Long time lurker, first time poster after seeing the trailer I thought I'd share my thoughts.
I'm really unimpressed. It just doesn't evoke any of the spirit of Alien or Aliens. If anything, I got an AVP: Requiem vibe - which clearly isn't a good thing. It felt too sanitised, overly saturated, and the CG (Xeno at the end in particular) really didn't work for me at all.
I was hoping (expected) dark, subtlety, poignant, a lot more Giger-esque. What gave us the atmosphere in Alien and Aliens was the dirtyness, the lived-in feel, the raw industrial/grimey feel. Everything in the trailer felt over-thought, over-designed, and over-done. Even the "blood" looked out of place. From the breif glimpse we've had, I felt the production design of Prometheus was superior to Alien Covenant.
Also, things just look so recycled from 20+ years of Hollywood. It doesn't feel like Ridley Scott. Like others have said - the spore floating into the ear....unnecessary all of that depth of field, slow motion etc. Exactly the opposite of what an Alien film should be like. The worst part - that "sizzle reel" in the second half of the trailer, the explosions, the editing, the glimpses of set pieces. They looked awful and cheap.
I didn't get the vibe that this was a polished, Ridley Scott masterpiece on the level of Alien - it felt rushed and cliched.
It felt like what Michael Bay would do if asked to direct an Alien movie.
Really hope the second trailer is darker, and that the CG is more polished in the final film. Really wished they'd use animatronics/puppetry than CG.
Disappointed.