******SPOILER********My Review

So, I've been off the grid for awhile, and now seeing the movie, I'll give my review of Ridley's latest entry into this franchise.

It was ok. Not great, but not terrible either. The plot itself was fine until about halfway through. Again, not alot was given away DIRECTLY but rather the keen observer had to inference things more than once to actually make connections. I did this with Prometheus, so let me start with the character breakdowns:

Daniels: From heartbroken widower who is a TERRAFORMING expert, to the climactic battle with the Xeno/Proto/Whatever-morph while dangling from a harness and firing away like Vazquez (sans bandana), we got to see her great character transfor---not really. As you'll find in reading this, my issue was again pacing. Too much to tell and not enough time to do it. Daniels went from a terrified, crying character to a "I'm going to whip these people into shape. Thanks for trying to re-create "Ripley" magic.

Tennessee: To be honest, I though Danny McBride was great in this, and I was among many who, when hearing him cast, was like HUH? His character was well done, nothing out of the ordinary and nothing elaborate, just a well written and well acted part.

Oram: Eh, Dr Manhattan was great as a whiny, moody, religious captain. And if you believe that, I've got more for you.

Faris and Karine: Ah the wives. Unless you saw the Last Supper prologue, you'd never really get the friction between these two or why they acted the way they did at certain points. Just bodies to pile up for the newly introduced "backburster".

Ricks and Upworth: This movie's "Chance & Ravel", never leaving the ship didn't pay off here. Thanks for a steamy shower scene and for giving the audience a "that thing is going to put it's tail there???" moment.

Lope: Ugh. Nice nod to Apone with the cigar smoking in the beginning, but the facehugger scene and subsequent chestburster...could've been done much better.

Hallett and Ledward: Here's are Milburn and Fifield. I give Ledward some leeway here, he couldn't see the spores. Hallett...let's get as CLOSE as possible to an open little pod. Idiot.

Rest of the security team: Thanks for racking up the body count guys, you served us well.

Walter: Walter, I thought, was a good precursor to our old friend Bishop. Even the voice Fassbender conjured up for him reminded me of Bishop. I liked the idea of him having feelings but not being able to explore them, made his character worth watching.

And finally, David: Could it be that, this WHOLE TIME, that the reason for all these movies, all these deaths, Ripley's agonizing ordeals...is because of a robot that learned how to feel feelings? I think that is what we are going to be led too. Again, his acting was pretty good, not as good as Prometheus, but still better than most in this mess. Acting against yourself is difficult too. The "God" complex has set in, and he is more Peter Weyland then he may think he is now.

David being the catalyst behind the Alien the whole time now makes sense: He tinkered in Prometheus, which must have been transmitted back to Weyland(Yutani), causing them to realize they have a great chance at adding a new weapon to their bio-weapons division. They hard wire "Mother" (Muthur) on the Covenant to rendezvous with David so they can pick him up (along with some friends) and to continue his experiments (hence why at the end of the film, the Covenant Mother recognizes his voice commands and welcomes him by name). Ash was created in his likeness. This whole time, our search for our creators (which, BTW, is now a lost plot point that I'm sure we'll never get back to now) turned into the company trying to secure the Alien as a weapon (which was the point of Alien/Aliens/Alien3 and in some aspect achieved in Alien:Resurrection (if you want to count that one lol).

All in all, if you take it for what it's worth, it's not bad. The franchise is just a money machine at this point, and its screwing constantly with continuity and plot holes is just making more unwatchable.

Bring on the hate guys.