Quote from: Local Trouble on Sep 17, 2017, 10:26:07 PM
...and reveals that the aliens are indeed an ancient creation of the space jockeys in the next movie?
This may belong in another topic. Somebody wake up Hicks.
"Disappointed" about a movie is having a negative emotional reaction to it.
I can't react emotionally to a film which does not exist.
I don't even know if there will be a sequel in the David timeline.
- I can't see how I'd feel "Betrayed" by a film. I can disagree with a movie and then walk away from it.
As for the topic of what the Space Jockeys/Engineers did vs David.
- The SJs had the black goo.
From the black goo combined with other DNA came various mutated creatures; the Deacon (with a chestburster form), the Trilobite, the Hammerpede, facehuggers (shown in the "Prometheus" mural), the Neomorph (including a back burster).
That's plenty before David showed up.
Where does the Engineer creation end and David's begin?
- In Ridley's A:C commentary at 1:11:31;
QuoteThat's a Neomorph. First phase. The Xenomorph has armor.
The Neomorph (created by the Engineer's black goo) is very close to the Xenomorph. All that's added is a tougher skin.
Even in the current version of "Covenant" the Engineers have done all the heavy work of creation.
David has just added to it.
* What did David do?
- From Ridley's commentary at, 1:18:48
QuoteHe designed the idea of perpetuation of growth...
David made it easier for his version of the Neomorph (the Xenomorph) to reproduce by creating the xenomorph egg with a jumping / fast moving facehugger which could attack a victim.
That's it.
Nothing to get all upset about from my POV.
(And considering the genius of the Engineers, my personal non canon view is that they had already done in the past what David did in "Covenant". That's not much of a leap of faith. There are much bigger canon/logic problems in other science fiction movies imo.)