How did David manage to infiltrate a civilizations home planet

>>83257798
>How come the Engineers home planet looked like a Roman-technology-tier city?

Because it's aesthetic.

The movie was written as a 2deep4u way to bridge it Prometheus to Alien. Prometheus was re-written so many times that the plot is nonsensical no matter your suspension of disbelief.

My theory is that those are black engineers (hence underdeveloped technology), but we cant see it because they are albinos

>>83257849
no, its the laziest go-to scifi cliche
its like a bad star trek episode

>>83257798
>
Can we assume that the Engineers will return in the sequel, since that's the only logical explanation for how the set-up to Alien will ever actually occur
yes.

>>83257913

The sequel is an Alien remake

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In the movie Predator 2, Danny Glover sees a xenomorph skeleton on the predator ship.

How the fuck did David transport xenomorphs back in time to los angeles in the year 1997

>>83257973
Is that real? That's pretty neat,

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>>83257911
>no, its the laziest go-to scifi cliche
No, I mean being tall, muscular, and white is the highest pinnacle of aesthetic perfection, and a race of aliens who have mastered bio-engineering can shape themselves to all look exactly like that.

>>83257973
>>83258026

Would have been a lot further back then that. One of the Predators tosses Glover a pistol from the late 1800's or some shit.

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>>83258026
yes

Arguably their society was in decline like Rome? Or they were modest and not expansionist like the humans which is why they decided to kill us.

>>83258207
>they were modest
>not expansionist like humans
>the planet they were in cryo-sleep on was a military installation

>>83258312
They didn't colonize earth dude, they used it to spread life. Once they realized humans were a fucking cancer they decided to Black Goo us out

>>83257973
>Predator 2
>canon

Why do people keep bringing up AvP, Predator 2 and Aliens when the only thing Scott considers canon is Alien and Prometheus?

>>83257798
didn't know the Romans had spaceships.

>>83257798
>history is linear

>>83258414
Scott's opinion means jack shit, considering that fox owns the IP

>Ridley what are you doing? Don't you remember the aliens have a queen that lays eggs?

>ITS NOT CANON BECAUSE I DIDNT MAKE IT REEEEEEE

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>>83258414
>Scott considers

>>83257798
yes op the engineers only went to earth, the planet in prometheus and their home planet, that was all of them lol

>>83257798

There's a reason why the Engineers never finished what they started when they tried to destroy Earth with the black goo.

The black goo plague they unleashed on LV-223 spread to the entire Engineer civilization. They almost died out and the survivors lost all their technological know-how.

They built a primitive city around one of their ancient space docks hoping to find some of their brothers from other planets. David came instead and wiped the rest out.

>>83258475
>>83258478
FOX has give Scott's senile ass complete control over this franchise. His opinion carries more weight than some anons on a Taiwanese water polo aficionados image board.

>>83258443
The romans built a giant empire. It's logical to assume they would not be limited to one planet.

prometheus was pretty good desu, but covenant was disappointing. it's like there was an active effort to make it as uninteresting as possible

is there any hope for the next film, my bros?

>>83257909
Is this post underrated?

>>83258609
thats what they want you to think

>>83257798
It's not their homeplanet you dingus.

I think the entire point was that the engineers were a failed civilization

these engineers were surprised as fuck to see a working ship they obviously lost the tech long ago

>>83258694
Did you not see how terribly retarded Prometheus and Covenant were? It's not what I think, it's the reality we live in.

>>83257798
>How did David manage to infiltrate a civilizations home planet with bio-weapons so easily?
>Why didn't the Engineers have any sort of advanced defense systems?

maybe because that wasnt the engineers? They all gathered happy to see the ship, like if their gods are returned.

>>83258758
>>83258758
>these engineers were surprised as fuck to see a working ship they obviously lost the tech long ago

Then why the fuck did they have a fully functioning spacedock / port thingy hovering above the center of their city?

>>83257798
>How did David manage to infiltrate a civilizations home planet with bio-weapons so easily?
It's clearly not. The white dudes he killed clearly aren't the same race as the proper Engineers.
>Why didn't the Engineers have any sort of advanced defense systems?
Because they're probably some slave race
>How come the Engineers home planet looked like a Roman-technology-tier city?
Because they're probably some slave race
>Why are people saying that David wiped out the engineers when its been shown that they've colonized and created installations out of other planets, IE Prometheus?
Because they're even more retarded than you?
>Are we to assume that a civilization which has been colonizing the known universe for likely millions of years is going to be defeated by a single android that had its shit pushed in, in Prometheus?
No
>Can we assume that the Engineers will return in the sequel, since that's the only logical explanation for how the set-up to Alien will ever actually occur even though the engineer in that ship was millennia's old which discounts the fact that David was the first to have created them?
Yasss. I swear though, if they make David a fucking time traveller who created the Engineers from the humans and thus some stupid paradox bullshit, I'm going to be pissed.

>>83258823

It was the last remaining working space dock from their previous civilization. They built around it hoping to find other survivors from their other worlds, but David came instead.

None of this makes any sense, Scott obviously doesnt even remember the details in Alien and Prometheus, the engineer in Alien is way older than David, and in Prometheus we see a mural of a xenomoprh so unless time travel is involved there is no way David invented the xenomorph.

As stand alone movies though, Alien is obviously good, Prometheus is retarded but has nice visuals, covenant is just ok (great performance by Fass in both).

But attempting to make a connection between the 3(not even gonna mention the others cause Scott doesnt consider them canon) is pointless cause all three of this senile fuck's movies contradict each other. He just cant into prequels.

>>83258607
>The black goo plague they unleashed on LV-223 spread to the entire Engineer civilization

How could a terrestrial-based bio weapon spread on a galactic scale when decades have passed and humans have absolutely no knowledge of it?

How come it didn't spread to earth and wipe us out?

How did they just "lose" their technological know-how when they have ways to engineer their own bodies thus increasing their efficiency and ability?

How come none of what you said was explained or even referenced in the films?

How come Scott Ridley literally stated that the hologram projection in Prometheus was depicting a battle between warring Engineers and that the Engineers were in conflict with each other and your "black goo" explanation has no basis in the films or from Scott's own opinion?

>>83258924
He said the hologram was a war between engineers????

>>83258836
>Because they're probably some slave race
>Because they're even more retarded than you?

If I'm retarded, then how come you're the inbred retard that basis his entire argument and explanation on the "probable assumption" that it's not the Engineers?

>>83259001
The ionic storm is a strong hint that it was a refugee planet and they were hiding there from something.

