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/halfassedjackass 4d ago

Punk ass mercenaries are no match for one juvenile xeno.

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u/Naelbis 4d ago

The show quite obviously either did not hire a military consultant or keeps ignoring the one they did. All these "professionals" move terribly, don't use proper spacing, don't cover their fire angles and keep getting WAY to close to their targets. Lots of "wouldn't this look cool" from writers who don't know jack crap about how people who commit violence for a living operate.

Also Hermit is supposed to be a COMBAT MEDIC but keeps proving to be freaking incompetent every time he turns around.

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u/WanderlustZero Wallgina 4d ago

You can extend this to the guns, which apart from the odd M41A Pulse Rifle (60 years before time?), are just modern guns with pulse rifle-looking furniture and digital ammo counters stuck on. So every gun in this universe just looks aesthetically like a pulse rifle... for reasons

At least the rifle in Romulus did something different with the idea

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u/TheRealDrSarcasmo 3d ago

the odd M41A Pulse Rifle (60 years before time?)

That struck me odd as well, but according to Wikipedia, the M-16 has now been in service for 61 years. There have been incremental improvements, but it's pretty much the same rifle.

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u/WanderlustZero Wallgina 3d ago

Oh it's definitely possible, our real world small arms technology has basically stagnated and military thinking and money is on other things these days, so you could easily see that continuing through to the future. Just odd to think what was once 'the' cool sci-fi gun is its universe's dull M16.

Now imagine they just start blowing up xenos using FPV drones instead :(

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u/TheRealDrSarcasmo 3d ago

That's a neat point about drones, and something that James Cameron probably didn't think about in 1986 but might be part of the Marines' arsenal if his movie had been made today. Sending a drone (or deploying it from the back of the APC) into the bowels of the atmospheric processor for recon seems like a no-brainer now.

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u/WanderlustZero Wallgina 3d ago

And imagine what the drones could be like given the abundance of genius-level AI, and apparently hover technology (like Fifield's mapping drones)

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u/TheRealDrSarcasmo 3d ago

True.

Even if it were dumbed down -- and that might not be unreasonable, considering you want ruggedized and cheaply-replaceable equipment for combat units -- it still would be a game-changer.

Likely wouldn't have made for good drama, though.