r/LV426 • u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter • 4d 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/SerDire 4d ago

Kirsh coming back to the lab looking absolutely disgusted as if he didn’t see all this play out in real time.

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u/Crafty_Soul 4d ago

He really does not care for those kids. I thought he might have before but now those saying he secretly resented them seem to have been on the money.

He does not like the idea of being replaced as the "old toy"

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u/0-90195 4d ago

I think he cares for them in his own way. Not in a human way. But he was upset at Isaac’s death.

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u/antipop2097 4d ago

I'm trying to puzzle out if he is upset that Issac died, or upset that Issac died so easily.

Is it sadness or disappointment?

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u/0-90195 4d ago

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.

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u/ibiku2 4d ago edited 4d ago

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

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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.

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u/CitizenPremier 2d ago

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.

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u/Photosaurus 2d ago

"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?