Quote from: MU-TH-UR 6000 on Aug 31, 2018, 09:50:49 AM
Can we just... ignore the events on the original quadrilogy, trying to wrap up David's story instead and just make a little bit more sense of the new stuff introduced with the prequels? I just don't want any connections with the first movie at all, it will only add to the clutter of storytelling that are the prequels. Just hint or downright say the engineers were tinkering with xenos way before David to solve the LV-426 derelict in an elegant way, proving David is a bit of a fraud. Making a bridge-movie between Covenant and Alien and their characters will always be pretty boring and underwhelming.
Unfortunately for you, isn't that the point of these prequels?
I get that a lot of people feel certain elements are sacrosanct to them in terms of the original horror & mystery to the Xenos but this elegant way to show David as a fraud & that they existed in their classic form definitively, thousands of years ago boring actually
The new irony now of the Alien title is a wonderfully perverse reflection of humanity and its creations...or perhaps on an interstellar scale of history repeating itself?..
But I think the actual Alien element in the story is the Black goo. It is from here that there is the capacity to open up the horrific possibilities beyond anything we've seen with the Xenos made by the Engineers or other species yet to be introduced as the makers of the goo.
I feel that there is something majorly missed by people in Prometheus. I could be wrong but I find a path cleared in terms of understanding of what we are being told. When they are in the mural room- It is when David touches the black goo urns & remarks, ' Organic' that the 'Paintings in the ceiling begin to change. Shaw notices this and thinks they've 'contaminated the environment in the room'
Holloway soon after shines a light on the mural for the first time
Therefore I hypothesise that the mural is in fact a form of 'Black goo mirror' or a form of readout of the shape of reaction the organisms in the room will turn into as a result in contact with the substance.
The origin of the classic Xenos is I believe going to remain the result of David, personally in terms of the bigger picture I love this decision & along with the illustrations made by Dane Hallett & co, the spirit of Gigers original bio tech vision is in place to develop further in the future.
How I'd like to see it is David being chased by the Engineers & their form of Xenos, a WY Android army(Who David turns & or hacks to his side like Walter & that Ash is actually one of the androids), they defeat the Engineers in a super battle and hijack multiple engineer ships seeding the galaxy with Xenos except the Derelict which is a result of human meddling, probably Daniels & Tenesssee or some other character maybe an engineer or one of its 'Wolves'(Advent)
I'd like to think David gets away to come back in future films but I doubt it. I can accept he needs some bad karma.. Still with AI, he could probably save himself on a memory stick or he uploads or sends Ash to keep his work alive.
Sorry about the jumpy thoughts but at the end of the day, in a deliciously sinister way, rather than anything else by being a species that specifically existed before, the Deacon is a result of Black goo underpinning an aborted human foetus that turned into a giant sex organ like Facehugger & an Engineer(Who could actually be a form of AI robot super soldier, a step up from Planet 4 inhabitants)
The Neomorph, again is a result of black goo, Planet 4 spores & a human rather than intelligent design.
The Xenos however are David making a bespoke model as a result of his research splicing the perceived best bits for him along with Shaw on Planet 4
So, in essence the black goo allows so much more to refresh the franchise, I don't have a problem & totally see the long term common sense and vision Ridley Scott has mapped out on its behalf, despite the flaws of the prequels themselves. I hope he sticks with it rather than succumbs again to the fan base's complaints.