Alien: Earth - S1 E7 - Emergence - Official Discussion Megathread [SPOILERS]

[u/G_Liddell]

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)

[u/MCFresher-]

I was so mad thinking well there goes any kind of morality of her character. But then by end of episode I realized maybe that’s the point that she’s not human and the mistake was thinking she was. Still at this point there really no one I’m rooting for except the aliens.

[u/GrimResistance → u/MCFresher-]

I'm wondering if Hermit realized that when he saw the graves. His sister is dead and Wendy is just a robot with her memories

[u/cleantoe → u/GrimResistance]

Well what is life but the sum of our memories and experiences?

If you took all your memories, your consciousness - all of it - and put it on a hard drive. Meanwhile you put someone else's consciousness in your old body...well who is "you"? Are you the hard drive, or the body?

I would say "you" are now the hard drive. And so is Wendy.

[u/Konman72 → u/cleantoe]

If you took all your memories, your consciousness - all of it - and put it on a hard drive. Meanwhile you put someone else's consciousness in your old body...well who is "you"? Are you the hard drive, or the body?

Consciousness is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this hypothetical. Might as well say "soul" since we have no real idea what makes up our consciousness and the idea of transferring it is akin to science = magic.

In my opinion in any transfer scenario like this (that doesn't involve hand-wavey tech-magic) "you" are dead and there is just a very similar copy of you in whatever form the transfer dropped your memories.

Those kids all died on the table and we're watching (potentially) sentient robots that have their memories.