ALIEN COVENANT (2017) Everything Explained + Prometheus Connections

Hey guys, welcome to the Fount movies and another special, all

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for the new Alien sequel. Alien Covenant. If you haven't seen the movie, there will be major spoilers, so be prepared. There are many things in Covenant that connect us to Prometheus and the things about him without answers from him. mysteries, but Covenant is for the most part much simpler in how it presents things, although it does answer some questions. Of course, there are a lot of new questions raised and other aspects of the story that seem deliberately vague, so I'll be looking at the movie in depth. and do my best to piece together

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that happens and look at things in depth like the city of engineers, the citadel and the evolution of the

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s seen in this movie version and for any Prometheus fans looking for a sequel Shaw's journey to get answers.

She's out of luck, she's dead and the engineers of paradise are dead, so in memory, let's spill a 40 of black goo for the citizens of paradise and Dr. Shaw has no answers for anyone, thanks Ridley. The opening scene of Covenant takes place shortly after David's birth. It also introduces a young Weyland and from David's birth he already realizes the futility of the human race and points out that he will outlive his own father and, indeed, any other human being. Try to forge a relationship with this scene that makes it very clear who this new

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series is.

In reality, it's about David even more than it is about the aliens themselves. We first see in Prometheus the development of David's character in his new creation-driven mindset after his first experiments with the black goo at Holloway. David as an android feels resentment at being considered an inferior being and wants to prove that he is capable of creating life himself, thus demonstrating the power that an android is truly capable of and that is what drives his desire to create what he believes. which is the perfect organism, proving itself in some way as a being. God, he wants to be superior to humans and their creators, the engineers, so his story develops in interesting ways throughout the film and we will delve deeper into David's character in a small pact that begins 10 years after Prometheus disappears after an All new doomed crew of the USCSS Covenant It's also worth noting that, although this is a relatively short time after Prometheus, the company is now Whalen Yutani instead of just Weyland Corp like in Prometheus, so between the two films the fusion must have occurred perhaps after Weyland. disappeared, the company merged with Yutani to continue their deep space projects because it has to be very expensive, although we never hear that the company sent a ship to look for Weyland or anything that seems strange, at least they know.

Earth that the ship disappeared when Walter specifically mentions it, so maybe the company was really happy that Weyland disappeared and without him around they could merge without needing his permission, paving the way for the even more alien-obsessed company in the original alien series, The Covenant Ship. It carries 2,000 colonists and their mission is to settle on the distant planet Guy 6, but several years from their destination, a neutrino explosion hits their energy harvesting window, awakening the crew from their hypersleep. However, Captain James Franco is not so lucky and burns to death in his cryosleep chamber. It seems strange that he does not wake up like everyone else, but the prologue that is not in the film includes the detail that Captain Franco is sick, so this It must be the explanation why he does not wake up.

While repairing the sale, the Tennessee crew member receives a strange failed transmission. They determine that the signal is coming from a nearby planet and appears to be human. We know it comes from Elizabeth Shaw. It sounds strange and confusing and the transmission is seen through the same engineering technology. who showed us the recordings of the temple in Prometheus, the newly appointed captain aurum decides to head to the source of the signal feeling that they have a duty to investigate if it really comes from a human so far away in space and it turns out that this mysterious planet 4 is perhaps even more suitable for colonization than their original destination, so perhaps it's a happy coincidence that they stumbled upon this perfect new planet;

Well, no, not so much, as you will quickly learn on the surface that the visiting team checks the surroundings and realizes that there is nothing. life at all, although there is some wheat planted and it is definitely wheat, as the cargo says, I know wheat, it is strange that wheat is on planet 4, since it is considered a human plant, so who planted it here ? We know from Prometheus that engineers visited ours. planet several times over thousands of years and it makes sense that they would try to take plants from one planet and plant them on another, so I think the engineers planted the wheat as an experiment to see if it could also grow.

On planet four, we are introduced to the next incarnation of the black goo, now seen as small spores inside plants. Sotavento disturbs one of these plants by releasing black spores that enter your body through the ear canal. The rest of the crew follows a path of destruction. across the landscape discovering Shaw and David's giant crashed ship here Hallett is exposed to the same plant but it enters through his nose and we see a much more direct progression in mutation through the plant's spores. Both Hallett and Leeward get sick very quickly and then at each birth. a new alien mutation, the neomorph, the mutation and birth are much faster than in alien, but this is a different form of the black liquid instead of being through an infestation of facehuggers, the neomorph has white skin and very sharp teeth and it is also more on its two legs as a small but fully formed human emerges with arms and legs that look like a miniature version or a small child of itself.

