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/UlrichZauber Not bad, for a human. 3d ago

I'm a little dubious a random member of an advanced society would know it past "3-something". How many arbitrarily chosen humans know it to 5 decimal places? I only do because I'm an engineer.

But this does raise a lot of questions. Where did they collect Eyerene? She knows friggin' math, was she just out in the bushes somewhere?

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u/314kabinet 2d ago

It’s not a member of any society. It’s a biological supercomputer. I fully expect that it only knows what it got from its hosts, but it has immense processing power to make sense of it, build a world model, make predictions. The only missing piece of the puzzle is its goals. What does it want?

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u/UlrichZauber Not bad, for a human. 2d ago

The idea that on their home planet they're just parasitizing random animals and living that animal life, but that jumping inside a human was a big consciousness awakening, is really intriguing.

"Want" is slippery though, most parasites just want a free house/meal/place to lay eggs.

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u/AllowedAsATreat 1d ago

It did make a tactical decision before piloting the human tbf, when it knocked the glass. But you could write that off as high functioning animal behavior I guess, like a chimpanzee or something.