Shaw and David (Spoilers) for those who have seen AC

Nope, I believe it was after that - Walter explained that David not knowing that Byron was not the author of the Ozimandias poem was symptomatic of a far bigger corruption. 

If anyone can remember the exact lines - would appreciate it - for me it is the key to the whole film.

@sherris

Indeed thats the only Logical explanation as i think she would not be so foolish to go into the Life-boat unless after a few days had past.

@St4rB34st

Interesting theory, i however think this was one of the Crew Neomorphs, but indeed David was more upset about Oram killing the Neomorph than the Xenomorph... but i guess David knew he had brought TWO on board with him (Face Hugger Embryos) and he had to Sacrifice the Xenomorph so that he can fool the Crew and then get them into Cryo-sleep

@Wonder boy

Indeed Broken David would contribute to his behavior too, we all saw what happened to Broken Ash after he suffered his first blow.  I almost thought David was going to roll up those drawings Daniels found and try and force them down her throat like Ash tried with Ripley ;)

@BigDave

I think it safe to assume from the interviews, Fassbender wouldn't have minded David going even more OTT and to be honest - I wouldn't have minded it either. 

David had mixed feelings for Shaw, that's why he created zenomorphs, well not the the sole reason. If you backtrack, you'll realize David has always been rogue. He named himself David intentionally, because he wanted to slay Goliath. The constant belittling he had to deal with in Prometheus just added fuel to the flame. He initially saved the virus for humanity, until they found out the engineer's ship was operating. He created a  subservience creature and claims he is kinG, when he speaks to Walter. He thinks he's no different than his creator, but he's really just doing the same. He's obsessed with control and power because he didn't have it on earth, so by any means necessary, he was going to where the engineers lived. He did like Shaw, but he hated humanity more, or did he like her at all? He's a great manipulator, both mentally and emotionally like any psychopath. Everything he has done and will do is calculated. Notice the 'care' he had on the ship when he posed as Walter? He buttered up Shaw with compliments because he knew it would build trust. Trust grant she'd let her guard down. His goal is world domination, but Walter tells him something _along the lines of 'if a note is off, the entire symphony is.' He's too human and it'll he his downfall when his creature becomes more self aware than he assumes. 

Also, I find it intriguing now similar this film is to the anunnaki tablets. Maybe it's a sign maybe it isn't. 

In this YouTube video, it shows David putting Shaw in the sleep chamber, just as he does with Daniels. Not good news for Daniels...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUNAFQuzUzY

The above image is David 8 projecting a childish crush on Dr. Shaw to placate her (my opinion). Laughable dumbed down artwork for a lonely Dr. Shaw. Poor thing.

This action with Dr. Shaw above is a facade stretched over a total emotionally sterile robot who is designed to fabricate emotions. Everything; tombstone, pictures, I love her so much, etc...and a dissected Dr. Shaw.

I say this because David 8 showed his drawing ability in his workshop below.

David 8 was very convincing in his affection before running a pipe through Walter's throat. Emotions are currency for David 8's emotionally sterile objectives.

Yes, this starts to break down when the madness (Ozymandias author error and realization by David 8) is introduced. Madness is the best part and impossible to predict with David 8.

After finally having seen AC it’s of course interesting to discuss and analyse it. I agree with much of what many of you have said here.

David is of course the most interesting character. Is he a villain (devil) or an anti villain? Is his goal of creating a perfect being admirable? He sees the flaws (even cruelty) of mankind and the engineers. What if Shaw and David are in love? Neither of them can create life (children) in a normal way so what if she agrees to let David help her/them to get children? The experiments with Shaw and the pathogen then goes out of hand.

On the other hand, David might be confused about what love is (which can be seen in the dialog between him and Walter) and he does this to Shaw against her will but believing it’s the right thing to do (both wanting to create life).

He might, of course, also have become the mad scientist (Dr Moreau) or the mad colonel Kurtz (Heart of Darkness) whose moral compass goes astray. But what is his goal with creating the perfect being? He fulfils the need of creating himself (becoming human or even above humans) but why create a being which is aggressive and violent? Is it the same purpose as the engineers had, making a biological weapon to destroy mankind?

Finally, there is the problem of tying the whole shebang to the original Alien movie. If David creates the eggs which finally end up in the derelict on LV-426, then the space jockey cannot be fossilised (thousands of years old). I also wonder if David really creates the xenomorph or just tries to re-create it (we have the mural of the godlike perfect being)?

Ridley Scott confirmed David created the Xenomorphs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo30bZc10D0&t=220s

Maybe the Engineers fossilize quicker?

Yes, JPFFL, I suppose they might fossilise quicker or there might be a natural disaster of some kind, like a volcano eruption, which quickly turns the space jockey to stone. But there is the mural of the perfect being in the facility on LV-223 (the mural also contains facehuggers). The engineers must have worshipped and tried to recreate the xenomorph, experimenting with the pathogen. The outbreak, probably due to an accident or carelessness, led to some kind of alien creature (maybe a deacon) hunting the engineers through the corridors as seen in the hologram (The heap of long dead engineers outside the closed door in the facility with holes in their chests suggests that they had been attacked by facehuggers). Also, the deacon (which is quite similar to the xenomorph) was created with the pathogen, through holloways intercourse with Shaw. Furthermore, the neomorph seems to have been created through the pathogen cloud which David lets out over the engineers contaminating the whole planet, spawning the spores.

But I agree that Scott says in the interview that David Creates the xenomorph, but maybe he will change his mind again into David recreating it?

After AC I had double feelings about David and Elizabeth.
Based on different theories and my own notices, I concluded, that David loved Shaw.
To describe "emotional" condition of David I would like to parallel David from Prometheus and David from AC.
In Prometheus David was handsome, winsome, looking after himself, venturesome.
In AC hi is devastated, lost and even bored in some moments.
I think, that this changIng came with Shaw's death, and David has internal debate between guilty for her death and
self - persuasion of necessity of her death.
David said that he created his own perfect world, so it makes sense, that he might be happy,
but I didn't see his happiness.
During the AC, David looks like devastated, wailful, broken android with splashes of madness(this madness I didn't notice in Prometheus)
I think, this madness began after he killed Elizabeth(for some reason).
After chestburster erupted from Oram, David must feel triumph for his creature, but he didn't.
Instead of this he is playing on flute with total empty look.
This scene with Shaw's photo, her cross, smoke and melody from Prometheus(which actually call "Life") reminds me some sort of
ritual with David's subconscious desire to bring her back to life.
How I see, David tears up between acceptance of guilty fo her death and tendency to create perfect organism in an effort to
heal the pain(The trick is not minding that it hurts).
Walter's words about wrong note, which ruins all symphony, in my opinion, represent David's Paradise, which lost by reason
of some mistake(Elizabeth's death, perphaps).