What ALIEN COVENANT Should have been - Prometheus 2 pitch

Some ideas of the ORIGINAL Prometheus sequel plans before it quickly become a typical ALIEN movie.
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By Kevin Macleod

[@DarkoFitCoach]

i always thought aliens background should remain mystery. an unknown, an alien. made by nature in the depths of darkness. not by some lameass android pissed of his boss for making his pour tea

[@manatillia]

Totally agree.

[@rockBRUNO6]

bustinasscoach the magic about the First alien is that is not only one alien specie, but 2 and they are so different from what we know, that make us think about how Little we know, about how much fucked Up things are out there. and prometheus/alien covenant throws that at the garbage. IF alien covenant kept with only the neomorphs It would be waaaay better

[@rockBRUNO6]

by the way, i loved prometheus even tho It destroys the Mystery about the space jockey

[@thebigkeenster7772]

Same here, them being unknown was part of the terrifying creature.

[@337Murder]

bustinasscoach couldn't agree more: that's what really speaks to me about the original Alien, it's a beast from deep space who made the world realize that extraterrestrials aren't necessarily green goofy creatures with antennae. This android creation bullshit is totally useless.

[@nickpalmer9348]

I think a brilliant way to increase the value of the franchise after Covenant is to return the scope and majesty to the Engineers and say that David merely stumbled upon the xenomorph formula that the Engineers already discovered and utilized. This can demean David a bit and become an interesting plot point for a sequel in which the more warlike faction of Engineers tear David to pieces or attach him into a biomechanical fixture that feeds on his energy like a battery to power another creature/weapon. This can introduce new weapons and biomonstrosity concepts to the story which I find far more interesting and material-rich for future productions. In other words, what else have the Engineers created? And, what in deed are they really?

[@danielrusa1]

Yes! I loved it! Then basically have the new crew come to paradise for the 3rd movie with the John Denver song bs and have a similar plot. The xenomorph hasn’t been provided the capability to lay eggs because David hasn’t figured that out yet but after a bunch of fights and a couple of characters getting out alive, David reveals in some way that he may have figured out how to make a self sustaining colony of Xenomorphs. Then make a 4th movie of him testing out his finished product on one of the engineers worlds with using the survivors from the 3rd movie and lead into “Alien”

[@Dustie1984]

Looks like I'm not the only one who realised how much this movie turned the whole franchise upside-down, how much it changed it forever. I love how they explore the mystery of how it all came to be, but it's always a heavy change, because they are writing up the story of everything before the events in the movies we all love. Risky stuff. I thought Covenant missed A LOT of great scene opportunities (I thought the rig scene would be a great, epic scene scene paying homage to the powerloader fight), but I'm still happy the movie happened and that the franchise is continuing.

[@metatechnologist]

Alien Covenant just goes off the rails. Such a disappointment. I get the idea that the whole thing with the engineers was nothing more than a "plot device" called a "macguffin" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGuffin I'm with you on this. Get Ridley to an AA meeting before he gets behind the wheel again, and there is another train wreck of a movie!

[@Artsificial]

I looked up the writers and proceeded to put them on my shit list. These folks can be in any association they want, they can have as many awards as they want - I'd rather stick chopsticks in my ears than listen to just one more word of their inane, ignorant, disrespectful drivel.

[@crxracer805]

metatech It was a good movie you idiot.

[@MrRomanticGameGuy]

Plot Twist: Prometheus 2 comes after Alien: Covenant ^^

[@cordzfx]

Only now i just read up on that...................might as well recall the video "predictions"

[@Alex-tu9bh]

Way fucking better. 10 golden squids for you sir

[@tedybar2002]

I just like your version. I am 65 years old and have been a sci-fi fan since the Fifties> When I saw the first Alien movie I knew it was an instant Classic, I feel the after the 3rd movie it has gone off in too many directions without answering any of the old question. Your suggestion seem to be very valid and inline with what real sci-fi fans want to see.

[@canton7180]

What they need to do if get the writers for the Iron fist to fix all this

[@tazmanceltic]

FRICKEN SPACE JOCKEY DUDE!!!

[@adrianvaughn3170]

Pretty good. I'd pay a ticket to see that. And probably buy the Blu-ray as well lol

[@CANNNIBALIX]

i liked the 20 second summary of prometheus in the previous video ... and i am sad i ever apologized for fucking prometheus and told people to not hate on it and give it a chance, cuz its gonna be great installment eventually ... then ridley scott created his own alien ressurection ...

[@josephholden9603]

The Covenant story can be saved....if it is a STEP in a much bigger plot instead of a main story.

[@acetheplace4565]

Lol that shit had me doing with tears 🤣 babys crying

[@barryauguste9734]

Giger is the only answer. If a movie could explore the psyco-sexual nature of the alien and its androgenous qualities as Giger always intended that would be step in the right direction. His work on 'Sil' in Species (although bastardized) shows where he was heading....an alien lifeform more dangerous in its ability to corrupt your dna, take on your characteristics, invade your nightmares, become part of you, mate with you, inseminate you, and burst from inside you. Its interesting that Giger never wanted the alien to have legs. It was larval-like, slug-like, with less defined form (see Necronomicon VI). Totally untranslatable on film, of course, and highly unmarketable to a mass audience who want their xenomorphs solid, safe, and within the bounds of established parameters. Maybe the only mediam that can truly give us an idea of his nightmares is the airbrush.

[@P0V3RTY09]

One of the biggest issues I have with Covenant is the continuity also. It mostly likely has to do with the fact that Ridley Scott didn't write the original story. So his ideas on how events transpired before the original film, are a little out of touch. Not to mention that he is revisiting this alienverse almost 30 years after directing the original film. To be honest, I did like Prometheus. It had interesting characters and a great visual style. Covenant should have been awesome but it ended up looking like it was being made be more then one director. It starts going in one direction then suddenly shifts to an entirely new one....and on more then one occasion. All I wanted to see in Covenant, was an engineer crash land his ship after encounters with a xenomorph/ face hugger. He starts a distress beacon. ..We then get a scene of Shaw frantically looking for David to see that he has been torn in half.. Shaw asks what had happened... David's eye are redirected above Shaw's head as he says.."Mother" Shaw looks up in horror being confronted by a full grown xenomorph..The screen goes black as her screams are heard..... then back in cockpit... the engineer starts to spasm as a chest burster is born.... The End

[@Adipatus]

Another ridiculous Ridley Scott mistake in a long chain of circularity is: Humans develop cryo-chambers to put up with the long distances and slow travel. But then comes along a super civilization and what awesome advanced tech do they have ????? Bigger and better cryo-chambers to put up with long-distance travel and slow-poke space travel !! How about hyper space or sub space or supraluminic , tachyonic super fast travel that dispenses with hibernation !!!!!

[@legoindyshortround]

I always imagined the Xenomorphs being a bio-weapon created by the space jockeys. Probably to eradicate another alien species they where at war with. Not a robot who has gone insane and teaches other robots how to play the flute.

