Quote from: SM on Yesterday at 09:32:14 PMLope is hardly Robinson Crusoe here. Apart from David and Walter, Oram is the most interesting character in Covenant. Possibly the only interesting character. Which isn't great for Daniels.
The gay angle was dialled all the way down, and he didn't get to mourn Hallet. But Oram barely got to mourn Karine too, and T was cracking jokes after they got back to the ship despite his wife being dead. They had couples in the film, but often carry on as if the dead were barely just people they met once. If they had space to react a bit more to the deaths, it may have developed the characters a bit more. How Daniels copes with Jacob's death is all we know, because we never saw what she was like before.
Karin and Farris were interesting characters that unfortunately played lesser roles (they're excellent actresses otherwise), T was mostly for comedic relief but also kind of evolved during the movie somewhat, becoming a pillar for Daniels. Oram was the single most interesting character (outside David/Walter) and because of his loss, he started bonding with Daniels which was useful for the dramatic purposes of the movie.
Lope was just a reliable, quiet military type and added nothing for others to interact with. Even Ricks and Upworth were shown to have distinctive personalities and actually had some good comments about what was going on.
The couples theme was interesting but I think ultimately heavily underutilized. If movie was allowed to be 2.5h then maybe, along with all antagonistic exchanges between AIs, it could've been more fleshed out in this respect.