Alien Franchise Watch-Along: Prometheus

He's just groggy and hasn't had his space coffee yetAlien AliensAlien 3Alien: ResurrectionPrometheusCovenant Prometheus(2012, dir. Ridley Scott)Nitpicking has effectively obliterated online critique, but Prometheus earns an exception.Engineers somehow have less drip than Jedi, who are already notoriously drip-less. Interstellar civilization and the best you can come up with is shapeless, colorless cotton robes.If the Engineer in the cryptic opening is trying to seed Earth with life, there have got to be more efficient ways than this. I know it's hamfisted religious symbolism but that's no excuse for being inefficient. Planets are big! Ecosystems are complex! Stars are constantly moving, so the map would not be identical between 33,000 BC and 3,000 BC.The planet they eventually go to is a moon of the same gas giant the Nostromo visits in Alien, which puts them in Zeta Reticuli again, which is visible to the human eye; those “primitive” peoples could see it just fine.But only in the…

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