[@MrNuclearturtle]

I just don't see what's wrong with keeping the aliens as an organism that spreads every really fast. The comics and films refer to them like literal cancer, an organism who's soul purpose is to keep their life cycle going, and everything else is food or potential hosts. Ridley Scott is pulling a midiclorian move on us by making something simple but effective, into a complicated concept that's way more contrived than it should be.

[@DBHxV10L3NT249R]

thats what every one thought.

[@optimusprimus89]

Connor Hickling honestly if we had that in Prometheus, it would have been perfect. Xenomorphs would already exist and would connect, and then the second movie could be all about the engineers and why they want to kill humanity blah blah like it was originally supposed to be. Fucking Ridley scott

[@qncsc]

and maybe "perfect weapon." why this allusion to perfect organism. its robustness does not imply "perfection" in my mind. such perfect org codification: another reflection of a backstory and ethos that has no real there there.

[@VonJay]

TLDR BELOW Great ideas are hard to come by in movies. Take for instance the Star Wars universe. It has Wizards in space, light sabers, cool ships, the idea that everything you're viewing happened a long time ago in a galaxy far away. They're all basically ideas that can sell themselves. And Star Wars is a franchise with a collection of ideas greater than the movies. Prometheus has one great idea that wasn't fully fleshed out. ''god'' man and robot walk the same plain. A viewing into the relationship between the three (which in my theory was altered by the studio to tie everything directly to alien. That's why we have scientists doing dumb things in order to set off the chain of events that lead up to the Deacon.) David was given properties that the engineers and humans can envy(highlighted by his opening on the ship), but the humans weren't given such characteristics. Instead of giving the engineers something to envy they were replaced by dumb scientists. Covenant takes this creation idea a step further and should scare the hell out of everyone. TLDR The goo from Prometheus was thought to be something that reacts to the users composition. It is why the first engineer in Prometheus creates life instead of just dying. His mental state and how he approaches creation must be considered to understand the theme Man's thought process while creating a machine needs to be considered also. The machine is something created in man's direct image, but an image strengthened exponentially. What the machine chooses to create is the genius in covenant. He creates something that he calls perfection. This only works from the human's perspective. We expect machines to bring us to the singularity . We expect a machine to be our artistic slaves also by creating wonders and things unimaginable, to redefine beauty and existence. David can do this and doesn't do this. Instead of finding his way off the planet, he chooses to perfect the most horrific organism know to all of the above. Tapping into our creation's mindset is impossible. This is a revelation to me. No matter our good intentions in life in what we invent, the results can be catastrophic, and at the same time deeper than catastrophe. Because destroying man kind with a bomb is catastrophic, destroying mankind with a creature that rapes and impregnates you is deeper than poetry.

[@mikelowrey1910]

It’s beyond me that ridley Scott thought he could set up so many questions and not answer any of them

[@vanillamillz]

It's because of people that only want a thriller and not a good movie.

[@surfacematter2098]

He absolutely had a different trilogy set. After prometheus, he let money ppl win, otherwise he wouldn't get three, or two movies. It's obvious what he originally wanted. I was all for what was after prometheus

[@mikelowrey1910]

@@surfacematter2098 same.

[@bigtravis6159]

The xenomorph could be the entire Reason the universe seems mostly devoid of intelligent civilizations and the engineers were taking steps to repopulate but David recreated the beasts

[@tulinfirenze1990]

That's a better and more enigmatic and intriguing idea right there than ANYTHING proposed in either of Ridley's two new films! I'd love the concept that whole sections of the galaxy have to be "roped off" and declared out of bounds as they are swarming with xenomorphs or are covered in dormant aliens, just waiting for hapless travellers to venture there. It would give space that true dark, Lovecraftian cosmic horror vibe that alien used to have.

[@ArtofLunatik]

That’s actually a cool idea. You should be a writer.

[@solotravelermart]

No

[@TestAcct46]

When I found out Shaw was killed offscreen, and they friggin annihilate the engineers entirely right off the bat, I lost all interest in seeing this movie. I wanted some answers about the engineers and got a middle finger. Fuck that!

[@candycommander]

I think Ridley Scott collaborated with Sean Murray.

[@davidlabelle361]

Damned. Fucking. Straight. Killing Shaw off was bogus. She was too Goddamned resilient to be bested by a fucking android. Getting rid of the engineers was a bogus move as well. I’m part of the cult that actually loved “Prometheus”. I was ready to see more explained. I wanted an actual sequel to “Prometheus”. I thought Ridley was “done with the xenomorph”. So many complaints, so little time.

[@dabba_dabba]

i like your david impersonation

[@fordexplore271]

ryne stanford it gave me the creeps

[@cmikles1]

Like a slightly flamboyant Irish fellow with a lisp. Haha.

[@SaraLittleWren]

As in Irish person, I approve

[@doublep1980]

When a youtube fanfiction,is better then a story cooked up by professional screenwriters,you realise how completely screwed up,Hollywood has become.

[@k4yser]

thats the free market of ideas. hollywood has high entry barriers, so many good ideas never make it through.

[@sigmacademy]

When checking out the current spate of cinematic failures and soulless blockbuster productions coming out of Hollywood, you wouldn't think the entry barriers were that high to begin with. But that is what happens when you try to grab directors/writers who only have had 1-4 good movies against writers who have 3-4 decades of experience in writing stories for large commercial productions. Of course Ridley Scott can tell any story he likes, but it would help the audience if the story actually links up with other entries in the franchise, so we can better understand what is going on. I think Ridley Scott is trying to tell us a really good story, but the execution and implementation of said story is all over the place. No writer has ever told a story that has become a masterpiece; people have read a well-told story and agreed that it is a masterpiece because of its universal themes and general appeal. Which is why I think so many modern studio films fail. Studios aren't interested in telling society good stories, they are interested in profit generated by any story told. Which is why they will settle for something like Pacific Rim over continuing something like Ender's Game, which has a much deeper and more relevant theme that it wants to share.

[@ot227]

Well you shouldn't see past this guys imagination and his skills in story writing. Sure hollywood is screwed but at the same time this guy is very good.

[@yoahthuermann237]

@@nightowl8936 dude wtf XD

[@paulmajano]

doubleP because they’re too busy being pedophiles!!!

[@Acekorv]

Paradise Lost would've been amazing the amazing movie we never get to see.

[@PadreDePato]

Release the Snyder cut! 😅

[@O1OO1O1]

because of the whiny fans.

[@raylinbrown3571]

I love your story! I'm a huge fan of this series, and man. Seriously, this movie should have been David and Shaw, and how it fell apart, and why they killed the engineers. Who cares about this new crew? Pointless.

[@Nasoj0Tnek]

Hell, don't know where to start fixing this broken franchise. Nuke it from orbit. Only way to be sure...

