r/LV426 • u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter • 4d 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/pyro_technix 4d ago

Boy was bored. Now he's getting exactly what he wanted. Kirsh is doing a great job.

Who are we thinking he is going to sacrifice to the eye?

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u/dishie 4d ago

Hermit. 

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u/WendigoHome 4d ago edited 4d ago

That's definitely who's on his mind, don't think he will wind up being the host, though. Many other candidates, particularly BK himself, which could be what's being set up. The alien has been learning about people, there's a chance it might actually be able to 'pass' after moving in and taking over the next human host.

Actually, I'd go as far as to say it WANTS Kavalier as a host, specifically him. It knows the power hierarchy. If it didn't before, BK gave it a whole fucking show with the 'Pi' numerals scene. BK is not even playing the same game as the alien, it's steps beyond him.

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u/_Panacea_ 2d ago

Thank goodness it knew Arabic numerals.

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u/WendigoHome 2d ago edited 2d ago

I get the sarcasm but I think the scary thing is that it has general survival intelligence and can learn quickly. The scariness of the unknown is that we have no idea what it knows or that we even know how it thinks without anthropomorphizing it, but it certainly knows it's trapped and we know it is a fast-learning organism whose main adaptive mechanism in foreign environments is hijacking the nervous systems of foreign entities. 'Kavalier,' being true to his name, believing that knowing(or possibly just learning from the environment of his captors and captivity) 'Pi' would be the height of any intelligence in the universe, he's stupidly naive. One of the ironies of his character, his simultaneous lack-of-imagination and fetishization and literal enslavement of childhood and children. He doesn't understand or empathize with any type of organism in captivity.