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Apr 15, 2024 · And that’s why scientists plan to treat all material brought back as if it could be very dangerous. “They’re going to be housed in a facility that essentially is what we use to manipulate ...
When the xenomorph first burst onto our screens in Alien, in 1979, its origins were shrouded in mystery. We knew what it looked like - a ferocious-looking creature, black-skinned, with a sharp, muscular tail, a curved, oblong head, acidic blood that would melt your face off and a powerful inner jaw to knock your brain out too.
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May 11, 2018 · As the extended (and better) ending of Prometheus lays bare, the reason that the Engineers likely turned on their progeny—we humans—is due to our predilection toward violence, as well as our desire...
Nov 17, 2023 · The significance of The Covenant extends beyond the Alien movies themselves, acting as a fascinating vehicle to explore broader themes of strategic alliances, power structures, and political implications.
- Deep-Space Colonialism
- Mirroring in Alien: Covenant
- Becoming Alive
- Being Human
- The Opposite of Creativity
- Why Don’T They Follow Quarantine Procedures?
- Alien: Resolution
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Covenant is seven years from Origae-6 and its passengers are in stasis for the journey: 14 human crew, 2,000 colonisers and 1,140 embryos. While they sleep, android Walter (Michael Fassbender) acts as ship custodian. As a colony vessel, Covenant’s human passengers travel in married pairs. The cargo hold is stuffed with construction materials. And s...
Mirroring is one of those invisible structures we unknowingly recognise and rely on to make sense of stories. It’s there when we expect characters and situations to be the opposite of each other, yet they turn out to be remarkably similar. The cops and criminals in Infernal Affairs, for instance. Alien: Covenant flips this when it has the crew disc...
There’s a familiar tension to Alien: Covenant. What does it mean to be human, and do our rights trump those of things we create or control? (See also Ex Machina) The film begins with David’s birth. “How do you feel?” Wayland asks. “Alive,” David replies. Disenchantment soon follows. David is keenly aware hiscreators are feeble and short-lived. Andr...
David’s desire is a muddled mix of wanting to be human yet despising humanity. In Prometheus, he devotes time to the imitation of life, dying his hair and rehearsing scenes from Lawrence of Arabia. The performance is meant to put humans at ease, the same reason he wears a space suit despite not breathing. By Alien: Covenant the pretence is gone – a...
2004’s I, Robot asksif AI could unwittingly cause the destruction of humans – i.e., through a failure of extreme, literal logic. There’s no such misunderstanding in Covenant: David despises the species that made him. His rage in turn comes from being denied the act of creation (or procreation). In isolation he devotes his life to a warped artistry,...
The quarantine question is an interesting one, because how characters adhere to their ships’ quarantine rules shapes each story in the franchise. 1. In Alien, android Ash (Ian Holm) overrides quarantine procedures as a means of bringing the alien onboard. 2. Prometheus has Vickers (Charlize Theron) answer this – with shades of a more militant Riple...
David wants to be human but is inevitably more like a god – in capability if not moral stature. He can’t die, for instance. And he comes to control creation in a way humans can’t. Walter shares this custodial responsibility over human life. All robots do, if we assume the ‘covenant’ or contractual duty of Asimov’s laws of robotics– though clearly D...
Alien, etc (franchise)Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Ex Machina(androids)May 19, 2017 · Franco plays the rightful captain of the Covenant. He also dies horribly within the first several minutes of the film. His only real lines are delivered in a video message that looks like leftover ...
May 22, 2017 · Engineer Homeworld. Much of Alien: Covenant takes place on the planet David (Michael Fassbender) and Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) were travelling to at the end of Prometheus, believed to the Engineer homeworld. After receiving a human distress signal from the planet, the crew of the Covenant decide to check it out as a possible alternative ...
