Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Feb 20, 2022, 08:37:10 PM
Speaking of which, can you imagine that for Noah, what David did in Covenant is like when the Mithraic designed the Necromancer to fight against atheists, using an ancient blueprint? 
That's almost certainly the route I expect them to go now, as far as retconning David as the creator goes. The only alternative would be straight up wiping
Prometheus and
Covenant from the continuity, which I guess is possible (they did it with the AVPs, thankfully), but retconning David into merely
re-inventing (and not being aware of the "
re-" part of his place in all of this) the Alien seems to be the more likely route for them to take.
I still think the best route forward would be to just set any future stories, including Hawley's show here, after the events of the prequels, and simply just not acknowledging the exact origin of the eggs on hand in any specific instance. I also think that anything set on Earth should absolutely not be set prior to
Alien, but hey, that's just me!
A post-
Alien 3 setting would have been perfect here for both setting this series on Earth without stepping on the original trilogy's toes, and for being able to play fast and loose with the David as creator angle. Pre-
Alien, like they're doing here, ends up just stepping on every installment's toes.
I really wonder what, specifically, is the main narrative thread that makes this a story that
has to be set prior to
Alien? Prior to the release of
Covenant and the revelation of David as creator, which firmly set the story pre-
Alien, I also thought that
Prometheus was a story that, with very minimal changes, could have just as easily been told post-
Alien 3.