[@DBHxV10L3NT249R]

depends where you consider it broken. prometheus and covenant are amazing as "ALIEN" films and bring back a more intellectual tone. my least enjoyed films are resurrection and #3, #3 was great but it was no follow up to aliens and in that regard it suffered. as for resurrection it was fucking shit and every one knows it. AVP is hit and miss you ether love it or hate it. I'm personally a huge fan of the AVP comics and games but see extreme flaws in the movies though i enjoy the 1st film for the sake of being entertained. if you see them as 1 story you will see way to many flaws to count but if you see them as separate franchises you can enjoy them more for what they are worth.

[@cafechipmunk087]

Was that last bit there an Aliens reference?

[@ex-act6167]

Richard Simms Fuckin' A!

[@qncsc]

kick out the airlock.

[@ClubShadeTree]

YES! Thank you for for "killing" Covenant with an Aliens quote. I didn't mind Prometheus. It was the first of 3 and everyone knows you can't have plot development w/o someone doing something stupid...or a series of stupid things. I could defend most stupid things in Prometheus (trying to pet an alien cobra...remember the Crocodile Hunter? Breaking protocol and taking off your helmet....overly excited about 'being right'.). I can not nor will I ever defend the stab in the face that is Covenant. The most iconic movie creature possibly ever....is the result of a deranged android with a God complex and too much time on his hands? Offensive! Thank you, CorderyFX for a movie idea I can support. I would not have walked out of your movie upset and disappointed. Having the Engineers killed off (so easily....what advanced civilization allows a 2,000 y/o ship to randomly fly in w/o any precautions?) and Xenomorphs reduced to a science experiment "just because", was worse than seeing Optimus Prime killed in the 80s Transformers movie. Covenant is so bad I almost don't care for any explanations, but to address continuity...if David piloted the ship successfully into the city and deployed the weapon...what caused the ship to crash? The movie would have made more sense and been something I could accept if he crash landed on the planet and found it devoid of life and covered with charred bodies, being the result of a civil war. You could even have David and Shaw discover some kind of lab or ceremonial room where they find Xenomorph-related items that lead to David using Shaw as an experiment, too overpowered by curiosity. Even stream-of-consciousness thinking is better that what they came up with. Sheesh!

[@dukinhower]

2 Things: -Why did the Engineers suddenly freak out? -How does it all connect back to Alien 1?

[@ProbablyUltraman]

Good questions

[@jtbartz8830]

COVENANT had sooooo much potential. Yet we waited 5 years, half a decade for unoriginality and a plot with predictable moves that insulted our intelligence. I'm upset because they royally slapped Prometheus in the face, and once again really explained nothing but David has a fetish to create and destroy things.

[@DieHardjagged]

I was thinking they would AT LEAST show how Shawn confronts the Engineers and demands Answers.. and what do we got? David releasing the Bio Weapon and killing everyone.. fucking lol.

[@kummakummakummakummakummac8606]

Sauron Merciful - Alien Covenant is a sequel to Prometheus. Obviously people are going to be mad when it doesn't answer any of the questions. They did the same thing with Promethius being set in the Alien universe with no Aliens. If they want to make a Alien movie then make a Alien movie. If they want to make a Prometheus movie then they should make a Prometheus movie. Otherwise they end up asking alot more questions then they answer.

[@nightowl8936]

Prometheus was too deep for most people. The theological concepts and deeper philosophical questions were lost on most of the rabble in Western society. Hard to believe the West is the most advanced society when I see how stupid people are. I don't even want to guess how Prometheus would go over in China or the Islamic world.

[@sigmacademy]

Not to mention that Shaw does not even get within any distance of another living Engineer again? Why set that up as something that is important and then simply wipe that off the table in the next movie? Even having David comfort Shaw with the reassurance that he would find out by any means the answers to her questions would have been a nod to the first movie? Also helps him in his manipulations of Shaw, but at least that would have been in there?

[@jamez243]

I wish they could have been separate universes like they originally said. I LOVED Prometheus, one of my favorite movies. I liked David as KIND of a bad guy but fairly reasonable .. (he didn't kill Shaw's boyfriend before asking him if he was willing to die to meet his maker). Prometheus I was attached to the characters. I wanted to explore more about the engineers, where humans came from, are we descendants, why did they create us, why do they want to kill us. So much we could have done. Shaw was a good character, David was a GREAT character. Now I feel completely uninterested in the franchise. They killed Shaw and made David some super villain. Such potential just wasted. I could care less about the actual alien creatures / xenomorphs. They had much deeper story going.

[@supoa9489]

I've always said Prometheus should've been separate from the alien films that way its not constricted and wouldn't need to follow ideas and plot points that have been set up in past sequels

[@flaminak7894]

Jamez243 Most Alien fans bitched about Prometheus not having any “xenomorphs” but after Prometheus, I bet you most people wanted the digs on what these “engineers” were. “End of Prometheus setting up a sequel? Oh boy I bet it’s gonna be about Shaw and David exploring the Engineer planet or something, maybe give some info on Engineer culture and philosophy. Maybe even shed some light on that creepy deacon mural in Prometheus”......”ahh never mind, it’s just some human-created A.I on the loose, typical...”

[@optimusprimus89]

Yeah that is what I want. idc how it's done I just want the damn movies to connect. it's like Ridley is doing this Paranormal Activity thing where you keep thinking you'll get the answer or end in the next movie but it keeps dragging you down this shitty rabbit hole. I REALLY like the idea of Xenomorphs being an ancient extinct species that had to be resurrected. I got chills thinking of seeing that final moment in a movie.

[@jimmychang6235]

Those negative comments are most likely studio plants

[@petervlcko4858]

i was though about it too. they still have attention

[@thatoneguy779]

No they are not. Not everyone is going to like the same things if you like a movie and someone calls it "shit" you can expect them to get a little frustrated.

[@pogothepurple3826]

Dude... the crying audio track behind the comments... Perfecto. You're funny as hell, brah. Badass and keeewwl

[@Gustamachio]

Great Job! Hey the makers Engineers/Destroyers/Space Jockies are much more interesting than the Aliens themselves, and could easily carry their own movies. Too cool to waste such amazing ideas! NO FKN WAY is the entire species confined to one lame little city and get wiped out with this one little event.

[@nightowl8936]

I agree with you ... but the grandeur of the idea of life being seeded on Earth by near Godlike but still physical beings from far away is wasted on most KZbinrs. Most people are stupid and unimaginative. I understand how David must feel towards humanity in general.

[@AbuHajarAlBugatti]

dicem slasher The movie is still shit

[@blackderby80]

Exactly! Every review or recap mentions it as the engineers' home world, but the film never actually states that. I figure it was just one colony among dozens, or even hundreds.

[@sigmacademy]

It would also make sense as a refueling/provision port. There were a lot of aliens down there, but nowhere what a homeworld would have. The movie also shows only the one city as the characters descend down the atmosphere to the surface, showing woods and lakes. So it would make sense that this was a colony and not a homeworld. From a story viewpoint it is also better, as it still allows for major backlash from the Engineer race against David for the harm he has caused. I would like to see David being hunted across the galaxy/universe for the genocide he caused, all the while seeding Alien eggs on various planets and ports, in his own madness, spreading his genetical prodigy across the known and unknown spaces in a twisted legacy of his own "godhood" and skewed perspective of immortality. He knows he is going to have to face his own demise, but in his eyes it would have been worth it, if for no other reason than having created an unique life form with his own hands. In other words, becoming what Weyland was to him, him being to his creations.

