Quote from: TurokSwe on Feb 03, 2019, 09:12:46 AM
But the film doesn't even establish David as the creator, it leaves the issue up to interpretation, and other works contradict the idea of David as creator (eg. the official novel of Covenant and the home video release of Prometheus). You don't have to ignore anything, you simply need to put it all in context, so it turns out David is merely producing his very own variants of Xenomorphs, not creating the species as a whole.
Except it does. And no amount of handwaving about it "being open to interpretation" makes it so.
Who cares what the novel says? The novelizations of
Aliens and
Alien contradicted a lot of stuff in the movies, nobody thinks that is actually canon.
A marketing short from a previous movie contradicting the later movie also proofs nothing as it is just that, a special feature from a
previous movie. And if that is not enough for you, Ridley, same director of
Covenant and Prometheus stated that David did it. Why do you give a little extra from the movie more weight than the word of the director of the same movie?
You can claim you proofed anything all you want, when you not even proved that the scene
in the actual movie, the one with David going through his experiments, is actually up for interpretation, all the "evidence" outside of the movie does not matter, cause the actual movie trumps novelizations, previous crossover entries and home release extras of previous entries.
And no, how long the black goo existed is also no evidence for anything.
And of course we have old Ridles statement that you also conveniently handwave away because it does not fit your argument. All that while one of your arguments is what the directors and crew of the AVPs had to say on the matter. Is it because one fits your narrative and one does not?
Also please stop trying to guesswork Fox's intention on the whole matter to give your arguments some kind of "official" weight, when you actually get told how they see it again and again and again by one who actually works with them.