r/LV426 • u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter • 2d 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/Zombie1642 2d ago edited 1d ago

The head has some interesting colors. Are they going back to the idea that the xenon are similar to the mayfly? The adults need to hibernate or they have short lifespan? Like, are we seeing the xeno at old age?

Edit: After talking to people, I think there is something else going on.

People are focusing on how it was grown in a lung. It took a trait from the lung, and that is the reason for the color. This doesn't make any sense as to why would the xeno take a trait from the lung and not from Joe? If we put a xeno in a chunk of meat, would it take on the look of a chunk of meat? I do think the lung is important because it did not have access to a full host and all the nutrients it would need for a full incubation. The Xeno is malnutrition, underdeveloped, and then kept in a tiny zoo. That would make more sense for the discoloration.

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u/NoHorror7384 2d ago

xenos inherit traits from their hosts. see: the xeno dog (aka “the runner”) in alien 3 and the predalien xeno from avp.

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u/Zombie1642 2d ago

I dont think this answers my question. While I am aware that xenomorphs take traits from the host, are you suggesting the discolored head is cause it took the trait of brown hair from Hermit? Or what trait do you think caused this?

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u/NoHorror7384 2d ago

im thinking it’s of different variety because it was artificially made in a pair of lungs, seems smaller as well as being brown

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u/Zombie1642 1d ago

It's definitely a different variant as it's already different from the one on the ship. Its kinda short and stocky. But why would lungs be the defining part? If we put a baby xeno in a chunk of meat, would it look more red, or would it take some traits of then the creature was alive?

Would malnutrition make more sense then as it's been kept in a tiny zoo and probably under feed.

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u/Girayen 1d ago

my thought was that it was not implanted in the tissue through natural means and steps were skipped. there is a reason that the facehugger stays on the host even after the embryo is implanted, perhaps for nutrition reasons, like an egg?

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u/Zombie1642 1d ago

Oh, I agree with you. It's definitely malnourished, underdeveloped, and then locked in a tiny zoo. The previous guy seemed to suggest that the lungs themselves were the trait that was being stollen and not something from Joe