phantasmagoria wrote:Don Carlos wrote:I do! They are not an advanced organism so they had no way of creating and flying a ship...so how did they come to be in the middle of space on a random planet?
I like the fact they are trying to explain where they came from, especially given it goes some way to explaining how there came to be eggs on the ship with the Space Jockey in Alien, is a good thing in my opinion. It makes perfect sense as prequels go.
So where did
the fucking eggs come from in Covenant? did David squeeze them from his ass? I HATE that Ridley is trying to explain
the xenomorphs. I'm almost as upset as Doombrain is about Star Wars about this. I wish they'd just leave it alone. Part of
the menace of
the xenos was their mystery, imagination is a powerful tool in
the medium of storytelling. Covenant and Prometheus sully that.
Aye, this is what's killing it for me. Also, despite all
the ham fisted explanations why did they need
the progenitors ?, they didn't, it was just a way to create a wider universe for more movies to sell. I know Alien got criticised for being too 'dumb' on release so I wouldn't be surprised if Ridley wanted to revise his original work like with Bladerunner by making it smarter.
The 1st 2 in
the franchise were very simple but effective in what they did, strong characters / focused and effective screenplay with very little world building (what was built was mostly through visuals) made
the films what they are and since then it's been stuck with an identity crisis. We're at
the point now where Ridley is actually saying there should be less Xenos in
the films, in
the Alien franchise. It's like having Back to
the Future without time travel.
I would say I'm as angry as DB but I think I'm passed it now, resurrection had some promise up until
the Ripley clones but
the whole franchise is a shadow of itself and has been for a while. Give
the keys to someone who gives a shit.
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