As strange as this sounds. I'm more excited to see what happens with the android characters then with the human characters.
The human part of the story is pretty straight forward. They go to an alien world, get infected, most of them die except one or two. The end
andriod story: what is the difference between being God vs devil or being free vs being a slave.
I had mentioned earlier that I don't think David should be the main villain in the story, rather a villain who goes through an ark.
I had suspected before the information we got that Shaw and David were going to go back to Earth, recruit of specialist, possibly from the competing company Yutani, and go to paradise.
I know the film is probably not going to do this, but my idea was that David was to become a servant to the Deacon. Essentially he goes to paradise and discovers an ancient creature that appears to be "God" and tells him, "hey humans, engineers...predat- they all suck! Work for me and I will give you a soul." David accepts, and becomes some monstrous creature that spreads the Deacon's strain throughout the Galaxy.
However instead of this, fox and Sir Ridley Scott seem to be following the more traditional method in order to guarantee success at the box office, and, to an extent, I understand.
Trying to pull of an alien film that is philosophical/spiritual while maintaining the horror complex is really hard and requires a lot of work and a team of good writers.
Hell the franchise has attempted it twice with alien 3 and Prometheus! Both were suppose to be more philosophical/spiritual rather than mainly horror or action. In the end they didn't do nearly as well as the original 2.
Can it work? Yes, absolutely yes. In fact I believe if they implemented this it would give it an edge over other franchises such as Star Wars, Star Trek, and Marvel which are lacking in these aspects, especially recently.
