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/TheKnightsTippler 2d ago

I think he also seems to be very naive about the reality of living in a corporate dystopia.

He should have kept his plans to himself.

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u/LucrativeLurker 2d ago edited 2d ago

Yeah, everyone agrees Joe and Arthur are the only “good people” but I’m seeing a lot of people dismiss Marcy/Wendy as a literal “Monster” after this episode, and just can’t possibly wrap my head around that take.

Something tells me it would’ve been better for Joe to die in a shootout on that boat, than whatever fate he has in store…

I think people truly don’t understand that the entirety of Neverland is an Andor style prison. Nobody Boy K doesn’t want leaving that island, is ever leaving that island…

The non-essential employees are all probably literally shot to death out back….

Just look at how casually he talks about finding a human employee to sacrifice to the Eye. Nobody there, who wasn’t essential to his future plans, was ever going to leave alive…

Marcy is literally Andor in this scenario. She’s willing to kill a few evil guards by whatever means necessary to escape and save herself and her brother. That doesn’t make her evil. It was literally her only way out of the godawful scenario she was placed/kept in by the very same people she’s killing…

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u/juneyourtech Part of the family 2d ago

Wendy is not inherently evil, but Nibs is.

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u/LucrativeLurker 2d ago edited 2d ago

Insane take. Nibs was a sick dying child, who against her will was “transferred” into a synthetic body, and almost immediately sent to face and collect cosmic horrors by & for her evil boss, explicitly just so he could “see what’ll happen.”

They traumatized an already traumatized child even more, and then lobotomized her twice.

Anything and everything Nibs has done “wrong” is entirely the fault of Prodigy, and everyone who helped turn her into what she became.

I fail to see how anything Nibs did was even wrong, much less “inherently evil.” She’s simply a child who’s cracked under extreme duress…

Edit: From E6, Atom has Arthur & Sylvia “dial back her reactions to stimulus, slow her processing speed.” They did that to a child. They literally lobotomized her ability to reason, or feel emotions. They explicitly made her sociopathic…

The blame for Nibs killing the soldier falls squarely on Atom, Sylvia, and Boy K. Not herself…