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I think we need to see what david does especially with daniels to tie into the next stage of the xeno evolution. its obvious ridley is going with the 'david created the type of xeno we see in alien' path (which I hate with a passion) and given that the xeno in AC is not the same, there has to be something that david does to create the next form of xeno so I think we need the holes filled in. we didn't get any concrete answers in AC as to what he did to shaw and I don't see them being able to just skip the process a second time.

I for one if Daniels and Tennessee will be back, I'll straight out skip the movie without a second doubt (even now I am very skeptical of what story is left to be told in the prequel series). I am in the minority that don't want to see her/them being experimented upon.

I think the failing or note that is off will be the composer, david, and his inability to control his orchestra

was it a distress beacon? I don't remember her asking for help in the movie, just singing country roads

dk Yes. He is a provocateur.

id agree about not killing daniels off between movies like they did with shaw but I say this only so we can see how she is going to be used in davids experiments. for me she cannot live for both the good of the story and the fact that her character sucked. the character was just awful imo and ended up just being another member of the crew as far as I was concerned. shaw had more direct connection to the prequel storyline.

my advice to RS would simply be to give the engineers a real meaty in depth backstory and to not show them in the same weak and easily dispatched species they have been portrayed as so far. iv pretty much given up on the rest of the film so all I want is for the engineers to be able to play their part and be given a respectful place in the movie.

(I poops where I want!)

Call eyes are pleading, terrified. Ripley finally lets go and she drops to ground gasping for air.

RIPLEY - Go. they are coming for you.

(Distefano tried to potty train the Newborn once. Didn't end well....)

It was a silly thread but veered off to something darker. I hope joylitt runs with it. There is a lot of potential philosophical stuff here.

I very much doubt that david and the company have had any contact since the Prometheus mission. I also don't believe the company hold any kind of authority over him either. he was built to serve weyland, no one else. with is death, as he states in Prometheus, he will be free. it is also pretty obvious with the olive branch message that no contact or pact has been opened between david and the company as why would david send an olive branch message if there was already an agreement in place? doesn't make sense. plus the message was sent after david acquired the covenant and had left the planet. im betting even when weyland was alive david was not contacting or reporting to the company as he had no need to as the owner was on board. if the incident that caused the covenant to alter course was in fact davids doing then im betting it was just his escape plan and taking into account he wont die, he has plenty of time to wait for any passing ship, manmade or even alien.

I literally LOL'ed at this thread at work XD

my day has been made  

Lawrence of Arabia & dk :-) 

we just didn't to see enough of her

If it is so, why is David reporting as Walter at the end of the film? Like Paradise expedition never existed after the solar flare accident?

The interesting thing about the Bosch style and others is that depth perception does not seem too important. There is a lot of imagery to discuss in minute detail such as the half bubbled Christ hanging over an apparent sewer where one shits and another is being forced to vomit. And that is a smaller piece of the over all work itself. Thanks for sharing this joylitt!

@TheXenoneoprotomorph Nice, though, I'd be careful. Because making our own sentences can be tricky since it's not in the English order of grammar structure. 

dk You got it too easy. If you want to challenge your friends show them the complete picture. It is called "The Garden of Earthly Delights". And yes, that Slayer cover looks like it might have been inspired by Bosch.

Neomorph "Caught in the act" When you have to do the flute you have to do the flute haha

red0guy@gmail.com,
The estimates for the second weekend were a little high. Alien: Covenant dropped to #5 as predicted, but it made $815,000 for the weekend. The Japanese total after Sunday is $5.1M.

Yep there he is, caught in the act of rectal flute playing while the poor bystander watches in horror. 

joylitt I love that style! I will take a guess and say David is in the upper left getting ready to do the cringing Walter and David is ironically about to get the flute up the chute. 

The general art style reminds me of this:

I have one. Spot David in this Hyeronimus Bosch painting.

Thanks for sharing! It reminds me a lot of the old school face hugger made of actual seafood. That is a very sick and dastardly looking creepy-crawly! It also resembles a head of cabbage.

I think the name of the ship, the "Covenant", will be released in the prequel novel.  The movie would have to have been made with the prequel in mind, so, really, we only got a large piece of the story.  There is much more to come with regards to the Covenant and it's mission.

