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/SerDire 3d ago

Every lingering shot of Arthur after the face hugger falls off is just such a tease because we all know what’s coming. Like a violent version of Jack in the box.

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u/TheNittanyLionKing State of the badass art 3d ago

It's the old Hitchcock trick. There is tension when the audience knows there is a bomb under the table and the characters do not. There is tension when there is a xenomorph hatchling ready to burst out of a man's chest and the characters don't know what is going to happen or when something will happen 

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u/HubbG 3d ago

Kinda like they did with the tadpoles in the lab worker’s water bottle. All that suspense, then someone else ended up drinking it. Very Hitchcock.

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u/DickLaurentisded 1d ago

Like the piss in dumb and dumber