Alien Franchise Watch-Along: Covenant

Last (for the time being) in my series of not-technically-a-rewatch posts.Alien AliensAlien 3Alien: ResurrectionPrometheusCovenant Alien: Covenant(2017, dir. Ridley Scott)Fake-out credits opening, solid black before shifting to David’s eye.**Weyland believing in God solely because he can’t comprehend not being a Super Special Boy is the best piece of character building in both these movies, but Scott doesn’t seem to be aware of how deeply pathetic it is in either. The horror is that this idiot shithead is destroying countless human lives according to his deeply stupid whims, and that horror is undermined if everyone else is also outrageously stupid and destroying themselves.**Title card: Again we have no nebula, just a black field with a little blip of light moving across the screen. I like that.**Origae is not a real-world star so no fun space maps. I looked up some screenshots of the later planning session and there weren’t any interesting bits in there. Also weird that it's almost…