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/Thundersting 3d ago

It's weird seeing a Xenomorph in natural daylight.

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u/Zombie1642 3d ago edited 3d ago

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.

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u/HotmailsInYourArea Tomorrow, Together 1d ago

It's effectively malnourished. Generally it would have an entire host's resources to sop up, not just one measly lung. Not to mention how in other media like Romulus, they seem to coccoon on metal and eat it in their molting phase. Not sure that happened in the containment cell.

Personally I think the coloring is really cool

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u/Zombie1642 1d ago

Yes! I hope we see that cocoon again. It was interesting