This article contains majorAlien: Covenantspoilers.
He now considers this a mistake and even viewsAlien: Covenantas a chance to make amends.
While discussing the disappointment aroundPrometheuswithYahoo!
So I thought, Wow, okay, Im wrong.
It seems as with playing God onscreen, being a moviemaking progenitor is also a messy business.
As it turns out, the sinister synthetic spent years on the Engineers home world dabbling in gene-splicing.
And from their ruin, David went the full Frankenstein and crafted a perfect organism.
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There is a certain logic to this that is appealing.
But it also begets a great deal of retconning.
But apparently not to Ridley Scott since the Queen appears permanently removed from the lore ofAlien: Covenant.
Like the originalAlien, they create the perfect organism that one suspects David considers alone in its purity.
By this he means the evolutionary triumph of a peak predator with no discernable vulnerabilities.
Also like theAlien: Isolationgame, the original creature is pretty much indestructible.
InCovenant, the two xenomorphs we do glimpse also appear to be harder to kill than the drones inAliens.
They just keep coming.
There are also certain other aspects about the creatures methods that return to the perverse nightmare of Scotts original.
In that film, the Alien not only appears like a psychosexual fever dream endured by H.R.
Giger (and it was!
), but it also acted that way too.
The way the tail climbs up the character of Lamberts leg implies a heinous physical violation beyond mere consumption.
As a result, it is more animalistic, crawling on all foursslighter in size but swifter in attack.
And for what its worth, we also gleaned what an Alien-Predator hybrid looked like inAVP: Requiem.
Scott and David seem disinterested in this idea.
The host seems to be wholly a vessel and not a biological mate inAlien: Covenant.
Theyre just materials for Davids perfect organism to be given life.
AndersonsAlien vs. Predatorcrossover monstrosity.
Alien: Covenantseems much less bothered about creating gaps with Scotts original film, never mind evenPrometheus.
Indeed, the space truckers of that film mused the ship had been there for a long time.
Further,Alien: Covenantbends and ignores many rules established by Scotts first science fiction picture.
Kane then appears to have about an hour after it is removed from his face beforethechestburster scene.
Similarly, some time passes again before the Alien becomes full-grown and life-sized.
Alien: Covenantbypasses all of these rules.
This makes the facehugger in the originalAlienjust look a little lazy, or at least overeager for cuddle time.
What do all of these elements add up to?
Fans seem to have seen it differently.