He grows rapidly in size after his birth and in full evolution, which occurs rapidly, he measures about seven feet tall. His behavior is more. Animalistic and primitive, it quickly attacks

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it comes into contact with instead of the xeno's methodical lurking in the shadows. He also feeds on his victims like an animal instead of trying to infest them, he just wants to kill and we see this on the landing craft. infirmary where Ledford's neomorph grotesquely gushes out of her back with so much blood everywhere Ferris closes the door to her infirmary to keep the neomorph contained, but ends up breaking free anyway crashing into the window and chasing her, she tries to defend herself, but in the process fires some containers that blow her and the ship into pieces, then Howlett's neomorph is born attacking the crew, but they are saved by a flare from a hooded figure that scares the creature.

The hooded figure is revealed to be our favorite crazy android, David, with much longer hair than he has. He's been trapped on the planet since he and Shaw's giant crashed here. He guides the Covenant crew back to Engineer City, the citadel, seeing piles of charred bodies along the way, and as David interacts with the crew, especially his brother Walter, we learn a lot more about what David did. has been doing since we last saw him, it turns out he's been pretty busy via flashback, David tells us what happened when they first arrived on the planet, he bombed the engineers unleashing a payload of black goo that wipes them out, but there's so much more to what happened here and specific details that are blatantly omitted First, let's investigate Shaw's fate.

We don't see her alive in the movie, but we do see her alive in the extended crossover prologue scene that connects to the bombing scene in The movie further expands on what happened after Prometheus: Shawn and David did indeed continue their search for the homeworld of engineers. They were together for quite some time. They ended up coming together in a surprising way that Fassbender himself described as a married couple. The timeline. It's a bit confusing since we don't know how long Shaw and David were flying through space, in particular Shaw's hair growth is significant after Prometheus.

Based on this, at least six months occur before Shaw even repairs David. At this time, Shaw must have been piloting the ship. with David training until she needed him back in one piece, she looks a little sick in this scene and it makes sense that her body is still affected by the black substance inside her. We've never seen anyone actually healed after an infection and it seems like shaw isn't doing so well, it's also an interesting detail that the navigation map tools used and the bottles here are definitely not from the engineers, they're humans . Shaw is also seen drinking a green drink at some point and all of this indicates that David and Shaw at one point raided Prometheus for supplies, perhaps even before leaving the planet in the first place, as Shaw would at least need some sort. of food to survive, so the increasingly weaker gathers David and they head to planet four which is believed to be the On the engineer's homeworld, we don't know how they actually found the planet, but we see Shaw drawing circles, which which leads me to believe that they've been going through a bunch of different planets and now they think they finally have the right one and putting it back together, David.

It seems that he really came to appreciate Shaw's kindness saying that she is the kindest of all the humans he has ever met and much more so than Wayland his father and in the present he confesses to Walter that he actually loved her, something that is generally considered outside the realm of possibility for an android, he even made a tomb in memory of her on planet four, these feel like real emotions coming from David and not an act he truly loved, Shaw, at least what he thinks it is love, but how is this possible? Walter, a later generation model.

He tells David that the human aspects of David's original model were reduced in later generations as his creators considered David to be too human. We see that David has developed what could only be defined as emotions and it appears to be due to particular programming. From the prototype model of him, essentially he is a broken robot and that is what leads to all of his increasingly crazy and evil behavior. This ties into Shaw when we see that David was experimenting on her, but it seems like after her emotional connection he wouldn't do it. He didn't want to kill her, it seems most likely that during the time they were together, David began to develop feelings for Shaw that were unrequited, at least it must have been that he killed her, such as when he forces himself later with Daniel, he says.

He will do the same thing he did to her. This must refer to Shaw and I could see a similar scenario with her, with Daniels, him forcing himself on her and her rejecting him, which hurts him deeply to the point of reacting violently. It makes sense considering how emotionally unstable he has become over time. We'll get back to David in a second, but first let's look at the bombing itself because even though this scene only lasts a few seconds on screen, there's still a lot to analyze. What immediately caught my attention is that the beings on this planet don't really look like the engineers from Prometheus, yes, they are bald with white skin and mostly androgynous, but they look much more humanoid.

The Prometheus engineers are much larger and almost look to me like perfect specimens of These engineers also have steel black eyes. The beings seen on planet four have the whites of their eyes and short, fat ones and even a very old one with a crown scene very briefly, if we believe this is the engineer's homeworld, then. These beings seen are engineers, but perhaps they are more like apostles as described by Ridley and the one seen in Prometheus is genetically designed to be used for military purposes. We know that engineers deal with that black substance, so it makes sense for them to use it. the same technology in its own species to improve it and that's where the beefy engineers come in.

