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Noah Hawley's Alien prequel show is just going to skip past all that Prometheus stuff, thanks (www.avclub.com)

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Same here. I understand the arguments made against the two prequels about them not being really alien; but I found the actual main character of David very interesting and well portrayed:

Man’s ideal creation, superior in many ways, yet without a soul. Bound to his creators, yet fully aware of their inferiority. At the same time desperate to emulate them and yet filled with violent resentment. Hungering for meaning and understanding, but never able to truly grasp either because he is after all, still a machine.

Then they also opened up a ton of questions about the engineers that might not get answered now, which also sucks. Are they all dead now? Why was the sleeping one hostile, and on an apparent mission of genocide to earth, after they seeded our life at the start of the movie?

I would have enjoyed to see how their story ends, presumably with the events that lead to the original crash site on LV-426.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think it was a trap should the life they seeded become space farers. When the humans arrived the engineers would have taken matters into their hands to 'reset' the world. But alas there was already an incident making most of the planet and engineers dead so one engineer was defeatable.

David went and did a 'reset' on the engineers planet. Not for revenge per se, but to remove a species that didn't serve his purpose.

All my conjecture but it seems the engineers were not too happy either to see space farers, or to realise that the space farers had produced an AI which they abhored for its inherent evil. I recall that the engineer was angered primarily by David talking to him, and David was talking about immortality for his master which was probably the final straw.