>>83257798

Do we know 100% that is is the Engineers' home planet, or did David just say "I'll take you to their home planet", while it was just another planet that he knew the Engineers lived on?

David is an unreliable narrator, as you know.

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>>83257798
That planet was just another engineer experiment, just like Earth. Those weren't engineers. They are a sub-species created by the engineers for some unknown purpose like humans.

If david wanted living hosts to experiment on, then why did he kill literally everybody on the entire planet except for elizabeth shaw?

>>83259081
There's no evidence of this. Shaw clearly said they were going to the engineer homeworld at the end of Prometheus

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>>83259001
Look at them. They're clearly not the same race. Their skin isn't translucent at all. Unless they just cheaped out in production, there's not reason these two things would be the same species unless the new ones are just tanned or something?

>>83258924

The black goo turns intelligent life forms into zombies slowly as seen in Prometheus.

An infected Engineer didn't know he was infected, flew to their homeworld, became a zombie along the way and the ship auto-docked. The the process kept repeating until the Engineers were all dead.

>>83257798
Because you're gay.

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>>83258909
The mural isn't necessarily meant to be the xeno. At the end of Prometheus and throughout Covenant you see that xeno-like mutations are a common effect of the black stuff on living things, even before David ever gets his hands on it. All Covenant insinuates is that his xenomorph is created to be better than the average thing that the goo shits out.

So this mural is really just showing that the effects of the weapon were clearly understood to the beings that produced it.

It's a shit use of artistic license on the changing design and behavior of the alien throughout the series, but it isn't nonsensical.

>>83257798
They probably wiped out every engineer planet, and that one was just the last one

>>83258414
He also considers James Cameron's Queen canon.

>>83259259
It's just Ridley Scott being a lazy hack.

>>83259259
It was a britain space colony, abandoned after space exploration fund cuts.

>>83259259
>there's not reason these two things would be the same species
back to /pol/ you. clearly these are the engineer kangs and the evil earth engineer was their slave

>>83257798
>How did David manage to infiltrate a civilizations home planet with bio-weapons so easily?
He didn't

>Why didn't the Engineers have any sort of advanced defense systems?
They probably did/do

>How come the Engineers home planet looked like a Roman-technology-tier city?
That wasn't their home planet

>Why are people saying that David wiped out the engineers when its been shown that they've colonized and created installations out of other planets, IE Prometheus?
You tell me

>Are we to assume that a civilization which has been colonizing the known universe for likely millions of years is going to be defeated by a single android that had its shit pushed in, in Prometheus?
No

>Can we assume that the Engineers will return in the sequel, since that's the only logical explanation for how the set-up to Alien will ever actually occur even though the engineer in that ship was millennia's old which discounts the fact that David was the first to have created them?
Probably yes

Here is a theory.

They aren't exactly the same race, but that is the engineer homeworld. The engineers as we know them are not examples of ordinary members of their race. They are some kind of elite caste. Engineers are members of their race that have mastered the manipulation of organic matter, and they used this knowledge to alter themselves. Which is why they look different. They kept this knowledge from the general population and ruled over them as gods.

The engineers left their planet to test their pathogen on humans long ago but didn't return to their people. When the ship returned to the planet they thought their gods had come back to them, and that's why they were so joyous.

>>83259423
Do white people have translucent skin? No, the difference is melanin. Even the palest white people don't have translucent skin. You need a different skin cell structure for that.

>>83259296
He said he created the perfect organism, why the fuck would he give it that convoluted life cycle of queen(?) into egg into facehugger into chestburst when the neomoprh just spreads through spores and is ready to kill within an hour. Isnt the neomorph strictly better?

>>83259275
>The black goo turns intelligent life forms into zombies slowly as seen in Prometheus.

But the very first scene of Promtheus involves black goo killing an Engineer in seconds.

>>83257798
>David was the first to have created them?

I still dont think David created them, I think the virus that the engineers created would eventually evolve into the xenomorph regardless of David's intentions but because it consumed enough human-like creatures.

For all we know the virus itself wasnt the weapon but a way to create a weapon, the engineers bred humans in Earth so they could then use the virus to create the real weapon that was the xenomorph and if the Alien vs Predator is canon then its possible the xenomorph was created elsewhere and sold to Predators to hunt and Earth was, instead of its origin, meant to be one of countless xenomorph breeding grounds.

>>83259001
you're the one making an assumption based on nothing. they don't look engineers, and them being engineers wouldn't make any sense. not only are you making that huge assumption, you're making it based on absolutely nothing, and in the face of pretty significant information to the contrary

>>83258414
>The only thing Scott considers canon is Alien and Prometheus?

Do we really want this? He has pretty much become the new George Lucas at this point.

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>>83259259
That just boils down to the difficulty in making a variety of extras look like the Engineer's poster boy.

Ridley has already proved himself inept in replicating the groundwork he laid down in previous films.

>>83259538
Maybe because the black spore stuff would burn itself out before spreading? The xeno cycle is both more independent and takes longer. Since it takes longer it can spread further.

>>83259538
Because facehuggers, Xenomorphs and queens are all capable of much greater autonomy in spreading and adapting than simple spores.

what will david do with the humans on the covenant?

>>83259339
Then why did he just retcon queens out of the canon by making David the creator of the aliens?

>>83259585
>That just boils down to the difficulty in making a variety of extras look like the Engineer's poster boy.
Nah, it's easy enough to make them look semi-translucent.

>>83259549

Holloway only had a drop of goo and it slowly turned him into a zombie or was just gonna kill him. The Engineer drank a large amount of it. That might be the difference.

The geologist guy that actually turned into a zombie seemed to just fall in a puddle of it.

The effects seem random depending on what the writer wants to happen.

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>>83259259
>They're clearly not the same race.
Are they the same race as the engineers that fuse their bodies into their own cockpit with a feeding tube?

I think you're on the right track with the "slave race" thing though.

There's clearly some kind of caste system, and they are shaping their bodies to fit the job they were born for.

The warrior caste is taller, stronger, and they have the skeletal bio suits.

The slaves we see in Covenant are clearly much shorter.

>>83259660
Experiment on them to grow a perfect Xeno

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>>83258629
>prometheus was pretty good

>>83259700
he already did that

>>83259660
Use them for his experiments. Slowly improving his creations until he arrives at the perfect being, the xenomorph.

>>83259660
Turn them into engineers, go back in time, and populate the Engineer race :). I mean the Engineers are clearly engineered for space travel
>light pale skin
>eyes that probably don't work too well
They're designed right after a lot of deep sea and cave dwelling species. Plus they're fucking huge/tall, well beyond what would happen naturally.

