Quote from: Immortan Jonesy on Apr 04, 2024, 11:59:57 PMPerhaps it is the source of the Black Goo, or an Engineer-Alien hybrid DNA sequence made with black goo...which like a swarm of black scarabacks-like nano-machines dematerialized a living hybrid at a molecular level to create a DNA based on that life-form.
Back when
Prometheus came out, I inferred that the Black Goo was an attampt by the Engineers at creating a controlled bioweapon substance derived from the Aliens themselves (which the Engineers were unable to control/wield, as they ended up being wiped out by it anyways at their installation on LV-223).
Come
Covenant's release, I flip-flopped that mentality; now I felt, based on Ridley's words and the film's presentation of the idea, that the Goo came first and was itself the ancient eldritch horror, and that in turn it was the foundational material used by David in making his Aliens.
Though I don't take EU stuff as strict canon, Alex White's novels expanded on the Alien/Goo relationship in ways that I found really fascinating, and made them intrinsically part of the same whole even with the Alien in its "pure" form.
And now, Noah Hawley seems to be inverting things back to where I felt they they stood in
Prometheus, with the Alien being ancient and having been created (or originated in some more natural fashion) some undiscernable amount of time ago, and the Engineers' stockpiles of Goo having been derived from them.
But what really came first, the
chicken Alien or the
egg Goo? The whole thing just feels like this incredibly cyclical string of creation and destruction and feigned control repeating itself over and over again throughout history (not so much unlike the back and forth between Earth and Kepler-22b that seemed to be at the core of
Raised By Wolves' cyclical presentation of ancient history and the way that fed into the "contemporary" events repeating/recreating what once was).
As it stands, regardless of which came first, the Alien or the Goo, the core root of the entity in one form or another is ancient and unknowable, and David, like the AI of today's world, can generate forms according to some sort of a prompt – and believes himself to be a creator, a God, as a result – but he is working within a system that is preordained to reach an inevitable end result that stems from much earlier point in pre-history.