Alien Covenant Review Roundup

[Paranoid Android]

Are we really saying the alien should intrinsically know what a crane is? Really?

There's a scene about 10 minutes later in which the other alien sees a camera, figures out that it's being watched and destroys it. So yeah, sure. At the very least on the most basic level of the crane being bigger than it and looking like a mouth. Unless you're arguing that a crane is a more sophisticated piece of tech than a video camera.

Maybe one day the cat will get its own film franchise.

[SM]

It attacked a screen with David's face on it.

[Jonesy1974]

I took the crane attack to be another example of how this early version of the Alien is more animalistic and less intelligent. Its not as calculating as the original creature because David hasn't finished perfecting his little science project yet.

[HuDaFuK]

Are we really saying the alien should intrinsically know what a crane is? Really?

They knew what lifts were. And how to cut the power.

[SiL]

They knew what lifts were.

The Queen stood there watching Ripley use one minutes before. She learned.

And how to cut the power.

Even assuming this wasn't an accident, they'd been alive for 3 weeks by that point. Protomorph was minutes old.

[HuDaFuK]

Fair points, but if Aliens can tell androids from humans - which they seemingly can - surely they can tell a crane is a machine?

[Corporal Hicks]

We've seen them attack synthetics in the past too.

[HuDaFuK]

When in the films?

Ash never got attacked. Bishop never got attacked. Call was specifically left alone despite falling into a pool with them.

[Corporal Hicks]

[SiL]

You are never, ever living that one down

[HuDaFuK]

*puts foot in mouth, falls over*

[FenGiddel]

*puts foot in mouth, falls over*

Carry on, dude! 

[HuDaFuK]

*mumbles through toes*

Not my sharpest moment

[HuDaFuK]

Still though, I do think there's an argument for the Queen being on a vengeful warpath at that point. I dunno, the impression I got when watching Covenant was that the Alien got spoofed a little too easily.

[Corporal Hicks]

I think it was Matt Hatton who mentioned on our podcast some thoughts about how the Alien was supposed to think the crane looked similar to it/the Neomorph and think it was a threat and go for it.