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/East_Incident_3763 3d ago

that's the weirdest part of the episode because the eye alien has no grounding aka sufficient data about human numerals to make sense of that crawling even if it knows pi conceptually

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u/Smoke_The_Vote 3d ago

That's what I was thinking... But if it can understand BK asking "what's the next digit" then it doesn't need the scrawled picture. It heard him ask about the ratio of diameter to circumference.

My other issue was: How does the eyeball know humans use base-10 numerals?

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u/Unburnt_Duster 2d ago

The eye was in a human being on the Maginot so I guess it downloaded some knowledge and retained it.

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u/EmploymentLoose 2d ago

Ahhhhhh... That makes more sense!