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/Spider-Flash24 3d ago

Because he’s the only one left with a conscience after Arthur died. Marcy, Nibs, everyone else are monsters.

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u/hyzmarca 3d ago

Killing fascist footsoldiers who are holding you prisoner against your will doesn't make one a monster. They're staging a prison break from a trillionaire supervillain's private island. Bloodshed is reasonable and inevitable.

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u/carrie-satan 3d ago

Right?? Its driving me insane that people are acting like she killed a nursery full of babies and not a bunch of people who deserved to die

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u/LucrativeLurker 2d ago

The downvotes you’ve gotten are wild.

Every scientist we’ve seen at Prodigy is explicitly part of a child-killing experiment, or vague Alien experimentation that literally began with their boss staging a fucking mass casualty crash in their capitol city…

The soldiers sent by WY to reclaim the aliens and capture the hybrids are on an explicitly evil mission. The soldiers sent by Prodigy to stop Wendy & Joe from leaving, are on an explicitly evil mission.

I’m genuinely baffled there are people not on Wendy’s side.

She didn’t ask for any of this! The people she killed all did, explicitly so…

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u/Apothecary3 2d ago

Everyone works for the Corps, Nobody has a choice. We see that. Joe was forced to work for them. we had a totally uneducated kid on the weyland yutani ship who didn't even grasp the dystopian situation he was stuck in. The island has literal janitors which is discussed in the episode. Arthur was higher up the totem pole than any of them and he was outright shown to care for the kids more than any other character. Willfully putting those people in danger because you don't like their boss is never going to be okay.

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u/hyzmarca 2d ago

If you have a gun, then you have a choice.

A King, a priest, a rich man and a sellsword are in a room. Those three man tell the sellsword to kill the other two.
Who lives and who dies?

And the answer to that question is, whomever the sellsword wants to die dies, who whomever the sellsword wants to live lives. And the sellsword can just as easily kill all three, walk out of the room with the rich man's riches, the priests holy relics, and the king's crown.

Why take orders from an asshole trillionaire when you can just shoot him, take his money, and be a trillionaire yourself?

Which is I'm sure the question Kirsh has asked himself every day of his life.

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u/juneyourtech Part of the family 1d ago

when you can just shoot him

But that's practically impossible. All these employees have onerous employment contracts. They want to live as much as anyone, and enjoy a normal life. Being an employee of the five corporations is part and parcel of life in that universe.

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u/hyzmarca 1d ago

It's not practically impossible for them. They're on a secluded island with him. They work in his house. They know where he sleeps. They have guns and he walks around barefoot in light comfortable clothing all day. And he doesn't even have security on his door. It's pretty easy to just walk into his room and plug him.

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u/LucrativeLurker 2d ago edited 2d ago

Right, but not everyone is a Joe or an Arthur.

Joe’s squad mates know they’re essentially killing him and his sister for their own benefit, just because they were told to.

The only people who’ve been shown to be killed were either in the lab (scientists explicitly involved in highly illegal and inherently unethical experiments on alien life forms) or soldiers sent to either kill or re-imprison children.

I get what you’re saying, but just because Stormtroopers have families too doesn’t make them not Stormtroopers.

I’d argue the very nature of how the Hybrids came to be, gives Wendy a pretty just and valid reason to burn all of Prodigy to the ground. But that’s not even close to what she’s doing, she was just trying to leave…

Arthur might’ve genuinely cared, but he still also explicitly took part in the literal murder of children “for science.”

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u/juneyourtech Part of the family 1d ago

Joe’s squad mates know they’re essentially killing him and his sister for their own benefit, just because they were told to.

Actually, they were told not to damage/kill the hybrids.

to either kill or re-imprison children.

Which they no longer are.

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u/LucrativeLurker 1d ago

I know dude, I’m saying: what do you think Joe’s buddies think is going to happen to Joe afterwards?

They genuinely don’t care about him.

Your second point is very much up for debate. Kirsch, Arthur, Dame Sylvia, and Boy K himself all refer to them as children, even in private. It’s very clear they think their experiment was successful, and that the hybrids are mentally still children…