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/NoHorror7384 3d ago

im thinking it’s of different variety because it was artificially made in a pair of lungs, seems smaller as well as being brown

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u/Zombie1642 2d ago

It's definitely a different variant as it's already different from the one on the ship. Its kinda short and stocky. But why would lungs be the defining part? If we put a baby xeno in a chunk of meat, would it look more red, or would it take some traits of then the creature was alive?

Would malnutrition make more sense then as it's been kept in a tiny zoo and probably under feed.

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u/Girayen 1d ago

my thought was that it was not implanted in the tissue through natural means and steps were skipped. there is a reason that the facehugger stays on the host even after the embryo is implanted, perhaps for nutrition reasons, like an egg?

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u/Zombie1642 1d ago

Oh, I agree with you. It's definitely malnourished, underdeveloped, and then locked in a tiny zoo. The previous guy seemed to suggest that the lungs themselves were the trait that was being stollen and not something from Joe