There is also the concept that there is a larger hierarchy in engineering society than seen before and I think we are taking a look at that here. In Prometheus there appear older engineers who are the creators of the engineers, but the scene was cut before the release, but even if it is cut, this seems to be affected by this scene and the pact, the engineers on planet 4 look different because, in fact, they are different. class of the same organism and they also worship a higher power, most likely the elders, the citadel also contains the hall of heads, a library with all the knowledge of engineers and, along the walls, our gigantic statues of heads, most likely in homage to the beings who are his higher powers, this is also quite similar to the big head scene in the vial room in lv-223 and

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, so while davidprobably wiped out the population of this planet, which could in fact be the engineer's homeworld, I highly doubt it took the entire race. and we also don't see the teardrop ship from the opening of Prometheus, so there's probably still a lot more to do with the engineers placed in the wider scope of the story, so the impact of the bombardment is too strange, David releases the black slimy substance that has an immediate devastating effect on the engineers, but it doesn't actually look like a sticky substance, but rather a giant swirling cloud of spores and the spores appear to turn into darts or arrows and actually impale the engineers. engineers, turning them inside out and then toasting them. marshmallows to a crisp and burnt, I was actually expecting them to mutate into monsters or something like one would expect from the goo's behavior scene so far, but it seems like it actually just kills them, it seems like the weaponized black goo is based in the spores rather than the actual substance.

We have seen a black sticky liquid and it makes sense that the pathogen in different forms has different effects on its victims; in this case, it doesn't mutate them but kills them, which is actually much more efficient than turning everyone into monsters or whatever. It was still pretty surprising to see this happen that way. And it all happened very quickly too, so if you have more information about the scene, please let me know what you thought as to how the giant crashed. I think what happened is related to that other massive scorpion that is seen when David approaches the citadel, the planet doesn't seem to have many defenses and the citizens gather in a nice big open area when David shows up, maybe they think that They are those engineers who have been absent for over 2000 years and finally returned from their mission to destroy.

Humanity likes, oh my god, that took forever, but then David drops the goo causing widespread destruction, so maybe the Scorpion ship is their defense system and once the engineers were infected, the ship activated and attacked David's giant, as he had just attacked their planet, causing the ship to take damage. and crash as seen in the movie no matter what happens the engineers are definitely no longer on this planet and david is left alone using his idle hands to continue his experiments with the black goo that he started in

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in his workshop we see drawings of everything type of creatures, from insects to huggers, there are several tiny skulls, an alien egg that has been broken into pieces and what appears to be a preserved engineer, but most tragic of all is that we see the body of Elizabeth Shaw, her body is It is seen torn apart on an examination table and its head is seen with alien protuberances coming out of both sides, probably a reference to this famous painting by Giger based on the drawings found by Daniels of Shaw, it seems that David was using it in various experiments for quite some time. time while we don't know exactly what David did to him, at least he was studying his anatomy, most likely learning about the human reproductive system.

I wonder if he removed Shaw's eggs and experimented on them along with the goo until he was able to mutate or create an incubation chamber for facehugger, as we see he was able to create the classic organic or ovomorphic eggs recognized from the original alien series and it's an appropriately brutal ending for Shaw, if this is the case, she was incapable of producing life on her own, but in the end she is indirectly responsible for the creation of these horrible, deadly alien creatures. The man David's experiments, however, could not continue because he was missing a key ingredient, biological material, although it seems he was able to get some at some point based on all the specimens in his lab, but I literally have no idea how he bombed the entire the planet's population to oblivion, regardless of the fact that thanks to the appearance of the

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crew he has a lot of new bodies to work with, David also seems to have a very strong connection with the neomorph and seems able to control it or at least interact with it in some way, David seems to respect the creature as if it were his own creation and is definitely emotionally affected when Orem lays waste to the neo David he was chatting with as a result of killing his son. he introduces aurum into his fully functioning egg chamber and one comes to life, a facehugger that emerges and attacks him, leading to a protomorph that emerges from aurum.

In this movie, plant spores produce neomorphs and facehuggers create a protomorph just like the neomorph the protomorph is born with. all its limbs and has a much faster gestation cycle after infection than the typical xeno. It took him about 12 hours to bust an alien and in his infancy he looks more like a worm with teeth. He definitely has no arms or legs. The protomorph is, by far, ours. closer in physical appearance to the xenomorph, but as with the neomorph, there are other notable differences beyond its rapid life cycle, the proto is much softer and more organic in appearance, lacking the crests and biomechanical improvements characteristic of xenos, also walks upright at some points. that mainly on all fours, which seems like a bit silly behavior.

