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Alien Romulus is the Alien franchise reaching the “Rogue One” Disney+/Netflix direct release stage of the timeline, not realizing this and still releasing in theatres.

The movie was not bad so much as it was predictable. Scrappy, ragtag and obligatorily diverse low budget cast, “twists” telegraphed from 10000 parsecs away, highly contained and unambitious plot, muted / watered down gore and eroticism. An R movie that is really a PG-13 movie.

I have and continue to maintain that we seem to have been robbed of the timeline where Prometheus served as the first of several movies exploring the deeper mysteries of the Alien universe while being otherwise unrelated from the previous movies’ plots. Perhaps this will be corrected in the future but Alien: Covenant and Alien: Romulus have not been it…

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dvo 1y ago

was so hopeful after seeing prometheus

Moon 1y ago

Prometheus is one of my favorite movies. Covenant didn’t have to be and imo should not have been an “Alien” movie in the same way the Prometheus wasn’t.

The Engineers and their relationship to humans is way more interesting than the alien at the point.

The different and more advanced ways that the black goo could combine is more interesting than the alien at this point (this The Bishop in Prometheus and the Neomorphs in Covenant).

My theory is that the planet in Covenant is by no means the Engineer’s main / most advanced world but rather some backwater experiencing technological regression (or it could be their main world under the same conditions).

From the different ship styles we see in Prometheus and their very different functions it suggests, if not different / opposed factions, at least vast organizations with very different strategic purposes.

Or perhaps the disk ship at the beginning of Prometheus is a stolen / rogue / or the last “lifegiver” ship that is running as far as they can on a panspermia mission, while the militaristic side is a faction of Engineers task with “cleaning up the mess” across worlds.

Like there’s so many different directions that could have gone with other than “David 8 created/recreated the standard alien and is now going…where?”

dvo 1y ago

exactly, the background on the engineers is way more interesting to me than any alien horror storyline. that part alone makes me want to rewatch it and look for clues