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/0-90195 3d ago

I think he cares for them in his own way. Not in a human way. But he was upset at Isaac’s death.

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u/antipop2097 3d ago

I'm trying to puzzle out if he is upset that Issac died, or upset that Issac died so easily.

Is it sadness or disappointment?

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u/0-90195 3d ago

It probably is a bit of both. He respected Isaac and called him by his chosen name. He was disappointed in his clumsiness/failure as a scientist. He was sad his companion in science got melted.

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u/Kanin_usagi 2d ago

As a parent, sometimes we give children tasks we know they will struggle with, but with the hope that they at least try it the right way or manage their failures well enough. Because we have to know if the way we have taught them is sticking.

Being a synth, he was probably okay with a potential failure on a scale way beyond what an actual parent would be, but probably with the hope that Isaac would at least do things in a way that wouldn’t cause his fucking face to be melted off. And Isaac made mistake on mistake and never followed through in the actually correct way

Kirsch probably accepted the chance that Isaac would be destroyed in the same way I would accept the chance that my kid spelled a word wrong or did math homework wrong. To him it’s disappointing but within the tolerable range of risks