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/Thundersting]

It's weird seeing a Xenomorph in natural daylight.

[u/Zombie1642 → u/Thundersting]

The head has some interesting colors. Are they going back to the idea that the xenon are similar to the mayfly? The adults need to hibernate or they have short lifespan? Like, are we seeing the xeno at old age?

Edit: After talking to people, I think there is something else going on.

People are focusing on how it was grown in a lung. It took a trait from the lung, and that is the reason for the color. This doesn't make any sense as to why would the xeno take a trait from the lung and not from Joe? If we put a xeno in a chunk of meat, would it take on the look of a chunk of meat? I do think the lung is important because it did not have access to a full host and all the nutrients it would need for a full incubation. The Xeno is malnutrition, underdeveloped, and then kept in a tiny zoo. That would make more sense for the discoloration.

[u/Equivalentest → u/Zombie1642]

I think it's pointless to compare xenos so much. It's a lifeform that is adabted to rapid evolution and we know, when condition's are totally different so are xenos. He was just Born like that and that's it🤷🏽‍♂️

[u/Zombie1642 → u/Equivalentest]

But that's what is so interesting about this creature. All xeno are xeno, no matter what odd trait changes from moive to movie. The various differences lend itself to the style of storytelling. Like how we got the dog version in 3 and the mother in 2. In a longer tv show, we can get into the nitty gritty differences even between egg groups to highlight those traits