Quote from: Nukiemorph on Jan 02, 2022, 09:42:03 PM
I personally love David as the creator, but I understand I'm in the minority... so I'm willing to sell out and let it go if it makes people love this franchise again.
Eh, I really don't care much if the audience at large loves this stuff - in fact, I'd prefer that it never really gets Marvel/Star Wars-level big, because that's when they really start playing everything safe and making everything just basically retreads of
Alien/
Aliens again and we never see any more risks akin to the David as creator angle that
Covenant tackled.
I don't even care if
I love everything that comes out, honestly. Most of the fun of Alien as an "ongoing franchise" is that it is string of sequels/prequels where each new creator that comes in (or old creator that returns, in the case of Ridley) really puts their own stamp on the material in ways that they want to, with a level of freedom and willingness to break the mold that so many other franchises don't have the luxury of because most of the other film series in this vein are more rigidly locked into a singular style/tone. I don't love
Prometheus - but I'm intrigued by a lot of what it is going for and have a certain level of appreciation for it and the concepts that it is exploring, and
Covenant, a movie I did end up loving, built on those concepts in even more interesting ways.
That's why I feel like, if this revelation is ever going to be retconned, then it has to be in service of David's further development, otherwise why even bother retconning it in the first place? If you aren't going to do it in a way that continues and expands upon David's story, then there really isn't even any reason to ever mention the creation again at all as they move forward. It's not like any other characters in this universe would know/care where the Aliens came from, one way or the other.