The premise of this movie is flawed beyond it being a sequel of the redonkulous Alien Prometheus. However, it is a fantastic sequel in that it is a near perfect recreation of the prior movie. As in Prometheus, Covenant forces every single character to make stupid contrived decisions only to force the plot along. The Hero’s Journey only allows one such character flaws for each character of a story. Having more than one breaks immersion into the story for the audience. The companies that bankrolled this movie, deserves to loose their money after failing to require a different screen writer and director.
The problem is the idea that Elizabeth Shaw would have ever trusted David just because she was lonely. Sure, she would be, but David’s immitation of ‘acting’ should have failed to work for the simple reality that David himself would have been abundantly enough to keep her mind sane. Even while silent his presence would have kept her grounded to the Prime Material.... so her trusting him? never.
The Engineers would have more than *one* homeworld. Times that by 39, think do I.
The new captain failed the entire colony and this movie by going down to the planet himself. The current Captain always stays on the ship, precisely to avoid the constant changing & challenging of command present in all acts of the story.
2k people for a colony? try 20 times that many. That would have enabled the new captain to send *six* marines with his wife. Sending _One_ for security is a big fail decision that would have been known to the previous First Officer.
Adventuring through an alien spaceship, especially on a mysteriously deserted planet was another fail. The existence of the ship itself should have sent everyone packing back to the ship.
The new new new new captain of the Colony ship brings the ship to 40k distance from the surface... even though twice that is necessary for safety, as stated in the movie. Sure ‘Mother’ allowing the breach in protocal is semi ok. Then the colony ship should have crashed because... gravity works.
Then the Captain goes searching for a previous officer he told “stay close”; All by himself... an equally stupid choice. Every act of the movie is filled with these rudimentary stupid decisions that fail to have anything to do with the plot. Going off on your own when you know there is mortal danger, is literally them choosing to commit suicide.
Then the last thing the colony ship would have “rescued” anyone on the planet. They should have been left after Tennessee sends a message to Terra. The husband’s wife died in the second act, he should have known this. Why would the crew give a fuck about anyone, other than their spouse? They are supposed to be only selected as members of the future Colony.
Near the end of the movie, there fails to be any way that David would have won the fight after the screen cuts away from them. Walter was stradling an already partially broken David. Then Walter’s fist was already coming down to break the face of David. They showed him grabing a shank, but he failed to have the position to really use it. The only reason a human would have grabbed the shank is to try to cause enough pain to the one on top. ‘Pain’ that would have fell short of coming even close to stopping the inevitability of his skull breaking against the fist from David... an android.
At the end there is the wrongness of Daniels of even coming close to mistaking David for Walter.
- A pair of rudimentary caveman scissors would have fell short of being enough to cut David’s hair enough to even come rationally or logically close to Walter’s appearance.
- Then there is also the different mannerisms that would have automatically confirmed the reality of David’s presence to Daniels.
For sharing Gravity, grateful am I. For the Goddess to be allowed to alighten a path towards love, joy, & happiness along the self’determined life’cycle chosen by the Higher’Self of yours, pray do I.
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