>>83259509
>Engineers are members of their race that have mastered the manipulation of organic matter, and they used this knowledge to alter themselves. Which is why they look different. They kept this knowledge from the general population and ruled over them as gods.

Literally Zardoz lol

>>83259585
They have different eyes you senile fuck

>>83259583
>Do we really want this?
I want Scott to retire before he starts making Gladiator prequels.

>>83259694
>Are they the same race as the engineers that fuse their bodies into their own cockpit with a feeding tube?
Maybe their biosuits can grow/adapt and it tried to cocoon the Engineer to preserve it?

>>83259741
pretty much

>>83259660

Repeat Aliens.

Ridley might even make a xeno queen in the next movie, but make it look different to claim ownership of it over Cameron.

>>83259701
pretty good in comparison. with what was established in prometheus, there was at least hope that they could've gone somewhere interesting with the story

but it seems like they've fucked it up with covenant pretty much

>>83257798
David's ship crashed at some point so maybe those that weren't black-goo'd did put up a fight

>>83259694
The space jockey in Alien was clearly meant to be a fossilized skeleton by Geiger, not a space suit.

>>83259759
>I want Scott to retire before he starts making Gladiator prequels.

I want Ridley Scott to die before he makes a Kingdom of Heaven sequel where all Christians are evil

>>83259758
Again, the difficulty in executing that original design six years after they made Prometheus on several dozen extras for a five second shot is probably more than Scott cared to overcome.

>>83259585
>>83259866
Not only that but the fossil in Alien is actually much larger than the engineer in Prometheus. Don't believe me go back and watch the scene in Alien.

>>83259887
Ridley "tfw to intelligent" wouldn't purposefully not include it if he cared enough to put in female engineers ((that almost look identical to the males))

Anyone else upset that Shaw was killed of screen? David kept saying how she was kind to him, then he murders and butchers her and we never learn why...

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>>83259978

>>83260054
Because David is fucking insane, he's a robot who thinks he has feelings.

>>83259259
>Unless they just cheaped out in production
I mean, did you not notice how shitty the cgi was, too?

>>83259509
I have a similar but simpler theory:

We saw in Prometheus that humans evolved from engineer DNA, the same deal happened on this planet, however the resulting species was closer to the engineers than the humans were. The engineers maybe stuck around along enough to be worshipped as gods, which is why they rejoice when they see the ship, they believe its the gods returning to them. They could also be less advanced depending on either them just being an inferior species or them being newer than humans.

Where did the eggs that david has come from? I thought a queen laid them? How is he going to make more aliums with just 2 face huggers? I don't understand how they're suppose to reproduce now.

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>>83260097
Manlet engineer

>>83257798
It was just their backwater version of that flyover state you never heard of before.

>>83259259
This movie's budget was $50 million+ less than Prometheus.

>>83260128
Yeah but cheaping out on an important scene when all they have to do is give them a bluish tint and semi-translucent

>>83259998
>purposefully
This is the problem, you're setting your expectations for him too high at this point.

Listen to his commentaries, there's a lot of "looks close enough" and "we shot this ahead of schedule and under budget!"

>>83260054
He feels emotions but doesnt understand them the same way we do
Plus Shaw looked pretty sick from the flashbacks, im guessing the black goo was still infecting her she contracted it after having sex with whats his name last film.

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>>83260054
I dont think she was killed and butchered.
David experimented on her with the goo, ALIVE, for a long, long time.
Her body is not in an advanced state of decay. It's possible that she died very shortly before the movie starts.

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>>83257798
Engineers are DONE, get over it. They were a mistake in the first place

>>83258026
No, it's not. The movie is fiction, it never happened in real life.

>>83260219
That prop is pretty confusing, because there's a sketch in the film of Shaw with her jaw removed.

>>83260219

What exactly is this and what happens on screen to let the viewers know that David killed her? I haven't seen it

>>83260219
I can't stand this. Basically the movie I wanted to see happened between Prometheus and Covenant. It's like some kind of sick joke.

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>>83260297
Thanks reddit

>>83260325
but when she's shown in the film she has her eyes closed and her jaw is fine
i think they just cg'd a better likeness of Roomi over this prop

>>83260219
Was this in the movie?

>>83260407
The actress probably just didn't want to be a part of this shit show anymore so they killed her off.

>>83260133
>Where did the eggs that david has come from? I thought a queen laid them?

I think he did something to Elizabeth to create them from her body. In a sick sort of way, David probably thought he was helping her become a mother, by becoming mother to a brand new species.

>>83260325
>>83260424
David is creative and imaginative. He could have just made that sketch as a piece of artwork. He may have even created the sketch and put it in a more conspicuous area to support his story that she died in the crash.

>>83260505
>Was this in the movie?
Yes

>>83260384
Daniels finds David's sketches of a mutilated Shaw, then asks David if she really died in the crash, he says no, then she asks him what he did to her and he responds "exactly what im going to do to you" and tries to kill her.

Thats literally it.

>>83257798
The roman-tier city I can accept easily.
After all, this civilization is at least 500 million years old.
If I was rich as fuck, I'd also go live in a house that'd appear very simple with japanese ceramics that are naturally imperfect instead of perfect factory-produced shit.

But it's retarded as fuck that they'd have no idea what the fuck was going on in that spaceship. No fail-safe. Nothing.

>>83257798

I had these same exact questions. I was bummed as fuck when it was revealed Shaw died, I wanted to see her interact with the Covenant crew. The part where David alone destroys that city... BULLSHIT. It was so unconvincing that they have literally NO defense against an attack like that. Don't they have sociopaths within their own society? All it takes is a genetic defect.

I have the answer to every question in this thread:

It's a shit movie. Move on.

>>83260530
Is this just speculation or is there anything in the movie to confirm this? I still don't understand how he can make more for the next movie with no goo and only two face huggers.

>>83258836
Correct.

>>83259585
looks like the baby version lol

>>83260680
What, the paradox time travelling shit?

>>83259001
>Literally nothing in the film said it was their home world.

>Literally nothing in the film said that was their entire race he killed

Why do people get this wrong

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>>83260643
>Is this just speculation or is there anything in the movie to confirm this?
Speculation. It's my autistic headcanon, based partly on shit from Labyrinth.

>>83258836
This. I assumed when I saw it that it was some other race the Engineers had created. They made humans, presumably they seeded tons of planets with races that looked like smaller versions of themselves.

>>83260616
>>83260592
This plot hole is a non issue considering that was there home planet and they only have one city and the entire planet got wrecked. Why did david even do that? There's nobody left to experiment on after that. I see no logical reason why he would destroy an entire civilization unprovoked with no apparent benefit.

