Alien: Earth Season 1 Episode 7 “Emergence” was an absolute disaster in the most delightful way. And like I mentioned in my review for “The Fly” last week, I knew all of this was coming. I knew that betrayals were going to happen, that allegiances were going to change or be tested, and that violence would come upon this small little research island. I just didn’t expect it to get that violent.
In the Alien: Earth Season 1 trailer we have that moment where we see a xenomorph take out a whole group of soldiers while figures stood by and watched. And now we finally know what happened. Marcy was trying to escape with her brother and Nibs. But soldiers from Yutani came and found them. Sucks for them that Mercy can talk to the xenomorph and commands it to kill all the soldiers and follow them.
Things get worse from there when it comes to Marcy as well.
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When they get to their escape boat they are met with soldiers hired by Prodigy. And Marcy already let the xenomorph kill those soldiers. So of course she wasn’t going to stop Nibs when she literally tore someone’s jaw off and started killing any soldier in front of her. In fact Marcy helped. Why? Because Marcy does not see herself as human anymore. And this is exactly the disaster I knew was going to happen when Boy Kavalier tried to create something that looks like a human, thinks like a human, but is stronger than a human and has infinite access to knowledge.
Alien: Earth Season 1 Episode 7 “Emergence” is the culmination of hubris. Boy Kavalier thought he could be God. Now we see that he created his own destruction. The hybrids no longer think of themselves as human. They think of themselves as better than humans. And this was a fear I had when Curly was acting jealous and trying to get Boy Kavalier’s attention in Alien: Earth Season 1 Episode 3. I should have been paying more attention to Marcy, who ended “Emergence” by yelling at her brother and asking him what he did.
What comes next in Alien: Earth Season 1 is a choice.
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Marcy let the xenomorph out. She commanded it to kill all those soldiers. And yes, adult decisions like killing a bunch of people lead to adult consequences like being locked up. But she’s still doing all these things with the mind of a child. So now, Marcy can either decide to leave this place and go and be with her brother. Or she can stay and fight for the hybrids.
Personally I think she’s going to choose the latter because she’s seen that the hybrids are expendable. And it’s going to be really sad to watch her brother realizing he’s lost Marcy all over again. But a girl can be surprised just like I was about how emotional I got at that doctor comforting Slightly and Smee to only then have the baby xenomorph burst through his chest, traumatizing Smee forever.
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Either way, Alien: Earth Season 1 Episode 7 “Emergence” is a glorious dumpster fire because it feels like we’re getting what we were promised. And by “we” I mean the viewer. I’m sick and tired of TV promising so many things, and giving me amazing build up, to just fall flat on its face. Alien: Earth isn’t doing that. Alien: Earth has steadily been building up, a disaster on the horizon, and they delivered on said disaster in “Emergence.” Now they just have to bring it home with the season finale titled “The Real Monsters.”
Additional thoughts about Alien: Earth Season 1 Episode 7 “Emergence”:
- The sheep alien is creepy AF.
- And it’s also exactly what Boy Kavalier was looking for. It’s an intelligence of unknown depths. This is delightful for him.
- What Boy Kavalier doesn’t understand is that the sheep alien eye ball thing is just as interested in him as he is in it.
- That’s not going to end well.
- Kirsh, you slippery blonde haired synth. You planned this?
- Not alone, right?
- Boy Kavalier had to have known, right?
- Then again… all of this nonsense with Marcy could’ve been avoided if Kirsh and Boy Kavalier told Marcy that Tootles was killed in on purpose by the sheep.
- Just saying, talking could fix everything.
- Is Dame Sylvia ACTUALLY Curly’s mother or did she just take on a paternal role?
- I really hope all these hybrids don’t get destroyed. But it’s looking at way.
Alien: Earth airs new episodes each Tuesday on FX and Hulu.
