Main cast: Sydney Chandler (Wendy), Alex Lawther (Joe Hermit), Essie Davis (Dame Sylvia), Samuel Blenkin (Boy Kavalier), Babou Ceesay (Morrow), Adarsh Gourav (Slightly), Erana James (Curly), Lily Newmark (Nibs), Jonathan Ajayi (Smee), David Rysdahl (Arthur Sylvia), Diêm Camille (Siberian), Moe Bar-El (Rashidi), Adrian Edmondson (Atom Eins), and Timothy Olyphant (Kirsh)
Director: Dana Gonzales
Emergence finally sees a chestburster peekaboo from Arthur Sylvia, and the fact that it takes seven episodes for this to happen is a testament that this show is another IP gone to turds thanks to showrunners that have zero understanding or respect of the IP.
This episode also shows what a terrible idea it is to have kids running around this show, as they treat the danger around them like dumb kids that just came out from the womb the day before.
The fact that they can also commit great acts of violence only adds to the whole cartoon disconnect of this show from its horror sci-fi roots. How did we go from hardened soldiers to googly-eyed hybrids with the brainpower of a ten-year old?
Anyone expecting mighty alien carnage, however, will be disappointed as this episode is about Wendy leading her brother and the other imbeciles in a revolt against Boy Kavalier and the rest of Prodigy. I’m sure folks that are invested in the story arc of these creepy man-child things will like this episode better, but I am taking the fact that none of them are dead yet as a personal insult.
Oh, and Boy is all hee-hee so cute and peculiar when he learns of the chestburster thing, but sadly, his showcase of villainy is interrupted and marred by the tedious antics of those man-child things. Seriously, why aren’t they dead yet?
So, the next episode is the final one. Total body count to date, not counting the imbecile no-name characters in the flashback and early episodes: two. Number of memorable gory xenomorph action: zero.
Really, people. Just watch the first two Alien movies and pretend this sad and incompetent wannabe of a show never existed.
