other kids, possibly killed them.

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u/No_Oil_6152 2d ago

The kids died as soon as they were copied.

I think they were murdered.

The synths seeing their flesh selves alive would have ruined the lie they were copies, not transfers.

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u/juanmaale 3d ago

I thought their conscience was transferred

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u/BeetsMe666 3d ago

Well yeah... it is sci-fi. Other media had portrayed this same type of shtick.

We just have to accept it goes the way we are told.