I started thinking about how similar the neomorphs are to the xenomorphs, and how David's weapon, in the film, isn't actually perfect, or really an improvement, on the original design. If anything, it's a huge step backwards. I don't mind this from a narrative standpoint. After all, David is completely insane (which Walter points out, in the film). However, any claims that David makes in regards to being the original creator or inventor of this new species or bio-weapon needs to be taken with a huge grain of salt. One, he's nuts; two, there already exists an earlier design that is physiologically similar to the newer model, that, as far as I'm concerned, is also more effective than it, as far as infecting and disseminating through multiple species, not just one.
I talk more about this, here:
What do you guys think, however? Did David invent anything, or did he improve on the original design? Or is he really just totally nuts, and the film isn't about technology efficacy or truth, but actually is about "perfect," individual artistic expression, instead?
Also, in regards to David's sexualized, rapacious design, I often wondered, when presented with a human host, or something similar, it always goes for the mouth. Given it representing sexual violation or rape, couldn't it theoretically go for the other body opening--or, if the victim were female, the birth canal, and thus have a perfect nesting place for the creature? What say you guys about this?
My follow-up video:
A follow up to my video about David, from Alien: Covenant, not being an inventor. Here, I say that David creates the xenomorph, or eventually will, but it, the xenomorph, created by him, isn't what we, the audience thinks it is; it's not a weapon, but an artist statement designed to undermine the idea that the Engineers themselves are infallible gods. Its presence suggests that David can pervert or destroy their work, just like Satan, in Paradise Lost, does, with God's own Eden.
