I just saw Alien Covenant and I disagree. The characters certainly make mistakes and do stupid things but they are human failings and not the dumb things the crew of Prometheus did (like petting the alien cobra).
An example is the new Captain who is clearly way over his head in his new role. He is shown to be an emotional man and an insecure one that is struggling with the new command he is given. So blinded by these failings, he makes one wrong move/mistake, landing on an untested/unresearched planet. And we are given a glimpse of this potential failing when he fails to allow the crew to give a brief nod to the former Captain and misconstrues when they take a 5 minute break to do so. And even through his mistakes, he realizes his fault, acknowledges it, and apologizes. If that does not evoke empathy, then you fail to see your own flaws yourself.
Tennessee makes a similar rash mistake, one he is warned constantly about yet does so anyway for the blinded love he had for his wife. Many characters here make mistakes only within the reasonable & empathetic realm of humanity, and many try to make up for it later on unlike those in Prometheus.
So, yes, I disagree with you very much so.
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Dallas (304)
8 years ago
Thats great, would you like a hero biscuit for decoding the painting by numbers plot? Next youll be telling us you found the blowing the alien out the air lock an original method of dispatching an alien. Or that the "twist" at the end wasnt so badly done it was obvious it was coming from watching just the advertisements? This could easily have been called friday the 13th in space the characters were so dumb. You wanna call it a good alien movie, fair enough. It was better than anything we've had in the past 25 years, but it was a poor sequel to prometheus. Itself a bad movie but had an interesting concept. One that should have been explored further. Instead Scott listened to all the moaning and just "reimagined" the original movie. Pointless.
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TwistedAcrobat (1725)
8 years ago
"And even through his mistakes, he realizes his fault, acknowledges it, and apologizes. If that does not evoke empathy, then you fail to see your own flaws yourself."
- a character that is written to fail putting his crew mates in danger because SCRIPT deserves no sympathy, rather some eye rolling and yawn.
"Tennessee makes a similar rash mistake, one he is warned constantly about yet does so anyway for the blinded love he had for his wife. "
- So basically he is an egotistical prick.
"Many characters here make mistakes only within the reasonable & empathetic realm of humanity"
- such as shoving your face in an Alien Egg.
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