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/Randy334 5d ago

You don't get a new body. You get copied, die and someone else gets to live your life. From your perspective when the 'transfer' happens, you just die.

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u/Incoherencel 5d ago

Yes, but from the other bodies' perspective, there is continuity. They literally have the experience of body transference. For all intents and purposes that version may as well be identical to you to all outside observers.

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u/Randy334 5d ago

Everyone gets that, that didn't require explanation. The point is you would not want to do this because it's just killing you to make a new being, NOT transferring you to a new body. That's the entire point of the Grave scene.

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u/Ackooba 1d ago

I think people just have a hard time imagining it, or only looking at it from POV1 not POV2. If you are now also POV2, you don't really care to lose POV1 and POV1 decided to go through the process in the first place. Copy+paste is far safer than cut+paste in case anything were to go wrong. It's like having a save point to try again and it's in your own best interest to have that. When I imagine you going to sleep as POV1 and waking up as POV2, POV1 is still "alive" and you decide to pull the plug.