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>>83259585
Covenants retcons aren't even in the same league of retarded and unnecessary as this dogshit. God I hate Prometheus.

I'd rather have seen a Prometheus 2. For all its flaws, it would've still been a more interesting movie. Ridley Scott should just be an art director at this point.

What do you think about this idea:
Start the movie sort of like 2001. Have it open on a vast landscape with a single, or multiple, engineers walking all over the place. They encounter small dinosaurs. But then they discover that they're also a ton of big ones. Could've inserted a scene where engineers encounter a T-Rex or something like.
Eventually they go back to the spaceship and decide that shit didn't turn out as they'd hoped and they wipe out the dinosaurs, so intelligent life might've a chance now, since they fucked up the first try.
Could be 10-20 minutes with a new take on dinosaurs that actually have feathers, or some shit.

>>83260643
>I still don't understand how he can make more for the next movie with no goo and only two face huggers.
Same way you could take some frozen sperm and some frozen eggs and make humans with an artificial womb in this future universe.

>>83259726
>perfect
>cant even fly
>intelligence of a dog
>has a retarded lifecycle

>>83260957
>flying is reliant on atmosphere and the gravity of a planet
>requires huge compromises in strength and robustness in the process
No thanks. Also
>intelligence of a dog
They're pretty bright. Intelligence only helps so much
>has a retarded life cycle
No?

>>83260992
>egg
>facehugger
>chestburster
>xeno
>repeat

instead of just
>xeno
>chestburster

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>>83260992
>No?
Theyre dependant on hosts to reproduce ctfu world

>>83260886

Brainlets demanded xenos so he delivered. We probably will never get engineer kino now.

Also david didnt create the xenos he just followed the recipe. If people even watched the movie they talk about androids lacking the ability to create.

I hope Ridley does not even tie us back into Alien 79 as a fuck you to the fanbase.

>>83261102
>I hope Ridley does not even tie us back into Alien 79 as a fuck you to the fanbase.
He already confirmed somewhere that there will be like two or three movies, with the last one tying in the first Alien movie.

I swear to you, this will be a fucking Rogue One situation where the distress signal gets activated right as the movie ends.

>>83258607

This. They were destroyed by their own technology much like David will do to man.

>>83260325
I thought it was a egg being regurgitated out of her mouth not her jaw being removed.

>>83261102
My favourite thing about the Alien prequels is how advanced the technology looks in the prequels which are supposed to be set in the past

>>83258054
He was talking about the city. Why greentext that if you're going to talk about something else entirely?

>>83259259

Its obviously cheap production but fits with the idea that engineer civilization collapsed and thats why they never got around to killing off humans in 2000 years.

>>83261048
>>83261090
You dipshits realize that they're perfect in the way colony insects are, right? Also there are real compromises that bipedal animals have to make in order to bring offspring or eggs (the latter being less so... but still) to term, especially if you want them to develop fast enough with the energy requires these sorts of things would have. It's pretty ridiculous to think otherwise. The egg-facehugger-chestburster/xeno makes perfect sense. The eggs are easy enough to make with a dedicated specialized unit or to do as they did in the first movie (see: most hive and colony insects), the face hugger develops quickly and cheaply, so if it can't find a host and dies it's not as much of a waste (they're disposable essentially), the chestburster grows into a xeno so that's just normal?

>>83261164
Fat chance after the reviews of both Prometheus and Covenant, as well as Covenant doing shit at the box office.

>>83259665
We haven't seen any queens yet, that doesn't mean David can't introduce them into the xenomorph life cycle in some way, assuming he's the one to do so.

>>83261085
The point is that David did all sorts of shit while, essentially by hand with no technology. On a ship that's literally designed around turning a few thousand colonists into a civilization of millions or billions...

>>83261291
but they dont even need to make eggs they can just use 5ml of spores

I JUST CAN'T GET OVER THE FACT HOW UTTERLY RETARDED THE ENGINEERS LOOK.
WHY THESE DESIGN CHOICES. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

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>>83261291
>the need for a queen to lay the eggs rather than allowing each alien to independently lay their own
Tfw to intelligent

>>83259660

turn the ship around to let the xenos loose on earth. Walter will confront him with an engineer ship and daniels will resist within the ship. The ship will be destroyed moments before re-entry.

Scott is a hack. He made a few OK movies but he is long past his prime. The Martian was 'OK' but nowhere near as good as Gladiator which is nowhere near as good as Blade Runner which is nowhere near as good as Alien. Basically every movie he has made has seen a steady decline in quality.

I hate how inconsistent the story is with the black goo just because how it is applied why does it work differently and why do the aliens look different from the standard xenomorph

>>83259665
>>83259701

brainlets pls go

>>83261338
The spores have too short of an incubation time and are dependent on chance. The short incubation time would lead to them burning through hosts/whatever too quickly, ie it's too infectious and deadly. It's a targeted weapon, not a plague or civilization ender while also (like the black goo and sneks) being more controllable.

>>83261401
>literally ignoring half my post
In order for every xeno to be able to lay their own eggs they'd have to have their own egg sack which would severely limit their abilities. So it makes sense that you'd only have specialized egg layers.

>>83261482
>not a plague or civilization ender
You see it wipe out a civilization in the fucking movie.

>>83260054

he needed her ovaries for the eggs but yes it upset me because the only good parts of covenant were the prometheus parts

>>83261482
if xenos just vomited spores out their ass everytime they ate a dude it would be far more efficient than laying eggs

>>83261454
>David literally selectively breeds and experiments with these fucking things for ten years (or whatever)
>hurrr y they different
There's a lot of retarded points about all this shit but that's not one of them.

>>83260530

no its just an inconsistency

>>83261506
Why even have an egg when you could just reproduce more aliens like a normal person
Why have the face hugger and why need a host

>>83261516
You see him dumping those canisters of the black goo all over one city, presumably the only colony of it's type on the planet. Fucking retard. The stuff wouldn't have spreed from city to city since the neomorphs can't reproduce and the spores just infect everything and kill everything in short order.
>>83261541
That's the fucking problem. Why do you think infectious diseases with high mortality rates kill themselves off so quickly?

>>83261506
For a pretty perfect organism theyre also pussies against fire

>>83261629
>That's the fucking problem. Why do you think infectious diseases with high mortality rates kill themselves off so quickly?
you mean like the black plague?