[@unstoppableExodia]

Maybe Fox should have let Ridley make the Prometheus movie he really wanted to make and not worry too much about tying it to the alien universe. It's clear that Ridley wanted to adapt chariots of the gods into film and if the film was a hit they could have made a sequel and let the fans speculate and theorize if maybe Prometheus and its sequels perhaps tie into the alien universe thanks to some strategically placed Easter eggs that challenge the coy official line that "we should just try to see these movies in the context of the setting and timeline they're set in". That way if Prometheus and paradise lost are a hit critically and commercially and if the fan community wills it then the third film could be the one that definitely connects the dots and lead up to Alien. But if it fails to catch on then they haven't torpedoed the alien franchise and they can take it in a different direction without the need for a hard reboot

[@mariorad529]

I like your idea for Prometheus 2. Something along those lines would've been great. Such a shame.

[@S2Cents]

The worst thing is seeing that almost no matter how much a series is ruined, no matter how bad the movie, people will keep paying to see them and we will keep getting crap.

[@MattWeismiller1994]

The actual problem is Hollywood's obsession with re-makes and sequels. The original Alien series should have ended on Aliens. The leaders of these industries are somewhat only motivated by greed. Who cares if the movie is only made for marketing to lie to the public about the authenticity of the movie, if you can make a huge profit margin during the first month of release thae why not? The people in charge of 20th Century Fox generally make movies that are made for trailers. That's my two cents on this 2nd prequel... Am i the only one who thinks that a series of prequels before the beginning of the first story is a brazen cash-grab and never nearly goes right... *cough cough* Star Wars Prequel

[@S2Cents]

Matt Weismiller R Ridley Scott is Lucasing the Alien series. *Spoiler* "David created the xenomorphs. That's more interesting." No more interesting than midichlorians. Hollywood is increasingly financed by Chinese investors and makes movies for newer overseas markets... We're screwed.

[@catspaw3092]

Also it's the public's fault for buying into shit it's like a battered spouse they keep going back they keep paying to see remakes & sequels rather than say to Hollywood ENOUGH! Can't the movie industry come up with better ideas.

[@S2Cents]

Catspaw We need to stop giving them money. Watch the previews, which are often awesome, then see cool free clips or watch for free online or just read the summaries and reviews, if you're curious.

[@lrodger2486]

2cents that's the problem

[@WrestlingTitan]

Scott messed up Covenant. Your version is so much better. David didn't create them. The xenomorphs existed thousands of years before. See AVP and the predators fighting Aliens as a ritual dating back 3000 years. Also the Aliens in those movies looked identical to the ones used in the original Alien movie. Further evidence is the engineer murals in prometheus. They show events from thousands of years ago depicting Black alien creatures that are xenomorphs. All David did was recreate the species in his experiments. .... but wait! Now RS says this all didn't happen and David created them. Fuck that. Talk about wasting all the mystery, legacy and history of the species and series.

[@denislanza6228]

Wrestling Titan You do know AvP is not canon and so doesn't figure into this prequel series, right?

[@robertogurrola7465]

Denis Lanza paradise lost could have easily explained the aliens being around for thousands of years. Then it wouldn't matter if AvP was Canon it would still line up

[@nestoronfire847]

This is actually a far more reasonable approach to Covenant. I don't even know what that thing i watched in the movie theater yesterday had to do with the Alien franchise, or with Prometheus for that matter.

[@2287nemo]

... Your irish accented imitation of Michael Fassbender sounds EXACTLY like Dara O'brien... Just thought I'd point that out... Oh yeah, and I guess all the other stuff in the video is great too....

[@cordzfx]

2287nemo haha man im a huge fan of mock the week too

[@jackthompson3453]

Supposedly Scott's next film in this series is called "Alien: Awakenings" and it takes place before "Alien: Covenant" and after "Prometheus". But I for one could care less. He should give up his "Gods from the Sky" obsession and just move on to other projects. He's done enough damage to the Alien franchise.

[@O1OO1O1]

Are we also getting upset about Aliens 3 and 4? The good movies stopped after 2. At least Prometheus was original and breathed life into the franchise, even if Covenant was a misstep. It's not a Gods from the Sky obsession, he wanted to address the question of where the alien came from. It had to have come from somewhere. You don't want to know? Don't watch it. You already got your alien movies. Too many of them that they became bad. I think Prometheus is a natural progression from Alien 1 and 2. I want to know where it comes from! That's a compelling direction. The new movies do a bad job of conveying the compelling ideas behind them, however. Those are found in obscure, hard to find places, sadly.

[@Webshooters1]

What's funny is that in the novelization of Alien Covenant, it's explained that there was a fossilized Xenomorph egg on the planet and David explains that the Engineers left it on the planet so what he's been doing is recreating the Xenomorphs and he's only tinkered with the DNA as opposed to being their creator. It preserves the mystery of the xenos.

[@CastelDawn]

that's actually a pretty interesting element.

[@petervlcko4858]

yes nice

[@CliveLovecraft]

Ridley Scott should be around here taking notes. This would've been such a better plot for covenant.

[@petervlcko4858]

you are right but scott has no give a f23k approach. he also believe in the creation the way david do :D lol thats plot twist XD

[@andyweb7779]

I think ridley's lost his mind. Frankenstein ? ... who even likes that story ? its as brown as shite

[@uncharted7againblackking256]

Hahah he said Prometheus 7 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@uncharted7againblackking256]

Thanks for the like

[@Neb30925]

"Life is a mystery. Death has no answers." --Lilith from True Blood

[@rambdabamb4104]

The Blue Dolphin joke you make about the little alien wanna be thing at the end of Prometheus is fucking great. Shit cracks me up. XD good job man.

[@RemiStardust]

14:02 "In the last movie, I infected you, 'complicatedly'." - Haha, that was funny!

[@CaminoAir]

I can only image how upset long-time Alien fans are going to be after the next prequel, if they continue to re-work the Alien universe. If the studio wanted to earn more money from the franchise they should have done sequels instead. That way fans could just disregard them if they wanted to. But now the original 1979 film is tainted.

[@tulinfirenze1990]

This long-time Alien fan wouldn't even bother to go and see another piece of shit that senile old Ridley crapped out. I'm DONE with these movies while HE is involved.

[@mk45gunnr25]

why the fuck does everyone demand to call the aliens the perfect anything?

[@luckystriker7489]

How does your pitch account for the space jockey in Alien?

[@marklechman2225]

Your David accent cracks me up lol! Love the story you came up with. Excellent! Why is it that franchise fans always seem to come up with better story ideas than film producers? I think having David destroy the Engineers later in the film as you described would have been much more effective and horrifying than how it was depicted in Covenant. Well done!

