I saw most of Alien Covenant again last night on the telly. After being blown away by Prometheus a few years back Covenant is growing on me each time I see it.
Essentially the Walter/ David show, Covenant at the very least makes clear the utter deadliness of the alien vases and the fear the Engineers had of these WMD.
Thinking about what might happen next, as David takes his cargo of prey to Origae-6, is problematic for me. Its essentially a non-human future with David presiding over a planet of monsters like his beloved Ozymandias and as such a bit predictable and tedious.
Androids and aliens alone aren't going anywhere really.
Where can such a storyline go without more and more of David's android insanity and a colony of beasts without any food?
Maybe they'll go forward for a new story.
Reading various online thingies about Scott 's actual plans there's talk of two canceled ideas called Awakenings, although I can't figure out when they would have set in the story arc.
There's also talk of Ridley coming back - Yay! - but again, where would Scott pitch the series' pin-up girl? She was a Ripley clone in Resurrection two hundreds after Alien, so where could a new Ripley fit in?
I'd like to see Ripley again, aged and perhaps world-weary, maybe even indifferent to a new Xenomorph threat. I'd like to see less of David/ Walter, although the origins of Ash and Bishop would be OK.
Will the creatures always be savages with insatiable hungers or could they become more intelligent and even speak? I suppose Scott and his crew have to riff like this to sound the water.
Where would you like to see the Alien films go?
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Ian Holm - Ash : RIP
Still collating I hope.
