Indeed,Alien:Covenantopened with a snarl on its face and a change in its heart.
Unceremoniously killed in a coldly callous opening wherein their spaceship from the previous film crashes and burns on entry.
Hence the unthinking slaughter of Ripleys surrogate family.
ToAlien: Covenants credit, it treats this course correction with more solemnity thanAlien 3.
This has profoundly problematic implications.
This is really Davids series now.
Whoever hes tucking in (likely with bed bugs) is incidental.
Fodder for his fantasies.
But the perfunctory nature underscores the entire structural failure ofAlien: Covenant.
One with biblical overtones and secular machinations that combines Lovecraftian ideas about angry gods with a slick sci-fi future.
She even repeats Ripleys line inAlienI got you, you son of a bitchin a moment of premature victory.
She also is wholly unprepared for making snap judgement decisions like performing a C-section on herself.
TheAlienmovie they are in is simply a commercial necessity for Scott to make his David film.
The prologue that Scott deleted from his movieshould have beenthe movie.
It mightve been drastically new territory for Scott as a filmmaker, not to mention theAlienfranchise.
Instead, the movie Scott wanted to make is a flashback and cutting room fodder.
And the protagonist who drove it was insultingly given the Newt treatment.
Its a missed opportunity, much likeAlien: Covenantas a whole.
