Entertainment Weekly has just shared two brand new Alien: Covenant stills. We get a further look at the bombing scene that was shown at CinemaCon and we glimpsed briefly in the recent Empire Magazine article.
We also have a new still of Michael Fassbender as (presumably) Walter in the cryo-storage bay aboard the Covenant.
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Stop trying to make cornbread happen. It's not going to happen.
Who needs cake when you can have...
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Okay, I see. However, to the best of my knowledge, I haven't actually dismissed anybodies thoughts, nor have I been insulting in conversation (certainly not in recent memory, at any rate) but okay, fair enough. Duly noted.
Not for lack of trying
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I spy with my darting little eye, a jolly good man.
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I fear you've lost me. Follow my own advice, is that it? Sorry if I'm reading that wrong. I should care to ask for clarification. Many thanks.
Come to think about it, i really wonder if David perceives himself as a sort of lifeform, the only one worth existing no doubt. But wouldnt it then be more logical for him to try to replicate himself, rather than experimenting in the biological camp again (just like the engineers did). He obviously doesnt consider himself as being imperfect at all and with all the technology surrounding him he sure should be able to produce more Davids? I mean if weak cruel dying decadent humanity could build him..
Here is more of the dialogue that goes with that quote from David.
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He continues, "But their power is an illusion. They don't deserve to start again, and I'm not going to let them."
My (limited) understanding is that he's referring to the Covenant expedition, which I think the crew has said is the first deep-space colonization project. Much has been made in the trailers, the Last Supper, the promos etc. of this being humanity's next big leap forward, starting a new 'life' in the frontier, a new future for humanity, etc etc. David's comments appear to be a response to that.
I think he's also accounting for his own experience with Peter Weyland, who he loved/hated and who I think is his basis for how he views humans.
Ah ok, but humanity isnt really re-starting, arent they? Unless ok he means the process of seeding life, which they somehow repeat by colonizing okok.. But that would definitely imply that David makes no difference in agency when it comes to engineers/humans. Humans then deserve to die because their "fathers" have ++++ it up millenias ago, and they dont get their own take on things.Thats in line with the mythical approach i guess.
But the idea of the Engineers being reduced to the quasi-agrarian society suggested in the pictures as a kind of analogy for divine punishment is a very interesting idea.
"They don't deserve to start again, and I'm not going to let them."
Is that quote confirmed? Would definitely fit.
There might be more Prometheus to Covenant than one think: if what you assume is true these beings have re-established a condition for their society one could call Paradise-like. But instead of leaving them alone, God is punishing them again for quite literally creating mankind, just like Prometheus is being subjected for eternal punishment.
I was thinking the same thing. What we see of the Engineer civilization "today" is the culmination of some sort of catastrophic event from the past that caused the turning on/loss of technology and reverting to a simpler life. I mean, the Engineers as we know them could be the "gods" of this group. Mythical almost. It would explain David's actions. He's dealing with "fallen angels" who retain the potential for past exploits.
And so thou shall.
this +2.
Thank you kindly, sir!
Is anybody else getting a feeling there might be some Planet of the Apes type scenario going on (the original movie)?
Think of the "engineers" from Prometheus as humans nearly destroying their own ecosystem/society (no birds, no animals) and the "engineers" we are presented in Covenant as the survivors of this all, who just begun evolving from the ashes of this downfall. The city itself might be a combination of parts of the old culture and new elements build around.
Thats why when David arrives with the flying saucer (and i bet he is the one in control of that flying scorpion tail too) they are all drawn to the arenaesque plaza, cause they only seen anything like it on murals or heard of it in legends. Thats why they have no defence or anything like it either, or maybe the "have", but none of them is able to control what is left of something like a planetary defense system etc.
Or maybe they have seen things like that, maybe they even have build temples around it, but now for the first time they actually see one of it flying.
Passage of time then explains their different look. No longer being a space nation
Doin' it.
@CoalescedChaos - I adore your signature by the way. It's strange how a few abstract shapes can be so recognisable to an 'Alien' fan.
I really wish I had anything left to project.
I expect the film to be a lot of fun and do well. It looks amazing and improves on the prior one in many ways already. Creatively I feel disappointed by it. But I've expounded on that already so I won't again. What I will say is it's equally exhausting to hear people willfully avoid the facts we know to be true to avoid honestly engaging with the actual material and what we know it contains. But I'm done talking about it.
You're projecting you're own misgivings about the film and that is exhausting.
We all love and adore these films. I'm just being practical. But you're right.
Just ease up on us a bit. We all share a passion for the same thing.
I know what you mean, buddy. It was a stupid thought, and some of mine can get pretty wild.
And I'm fine with what I've read of the film so far.
Tell me about it. People need to locate a thesaurus to find the meaning of the word "thought"
Instead of jumping down my throat cause I chose to share one.
Yes. Just like the storyline in which Daniels creates the alien via a natural water birth and launches a new race.
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So what? Walter may not even be in cryo at the beginning of the movie, a la David in Prometheus. He may be checking on the crew. He could be doing literally anything, but the point is there is no evidence of a subplot the likes of which you suggest.
Have I missed anything.. Remember your spoiler leaks were done before reshoots, and this could very well be a new addition.
"Prove it!"
Common sense and the fact that there are zero mentions of anything like this in the many detailed spoilers we have on this film.
Let's try this: Say that I think Daniels will decide to give birth to the alien herself to get revenge on humanity for the
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*you're
Do you have evidence to prove other wise in your head??
And actually it was a thought I had... You know what that is right?? A thought.. Look it up before you choose to open your mouth, and assume your smart and you're not.
Give me literally any evidence of your theory. By that I mean, something other than "this is a picture of Michael Fassbender in the cryo chamber, maybe he is investigating one of the crew murdering the other" based on nothing but a story you created in your head.
Sagardoa said that
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We don't know that yet.
what leak was that from? I don't remember seeing that in the original 4chan post and I'm pretty sure the later "leak" was proved false.
That pic of Walter makes me think that it happens at the beginning of the film cause it appears to be in the same room as the cryo chambers
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Which would mean that the 4chan leaks are incorrect or they were changed in reshoots or maybe just maybe
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I am advocating nothing. The Engineers and the new mythology of Prometheus being wiped from the slate of future involvement is the last thing I wanted for this franchise's future. It is also what is happening and we knew that months ago.
You don't get it. I don't want it, but what I want is irrelevant. It's what's going down.
tell it to you. you keep advocating they're wiped based on....really....nothing but own ideas.