[@oaktree2406]

The worse thing about Covenant? ZENOMORPHS ARNT FULLY FORMED WHEN THEY BURST OUT THE CHEST

[@CCscorsese]

This. Exactly what I was hoping Covenant would be. I was so annoyed that we barely had any resolution to Prometheus & just shoved Xenomorphs into this movie just because. Hearing that Scott is planning for Alien:Awakening to take place between these two movies, you really gotta wonder what the point in it all was

[@CCscorsese]

The only thing I'd change from your idea was the terrorist angle, & just keep the idea they "tried" explaining in Covenant: The Engineers would've wanted to use the black stuff on Earth not out of vengeance, but out of disappointment. From the deleted scene in Prometheus, where we hear the Engineer talk, we get the sense that it's letdown that the species they created looks up to them like gods/wants to live forever instead of sacrificing to evolve (like the Engineer that created earth life). To further develop the species they created, the Engineers had to destroy it with the black stuff & start again. Keep your ideas with Shaw getting to know the Engineer culture, end it with David ultimately turning on them all because of his god complex. Nicely put together, mate.

[@petervlcko4858]

so next movie should be between? heheh i was though that engineers will come to seek for david and panish him for what he done. :D but like this? whoa?

[@OctogNonen]

My idea for an alien tv-series is as follows: It takes places just before the events in the first alien movie and happens on a planet near where the nostromo spaceship is shipping ore. Weyland-Yutani is on the planet and have terraformed it for years,when they discovers a cave with lots of xenomorph eggs. One of them get's infected and a xenomorph is born. It turns out to be a queen,and a lot of the Weyland-Yutani humans are infected and then a war breaks out. All the humans on the planet are wiped out and only a few manage to escape in a spaceship.Then they nuke the planet from orbit. Then Weyland-Yutani regrets the decision and a hunt for the xenomorph begins.They get a tip that there's a crashed spaceship on lv426 and sends the robot Ash on the Nostromo spaceship. But they are informed that the mission has failed and that Nostromo has gone missing.Then Weyland-Yutani get's a tip about an xenomorph on Fiorina161 and sends a team of researchers there.They finds a surviving prisoner that is impreagnated and a queen is born. Weyland-Yutani then wants to use the xenomorphs on the planets where the engineers are located because they want the technology to seed planets with life. They also want the elixir that provides humans with prolongued life.After they have managed to give birth to a flock of xenomorphs,they drops them on an engineer planet and causes everyone of them to die. Then they get hold of the blue elixir that gives prolongued life.But several ships with engineers that where away from their planet when Weyland-Yutani wiped the population out,pursue them and manages to get the elixir back,but gets trapped on the planet where both parties crash.Then a battle takes place and the crew from Weyland-Yutani gets the elixir that gives them prolongued life for thousands of years,but they are now trapped on the planet,with no means to get anywhere.But then they see a light aproaching,but is the spaceship friends or foes ? It turns out it is the engineers and after a battle they gets hold off the blue elixir once again,and that gives the cliffhanger for a second season that we must wait several years to see???

[@CrniWuk]

The big problem here is, that both Covenant and Prometheus explain something that never needed explanations. As much as I would love to see the Space Jockey/Engineers and the Xenomorphs 'explained', the less you know about them, the better it actually is, it's kinda paradox. But that is the beauty of it. And this has a lot to do with how Giger approached his work. What is the Xenomorph in Alien (1979)? It literaly stands for the 'unknown' (next to a lot of sexual symbolism! Like rape and repressed sexual feelings), in a lovecraftian style, something that is truly incomprehensible. The real appeal of the movie is to see what happens when completely ordinary people, like the average person, is confronted with something like that. It is not a coinsidence that H.R.Gigger a 'surrealist' was chosen for the project after all and to design the creature. The moment you make the Space Jockey in to giant blue body builders which 'created' humanity it totally sucks out this irrationality this 'unkonwn' and lovecraftian part out of the movie. in stories from lovecraft the protagonist often happens to realize how insignificant he is, how meaningless humanity is in the face of the 'old ones', ageless space-entities/beeings that usually drive people in to madness, as they completely defy physics and represent something that is not from this world. The fact that all of this plot focused on humanity and how a human is seeking out his 'creators' actually also destroys a lot of the gritty-realism that was established with Alien. Humanity didn't really play any role at here, space was presented as something vast, empty, lifeless and hostile where most planets barely have any kind of substance at all. And that is actually the reality out there, I mean Alien gave a fearly accurate feeling about space, from a movie perspective. It's not like Star Trek or Star Wars filled with all sorts of creatures or intelligent beings and planets with life on it. And the Space Jockey is so weird and strange in apperance, that it really feels like something which evolved completely different to us. Remember how Dallas speculated, that it looked the Space Jockey grew out of the chair? This is what Giger intended, this is what his 'designs' are, a combination of biology and machinery, biomechanics, maybe something that is actually engieered and not born, but actually 'designed' to do certain tasks. And I find this much more intriguing and interesting than simply space Jesus seeding life on different planets. It's very far away from the vision that Giger probably had in mind ...

[@supoa9489]

Absolutely agree not only that you bloat the franchise with unneeded lore and they forced to try and tie back to the original Alien making it a incoherent mess. Prometheus should never been part of the alien franchise it's only damaged the franchise further, Prometheus fans got a sequel that doesn't answer the questions that Covenant was supposed to.

[@CrniWuk]

Yeah, and now it is even in question if there will ever be a third movie by Scott ... so much to that "Covenant will answer everything!" by fans of Prometheus. Anyway, do you know what I really would love to see as movie? A prequel about Hadleys Hope, they could have done even a high quality series out of it (think game of thrones quality here), where you follow the citizens before the Space Mari ... I mean colonial Marines arrive. Now THAT would could be a great thing to explore.

[@supoa9489]

Definitely

[@lulub517]

I would have loved this movie as paradise. Also. “Far more interesting if David created the Xenomorphs?” No way, that is insulting to the first movie and makes the unknown more and more known which makes it less frightening. Come on Ridley Scott... it could have been great!

[@traumachild1737]

I liked the idea of the xenomorphs being ancient species that went extinct and the engineers trying to bring them back, perhaps that was the plan of the engineers from the beginning, to chamge humans into aliens but they never got to it.

[@jamesmoss3036]

I've spent the last 4 fucking years thinking to myself "Who was the dude who did the hilarious Michael Fassbender impression" and I finally found it again! Thank you!

[@WhoElseButJarjosa]

Honestly, as much as I enjoyed Alien: Covenant, I like this idea lot more. Killing off Shaw (and in such a grotesque manner as the movie implies) before she gets her answers was the thing that disappointed me most about the movie (even though, again, I really enjoyed it). Keep Shaw alive and going to Paradise to meet the Engineers and have David, driven by an ever evolving God complex, destroy them and take Shaw's chances to get answers away from her. Making David killing the Engineers the climax of the film rather than a backdrop would have given that whole scene in Covenant so much more impact. Also, I don't know if the movie explicitly states that David created the xenomorph as much as it suggests he perfected something that already existed. The neomorphs, after all, are products of the black goo infecting the local ecosystem. They are a more primal version that David crafted into an ultimate killing machine. That was my interpretation, specifically because Prometheus showcased the "xeno mural" and the Deacon. So David makes the Alien *as we know it* but isn't responsible for its overall existence. That still preserves its mystery for me. Basically, the Alien is somehow an ultimate product of this black goo's chemical process, thus it is a symbol for the Engineers. They revere it. Their culture is all about sacrifice, destruction and creation. The xenomorph is a beast that follows this process in its life cycle. A host sacrifices itself leading to the destruction of the body and the birth of new life.

