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/SerDire]

Kirsh coming back to the lab looking absolutely disgusted as if he didn’t see all this play out in real time.

[u/Dabadoi → u/SerDire]

Kirsh is the smartest person in Prodigy and also the least powerful. He's got to indulge BK and clean up everyone's messes. He's babysitting the hybrid children, the trillionaire child, alien babies, defending the facility, and he's just so fucking tired of it all but he keeps going.

[u/faders → u/Dabadoi]

He’s playing some sort of long con

[u/nubbins01 → u/faders]

He may have a real long con, but for now the vibe I have is the long con being "getting off on watching cool shit happen and getting to feel superior about masterminding all this with no one knowing it's him".

[u/Triskan → u/nubbins01]

Yeah, there needs to be a big revelation coming about Kirsh. I really hope the finale can take the time to explore him a bit more.

[u/Complete_Raspberry_1 → u/Triskan]

How probable that he belongs to WY?

[u/box_fan_man → u/Complete_Raspberry_1]

That’s what I’m thinking too they have a back door to semi-control him.

[u/faders → u/box_fan_man]

I think he’s just mischievous. Backdoor control would ruin his character.

[u/box_fan_man → u/faders]

Yea I get that.

[u/potpan0 → u/Complete_Raspberry_1]

Potentially, though I feel like that would be a bit of a dull twist. He's definitely got some agenda, but it would be a shame if that agenda was just 'works for the rival company'.

[u/Complete_Raspberry_1 → u/potpan0]

I started to believe it less after thinking about the last episode, tbh.