Introducing Walter, Alien: Covenant's New Synthetic

[Master]

I hope there is yet another unexpected droid with E name.

[BishopShouldGo]

Lol. Ridley is smarter than that.

[426Buddy]

I new of the pattern but I hardly care if it's broken or not. Walter is a fine name for an android.

[Glaive]

Walter is a more advanced and up-to-date version of the David model.

Is that fact, or merely supposition by Hicks?

[HuDaFuK]

Lol. Ridley is smarter than that.

Then how do you explain Prometheus?

[BishopShouldGo]

That massive critical and commercial success? It explains itself.

Ridley's got a story to tell. He doesn't have time to adhere to cute nominal patterns for androids.

[Glaive]

If there's a fight between the two of them and they both end up either dark-haired or blonde-haired, pointing at each other saying 'Kill him, that's David!' and 'NO! HE's David!!'...I will do something I've never done before and exit the cinema...


(...obviously I've exited cinemas before...stop being pedantic...)


(or, unless it's done in a REALLY novel way...)

[SpreadEagleBeagle]

Maybe, like Alien 1 and 4, there will be a surprise robot. Watch out for crewmembers whose names begin with 'E'!

This.

There is going to be a twist when it comes to this name thing as Scott didn't break the name pattern just because he felt like it. Either one of the crew members with a first name or last name starting with E will show up to be a synthetic -or-

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David and Walter merge (maybe with the help of black goo) into this new hybrid android that has an E name. I mean, what if Walter's head is blown off or severely damaged and they attach David's head to Walter's body?

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[GQSioux]

Maybe it's going to be W, X, Y, Z now. 

A droid with an "X" name in the next movie, and so forth.

[Glaive]

Maybe it's going to be W, X, Y, Z now. 

A droid with an "X" name in the next movie, and so forth.

Looking forward to 'Xander'...

[Valaquen]

I always thought the ABCD thing was serendipitous.

Walter reminds me of Judge Dredd's robot waiter.

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I like it for that alone 

[GQSioux]

Or maybe Walter will also be given a last name that starts with an "E."

[426Buddy]

Starting with David these androids will be named after the producers of Alien, the next movie will feature Gordon as the synthetic.

[HuDaFuK]

That massive critical and commercial success? It explains itself.

Big profits doesn't make it a smart movie.

Look at the Transformers films.

[BishopShouldGo]

Big profits doesn't make it a dumb movie.

(I'm not going any further down this rabbit hole)