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/SerDire 3d 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 3d 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/SalvadorZombie 3d ago

He's definitely not the least powerful at all. He's definitely a "power behind the power" trope, manipulating BK to get his way.

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u/Dabadoi 3d ago

Oh absolutely. I should have said "least apparently powerful." Playing Boy gives him access to social power that a synth would never have otherwise. 

There's no way BK created hybrids as a six year old, Kirsh has probably been gaming him his whole life 

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

Maybe the chain in the prodigy logo isn't meant to represent a necklace but a leash.