Does David 8 use this record player in his distress call that brought the Covenant mission to Paradise? (spoilers)
Ingeniero
MemberPraetorianApril 05, 2017Distress Call
"Covenant discovers a "rogue signal" of "human form," and that distress call is what leads them to a paradise-like planet, one that looks better than where they were originally headed."
moviefone.com interview with Mark Huffman
“One big thing, time-wise, that producer Mark Huffam revealed to us (that the synopsis fails to mention) is that the action in "Alien: Covenant" takes place 10 years after the events of "Prometheus." (Kind of a major point, actually.)
Huffam also dropped the detail that the crew of the Covenant discovers a "rogue signal" of "human form," and that distress call is what leads them to a paradise-like planet, one that looks better than where they were originally headed.
The crew then lands, as Huffam put it, "on what appears to be a very beautiful, unspoiled paradise of a planet, but from there on, it just all goes downhill for them."
https://www.moviefone.com/2017/03/01/10-things-we-learned-on-the-set-of-alien-covenant/
David 8 sent a distress signal of "human form".
Is this image below a portion of recovered human technology (along with ship transmitter) used to send the signal that brought the Covenant crew off course to the planet Paradise?
David 8 and Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (if alive) could have visited many human worlds or outposts or lured other space travelers to Paradise in the ten years in between Prometheus and Alien: Covenant. Dr. Shaw appears to be singing or humming the same song played on the record player in the above image.
The assumption here is that she spent time listening to this record playing a song over 100 years old at the time and David 8 could have used it maybe when she was gone (dead). The song included in a transmission to the humans would fit as a primer pattern easily decoded by listening satellites.
Of all the songs written by the year 2100, Dr. Shaw is humming the same song (in the below hologram) heard when the record is playing in the room with the view similar to the wheat field near a mountain on Paradise.
David 8 sends a signal recognized as human technology in the transmission (see above interview) and the Covenant colony mission is sent there because the feedback was that Paradise was a better colony planet than the Covenant initial destination.
Movie Description from Fox Movies below:
Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship Covenant discover what they think is an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world, whose sole inhabitant is the synthetic David, survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.
http://www.foxmovies.com/movies/alien-covenant
well, transmitting a song like that WOULD certainly get attention and state 'Hey, Hoomans are here!', so if that's what he did, then it was a very clever thing to do as it would also serve to allay suspicion.
IN SPACE THERE IS NO WARNING
True, it would. Yeah, if David uses this song as part of the beacon, that shows some real cunning and craftiness.
IN SPACE THERE IS NO WARNING
David 8 doesn't use the record player though. It is from Daniels' room beside the screen out of view.
@Ingeniero I think you're right, you can see the folders on the bed look like they're almost in the same position
@M577 In one of the recent trailers Daniels makes a comment about the planet, Paradise, being hidden. The question is how was the planet "hidden"?
yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why