>>83261584
Because in order for a creature like that to reproduce live offspring (or eggs) requires significant anatomical compromises. Think about humans, right? Child birth, naturally, kills like a quarter of women and a significant proportion of infants. Now eggs of that size would require similar compromises, so the next idea is live birth, right? Even worse. The specialization allows for safer reproduction and the face huggers allows for shorter and less energy intensive development. It's the sweet spot between live birth or individual reproduction and the stupid spore shit.

>>83261643
>a perfect organism want's to get killed
Nice logic

>>83261102
This, everyone assumes that david made em fron scratch and thats a plot hole, he just repriduced or modified what he had into the already " perfect" xenoa the engineers built. This explains the mural and how eggs are on other planets and everything, david didnt really make the xenos hes just a new player in the xeno game. Eggs of other movies are old and stuff but now there can be a fresh xeno-producer for future flicks that avoids the having to explain the engineers too much. Pretty smart desu

>>83261765
They seemed pretty willing against running head first at turrets and machine gun fire

>>83261717
Lrn 2 Epidemiology you fucking fag

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>>83261629
>it only wiped out all life on the planet, that doesn't mean it could kill all life on a planet, ughhh fucking retard

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A U T I S M

>>83261751
So why not birth xenomorphs from eggs rather than facehuggers
One host per alien is very limiting

>>83261796
You could apply the same logic to bees. They get killed all the time protecting the hive or getting pollen/other sweet shit. There's just so many of them that it doesn't matter.

>>83261800
Are you really going to argue that xenomorphs are a better plague than the black plague (which is both deadly and long lived contrary to your claims)?

>>83261808
And for a weapon whose sole purpose is exterminating interstellar species, that's pretty stupid to wipe everything out before it can spread to other systems and then wiping itself out by killing all potential hosts.

>>83261843
So if they were that expendable why would they get scared off by fire and not charge through

>>83261564

The black goo did a dozen different things before David even knew what it was in Prometheus.

>>83261886
Because everything is afraid of fire? Go ask the fucking directors.

Why people on /tv/ is full retarded with this movie and make the same fucking questions over and over again. They are trolls or truly retarded?

>>83261898
Hey im asking you to why you think its the perfect organism no need to throw a hissy fit when im poking holes

>>83261860
Are you fucking daft?

>>83261925
I'm not the retard calling a giant parasitoid wasp the "perfect organism", whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean.

>>83261885
>And for a weapon whose sole purpose is exterminating interstellar species
It's sole purpose is for wiping out planets, they never say anything about planet hopping.

>>83261920
I don't think it's perfect but I'm just pointing out why someone trying to create the perfect organism instead of just a localized weapon, would want it to have some of the features that the people begin the movies gave them.

>>83261920
David is an insane android who got repaired by a non-STEM woman on alien spaceship. I think some screws are still loose there.

>>83261943
I was applying a few principles of epidemiology and you took that to the retarded fucking extreme of bring up the black death without realizing the irony in that statement.

>>83261943
If the black plague was such a good plague than why do we still exist today?
It became less virulent

it doesn't really matter if it's actually the perfect creature or not

david basically just wants to make a badass monster

if a xenomorph 1v1d any other known life form without outside factors it would completely annihilate them except for like whales or some shit

in a sense it is the perfect life form compared to what david knows

>>83257798
idgaf about ur thread I just wanna see if us non-paying users can reply now

>>83257798
>How did David manage to infiltrate a civilizations home planet with bio-weapons so easily?
>Why didn't the Engineers have any sort of advanced defense systems?
If they had no advanced enemies, they wouldn't have been preparing for planetary defense. It was also there own ship David was flying.
>How come the Engineers home planet looked like a Roman-technology-tier city?
One point is we're not sure it's their home planet, we know they were aware of several. Another is after a few millennia they might have regressed somewhat, or intentionally maintained a rustic lifestyle.
>Why are people saying that David wiped out the engineers when its been shown that they've colonized and created installations out of other planets, IE Prometheus?
People don't remember Prometheus.
>Are we to assume that a civilization which has been colonizing the known universe for likely millions of years is going to be defeated by a single android that had its shit pushed in, in Prometheus?
This time he had the high ground.
>Can we assume that the Engineers will return in the sequel, since that's the only logical explanation for how the set-up to Alien will ever actually occur
Yes.
>even though the engineer in that ship was millennia's old which discounts the fact that David was the first to have created them?
The Space Jockey's corpse was decayed, but the crew's assessment of the ship's age isn't necessarily infallible. Dallas said it was "fossilized" but exposed bodies don't fossilize, so there's no reason to believe he or the rest of them knew what they were talking about.

>>83257798
Also are we supposed to believe that was the only city in an entire planet?
I think he just used them for his experiments he didn't mean to 'destroy' them completely.

>>83262001
I brought it up because I didn't think you were retarded enough to actually think xenos would wipe out more people

>>83261970
>got repaired by a non-STEM woman on alien spaceship

What??? But she's a DOCTOR!
You mean they don't teach artificial intelligence and android repair in archaeology class??

>>83258623
I enjoyed this post.

>>83262130
If you let them loose on 13th century Asia and Europe? They'd absolutely kill more people in the long run because they wouldn't burn through hosts as fast and they're self-mobile, not relying on a host to move, only for incubation.

>>83257798
delete this

>>83262130
>>83262240
Also a successful organism isn't measured by how much it kills, but by how much it can propagate itself. On scale, xeno's would be up there.

>>83257798
In one of the recentish Dark Horse comics they implied the Engineers could time travel and as dumb as that sounds I think it's the only way to make the derelict in Alien make sense unless David just created something that already existed.

>>83262240
Really? 100 million people? How many xenos total do you think it would take to accomplish that?

>>83262368
>time travel
That's the dumbest way they could possibly get these movies to tie directly into Alien, so of course that's exactly what they'll do.

>>83258414
A load of other creators have made significant marks on the series. There's no reason Scott should get to decide what is and isn't canon.

>>83262040
>If they had no advanced enemies, they wouldn't have been preparing for planetary defense. It was also there own ship David was flying.
how did they know there were no advanced enemies they were yet to meet, in other galaxies?

The pacing in covenant is just absolute shit. Within minutes of starting we have a stupid crisis that doesnt mean anything to me as a viewer. Further into the movie the white xenos and the david xenos grow up within MINUTES.

Ridley has completely lost the plot because of his dementia and he cant adhere to basic standards he's already set in the first film. This movie pisses me off in how much it shits on the universe

>>83262368
>unless David just created something that already existed.
that's what the novelization implies

>>83258607
There's zero evidence that gives credence to any of your speculation.

>>83262399
Given that the only man-portable projectile weapons they had back then fired arrows and bolts... Probably 5-10 million? Jesus, why are you acting all autistic about this shit?

