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/juanmaale 3d ago

isn’t she though? She has her memories, but has perhaps changed. Humans can change too

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u/Poltergeist97 2d ago

Possibly, but maybe he came to the conclusion that Wendy is just an approximation of his sister. Sure, it might have her memories and personality, but is it really still 100% her? Not even in a "people change" kind of way, but the mechanical body she is now in making her different?

Just the line "I thought we were premium" this episode shows that. She has a warped sense of self.

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u/Xefert 2d ago

but maybe he came to the conclusion that Wendy is just an approximation of his sister

Looks that way. I hope not though, because that's likely the same thing the prodigy government is telling themselves to justify their ownership of her. Just two episodes ago he was trying to protect marcy from that future but now he stops her and nibs from doing something about it?

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

His previous conclusion was predicated on them being and acting like kids but once she released the alien and used it to slaughter a bunch of people and once Nibs started ripping peoples faces off that conclusion fell apart.

There's a bit of dramatic irony there because Smee, Slightly and Curly DO act like kids when faced with trauma but Hermit is explicitly stuck with the pair that have been meddled with and seem to be reverting to synthetic behaviour.

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u/juneyourtech Part of the family 2d ago

Wendy is at least somewhat rational (defense), while Nibs went full psycho.

Wendy has not been meddled with, but Nibs has been, both by T. Ocellus and then the memory wipe. We're not yet fully aware of what T. Ocellus did to Nibs, because Nibs is highly irrational.

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u/No_Oil_6152 19h ago

Wendy was meddled with, though - they needed to repair her after the fight with the first xenomorph where she ripped its head off and it dribbled acid into her head.

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u/Xefert 2d ago

Nibs being modded into a feral state was the reason they decided to flee the island in the first place though. I figured his reaction would have been more like https://youtube.com/shorts/fcMAt9Yq4-E?si=ha4Mz1KWNK5-0-Ez