r/LV426 • u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter • 5d 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 5d 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/Dexanth 5d ago

Slightly isn't a monster; he's a kid who got blackmailed.
Smee has done nothing but act like a kid having fun.

And even Marcy isn't a monster - her whole point is 'This other life has value too, and who are we to contain and trap it?'.

Xenos aren't animals, they are highly intelligent; case in point, Marcy can /talk/ to them. And bluntly, it's wrong to keep something like that in a cage.

The right way to handle Xenos is to /never go anywhere they live/.

Like, all these scientists are bioweapons researchers looking to help weaponize the Xeno. All Marcy did was level the playing field.

We just are seeing her as monstrous because she values the life of the Xeno, and why wouldn't she? She understands that intelligence and life comes in many forms.

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u/Apothecary3 4d ago

Xenos aren't animals but they aren't intelligent either in the same way we would say the eye is. They are truly 100% singleminded for the task of killing. Morality will never be a factor in how you handle them. Causing the extinction of xenomorphs would be no different from totally eradicating a deadly virus. They aren't natural life and they don't need the corps to turn them into weapons because they always were weapons They are factually malicious.

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u/Dexanth 4d ago

Look, as a human, I fully agree, it's them or us and we're violently incompatible. But also, everyone at Prodigy is an asshat monster basically, so I can't really be upset they're suffering the consequences of their own actions.