Quote from: Omegamorph on May 30, 2017, 03:07:46 PM
I don't get what is so wrong with the David-creating-Aliens idea in light that this is a sequel to Prommmeeeetjes
I mean
that film burned whatever lore and mysticism the Aliens and Space Jockeys had, so how is David creating the Aliens any more offensive or detrimental than that? If people were fine with the Engineers, how is this any worse? The field was already charred before it
Problem is the motivation behind it.
Cliché robot wanting to destroy humanity is not less cliché in 2017 as it would have still be cliché in 1979.
Retroactively, it just feels uninspired and a bad step into the direction to the "unknown" which is kind of Ridley's footprint in Sci Fi.
Then there are deeper problem, like David himself is both the Protagonist/Antagonist of this licence now and yet he's never fully explored.
Others characters just happen to be 1D flat meat bag.
It's missing an opportunity to create a character that is beyond good and evil and that could be the central pillar of a new licence by keeping him in the background having the camera angled towards the humans and it's also missing an opportunity to bring a new horror to the Sci Fi genre by ripping of decades of cliché.
There were potential though, it could have really been great, but the problems accumulate rapidly since prometheus.
I don't even know how you could finish a film in the first place by a "to be continued", it should have raised the alarm in the first place that prometheus was already very problematic in its storytelling and the beginning of the film is very unclear and foggy. It's hard to get really engage with it.