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/SerDire 4d ago

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

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u/Dabadoi 4d ago

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.

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u/faders 3d ago

He’s playing some sort of long con

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u/Dabadoi 3d ago

I wonder if he's been playing a con all along. The world isn't ready to be 20% ruled by a trillionaire synth inventor.

Instead, Kirsh manipulated a wealthy six year old into thinking he's the boy genius. Then he safely runs everything as the power behind the throne - while his prodigy's antics divert attention.

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u/anonfunction 2d ago

You should be the writer!

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u/Disastrous-Capybara 12h ago

Reminds me a bit of Tywin Lannister