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What makes A L I E N so compelling and P R O M E T H E U S (if we give ourselves permission to let go of our projected needs/expectations) is it does the best thing Science Fiction can it takes the dichotomy of the human experience and transports into exotic and sub created environments and plays back to us all the pre occupations of our own experience but with a much wider bandwidth which makes us wake up and think about these issues.
I can think of places in the UK just five miles apart where innocent beautiful families are living bringing up there children with hope and a sense of belief and yet within miles there is drug addiction/street workers abuse and degradation of the human experience.
If Covenant has some gorgeous people in idealistic love seeking the end of the rainbow who are raped hosted and humiliated that is just an extension of the human experience.
What if Shaw the idealist is now spawning Trilobites how different is that to the innocent young girl who travels for fame and fortune and ends up being a hooker.
Do we really believe big business and the science division have studied the black box recordings of Prometheus and arriving on Paradise for benign reasons or are they spinning Building Better Worlds like all those self serving slogans we are aware of here.
Is David so very different to the lorry driver in Nice or the loners who created the massacres of Dunblane or Berkshire no we are just seeing those ideas of rejection/outcast/ pschopathy/innocence and faceless big business placed in a thought provoking environment and thats why for me David and Ash and the chippy blue Collar workers all make sense as well as a group of idealistic Coventee's and there desire to start again.
Indeed for me the creepy smooth who has all the lines Charlie and the damaged innocent projecting Elizabeth is better than any of those rom com flicks at portraying the reality of that kind of relationship.
As for Sir Peter wanting to live for ever having lost all his grace that is the challenge of the Western Hemisphere of ageing populations.