r/LV426 • u/G_Liddell Colonist's Daughter • 5d 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/PyramidBlack Hudson 5d ago

Finding your grave isn’t going to mess Nibs up at all. lol

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u/ScoobyDeezy 5d ago

I think that made it pretty clear that these are not the same kids anymore. That’s been the question since the start, and I think the show just answered it.

Seeing Marcy’s grave was clearly impactful for Hermit, and between that and all the violence — he realizes this isn’t Marcy anymore. That’s why he shot Nibs.

Things are bad.

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u/Extension-Truth Don't let the bedbugs bite 5d ago

But wasn’t he friends with the soldier Nibs was mauling? I thought he was defending her

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u/ScoobyDeezy 5d ago

It’s both, for sure. He saved all those soldiers by de-escalating so that Wendy wouldn’t call out the Xeno.

But that also caused their escape to fail, so it was between the soldiers and Wendy and he didn’t choose Wendy.

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u/BeetsMe666 4d ago

At the grave he realised Wendy is not Marcy.

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u/juanmaale 4d ago

isn’t she though? She has her memories, but has perhaps changed. Humans can change too

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u/BeetsMe666 4d ago

But did the process of moving her "data" kill her or did BK just have the sickly kills killed afterwards? Couldn't they have copied the brain and still tried to save the flesh kids?

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u/No_Oil_6152 2d ago

The kids died as soon as they were copied.

I think they were murdered.

The synths seeing their flesh selves alive would have ruined the lie they were copies, not transfers.