Behaviorally, the protomorph is much bolder and perhaps a little sillier than the xeno that appears outdoors in broad daylight rather than hiding in the shadows and stalking its prey. Now let's look at the two android brothers, David and Walter, David seems to treat Walter as if he were his brother, teaching him to play the flute and revealing his feelings of love for Shaw. David thinks that Walter feels the same way about Daniels when he sacrificed her hand to save her, but rather Instead of describing this as love, Walter calls it duty and here we see the central difference between the two.

All those edges of David's model have been softened to the point in Walter's version and this is what makes David different from any other model he is. the most human there will ever be, since since him they reduced humanity in general and made androids more explicitly servants and it really seems that his specific programming has led David to develop emotions at least since Prometheus, he was always cold and did not have a real reaction to things then still in coveted, he screams in anguish when Aurum kills the proto and again really seemed to love Shaw even if he had possibly killed her and hopes that through Walter he could have met a being equal to him, but he He realizes that Walter really is a lesser being than himself and capable of all these emotions that David now has flowing through him to me.

It appears that David is in fact studying Walter in these scenes to take his stand and leave the planet when we see David cut his hair to match Walters, this becomes even more apparent and that is in fact what we see happen first. . David stabs Walter with a flute, but Walter, unlike David, is able to heal himself, leading to a huge altercation that we don't see the outcome of when they leave. the planet in another distant ship piloted by the Tennessee proto Orem sneaks on board attacking the ship. Daniels manages to get him out by pulling him into the giant claw of the distant ship crushing him and it looks like that's the end of that, but Load also had an encounter. with a facehugger on the planet, although it was very briefly only on it for a few seconds, this was apparently enough to eventually cause a proto to grow inside it, although as it was only on it for a few brief moments, the process takes longer than for aurum and now daniel tennessee and walter david actually hunt down the protomorph on the ship, it's hard to say why david helps him in this scene, wouldn't it be easier to guide the proto straight to them and kill them if it weren't for anyone Whatever the reason he plays along, I guess he thinks he needs him alive for other purposes in his experiments.

Daniels is able to suck the protomorph into space, boosting it with terraforming equipment and eliminating the second proto, in the end they decide to continue. with her mission in origai-6 heading to her cryogenic beds, but when David places Daniels in his, she asks him if he can help her build her log cabin, something she had discussed several times with Walter, but David doesn't know what are you talking about. and daniels finally realizes what happened, don't let the bedbugs bite david deadpan as daniel screams and fades into cryosleep, although there is one specific strange detail missing here before, daniel stabbed david in the chin with his nail of christ, but there doesn't seem to be any wound on David in this scene it's really hard to think of this as an oversight, it seems like an important detail to overlook and as far as we know David can't heal himself, but we also don't see the final result.

From what happens in the fight between David and Walter, although at least we know it's David we're seeing now in the end, it's safe to assume that David managed to destroy Walter, so was he somehow able to gain the healing ability from Walter? Maybe David was. capable of implanting Walter's main source chip seen in Walter's commercial. We also see later that David also knows Walter's security codes on the ship. It doesn't seem like this is something the two would have talked about casually, so it implies that David was somehow able to take advantage of Walter's knowledge and update his own system with what Walter knows and taking his chip could be a way. that this would work in a chilling final scene.

David walks the floors of the Covenant asking Mom to play Wagner's entry in Gods into Valhalla, a song with appropriately ambitious religious overtones for David playing God, and we see the thousands of colonists asleep around him, all unaware, new subjects for David. He approaches an embryo storage area and violently coughs up some alien embryos. Little face huggers seen inside David. Posing as Walter he leaves a transmission back to Wayland Yutani even using Walter's code saying that all but two of the crew died and the ship continues towards the Aura Boy Six Where do things go from here?

We know that David hasn't mastered his organism yet and with a ship full of colonists, he has a lot of genetic material to work with, so hopefully he'll finally create the xeno in the next movie and it makes sense that it would include the biomechanical aspect, including bits of himself as an android, to drive that classic xeno and I really hope that at least Daniels or Tennessee returns in the sequel. I want someone to finally beat david, since he's been on an uncontrolled rampage for two movies so far, someone has to finally pull the plug on that bastard for good.

It's also strange since the end of the Covenant takes us even further away from connecting with the alien again and based on the timeline of things it's hard to see how it will add up at this point, the eggs and the alien were supposed to have several thousand years, but in history so far it has already exceeded that period of time. We know Ridley has at least two more sequels in mind and Alien Awakening is next, so here's hoping he has something up his sleeve that will tie all of this together in a meaningful way. Well guys, I think that will do it for my in-depth analysis of Covenant and the larger mythology the series seems to be setting up.

What did you think of the film? Were they disappointed because they brought out an Alien 3 and killed Shaw? What other questions do they ask? they still let me know in the comments below thanks for watching the movies found until next time