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My question list regarding the prequels.

ignorantGuy

MemberChestbursterAugust 03, 20173195 Views22 Replies

First my stance is that I love Prometheus but hate Covenant will all my heart. Many of them are not important to the story but they bug me. But let's begin:

1. Was dr Shaw an archaeologist, was she mentioned as such? Because she knew how to operate the instruments in the science lab and knew about the very rare medical pod was not she a medical doctor of kinds. If so repairing David's body was not uphold Hippocrates' Oath and as such accepting as more than a tool?

2. In 2012, I saw Prometheus as being marketed as a movie in the same universe as Alien, but was under a wrong impression. When did it become a prequel trilogy? Or was it all along?

3. How old was David by the time of Covenant? 50-60(judging on the age of Wayland)? Walter was no more than let's say 10 (probably built after the Prometheus mission launch). So why in the cosmic do they look alike? And the bugs in the programming where found after more than 40 years, or Wayland and Vickers would have gone with a fault synth to Lv-whatever? And if the issues were found wouldn't the exterior of the synth be the first to be changed to reassure the clients?

4. In the faux disclaimer of Meet Walter there is a part about losing the rights to your DNA if you fail to pay for you synth if I saw it correctly. Is there DNA used in Synth? Who's was used for David?

5.In the First scene of Covenant, how in the Hell did David draw the conclusion that he is immortal, or for that matter how did he know what death is? How many generations of synths were there before him? Were they still alive?

For me 3 and 5 smell terribly as retcon. David was made the sole protagonist only in covenant, as evidenced in 2012 RS interviews, where he talked about the horrific things she (Shaw would find on Paradise, well she never reach there alive).

6. How in the hell did know about the John Denver song? In Prometheus, when Janek plays that stupid musical instrument (owned once if I call correctly by Greg Lake of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer) in front Vickers and tells about the owner is has not the any clue about who that was. Is it Covenant scene only there for artistic reasons?

7. How can people like David in spite of his overt nazism?

Sorry for the wasted time, but maybe you can shed a light on some of them.

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Yeah i totally get you, a Meteor Strike does have the ability to be far more devastating than a large number of Nukes. But such things are Nature and in Nature there are events that wipe the slate clean with some species..  which include Volcanic Activity and then you have the Natural order of the Food chain as well as Natural Climate Change.. which will effect some species survival... i do think Mankind has contributed to such declines though. But if Mankind never existed then over Millions of years Species will come and go, its all part of Nature.

I just think with David and a lot of AI movies have touched upon this, is that once AI becomes Sentient it will eventually see the Good and Bad of Mankind, and its effects on the World, and potentially at some point would consider that culling of Mankind is required for the greater good, once AI has came to see itself as Superior to Mankind, and then not needing Mankind.

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Indeed Walter is a new Model, and the Company would indeed want to make sure they have the Optimum Model running a Ship.

David is different... Weyland created the androids for a few reasons and with the Prototype, Weyland adopted him as his own Personnel Assistant and Son of sorts... and indeed had allowed a lot more Free-will to his own Personnel David model than other Androids were allowed... Weylands  David is in effect Lucifer if the other Davids are in effect like the Angels of sorts...   That allowing his (GOD/Weyland) own Personnel Favored Creation (Lucifer/David) have more free-will had proved to be a great Hubris.

R.I.P Sox  01/01/2006 - 11/10/2017

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ignorantGuy
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Man í keep coming back. Why does not Walter sleep like ash or bishop? Wouldn't it expand the time between maintenance? David clearly learned Shaw, Peter O'Toole and ancient Babylonian. Was he maintaining anything?

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