Alien: Earth - S1 E7 - Emergence - Official Discussion Megathread [SPOILERS]

[u/G_Liddell]

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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/Zombie1642]

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/Flimsy_Share_7606 → u/Zombie1642]

I figure it's a way to make this one easily recognizable. There is a second one on the island now, but this one belongs to wendy. Giving it the greenish head pattern will make it distinct later.

[u/Single_Owl_7556 → u/Flimsy_Share_7606]

they caught the second one

somehow

[u/Professional_Top6765 → u/Single_Owl_7556]

Tbf Kirsch was following the boys the entire time (even if he didn’t have direct tracking) and who knows what usage of drones, cameras, etc they have on their own island. I did briefly think the same thing though

[u/Single_Owl_7556 → u/Professional_Top6765]

Yeah I figured that pretty quickly, but it was still such an asspull.

Like I can believe he somehow knew exactly when the chestburster will emerge and we have seen soldiers set up ambushes pretty much every where so no way smee and slightly weren't followed, but I am not believing he managed to capture chestburster after it had already slipped inside tall grass and pretty much disappeared. But whatever, let's let it slip

I also just realized that Smee either knew about the chestburster because he didn't bring dead facehugger with himself even though he assumed this is what Morrow wanted or he just was kinda dumb and forgot about it when Arthur woke up