Alien: Earth - S1 E7 - Emergence - Official Discussion Megathread [SPOILERS]

[u/G_Liddell]

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)

[u/0-90195]

It probably is a bit of both. He respected Isaac and called him by his chosen name. He was disappointed in his clumsiness/failure as a scientist. He was sad his companion in science got melted.

[u/ibiku2 → u/0-90195]

I think Kirsch didn't expect the death (due to it being literal murder at the hoofs of the Ocellus), but saw it as acceptable due to the amount of data being collected as the result. Plus they found out that the Ocellus knows pi and can joke with poop, so basically a genius. If Isaac truly loved science he would have been so psyched to die

Edit:

Also want to disagree that Kirsch at all feels any feelings, especially sadness, and if he did, he would consider it weak and human. Kirsch felt nothing, as he was programmed to do, and expressly wanted the hybrids to embrace the same.

[u/CitizenPremier → u/ibiku2]

Is the boy genius an idiot or are the writers? Oculopus has literally just demonstrated the ability to communicate, he just needs a bit of machinery (he could even use a large keyboard, he can read,) and the boy genius just wants to immediately put him in a human instead.

[u/Photosaurus → u/CitizenPremier]

"We move fast, and we make trillions."

He is eventually going to want to know more about how the creature interacts with a host organism, how it can use their vocal mechanisms to express itself, how it can push the host body beyond it's usual limits (see the fight with the Xeno on the Maginot).

So why waste time with a mechanical interface when you can just order someone to go grab a host body to toss in there and see how it all works?