You might wonder how anyone could possibly think that Alien:Covenant is a great movie, but there are reasons why it could be so. For one thing it’s better than Prometheus in many ways. It might even enhance the film before it since it gives out a lot more in the way of explanations and a lot more forward movement than the previous film. Poor Shaw didn’t make it since once she repaired David he continued his sadistic and very nihilistic ways. This film kind of foreshadows the whole event that takes place on the planet before the new crew even gets there. David realizes that he is a perfect being created by an imperfect being. He realizes that he is in many ways superior to his creators, and as a result you get an android with a serious God complex.
What he did to Shaw is spun in a few different ways, most of them having to do with the need to experiment and toy with the idea of the xenomorphs. After what he did in the last film and the data he gathered on his own it wasn’t too much of a stretch to think that he would pursue that kind of destruction on grander scale to see what would happen. He saw the engineers as flawed and just as useless as humans in a way, and thus they just had to go. David has shown that’s not above killing in the name of science, and so really they were just test subjects, as was the new human crew that answered the distress call that was sent out.
In truth this film kind of went more true to form than Prometheus since it started to follow the same pattern that the other Alien movies did. You could start to predict who was going to die, which characters were expendable, and exactly how they might go in some cases. Walter was basically the same thing as David but dialed way down so that he was no threat to the humans he served. That alone should have been a red flag when he met David, who has absolutely no compunctions when it comes to using people as guinea pigs.
The creatures in this film were different but keep in mind that they were also ‘born’ in different ways. Instead of through implantation they were created from a spore that entered the victims’ bodies, thereby using their bodies as hosts and growing so swiftly that the host body became ill and started breaking down at a rapid pace. It’s hard to tell whether the sudden arrival of a xenomorph as it bursts from a person’s chest or a similar creature as it literally tears its way out of a body after gestating for mere hours is worse. All we know at this point is that it was something we’d seen before but done in a new way.
For those that didn’t happen to like this movie, don’t be too hard on it. The film stretched the boundaries between itself and the original just a little further, so that we might at least begin to guess at a link.
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