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Dark Nebula, David is not flesh and blood. He has no DNA.

Ha, brilliant alternatives! :D

He has a few thousand colonists to experiment on to get to the version we see in Alien.

That is presuming the xeno ovomorph eggs in the Alien derelict actually has something to to with David. We presume David bred his proto xenomorph from the neomorph and human DNA, but we don't actually know that for sure.

David never directly said that and what he has said may not be true. The xeno form of the Alien may be an Engineer creation and David was just hybridizing it.

@daliens If I remember correctly, before AC came out someone from the test audience who saw cut of the film said something that David merges his own synthetic DNA with the protomorph DNA to create the classic xenomorph we all know and love, and thats what gives them intelligence and biomechanical appearance.

I don't know if this will be relevant in the sequel because knowing Ridley Scott, he changes his mind very quickly.

The close up of the ravaged Engineer is reminiscent of the injuries suffered by the sacrificial Engineer in Prometheus. They both have a similar gouge in the spine area.

Anyone can explain how will David create a biomechanical xenomorph?

Look at the picture of the Big Chap, it's very different from the Protomorph David created in Covenant.

sacrificed himself to wash away the sins of that world. Interestingly he died in water too.....  very Genesis.

Then Noah built an altar and made a sacrifice, and God made a covenant with Noah that man would be allowed to eat every living thing but not its blood, and that God would never again destroy all life by a flood

I liked this movie, and Rapace was great playing 7 of herselves.  The setting seemed a little hard to believe though.  Didn't China already do something like this in limiting the number of children you can have, in real life? 

Do all of the head statues/carvings, either here or in Prometheus, seem to have horizontal (or slightly diagonal) lines going across them?  At first I was thinking that maybe the heads were craved in layers then stacked, but that doesn't seem to fit with a carving in a mountain side.  Anyone else have thoughts on this?

The acid didn't seem to be as corrosive or whatever in the protomorph either.  When it was crushed in the crain claw, wasn't that hanging over the top of the ship that Daniels was climbing around on?  The claw looked to be sizzling a little after the aliean was crushed, but there didn't seem to be any worry over it eating through the ship hull like in the 1979 movie.

Wow good find!

As for the two faces in the mountain, to be more precise, the two Engineers from Prometheus, I have a theory:

This is the Father:

And this is his/the Son:

The Father and the Son!

/God and Jesus/

That would explain the whole situation in Prometheus - and why the scene with the father was cut/deleted. (They tried to avoid the religious connection.)

Ingeniero - You are welcome! x3  :D

BigDave - You are awesome! :) They are the Engineers from Prometheus. They look exactly the same!

'The camera angle seems stationary with the ship flying toward it with an Engineer in the mountain and when the ship flies by up towards the clouds the angle turns to see another Engineer face' - by Ingeniero

Ingeniero - Exactly! No cut in the scene!

Let's imagine that we are the camera. We are facing the mountain (the rock face), we do not move. We are between the two faces. First still: we are looking right, the lifter is approaching, we are looking at it continuously, it is flying away between the mountain and us, we don't move, as it is passing we are turning our head left...

If it is not enough, compare the two faces:

First face: there is no cloud at the forehead:

Second face: there is a cloud at the forehead:

Its blood is orange. (Meaning the proto is more human?)

Awesome! :)

Indeed David! He always got a plan and manipulates his way through. Bishop seems very smart too.

I would love an animated Alien feature but I would not know how they would pull off a Sunday morning cartoon lol The gore would be too much for kiddies!

Anybody could be the Space Jockey as the complete story hasn't been told yet and already we've had some unthinkable revelations. Personally, I like the idea that David creates the Xenomorph variant from the blue-prints of what the Engineers have already done with the Ultramorph. It's poetic, monsters making monsters, creators being destroyed by what they've created, the Perfect Organism born from madness. What we saw in Covenant though I believe isn't the final product yet and David has work to do on his way to Origae-6.

Cameron's queen looked RIDULOUS! I am anxious to see what happens with Daniels. 

David is the smarter of the two, and the most devious imo.