[@T1000-s4j]

Great video. The reason why none of the sequels or prequels don't really work, is because they're not necessary. Alien was the perfect sci-fi horror. The aliens don't need explaining; they just exist as malevolent, relentless beings. There shouldn't have been any sequels or prequels, only Alien (1979).

[@wilsonwijaya.design]

The ending could just be david put the facehugger on Shaw without waking her up prior. So once the facehugger was impregnating , Shaw gets to see a little glimpse of David between the facehugger's legs, standing creepily, smiling, waiting for his invention he's been dedicated his entire life

[@darksaiyan4]

I honestly was very disappointed when I saw this in cinemas we got none of the questions we wanted answered they killed fucking shaw off screen the entire movie made no scene you could actually tell everything that was gonna happen characters going off on their own obviously going to get killed you know what fuck this franchise

[@Anamnesis]

Pretty nice take on what it could have been. Reminds me of Mike Stoklasa's take on Red Letter Media about what The Force Awakens could have been. Which is to say: a lot better.

[@Yeeksquilack]

The Engineers did not create the black blood. They obtained it. They discovered it. Even they do not understand everything about it. They worship the source of it as their God. The Engineers seed world with life as part of their religion. The Engineers saw humans as potentially useful for carrying out their religion. They sent an Emissary who offered humanity eternal life and purpose in the service of the Engineers' God. Some humans became disciples, others rejected the Emissary and killed him. The surviving disciples of the Emissary created a new faith based on their flawed understanding of his message (this ties into Scott's idea that the historical figure of Jesus Christ was an Engineer). The Engineers decided to exterminate humanity as failures and heretics, but lost control of the black blood and it devoured their outpost on the world in Prometheus. The world in Covenant is the original home of those who became the Engineers, though not all of the species joined them. Like the humans on Earth, this species was seen as a useful source of Engineers to carry out the religion of their God. David learns of the God of the Engineers and strives to become a disciple as well, exterminating all the non-believers as an offering. I would lose the dumb and bad idea of David being the creator of the original Xenomorph and simply have him work to bring it forth more rapidly than it might have otherwise. The Xenomorphs are one result of the black blood affecting an entire ecosystem - one of many expressions of the black blood. Cue more films exploring the now much bigger universe and the question of where the black blood truly comes from, what other monstrosities it is capable of producing, and what other Engineers are doing as part of their religion.

[@TheNetNauts]

your ending would have been amazing. it's a shame how badly Ridley dropped the ball with these prequels. there was so much potential...

[@paulkidd-stanton4173]

love the fasbender impressions .....you crack me up mate !!! great stuff as always

[@moocowtoyou]

the original space jockey was much larger physically than prometheans w a different driving seat and the large head and mural did infer some religious worship

[@rickycross356]

Dat Fassbender impersonation though

[@ToylandChairman666]

I really like the Engineers. I've always been fascinated by the ancient astronaut theory, which could be why I don't mind INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL. COVENANT was okay, but I would have liked to see more of the Engineers. I'm still hoping we have at least one more prequel. Both for closure, and for developing the Engineers as characters.

[@Yanolala]

Because of this video, I can't see Michael Fassbender in a movie without saying, out loud, "My name is Michael Fassbender and I play David."

[@Wayner71]

I feel sorry for people who like Covenant. It is so clearly a bad movie there is no contest.

[@TheRubberStudiosASMR]

7:13 Written by Damon Lindeloff. If that was the case I never would have seen it

[@itessellate4440]

you should do all your reviews in that Fassbender voice!!

[@Uploaded1995]

I like the idea! It's a nice pitch, though I fear it's maybe a bit too much exposition/story in comparison to the amount of suspense that Alien is known for.

[@jojosmooth999]

