Quote from: Trash Queen on Jun 05, 2021, 04:34:16 PM
I'm not arguing it's not an issue but I do find it more palatable when I stop viewing it as a realistic science fiction like the original film, and more as a gothic romantic horror story that uses space as the backdrop.
This is my point when I said I enjoyed
Raised by Wolves so much.
If Scott had freed himself of obligations to the
Alien story-world (obligations such as a serious attempt at realism), by rewriting
Prometheus/Covenant so they had nothing to do with
Alien, then he could have put that unique aesthetic that we saw in
Raised by Wolves into
Prometheus/Covenant instead.
This disconnected version of
Prometheus/Covenant would have naturally created its own storytelling style (what Trash Queen describes in genre terms as "gothic romantic horror") and if that entailed a bit of the bizarre and irrational, then so be it. It would have been a feature, not a bug.
TC