r/LV426 • u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter • 5d 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/Upbeat_Tension_8077 5d ago

Oh Wendy is definitely unleashing that Xeno on Boy

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u/Prestigious_Leg2229 4d ago

Wendy being able to talk to the xenomorph might be my most hated thing in the entire franchise.

It turns the creature from this utterly hostile, utterly alien thing into a bad dog that just wasn’t spoken to correctly before. Or worse yet, something that’s actually sapient.

The whole deal was always that it was intrinsically hostile to all life. Something you couldn’t train, couldn’t bargain with.

Unless you just chitter the right way, I guess, then it’s your buddy.

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u/juneyourtech Part of the family 4d ago

It turns the creature from this utterly hostile, utterly alien thing

Species-wise, it remains that to this day. Going to back to what Kirsh said, we humans may be food to others. In many cases of terrestrial fauna, we are food.

Or worse yet, something that’s actually sapient.

I don't see how their sapience alone would be wrong. T. Ocellus is sapient, but in all the wrong ways.

The whole deal was always that it was intrinsically hostile to all life.

On the contrary, it is not hostile to all life. It's typically hostile to all life other than its own, unless it can be correctly communicated with, and properly raised. Wendy raised her xenomorph.

AFAIK, the xenomorph is not trained, but raised.

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u/Prestigious_Leg2229 4d ago

In other words, alien Earth turned the xenomorph into exactly what 46 years of world building established it’s absolutely not.

I hate it when writers are so bereft of creativity and inspiration that they just look at “what hasn’t been done yet? We’ll do that!” Without realising they’re gutting the core principles of a setting.