I've learned to grade films on how much I actually watch them.
First three Alien films, a quadrillion times.
Alien Res, maybe thirty total.
The rest, a handful.
Despite feeling that Covenant is probably better than Alien res and anything before it up until Alien 3.............there has to be something wrong with it if I've only watched it twice right?
I've said this for a long time. The more answers you answer in a universe, the more mystique you kill, and the smaller and more closed off your universe has become.
David creating the Aliens killed decades worth of conversation with revealing it was some malfunctioning robot. Same with revealing the SJ identity, etc.
You don't need to answer EVERY question in a universe. SW has the same problem, but there is more going on in SW than in the Alienverse.
I think my overall dislike of the new shit is simply the need to continually turn over an old stone. Progress to something else. Having some grand reveal before THE SERIES EVEN STARTS is just f**king stupid.
If Marvel tries to at least tell a serial story about something that has no relation to Ripley, the Nostromo, Hadley's Hope, Acheron, etc I'll consider it a win.