How Alien Covenant Movie Should have been and futher Alien movie stories:Alien Covenant 2017 Movie: 2nd Prequel to Alien - David and Shaw continue their journey to Paradise using the Engineers ship. - they arrive on the Engineers paradise planet in the woods its empty nothing but woods and moutains - They continue searching for awnsers and exploring the planet walking - They walked for hours and they found A crashed yutani Weyland Ship Covenant Ship) - they were exploring the covenant ship (4 crew members were found). It crashed a year ago - 4 crew members explained they crashed a year ago on this planet. and their captain is gone missing. - One of the 4 crewmembers said their captain and 3 other covenant crewmembers went searching for a engineer ship to get off of this planet. - The 4 crewmembers want to join David and shaw to find their lost crewmembers and captain - They continue their search and their was a noice following them. out of nowhere 2 Neomorphs came out and attaked the group - 2 of the 4 covenant members died by the neomorphs. they rest of the group manage to escape. - They continue their search and were walking together in a group of 4 now. They coming closer to the egineers hideout and villages - The entering the city unseen and were hiding for the egineers. they see a crowd engineers walking far away - Shaw wants to go the engineers to ask why they created us and then wanted kill us. David warned Shaw not to do that because the engineers would kill us. Shaw agrees and they continue their search for awnsers themselves. - They discover A massive big mysterious engineers tempele. No egineers were in the tempel - they are entering a very Dark mysterious engineer Gods tempel unnoticed. David shines his flashlight and they see more of the history of the engineers explaining on the walls - they find a mysterious Big room And secret engineer space ship inside of it - David, shaw and the 2 crewmembers exploring the ship and find a spacejockey. - They heard a loud noice. the door shuts down of the tempel. They were stuck - They saw one Giant engineer coming towards them. Not a normal Engineer we know from prometheus - he ask what are you doing here in engineers language. he wants to kill David and Shaw - David cumminicates with the Giant engineer and calms him down by winning his trust by talking - The Giant engineer explains the sacrifice of the Engineers taking the black goo on Planet Lv-233 beginning of prometheus for the cure of immortal life. - The Giant egineer shows a history hologram activated by the space jockey of what happen to their planet and why they were experimenting on LV-233 with black goo - the hologram explains 2 Egineers ships were travelling from engineer planet to the xenomorphs home world. one of the 2 engineers ship returned to the engineers planet the other did not - It also revealed that the captain (james Franco) of the covenant ship and went to the xenomorph homeworld with a stolen engineers ship. its not sure he survived - The hologram explained that the egineer homeworld was inffected by a returning engineer ship with no engineers inside from the xenomorph home world that went to the xenomorph homeworld for a mission. - The mission was finding the immortal cure towards the xenomorph black goo infection - their were some immortal cure jars found in the returning egineer ship that the engineer was drinkin in the beginning of prometheus - in The returning engineer ship that came from the xenomorph homeworld xenomorph. there were xenomorph eggs and neo morph black poison plants in it - the mission failed - David and Shaw wanted to help the engineer and his people finding the immortal cure. and want to know id the captain James franco survived on the xenomorph homeworld. - Davind and Shaw were offering their help the egineers finding the cure by traveling to the Xenomorph homeworld. But only If the Egineers will not kill the humans on earth. - The Giant engineer agreed with the offer. an decides to help David, shaw and the 2 crewmembers. Other engineers noticed they were unknown geust on their planet and went on hunting David Shaw, and the 2 crewmembers - the Giant engineer tries to communicate to stop the other egineers. it will not help. - The Giant Engineer, David Shaw, and the 2 crewmembers are trying to escape from the engineers. - then the xenomorphs and Neomorphs showing up. to hunt the engineers and David,shaw and 2 cremembers actions (battle scenes) - many engineers get killed by the aliens and also the 2 crewmembers - the good Engineer is helping them to escape they wen to the egineer space station and took an other engineer ship to the xenomorph homeworld to find the immortal cureMovie ends Alien HOMECOMING 2022 Movie: 3rd Alien prequel to Alien David, Shaw and the good Giant Engineer landing on the Xenomorph home world planet. they exploring the Xenomorph world and find an other stranded engineers ship with the Lost dead ALien Covenant Captain james Franco - they were searching for the black goo cure. they were able to find it. and were fighting the Aliens on the planet aswell. -David gets attackted by an ALien queen. and gets wounded. - they were running back to the engineers ship ready to leave. - They try to escape and get back into the engineers ship. a few xenomorphs enters the engineers ship unseen. - David said to Shaw go home. you have your awnsers now, i stay here. - David activate the engineers bomb on the xenomorph planet to wipe out the whole xenomorphs and neomorphs species -Shaw agrees and cries. They say goodbye to each other. The good engineer and Shaw enter the engineers ship and were leaving the xenomorph planet - David was left behind on the xenomorph homeplanet he wanted and David dies. Xenomorhp homeplanet exploded and gets destroyed - Shaw noticed later that the good engineer and she were not alone on the engineer ship. Shaw saw the aliens. and gets an Engineers pistol fights and tries to kill the Aliens in a battle on the engineers ship while the good engieer was steering the engineers ship in the space jockey - the Giant Engineer gets a Facehugger on him and gets inplanted with an Xenomorph egg - they were trying travelling back to engineers planet with the cure. - the enigeer notice he is not feeling well while he sits in the Space jockey. The engineers started to feel the pain in his chest and the Alien was ready to get out of the engineers chest. The enigeer could not drive the engineers ship anymore. - The egineers ship go's downwards and was ready to crash on a unknown planet. The engineers Ship Finanally crashes on planet LV-426. - Shaw Dies by the crash Alien Queen comes out of the Giant Engineer Chest and lays eggs you see in the original Alien 1979 And of movie Alien 5 2028 Movie: The Alien Deacon that was left alone on planet LV-233 at the end of prometheus has created a new Alien species and is the Deacon Queen. - A Weyland Yutani crew ship lands there. And you know what's going to happen!!!! - All futher unanwserd questions of Prometheus will awnserd in Alien 5

[@EddieFreak]

Bro what

[@jojosmooth999]

Yes Better then Ridley Scott's trash Covenant story

[@rheanonjasmyne]

Not to bad, but way TMI........................ and somewhat korny!

[@genx6167]

That's a lot better than stupid Shaw's death and boring Covenant crew

[@Spudcore]

The squid that didn't make sense! Your Michael Fassbender impression is amazing :D

[@OfficialAndies]

I think they should have ignored the alien creature entirely (as much as I wanted to see it again) and continued with the direction that was planned with Prometheus. I really wanted to know more about the Engineers.

[@pauloteixeira8269]

Alien Covenant is a complete trash in my opinion. And the amount of good reviews written about this movie just denotes that most of people have extremely low quality standards. Prometheus, even being a bit different from the common Alien movies, was a great approach to a new story. Questions like WHO MADE US, WHO WERE OUR ENGINEERS, WHY DID THEY WANT TO KILL US or WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM made a truly nice atmosphere and led us to think about a sequel, back in the days. Questions that we all hoped to see answered in Alien Covenant. We were wrong, all along. Alien Covenant is a bunch of terrible sequences of bad characters and characterization, irrational acts and unrealistic things. No questions from Prometheus answered and, worst of all, all Alien franchise destroyed. I don't know what happened to mr. Ridley Scott this time, honestly. Good thing wasn't for sure. He made a son called Alien. In this last movie he killed it. Really sad. :(

[@supoa9489]

Prometheus even though it failed in some aspects there good stuff about, Prometheus film should never been tied to Alien franchise or been a prequel to it, as creativity and further ideas it could have by being its own universe was shackled to the alien franchise as it would need to connect. The franchise has been damaged beyond repair.

[@chatteyj]

After Covenant I like prometheus now. I really wish they hadn't made covenant and just did a prometheus 2, can we delete covenant and pretend it didn't happen? I was actually rooting for Shaw at the end of prometheus, now I couldn't give a fuck about any of the characters or the franchise, like star wars its dead I think, killed through studio interference and not letting the director have creative control.

[@terriewatson8828]

The only part worth watching is when the Neomorph erupts from the guy's back. Satisfying. The rest is trash.

[@TheLegendNoel]

Fire Ridley Scott. He's got to full of himself. He doesn't love the Xenomorph anymore. Hire this new guy. His stories better!

[@clintfaber]

Thank you so much for filling the plot holes for us. Been waiting years to have some questions answered. Thank you for answering these questions.

[@Poliostasis]

Funny thing that I thought was Ridley Scott made some parts of the movie because of the negative feedback from PROMETHEUS. No Aliens? Aliens You Hate Engineers? They're all fucking dead Now onto the stuff people were expecting from Alien: Covenant. You want Shaw back? She's dead You want the answers? No, you're not getting any fucking answers, but you'll probably get more questions I do wonder, if Scott ignored most of the negative feedback, and did what he originally was gonna do, it would of probably been better. Especially if the director of District 9 was gonna direct it!

[@maxheadshot3287]

SCOTT INDUSTRIAL PICTURE PRODUCTION let one loose, now the audience has to smell: So sweet . . . You are certainly a better story teller, but Prometheus was already on George Lucas territory, too much fantasy and magic stuff left only little room for suspension of disbelief. Prometheus is not intellectual in any way as i could read in other comments, it's only a lukewarm rehash of many mediocre movies like the 5th element and on and on and on. I don't need that, a straight thriller would be totally sufficient. Edit: As i could read elsewhere (and now i can remember too) the whole David/Walter theme is stolen from Star Trek (Data and Lore episode), even The Doctor in Voyager is far better and more enyoyable with his AI development than this David/Walter soup. Forget Scott's movie assembly line, he can't reach a single Star Trek episode in terms of story telling.

