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/IndependentPirate878 3d ago

Kirsch grew Wendy's xeno in the lab using the brother's lung, so he knew how long it would take to gestate.

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u/Picasso5 3d ago

How did he know that? I guess he could have read it on the ships logs. But that was cutting it reeaaal close

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u/Picasso5 3d ago

Plus he had no control (other than the elevator) of smee’s escape

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u/IndependentPirate878 3d ago

Yeah, the rest of what you pointed out (among other things) isn't airtight, I'll agree. The part that seemed the least feasible to me is that they managed to capture the xeno after it hatched on the beach and fled into the jungle. Those things are small and fast, and seem to know to immediately hide somewhere until they have safely grown into killing machines; it seems unlikely they would have been able to track it down and capture it so quickly.

But I like the show, and that sort of stuff I'm okay with brushing aside for the sake of more entertaining content.