Quote from: Lost_Hunter on Jun 15, 2021, 07:07:27 PM
Disagree with ya on that, Prometheus had some muddled ideas for sure but the scope and the build up was great. Covenant had too many tropes for me, especially with the crew and David. Killing Shaw off screen was a poor attempt at edge. They both look gorgeous but as far as an Alien story, Prometheus checked off more boxes for me. Witch this artwork for the buried Blomkamp movie does as well.
These new pieces look Awesome!
Covenant worked for me on the whole a lot more than
Prometheus did. Prommy is gorgeous and packed with intriguing concepts, but by far the best gift it left us with is David, and in my opinion
Covenant used David to much better effect. The Gothic Horror "tropes" of
Covenant work in its favor, in my opinion. It's a totally unique flavor within the franchise (closest in tone, I guess, to
Alien 3, but even that is a stretch). David, in his
"Dire Necropolis," distills the themes and big ideas of creation and creators inherent to
Prometheus into a much more captivating story and twists what we know (or think we know) about the franchise into something new and mutable. It really opened the floodgates to a whole new onslaught of fascinating concepts - concepts that, it seems, even Blomkamp's film would have dabbled with to some extent or another, given the "Trematode" creature.