[@jestemnoobem]

Your Idea with the Alien DNA being extracted so that it may be reborn again.. sounds cool. But reborn to do what? Next thing is that your entire idea for a movie, lacks the typical for THIS type of genre action and horror. So why not instead, make more flashback scenes, short flashbacks presenting what happened, the key moments, while we still get to see Alien : Covenant. Also the queen alien born from Elizabeth would be nice, but... where is the reason for putting Alien queen ? What if, instead David grew a lot of facehugger eggs ( the same David pukes out at the end of Covenant) inside Shaw body, fully using her reproductive organs. He allowed few of them to grow, to check the resoults, while leaving some not fully formed inside his body. This way Shaw is kidna like Alien queen and Covenant can still happen. All you needed was like 5 maybe 10 minutes of additional flashback scenes telling us what happened between them and Engineers.

[@saysthemanbehindthemask]

i don't understand how they managed to fuck this movie up. They had everything, all that was needed is just put it on the screen. Everything that was interesting about Prometheus was ignored... Why people were demanding to see Xenomorphs all along is beyond me... we have seen them in like 6 movies... is that not enough ? You know why they were interesting in the first place? Because it was something we've never seen before. So were Engineers... It was an expansion of the Alien universe and it had some ambitious concepts! But noooooo ... the majority hated Prometheus, so we got another Alien movie... with no characters, no engineers, no James Franco =). What we got is Ridley Scott changing his mind on origin of Xeno's in the middle of production because of what people were demanding and we got David the Creator! Xeno's are now boring CGI with no logic of how they evolve anymore, they should not have had eggs in this, should have had them grown in a fucking plastic bag like CorderyFX said in this video, eggs should have been left for the future of when Queen is created, they grow so fast too whole point of Xeno to hunt was for it to grow and evolve or so i thought. Now it just runs around like a fucking monkey, also bottom jaw seems way too human. I was anticipating Covenant, i don't think i care for continuation of this Franchise. Ridley killed it! Now there is no logic behind it really, he will just keep coming up with excuses, so be ready anything is possible. Wow a huge let down of a movie

[@Chewbacca2000]

Dude, I completely agree with you and actually like your videos haha! Just saw my comment highlighted in this by chance, I must have got the wrong end of the stick not finding the other review funny, so I want to apologise! Now I've seen a few more, I've got to say your videos are actually really good and again I 100% agree with everything you've said in this one. Keep up the great work!!

[@NewOrderOfAlexandria]

I liked covenant as a horror/action movie, but the synth creates Xenomorph plot retcons so much lore it's frustrating. Suddenly AVP's origin isn't canon. It basically undoes all the AVP lore and that's unforgivable...

[@strikeforcealpha9343]

I would've had it that instead of David doing all the blah blah, Shaw starts transforming, turning into something else, he has to kill her, because its her or him and we go from there.

[@therearenoshortcuts9868]

i always thought that since it's been 2000 years since Engineers tried to destroy Earth (And there was no follow up expedition from them), by the time Shaw finds Paradise, they should realize that it is also a long-destroyed planet... the movie could be mainly about Shaw and David trying to figure out why Paradise was destroyed and the answers (implied) could be something like the following: 1) the real reason the humans killed engineer jesus, was because engineer jesus educated them on technology and brought some of them to Paradise - see point 4 below 2) there are different factions of engineers, and some engineers decided to destroy the humans 3) the humans who were educated by engineer jesus realized what was happening and carried out a plan to contaminate and destroy paradise first with the black goo 4) the reason the plan was successful was because engineer jesus sided with the humans and helped them... but after they succeeded humans betrayed him and killed him too (he was one of the last engineers) 5) the xenos was the only species older than the engineers that they found in the galaxy, and extracting the black goo from the original xenos enabled the engineers to create all other life in the galaxy, hence they were worshipped

[@derekchauvinistrockwellthe4917]

The cocoons actually were in Alien, Ripley finds and burns Dallas in one. Sadly it got cut but it's in the director's cut.

[@dietdragon6367]

Nice work man, I really like your version of the ending; a much more sinister twist to David than what Covenant tried to produce

[@TheFunnyhouston]

That beginning part with the comments was pure savage 😂

[@TheFunnyhouston]

Though this synopsis isn't better than covenant unfortunately. It just wouldn't work theatrically. The pacing wouldn't work and some parts don't line up.

[@thatoneguy779]

I would say more immature tbh but that's just me.

[@alencore]

david the alien creator is the lazy inexpensive unmythical version...reboot on the way on the new millenium probably.

[@GAsAMVsAnimeMusicVideos]

Where did you get that paradise lost poster? Cant find it anywhere when searching for it. Would love to print that as a poster tbh.

[@richardcamacho2870]

I think they should have just gave us a damn direct sequel to Prometheus , and answered all plot holes to it .i was looking forward to some kind of interaction with shaw and the engineers , mabe see the way the engineers live as a species , look at their technology and cities, David tweeting the black goo ain't a bad idea but it was soo rushed ! That should have happened at the end of the film where David upgrades the deacan into the neomorth, end it there ! remember the engineers are in some way familiar with the deacan , as you can see in the mural from Prometheus ,so they should build from there to neomorph then to xenomorth ! Then the next film have some deacons and neomorths in direct conflict the engineers , then midway to the end introduce the xenomorths and catch the engineers off guard and all hell breaks loose .

[@DemonBoy3223]

It'd be an interesting _Prometheus-Covenant_ interquel, maybe in book form. In fact I might actually consider that as pseudo-canon in the _Prometheus-Alien_ lore, in my humble opinion. I could imagine that here, *_Prometheus_*, *_Paradise Lost_*, *_Alien: Covenant_*, *_Alien_*, etc. I mean it, your idea sounds really cool, shame that Fox didn't have that much faith in that storyline alone to work on its own as a film. Maybe as an interquel novel, I mean look at the _Star Wars_ Expanded Universe, the possibilities are endless. Just because Ridley makes these movies as he sees fit, doesn't mean that it has to be the final word, let your imagination run wild with it.

[@andreilukyanov4286]

The Derelict ship was thousands of years ago. And eggs were already there.

[@jamesatkinsonja]

The 'crossing' prologue made me think this version had merit. I did get the feeling David had a love for shaw and when he traps Daniels 'is that how you do it' was a reference to this but whatever.

[@JayTator]

David created the xenomorphs 10 years before the crew of the Nostromo found the old derelict ship? Fede is hopefully going to right the ship

[@Orphanlast]

To me, I think everyone just needs to just enjoy what we got. See if it leads somewhere.

[@VenusHeadTrap2]

You are killing me with how much time you dedicated to making fun of negative comments

[@ArabKatib]

Ok, now THIS makes a LOT of sense!!! You know what ruins movies? Creative differences, ego, attitide, narcissism, anger, bitterness.. People should be extremely careful when they try to asighn a creater, a director or a story writer to a long running franchise or an IP.. :^) Even having personal agendas or political leaniancy can ruin an IP. :-)