I got a theory on how the neutrino burst was created by David and I think it makes a lot of sense.  David hacks into WY Research facility and changes a few numbers to alter the course of the Covenant to pass by Planet 4.  He also changes a few numbers on the stars in the surrounding area around Planet 4.  The event which struck the Covenant and caused the crew to wake up was a solar flare.  There some people on this website who don't think it was a solar flare, even though it says it was a solar flare twice in the movie (once as a stellar flare (which is the same thing as a solar flare) and once as a solar flare).  There is a neutrino burst during a solar flare, yet our real life science is still working on detailing this.  This is important because what I think David changed with regard to the nearby stars info was that he changed the passive and active cycle data of the stars.  There would be no way someone would watch stars to detect solar flares like we do with our own Sun.  We get around a 2 day forecast IF WE ARE LUCKY.  Solar flares are spontaneous events in reality.  SO, instead the planners of the Covenant mission figured out the passive and active cycles of the stars and expected MOTHER to detect problems through neutrino bursts because a neutrino burst happens during a solar flare. David could hack and change the data so the Covenant planners think the ship is flying by a star nearby Planet 4 during a passive phase, but it was actually in the active phase so there was a VERY high chance of a solar flare.  A solar flare happened and cause damage and well, you know how the rest goes....

Also, I will add that neutrino's travel faster than the other spectrum released by the solar flare.  The other spectrum is what causes the damage.  So, if MOTHER can pick up a neutrino burst, that means there is some time to get prepared for the impact of the other spectrum.  I'm not going to explain the science behind this theory because it would just take to much time and I just don't have that time right now.  I did explain it in another thread.

That's a summary of my theory.  I hope I didn't forget anything...

Ripley- Don't you? (grabs Call by the throat and turns the table) I can make it stop.

(Unfortunately the Newborn had a face no mother could love, and how would one feed and potty train something like that?)

Glad that there is definitive proof of Engineer children and women. David and his idle hands are quite disturbing.

Ati The 70s and 80s have a really cool aesthetic for sci fi. It was cutting edge in its day but still is great (floppy discs, DOS computers and all)- it has a grittiness about it.

Ingeniero -- Aaaah, sorry, you had explained it months ago, I'm so forgetful, thx again...

Call replies, "I don't care."  (Ripley's not convinced.)

(@IRaptus picture to dk... Awww.... it thinks your it's mother @dk)

sherris - Yes, something similar can be in the background.

dk - I like it. I also like good sci-fi-horror movies taking place on the moon. To be more precise, I would like them since there aren't too many. My fav is 'Moontrap' from the eighties.

dk

I felt the same as well. Something about the way she carried herself exuded tough, which made her all the cuter :3

IRaptus

Oh lawd! You just earned yourself some bro points >:D

I really liked Rosenthal too. Seems the character could have been pretty tough if allowed to survive longer. Easy on the eyes as well.

Hopefully it will not become vaporware. It also has a Dead Space vibe to it.

Lawrence of Arabia yay go the Australian XD

hint: Tess Haubrich is on Intagram and she is also a model

You're Welcome ;-) 

Ingeniero

You're welcome :) I really liked Rosenthal, she was cute af. Reminds me of an ex of mine.

Whoa! Looks pretty awesome! I kind of harp on movies for being really similar to others or even carbon copies, but gaming-wise is different (for me.) I play, like, three games, so having something that is somewhat similar to Isolation would be AWESOME! Routine definitely looks creepy, challenging, and as if it the environment design is outstanding!

sherries and Ingeniero I also agree, there is definitely deliberate ominous connotations and religious overtones attached to the ship being called the Covenant. 

Is David's hostility to humanity symbolically linked to Upworth and Ricks?

I would not be surprised if the next film features some form of analogy to Dante's Inferno and the 9 circles of Hell; and that David's treachery (the 9th and deepest circle) will depict him as the Devil, and the xenomorph his snake (temptation).

Given that in the Divine Comedy Inferno is succeeded by Purgatorio (purgatory) and Paradiso (Paradise) there may be a reversal of the story. Daniels and Tennessee have left Paradise, and are currently now in stasis between worlds (Purgatory), and that David is taking them to hell (Origae-6) to judge them for humanities sins.

I was playing with the idea that each member/couple in Covenant represented a circle in hell, eg. as trokanmariel suggested in his thread Ricks & Upworth represent the sin lust. But it doesn't seem to fit together??

That is a great design. It just dawned on me that it would make for a neat chest burster as well.

Hm, for me Logan is by far the best movie this year and I really wonder why nobody mentions such masterpiece. Covenant is somewhere in the middle. Hopes for Blade Runner 2049 are still there. 

I knew she was special.

Thank you for the link Lawrence of Arabia.