#so clearly they predate him. and instead of creating them david was likely emulating them & continuing the engineers’ work re: trying to
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Rewatching alien covenant like god i almost forgot how much i enjoy this movie. Plus the gay androids are a bonus.
#controversial take but covenant is one of my favourite alien movies. i enjoyed covenant more than prometheus even#and like of course i understand the criticisms of it but its like#im not saying that its like objectively one of the top alien movies but for Me it is#i just like the specifc vibe of it horror-wise. like i like it as a movie more than i like it as an addition to the alien franchise if that#makes sense. like the scene with the drawings of shaw just fucking freaks me out every time#and also david’s whole character is just very Fun to watch. like yeah it IS fun to watch him parade around being unhinged and barely keeping#it under wraps#its like. hes not even keeping it under wraps LMAO the moment they meet him theyre like something is fucking Wrong with this guy#he’s just able to conceal how Much is wrong with him. for awhile at least#like idk people say it doesnt have the sense of dread or paranoia that alien or aliens have#which i agree it doesnt have the same amount or the same type. but i feel like it has a diff type of dread & i feel like that works really#well here. like i feel like it wouldve come off really flat had they just tried to replicate that feeling from alien and aliens instead of#pushing it in a new direction.#also i feel like a lot of criticism of it is just like. not necessarily factually accurate/is based off assumptions and that people make#those assumptions because theyre approaching it with a hater mindset/because they want it to be like alien and aliens#for example people assume that covenant’s storyline means that david is the one who created the xenomorphs#but in prometheus you can see xenomorphs in the murals on the wall#so clearly they predate him. and instead of creating them david was likely emulating them & continuing the engineers’ work re: trying to#emulate them.#and i feel like david’s drawings suport that too because when you actually look at all the drawings (theres a whole art book of them)#the vibe is very much less ‘he’s creating these from scratch’ and more ‘he’s trying to reverse engineer and emulate these things and#understand them.’ and ESPECIALLY with how the idea of androids lacking the ability to create is brought up EXPLICITLY and REPEATEDLY in#covenant and whether or not david can truly create is s core question and personally i feel that they went the ‘he didnt actually Create#Them’ route not because ‘oh androids cant create unlike humans’ but because instead the message of ‘humans arent truly creating either just#emulating’ especially with the opening with david and weyland and the whole ‘realizing the person who ‘created’ him is a man who just#Emulated humans when making the androids’ and the huge point re: the creator of humans being unknown vs the ‘creator’ of androids being#human and the implication that weyland simply emulated & tried to reverse engineer the work of god or the big bang or whatever and called it#creation when it reality it’s not the same. and so i dont think its a message of ‘androids can create and david created the xenomorphs’ NOR#a message of ‘androids cant create because theyre not human’ but instead ‘androids and humans are alike in their hubris and the DESIRE to#truly create is present in both but the failure to do so is also present in both’
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