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The following contains spoilers forPrometheusand speculation aboutAlien: Covenant.
A pub was visited; consolatory beers were imbibed.
I bought the Blu-ray and rewatched the film several times.
It all begins on an apparently deserted planet possibly Earth, millennia ago where an alien spacecraft touches down.
Although heavily billed as anAlienprequel on its release in 2012,Prometheusis frustratingly lacking in definitive answers.
Why bother creating life on other planets in the first place?
What was the green crystal, briefly glimpsed in the chamber full of goo canisters?
Because we could, Charlie says with a drunken shrug.
Lovecraft, eat your heart out.
Shaws plan: to find the Engineers home planet and find out what on earth theyre playing at.
As a quick scrub through theAlien: Covenanttrailers will tell you, David has other ideas.
Why is it hostile?
Because Davids been up to his old tricks again.
So whats David up to?
Why is he so intent on unleashing goo on everyone and everything he meets?
What are the strange experiments we see him carrying out in yet another brief trailer scene?
And hes the evil son of a bitch!
Hes the good-looking one who gets all the girls and goes to all the nightclubs.
The good one is kind of dull and depressing!
[Laughs] So in a funny sort of way, it touches on that.
There was a reason for that, right?
Paradise Lostmight be a good means of figuring out whereAlien: Covenants going, in fact.
David certainly appears to occupy the role of Satan a fallen angel who rebels against his creator.
