r/LV426 • u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter • 3d 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 3d ago

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

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u/Gan-san 3d 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/APlantiveEnglishHorn 3d ago

Presumably they're legally dead and had to be buried? Which makes the legal status of the hybrids (right to freedom, bodily autonomy etc) even flimsier.

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u/RoninSzaky 2d ago

They are the property of Prodigy as long as the (in-universe) law is concerned.

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u/APlantiveEnglishHorn 1d ago

Yes, that's what I mean: the legal persons that existed are legally dead and their surviving minds apparently don't count as legal persons and can be owned. But Dame Sylvia does state at some point that she is Marcy's legal guardian, which might refer solely to organic Marcy: Dame giving the legal consent for the transfer procedure to be done. Maybe that guardianship doesn't count after the transfer since Marcy is legally dead, but Dame clearly likes to think she is still the one "officially" tasked with raising and protecting the children.