Reading these posts make me laugh. You know somewhere the writers for the next alien movie are thinking, "don't worry if shit doesn't make sense or doesn't follow Alien cannon, the fans will justify every hole with their own theories!". It's one thing to have an ambiguous ending to let fans discuss about, but when every other scene or major/minor plot point is "left for interpretation" it becomes laziness.
Lope got face hugged. Nothing else suggests otherwise, we get zero evidence David implants an embryo on Lope. How were they able to pry the hugger off his face and how did the hugger lay it's egg so quickly? It's evident to me that the director/writers do not want to follow alien cannon precisely possibly because it restricts them. For instance, they don't have time to wait for the face hugger to sex Lope for a few hours and the writers could not come up with another way to bring the alien on board the covenant. I'm not saying it can't be done, just that for whatever reasons the writers couldn't come up with an idea. It could be lack of talent, it could be a time restraint by the producers IDK. What I do know is that all they care about is making an alien movie with some alien cannon parameters but not all. They throw in some talented actors, cool effects, sprinkle some lore/mystery, and a gory scene or two and gift wrap it for us. They are not worried about making a "masterpiece of sci-fi". I'm ok with covenant and Prometheus because these movies did a fantastic job of entertaining me while still asking questions and answering some. We will never get that same feeling that we got from watching Alien or Aliens.
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