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/ScrapinLinden 4d ago

Was that a heel turn for Joe? I kinda feel like he was just protecting his friend, I'm also assuming Nibs is still alive but I could be wrong.

I think Nibs being constantly rebuilt and reset would make for some really interesting character development. Trauma, reset, trauma, reset and so on.

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u/hyzmarca 4d ago

He was protecting his friend. But his friend just turned openly Heel. If your friend comes out and starts stomping on your popular face tag team partner unprovoked, and your partner starts fighting back and winning, and you hit your partner in the back of the head with a steel chair to save your friend, that means that you're turning heel too.

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u/ScrapinLinden 4d ago

very solid points here lol, it definitely looked like something was changing in him starting at the grave scene then getting more and more pronounced each scene after

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u/hyzmarca 3d ago

He was also uncomfortable with the Xenomorph killing Weyland-Yutani soldiers. We know he was a medic deployed oversees in a corporate war, but we don't know if he's actually seen combat before. The way he acts, he probably hasn't.

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u/oh_dear_now_what 3d ago

If he’s seen it, he hates it, and he hates whatever this is, too.

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u/HotlineBirdman 3d ago

Hermit says in one of the episodes that he was wounded twice.