*SPOILERS* Clever Design Details in Covenant

I remember a creature in David's lab that was in a "cross" position.

I thought that was a neat touch too... basically showed us what the Black Goo does... (re-writes DNA) but then alas... the effects was similar to being caught on the outside of a Nuclear Blast... where the Goo did not mutate the bodies or break them down much... but seemed to effect their Synthetic Clothes more lol

there is a few "subtle" moments i like:

1. In the opening, it was David who sit on the throne chair first.

2. Also in the opening, David play that music piece (forgot the name) and Weyland said without the full orchestra, it sounds kinda bland something like that. Then in the end, we hear a full orchestral version of that piece.

3. Yes the DNA helix, pretty awesome

4. The drinking bird towards the end of the film

5. I love the cave design, I want to live in there lol

6. David's long hair, i was like wtf an android throw hair but it is brilliant. 

Wow! Nice catch! I'll look for it when I see it Tuesday.

In the end, the facehugger embryo looks like a Tree of Life mandala :)

When David says to Daniels: "That's the spirit!".

Nice Blade Runner reference :-).

BZ

Wasn't Shaw's "elegy" Davis played on that stupid flute the Prometheus theme?

Yeah it was i thought it was pretty cool.

David made a stuffed engineer copy of the statue David that was seen at the start of the film where the android says his name while looking at the statue.

The moment David in Walter disguise puts his hand on Daniels' shoulder after the first xeno is killed on the cargo freighter, his hood catches the wind and moves it upwards briefly. 

David the hooded figure....

Ah I forgot this one, what does the crane attached to the cargo lander look like? 

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Yep, exactly like a giant steel inner tongue and jaw of a xenomorph! 

*raises hands, smug face* 

Thank you, thank you.

*literally no one applauds* 

Another details while the black goo ampoules where dropped.

They seem to form a cloud with the shape of a big sphere accumulating some critical mass before it finally dropped to the ground and infected the local beings.

Maybe a protective energy shield for the case that some ampoules drop unintended to give them time to evacuate.

Despite what a lot of people seem to get, like Prometheus, there are a lot of cool details like this and lots of references to poems and art correlations that many might miss.

I think it's a shame, because it really does add to the movie.

It does add to the movie and whenever a movie does that I can't help but enjoy.

It's the Kubrick influence....Ridley is obsessed with the symbolisim in Stanley's work and he wants to emulate that.

I absolutely love it all!!

I know this thread is focusing on visual symbolism, but I liked the spoken homages to Alien. The Last Super Prologue shows Upworth chocking on some food, just like Caine did in Alien prior to the chest bursting scene. Tenesse even states: "The food ain't that bad", another line from Alien. I liked that Walter says "I've got your back" after a prompt whack to her back stops her chocking.

Lastly, Captain Branso's reason for going to cryo-sleep as he's feeling queasy and "BURNING UP" - a foreboding statement indeed!

Vampire14 every little detail is welcome be it visible or spoken

I love how when Walter is stabbed by the flute, he shrivels up into a cross legged position!

"Ah I forgot this one, what does the crane attached to the cargo lander look like? 

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Yep, exactly like a giant steel inner tongue and jaw of a xenomorph!"

Neomorph, that was so obvious I didn't catch it at all. Thank you.