Quote from: imbrie on Mar 14, 2017, 01:42:16 PM
Quote from: lv_226 on Mar 14, 2017, 01:38:06 PM
I'm not sure I can get onboard with this. I love David as a character, but to lay at his feet the creation of this unknowable terror is way too simplistic, way too convenient. If he is re-creating them then I am all onboard—I just hope that this is what the film actually represents.
Allay your fears as I honestly don't think that is what we are getting though. The title of Bloody Disgusting's article is misleading as it doesn't actually reveal the origin of the Xenomorph at all. David seems to merely be playing with the black goo and using tech/data stored in the Engineer's citadel.
Its a good demonstration of why the press accounts of scenes and even the test screening leaks, should not be taken as gospel. Because the descriptions from the press of the David/Oram scene are contradictory.
The one from:
http://io9.gizmodo.com/we-ve-seen-at-least-one-very-grim-secret-at-the-heart-o-1793188750 - describes David telling Oram that he's become an amateur zoologist and has been studying the Neomorphs, showing Oram one of his dissected specimens.
I read this description of the scene first and took it to mean that David hadn't created the Protomorph after all. And his only part in its creation, was showing Oram the eggs. And all David had been doing on Paradise, from his Lab in the citadel, was studying the Neomorph like some Victorian naturalist. Sketching and dissecting the various Neomorph hybrid specimens, that had evolved naturally on planet since being infected with the black goo.
But if you read some of the other press descriptions of the same scene, they claim that David confessors to Oram that he's been genetically mutating the Neomorphs, trying to create the perfect organism. Which I feel, considering that RS has already stated Covenant will show us who created the Alien and why, are probably the more accurate.
Weighing it all up, like others have already pointed out, I'm now suspecting that David just lends a genetic helping hand to the Alien evolution on the planet, rather than being the Frankenstein creator some are fearing.
Unless RS or one of the future films contradicts it. I'm just going to regard the mural creature as official canon in the Alien's genesis and assume the creature in mural is the progenitor of all Xeno's.
As for mural creatures origin story. With the likelihood it will never be explained. My own fanfiction is just going to align with Dan O'Bannon's original origin story for the Alien. That the Engineers found the mural creatures eggs in the ruins of an ancient civilization, who's former inhabitants had worshiped the creature, using it in their sacrificial rituals, until it wiped them out. Then, adding that with RS's idea, (that he's clearly sticking to with Prometheus and Covenant) that the Alien is a bioweapon used to wipe planets clean of their indigenous species. The Engineers take the mural creature and turn it into a bioweapon (the black goo) with the intentions of using it on earth to wipe out humanity, for our, as yet, unexplained transgressions. A containment breach releases the black goo and the mutations and creatures it creates, wipes them out instead.
Now David is attempting to recreate the Engineers experiment. He's bombed Paradise with the black goo to see its full effects on a planetary scale. The goo creates the spores, which in turn infect the local wildlife, creating various hybrids of the Neomorph. Through his research and genetic engineering, David then attempts to perfect the Neomorphs, leading to the creation of the eggs. Oram gets impregnated, giving us the first Protomorph.
Its not the Alien origin story I would of chosen, but I think its the best we our going to get following the convoluted mess that Lindelof left the Alien's origins in, after his attempts to rework Spaihts ideas and add in some of his own trademark ambiguity.
All said and done, I'm still excited for Covenant.