>>83262438
Probably didn't worry about it after not having come across any.

>>83262368
>>83262448
>mfw I predicted this shit earlier in the thread without even know thing bit
Welp

>>83262466
At very least we saw the peasants all thought it was a big deal this ship was arriving.

>>83262472
>I'm autistic
You actually think a movie monster is THE PERFECT ORGANISM and could kill millions of people. top kek

>>83262439
Don't forget we're supposed to give a shit about the death of a character who only appears in the promotional material

>>83262519
I just gave your mom THE PERFECT ORGANISM

>>83261629
You treating it like it's Ebola when it's not quite the same situation. Ebola's high mortality works against it because it depends on the host for its own survival. If the host dies before reaching a population center where it can spread, that's game over for the virus.

The situation with the alien spore is different. The spore infects the host, but once the alien is spawned it isn't dependent on the host anymore. If you engineered the alien to release spores once it's hatched, it'd probably be much more effective than relying on eggs. The spores would spread much more quickly and the only limiting factor would be the ability of the aliens to seek out new hosts.

>>83258924
>>83258607
But there is still something that hasnt been solved.

The black goo has explictly been shown to be able to create life, as well as mutate organisms and kill organisms like the whiteys on the covenant planet.

What the hell is going on here? Is this the same black goo or different versions of it? Does it create DNA/life if you ingest it, die and give it enough time to mutate on a planet? Does it just mutate you if you come into contact with it without ingesting it? Does it kill you if you're covered too much in it?

Still questions that havent been answered, so we have no idea if this is a weapon or not yet or just an all-purpose invention by the engineers

>>83262548
I know right I was completely baffled that they think I was supposed to care about Daniels when I dont even get the chance of knowing them

>>83262517
Yeah, that happened. To me that represented some of their astronauts/warriors/scientists coming home after a mission or like the slaveposter above thinks, it was just their masters coming in to check on them.

>>83262695
It's a general purpose tool. Their spaceship and their tech look like it's been created by the goo.

>>83258054
>Being bald with beady shark eyes is the height of aesthetic perfection

pol you gotta stop

>>83257798
showing up in one of their ships with whatever their form of friendly transponders is probably helped.

>>83257798
http://www.qsti.org/?gclid=Cj0KEQjwx6TJBRCWtsiXpI7bhOYBEiQA1en3F15l4iIZ2ziarfzIZxBuWYXh6UHLfQKj1YyMtT7frS0aAgsH8P8HAQ

Why does that planet have such a Ship docking bay, but Earth doesn't?

>>83262695
I think there's a weaponized form of it and a life-creating form. Two sides of the same coin. It's possible that it can do both. It didn't seem to be very different in the engineer ritual cup as compared to the goo inside the bombs. Who knows.

>>83262695
>The black goo has explictly been shown to be able to create life
We don't know that the engineer from the prologue was dissolved by the same oil as they were developing on the outpost planet. There can be more than one dark fluid.

>>83262519
I don't think it's "perfect" or would be. Just that the traits the makers of the film give it would make it literally a civilization ending plague if it were somehow real and the rules of nature that prevent something like it from existing, ceased to exist themselves.

>>83262788
I am so clicking this shit.

>>83262803
There is something about the quantity too.

Shaw's boyfriend ingested a single drop and it mutated him. Whereas the engineer in the beginning of prometheus consumed a whole cup which probably is lethal and kills you right away, and disintegrates you into DNA

What the black goo is now I have no idea. David apparently altered goo that sends out spores and creates backbursters. Which makes one wonder how david this with absolutely no technology available (?). It's just so inconsistent

>>83260219

FYI for the many unaware this film had many more influences to Giger's work and ideas. In one part it seemed as though they were connecting David to Giger through their dreams of 'perfection'.

This model is a direct reference to a Giger painting. I'd recommend looking through his books to appreciate the films themes slightly more.

>>83257798
http://www.alien-covenant.com/news/ridley-scott-explains-why-david-bombed-engineers
Ridley Scott confirmed that yes, those were the Engineers, and he confirmed why David killed them: because he hates them. Kino.

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>>83263674
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>>83263569
Yeah, the cover art for Dark Seed

>>83263569
>>83263839
Which is actually tremendously disrespectful, as Giger hated what Alien became.

>>83262160
you mean david wouldn't have extensive repair kit files in his repository like Androids for Dummies?

how did david have security clearance on the covenant?

>>83258054
>talks about perfection
>posts image of the losers of the 1936 Olympics

>>83258414
>canon
This single concept is mind-boggling to me. Who gives a shit as long as the film itself is self-consistent, and made competently? If Scott broke some of the larger 'universe rules' to create a good film, then the franchise would be all the better for it. Unfortunately, in this case, he only did one without doing the other.

Xenomorphs are whatever the filmmaker needs them to be. They can be as smart or as dumb as is needed by the scene, and can be created however the plot requires.

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>>83258145
>Predator 2 Trophy Room

>>83259423
Ayo hol up
HOL UP
So you sayin we wuz some finna space jockeys?

>>83264796
Try reading again and this time look up words that you don't comprehend

>>83264963
I'm sorry. I understood your simple verbiage just fine. I just find it laughable you talk about any sort of perfection and use failures as an example. If you find beauty in their flaws that's one thing, but to say they're the pinnacle of aesthetics? By whose opinion? Theirs? Hah. The opinions of losers. Good one.

>>83260325
Post it.

>>83261102
>they talk about androids lacking the ability to create
David is the one that talks about that, the context being that it's an ability they removed from the Walter series.

David came up with a theme for Shaw on the flute, so he is capable of creativity.

>>83265030
If aliens can make themselves look any way they want to, and they choose to look that way, then yeah they must find it pretty aesthetic.

But I agree with you that David is even more aesthetic, which is why he won

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>>83264893
>that skull to the right

The whole of Covenant just seems phoned in.

There's a complete lack of excitement in any part of the plot.

Oh look a spaceship that suffers some malfunction which creates a situation where the crew needs to do something risky. Wow, so exciting.

Then they just land on that planet like it's no big deal in the most mundane sequence ever and then they predictably get infected and so on and so on...

Even David's presence has zero tension since he's nutty from the get-go.

Everything in the movie is just presented in such a bland matter-of-fact way like Scott completely forgot how to build up tension.

Even the crew doesn't seem to react to anything, from they ship malfunction to the life forms on the planet, crashed alien ship, alien necropolis, alien eggs, crazy android .... just look back at Alien and Aliens and how the characters voice their concerns loudly and react to things getting out of control. In Prometheus and Covenant everyone is just sleepwalking through their roles like they're all androids.

