Quote from: Predaker on Jun 04, 2017, 01:29:48 PM
I think Daniels haircut negatively affected ticket sales.
What am I reading?
You do open up this discussion, potentially, to something that I see plagues the Alien series as a whole—the need for Ripley clones. This may contribute to people looking at Waterston and saying: "Oh no, not another "strong-resilient-woman-Ripley" archetype/character (which would be nullified given the success of Wonder Woman). However, for the purposes of this series it has becomes such a self-referential trope that I personally was glad to see the emphasis shift on David/Walter for the majority of Covenant' run-time.If anything challenges this series, it is the presence of self-referential tropes. I also think, and this may be a wider criticism needing its own thread, but I don't believe the fans truly want something new/don't know what they want. NickisSmart, I believe, has provided some sound argumentation for this, and I believe that it is our own expectations, at the end of the day, that defeat the franchise.
If the formula worked, the series wouldn't have gotten stale. But, because Scott and Co. came and attempted to reinvigorate the series (by expanding the scope with Prometheus and changing the focus from human to non-human characters as principal protagonists), he took a creative risk that paid off for some and not for others.
I, for one, am thankful that the series wasn't relegated to pure isolationist environments—this had been done to death. I really enjoyed some of the exterior shots of the Alien in Covenant, namely the shot of it rising in front of the Cathedral. That proves the beast is not cooked, but can still be used in new ways. Sorry, I started rambling here.