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(Spoilers) Question about those bursters
(SPOILERS) Are the Engineers living in a post-apocalytpic world?
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You haven't addressed any of the points I raised.
So now you've gone from speculating that Ridley Scott must be gay to wanting to interrogate me about my sexuality.
And what is this nonsense about the idea of the scene "helping gays?"
It sounds like you're saying there's some kind of gay agenda at work here.
You're beginning to sound like those guys who were butthurt because women took such prominent, lead roles in Mad Max: Fury Road and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
Is that what's going on here? You can't look at gays or women being the lead characters without believing somebody is pushing an evil liberal agenda?
Sounds to me like you might have some unresolved issues about homosexuality.
Ah, more excellent points that had not occurred to me!
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Remember, prior to this, David comes face-to-face with a six-foot tall deacon-style alien, and it doesn't kill him. Why? First and foremost, it can sense that David is not a living thing. As such, David is neither a food source, nor a potential incubator for new chest bursters.
Also, remember how, later in the film, after the xenomorph gets on board the Covenant, at one point, it uses its second set of jaws to smash a closed-circuit video monitor, thus depriving the crew of the ability to see it?
This implies these aliens are born smart. So much so that they might even be born possessing some of the knowledge their hosts had possessed. How else would a creature with no eyes even understand the concept of a video camera so well that it knows to destroy such a device?
So, the newborn that mimics David might naturally have been curious about him, once it determined he was not food or breeding stock.
Just as the previous deacon-style alien was curious about David.
In fact, the newborn might even have been curious enough, and intelligent enough, that it would attempt to mimic David, as a first step toward learning to communicate with him.
These are really good points. The Nostromo crew could, of course, have been mistaken about the age of the Space Jockey, and it's possible he was not fossilized to the chair, but instead had become one with it. That would certainly be consistent with H.R. Giger's whole "biomechanical" milieu.
Regardless, this film does create a big challenge. I left the theater wondering how the heck we're going to get from the ending of Covenant to there being a crashed engineer ship on LV-426 that somehow contains David's creations.
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