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>>83265062

Is it possible that the institution on the planet in Prometheus is not a weapons facility but a storage facility for the dna of creatures that they have deconstructed to keep them away from other planets. That the murals on the cave walls weren't invitations but warnings to stay the fuck away from the planet and that the humans in Prometheus misinterpret these warnings as invitations. But the only problem here is why would the ship's be decked with storages of these black goo canisters..... fuck I want to love these films but there is too much inconsistencies..

>>83265245
Holy fucking yum

>>83265245
>yfw you realize she's laying in a pool of black goo

>>83257973
It was just a sight gag in 1987 and then someone was like: wait a minute...Money!

>>83265304

Everything is just too vague about the whole setting.

Apparently engineers :

-seeded life on Earth (which had to happen billions of years ago)
-in all this time they didn't advance at all
-they have an exterminatus mission on Earth but totally forget about it after only one of their facilities has an incident
-nobody checks on that one facility for 2000 years
-on their "homeworld" they live in literally once city on the entire planet that is essentially stone-age apart from one big spaceship that we never see again
-by not exterminating humans they allowed us to expand so much that we "mapped all the neighboring systems" as they say in Covenant when referring to the sector they're supposed to colonize
-one loopy android is apparently enough to wipe them all out with minimal effort

etc...

I think the idea in Scott's mind was that this ancient race is already way past its prime and is reduced to a minimal presence and easy to put out of its misery.

But what's the point of it all then? Why even have this narrative that offers no answers and no exposition, no lore, no nothing.
I'd accept it if David defeated them with the help of the Covenant crew and it was a close call and they barely managed to stave off another total attack on Earth but what we get is just so limp and uninspired

>>83259339
Yes - Scott had nothing but positive things to say about 'Aliens.'

>>83257798
>hough the engineer in that ship was millennia's old

How could he have been millennia old when the eggs in the temple beneath the ship were completely fresh and ready to hatch?

>>83259694
They're all engineers man. Scott said so in a recent podcast.

>>83265582
Grandpa is senile.

>>83265505
>the idea in Scott's mind was that this ancient race is already way past its prime and is reduced to a minimal presence and easy to put out of its misery

It's an allegory for white people

>The neomorph is small and pink
>the xenomorph is big and black
>regarded as "the perfect organism"

what did ridley mean by this?

>>83258836
>>83259509

The guys David kills are engineers, Scott says so in an interview in the Empire Mag podcast spoiler special

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>>83257911
you mean THE BEST Star Trek episodes

>>83265685
lel. there were a few too many of these planets, mimicking Earth history, peppered throughout the 3 seasons

>>83265564
There is a layer of light and mist just above the eggs throughout the hold. Presumably this could provide the same function as the hypersleep pods on the Nostromo, keeping the eggs nice and fresh for as long the machinery is operating.

https://youtu.be/m9ebkHoU4Zk?t=8

>>83265564
What fucking temple?

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>engineer in Alien is huge
>historical artifacts shown in the beginning of Prometheus show engineers to be huge
>promotional and concept art shows the engineers to be huge
>they're about seven feet tall in the movie
They clearly intended for these guys to be well and truly giant. What the fuck happened? It wouldn't have been expensive.

>>83265876
Scott is a cuck and only wanted the black aliens to be huge.

>>83265876

>>83260097
>>83260137

>>83260219
Ridley said that the next film will be between Prometheus and Covenant so it's possible.

>>83265607
probably rather than him admitting theres a *big* continuity error

>>83265245
Is this from a screenrip? If so please Give me the reaction image of Walter's face when David shanks him in the neck.

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>>83266058

I can't fucking take this anymore

>>83266058
Truly? Thats just mean. I hope not; a tour guide leading people in circles, then.

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>>83266096
hahha this shit looked like the girl from The Ring

How about the reaction image from when the captain kills the neomorph in front of david

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>>83259259
Yea that puzzled me too when I had watch that scene, glad i'm not the only one. I literally said in my head wtf, so instead of everyone being a perfect specimen the engineer from prometheus was the Fucking Chad of Engineers, while everyone else is a herp a derp

>>83257798
>How did David manage to infiltrate a civilizations home planet with bio-weapons so easily?
The ship is very old by that point, they are probably curious or reverent of it.
>Why didn't the Engineers have any sort of advanced defense systems?
Like us now in reality they don't expect attacks from outer space.
>How come the Engineers home planet looked like a Roman-technology-tier city?
Because they likely guided the course of our ancient civilizations when they visited throughout the centuries leading up to 2000 years ago.
>Why are people saying that David wiped out the engineers when its been shown that they've colonized and created installations out of other planets, IE Prometheus?
LV226 was nothing more than a military staging area, and every Engineer there is dead as well.
>Are we to assume that a civilization which has been colonizing the known universe for likely millions of years is going to be defeated by a single android that had its shit pushed in, in Prometheus?
If the opening of Prometheus is anything to go by the Engineers are no colonists, they just go places and interfere with the evolution of life there.
>Can we assume that the Engineers will return in the sequel, since that's the only logical explanation for how the set-up to Alien will ever actually occur even though the engineer in that ship was millennia's old which discounts the fact that David was the first to have created them?
That's a good observation, but any significance of the look and context of the original space jockey was probably already out the window after they changed the design in Prometheus.

>>83260407
You're in luck. Here's an Interview Scott did:-

Scott - "Oh, so the critics of 'Prometheus' wanted more Xenomorphs? Okay, I will throw them all in even if I thought they were cooked with an apple in their mouth... the facehugger, the chestburster and the big boy. Oh, what's this... cool, a neat idea on another alien... the Neomorph. Yeah, let's throw guy in too. I like the spore thingy idea. But let's not dismiss those who liked 'Prometheus'. I will give a little bit of the philosophical aspect and a smidgen of the Engineers from 'Prometheus' to them as well so I don't upset those who liked that direction. We have to figure out who made the Xenomorph because that was always my plan with these movies before 'Alien' and as I've always surmised in 'Alien' and 'Blade Runner', AI is dangerous if not constrained properly, so we'll have to do something with that... David is insane and creates the Xenomorph... yay! There, that will get the Xenomorph-lovin' fans back on board with the franchise, but it MAY leave some of the Engineer and creation idea-lovin' fans out in the cold, so we'll bring them back in with... wait for it... an INTERQUEL! 'Alien: Awakening' because you have to be fully awake to even remotely understand how my 79 year old brain is working, mind you. Huh? Oh, that's right... 'Alien'. Ummm, then we'll make a sequel to 'Alien: Covenant' which is really a direct prequel to 'Alien' because you know we have to, literally, quite unquestionably, return, 180 degrees from the flip side, back into the rear of that one."