Walter iI thought that aliens was perfectly enjoyable and i actually love alien 3. ressurection was crap though in my opinion. 

the big problem I have withs blomcamps movie is that it would completely undermine alien 3 witch in my opinion is one of the greatest sci fi films of all time and better than aliens, alien ressurection, prometheous, and alien convant.

am looking forword to see the engineers and david in the sequel to covenant. 

We know the engineers are in suits, could be anyone in that suit on the Derelict. 

Thanks for the review dk, will have to watch it. Just finished "The Transfiguration"---a really good flick!

drake and vasqueze are way to trigger happy. I would go with ether dillon and morse.

Tkanks for the mention.

Indeed,  my ther theory was that if it ontsined several heads then this could mean maybe 2 things.

1. Planet 4 is Paradise and the chosen one,  enhance themselves then seed a planet. their faces etched into the mountains on planet 5 for worship/respect. 

2. That was the first Elder ruler over Planet 4, 10000k later another death of the lead elder. one more stone etched into mountains  portraying the last elder to rule and so on ??????

I'm with Ingeniero on this. Walter is nice, cute and helpful but David sounds like more fun (however I wouldn't turn my back on him). I will also take one for the team and choose Ash... poor buddy... no one loves him. :D

Is Samuels from Alien: Isolation an option? He was great!

Regular Parrot & cuponator3000 

That's what I loved about A:C, it's dark and takes risks. It's seeping Lovecraft through its jelly-filled maw >:-)

Walter

Yeah, I'd rather a sequel to Covenant than Neil's fanfic *shudders*

I don't think Walter is dead Ati. 

I thought David 8 had a Point Break look.

Xenomorphzilla

Remember what hapenned after 1979 when other directors entered the franchise.Everything was Garbage, and shit

until 2012.

Impossible to say.David (Prometheus) or Walter.

But he now is "The madman"

Walter is the option.

David 8 is a true intellectual athlete with a stellar performance record. David 8 has improved since losing his mind. He busted a spring or two but was still able to use Engineer tech on the Engineers.

Ingeniero I'd be on that like a bee to honey <3

Lawrence of Arabia, you present reasonable facts regarding Daniels (I may change my answer).

Here are additional images of the city I was able to grab in the background, enlarge and enhance.

That is a great point BigDave.

"If we consider 2000 years ago, such Tribes then would include the Native Indians, the Aztecs, Incas and Mayans and other Tribal Cultures.

What if these guys had kept to a more Ancient Culture, and not displeased the Engineers, what if these Cultures had reacted to their Emissaries well. 

This could explain the FEW Starmaps post 2000 years ago.

So i would suspect there was not ONE Emissary but a number of them sent down to various cultures."

Dr. Shaw's notes from her and Dr. Holloway's studies seems to cite many "Emissaries" embedded in different cultures.

Yes, Cerulean Blue, there has to have been an "event" that wiped the Engineers from Earth and some of the associated human cultures/population away as well.

cuponator3000 I can attest to Ridley's commentary track and the cockroaches, I believe it was during the Covenant climax fight. At this point I believe Ridley considers all the films canon and Aliens more so, so the hive thing is still intact. The motes even produce tiny insects, the shock troops, that infect hosts in Covenant.

cuponator3000 I commend your decision to go with the Resurrection crew :) They're not a bad choice imo as they are hardened mercenaries with a variety of skills such Kristie's leadership and Revolver Ocelot-esque ricochet shots. I love the choices (except maybe Dallas and Kane lol) but Daniels is hot af and I'd prefer to partner with a badass like her :P

Walter, they are better than just insects, but even Ridley compares them to cockroaches. It was on the A:C commentary. I think it was when he mentioned the Xeno could regrow limbs and what not. He referenced cockroaches because they can, like, live without heads and survive nuclear blasts and what not. I think he also compared their aesthetic to a cockraoch a little bit (he said big, beautiful cockroaches I think. Not sure.)

I know what you meant, but the insect comparison will always be relevant, I tihnk. 

Back to the topic though. Lawrence of Arabia, I was going to choose them, but I didn't want to pick the newest pair lol. A good choice either way!

Hive?Forget 1,6,7.Different universe.

Xenomorphs are not insects