>>83266207
>>83266207
>the engineer from prometheus was the Fucking Chad of Engineers

Well he was selected as the genetic template for all life on earth, so it would make sense that they wanted somebody who was alpha as fuck

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>>83257973
>>83258145
>>83264893
This is a very interesting premise and just for the hell of it, lets explore if this was canon, what would be the reason, david has figured out time travel and sent xenomorphs back in time...because he's something something. Any other theories?

>>83266128
>>83266136

It's true.

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/alien-awakening-next-alien-movie-ridley-scott-1202011249/

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>>83266353
Bill Paxton is an immortal time traveler, and Lance Henriksen is his robot sidekick

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>>83266263
>Please wake me up...please free me of contract.

>>83266353
The Xenos have existed far longer than we think. David is just reverse engineering them. The black goo was originally created from them. They're the ones who wiped out the Engineers during a great war that lasted for centuries.

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>>83266058
Fucking why

>>83266058
If there's anything to be learned from this series it's not to trust what Ridley says because he'll just change it down the line.

>>83266397

Ridley Scott-
>“There will be another one before we kind of literally and logically, clockwise, back into the rear back head of [the original] ‘Alien,'”

This is how people with dementia talk

>>83266058
A prequel of a prequel? He must be trolling everyone.

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When will Fox just cut the crap and give us a touching romance about the love between a man and a chitinous alien killing machine?

>>83266475
kek

>>83263912
but since he's gone, Scott knew there won't be objections..

>>83266500
better explanation than anything ridley scott has come up with

>>83266586

I think that he views the entire franchise as very lowbrow and the story should be just barely there so he can shoot stock "alien pops out of person, kills people" scenes like he did before only now he can play around with high-def special effects

I noticed that trend in a lot of oldschool blockbuster directors like Lucas and Cameron.
They just love to play around with new toys and more or less ignore how lame the stories are.

Why don't these faggots ever ask so many questions with disneyshit?

>>83259259
the ones on the bottom could pass for serbians.

>>83266687
Disney products don't have any potential to be great so no one cares.

>>83266751
pretty sure the bottom one is just an edited clip from some wwii russian flick

>>83266687
>>83266687
>Why don't these faggots ever ask so many questions with disneyshit?

Do you never read Star Wars or Pirates threads?

>>83266751
>the ones on the bottom could pass for serbians.
xenomorphs could pass for turk roaches

>>83266600
You can't take the virginity of her.

>>83266475
Lance Henriksen don't die in Aliens and you never see the body in Terminator, all is bullshit.

>>83263806
I know it wasn't the point of your post but - oh Ms Kennedy..the opening scroll?:
>Luke Skywalker has vanished. In his absence, the sinister FIRST ORDER has risen from the ashes of the Empire and will not rest until Skywalker, the last Jedi, has been destroyed.

>>83259585
the engineer in alien is fossilized you mong

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>>83266644
Lets take it a bit further then? The Aliens were an actually intelligent species that evolved to meet the needs of their harsh planet where survival is key. Reason why the aliens we know of are so aggressive is that such instincts are embedded in their DNA. They also once had their own form of language and technology. Eventually they merged with this technology and would go on to become the apex predators of their world. This is where the bio-mechanical aspect comes in. But how do they continue their species once they have wiped out life on their homeplanet planet? Go out into space and lay eggs on other planet and let nature take its course. But overtime they come across the Engineers which is highly advanced as well. The resulting conflict is devastating to both species.

Quite far fetched but I feel that if the Aliens have the capability of being spacefaring creature capable of conquering through biological invasion then it makes them more terrifying.

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>>83267139
It was..until the prequels.

>>83267139
Fossils form underground, you double mong.

If anything it's mummified.

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>>83267180
Which would make this >>83266600
all the more gripping and progressive as it is the story of overcoming prejudice, the conflicts of your ancestors, and modern beauty standards.

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Why did the chestburster looked different in this movie?

>>83267502
simple retconning. Since Aliens they've always had arms, i think.

>>83267543
There were stubs in Alien as well.

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>>83267543

>>83267180
Aliens are more frightening as a plain hostile entity.

Giving reasons of any kind to their behavior paints it with tragedy which is spitting on the original even more.

>>83267563
yeah true.

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>The original chestburster design looked like a fucking raw chicken

H. R. Giger a hack

Because Ridley Scott is a 79 year old dementia patient at this point.

>>83259681
Originally, the scientist turned zombie monster was going to be much more alien in appearance and behaviour, which would have lent credence to the concept that the black goo was a genetic accelerant which breaks down DNA and repurposes it to Xenomorph phenotypes.

https://youtu.be/Ireq92-7Kk8

I always thought that the goo seen at the beginning of the film was a different, maybe more benign 'strain' of the accelerant, which repurposed DNA to an Engineer phenotype (creating humans). The black goo seen later in the film is a weaponized variant.

https://youtu.be/ZHpJr7_5Mjg

>>83267180
>>83267611
> is spitting on the original even more.
Ridley Scott would be proud.

>>83265030
I don't blame you for being jealous of white aesthetics. It must be tough being a nigger. Shit colored skin, shit colored hair, and shit colored eyes. That has to be pretty boring.

>>83265202
True. Not to mention most people probably saw that "twist" coming from a mile away. But I still liked it most for Fassbender and that lead nerd looking qt girl.

>>83267897

Instead of fishing for answers that follow a logic of some sort but can never be confirmed it's easier to think of the black goo as an all-purpose mutagen that acts differently in different doses and when combined with different accelerants/compounds.

Imagine if humanity had a billion more years to develop and we focused our research on making some sort of super stem cell that can do whatever we want it to do.

That's about it.

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>>83266207
>ywn be a cute perky young human female who gets captured by an engineer and used as a sex slave.

>>83257798
Were they even engineers to begin with? They looked completely different.

>>83268111
Officially, I treat it as movie magic, that works like the other anon said it does - as the writer demands.

Practically every other comment in this thread is headcanoning. I was just trying to be popular.

>>83260200
Hell, for all we know, she had sex with David and he squirted more into her.

>>83257909
quality kek

>>83260591
>tries to kill her.
he tries to kiss her... and then he asks: is this how you do it?

I interpret that as he was going to make her a "mother"

>>83260505
It wasn't.
I love how /tv/ talks about shit they haven't even seen until a Chinese telesynch comes out.