2104 if I recall, I did ask myself why does Daniels have an ipad and an LCD screen. Shit should be at least flexible wear or holograms by then.
(Yeah, the original Alien is already in the actual 22nd century IIRC.)
There’s no in-universe excuse for that unless Ridley or someone else rather high up is really optimistic about Apple’s future. It’s just because it’s easiest to recoup costs by whoring yourself out to product advertisement in films where you can even in instances when you clearly “shouldn’t”.
looks at every Adam Sandler movie as of late as an example of this
And Alien Covenant demonstrates this perfectly with the immense stupidity of it’s crew. Despite the air being “analyzed” and technically “breathable”, it was clearly not free of pathogens or other harmful foreign bodies.
Just when you thought they couldn’t top the stupidity of the Prometheus crew taking their helmets off in the first movie. The Covenent crew one-up them by not even bothering to wearing protective suits to begin with! Such complete and utter lack of precaution is the whole reason things went downhill like that.
Yup they just got out of the ship in plain clothes and breathed in that sweet, sweet alien atmosphere.
^^ Well i know who not to trust to be in charge of a space exploration mission lol 
AlphaCharlie: Ok the air looks good but i say we suit up just in case.
Captain Chadouken: I AM the Captain. You saw the readings. The air is perfectly 100% breathable.
Alphacharlie: But Captain i think it would be best if…
is interrupted
Captain Chadouken: The air is fine, leave the suits behind damnit.
(45 minutes later Alphacharlie and Chadouken have Neomorphs bursting out of their chests after breathing in the air).
AlphaCharlie: Game over, man! Game over!
Captain Chadouken: But…the…readings… arrggghh…
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Posted that on page 32. I disagree with him saying it tarnishes the original film. It tarnishes the director, Kermode is absolutely right when he says Ridley’s movies are only as good as the script put in front of him, The Martian being an example of him getting everything right.
If I was captain I would have left your dumb ass on Earth for buying two SNES Classic Minis at a 300 percent markup.
Kermode’s follow-up analysis of the Alien franchise.
^In that regard he makes a very fair point about Covenant tarnishing the original.
If your retarded ass is going to be captain, then i’d gladly stay home than be among the crew you get killed for being stupid lol.
In addition to breathing in alien air you know nothing about, something tells me you’d also be stupid enough to put your face up to an egg alien with nothing but a suspicious stranger’s word that it’s ‘safe’.
If I was captain, I wouldn’t have gone to the Engineers planet in the first place. I have the advantage of having seen the original Alien movie so I know what the fuck happens, lol.
John Denver be damned.
So maybe someone can clarify the inconsistencies with the Space Jockeys or whatever. People keep bringing this up.
The most glaring inconsistency is that Alien featured a fossilized Engineer (Space Jockey) with a chestburster exit wound. The fact its fossilized would mean the xenomorphs are very old, but now it seems David’s experiments made them less than 20 years before Alien. That also leads to, if David effectively killed all the Engineers, how did the Engineer in Alien get there.
Besides that, all I can think of is how an advanced society with faster than light travel lives in one city on a planet. That’s not really an inconsistency, just silliness
So did Davids experiments just make an alien or the whole species?
David made the egg, facehugger, xenomorph offshoot through experimentation.
It’s not explained how the queen alien comes into being, but considering it’s Ridley Scott, he probably disregards anything not made by himself.
Also doesn’t explain at all how the ship in Alien had hundreds of eggs in it. Fairly huge plot hole.
RLM talk more Alien: Covenant: Cosmic Coincidence 
Also that such an ancient and godly advanced race could be single-handedly taken out by (1) psychotic android, and his tossed-together biological warfare.
Yup. We’re just supposed to accept that they’re all extinct now. Basically Ridly Scott’s “get out of jail free” card so that he did’nt have to make good on Prometheus’s promises. You can’t get answers from a dead race afterall.
The Space Jockey being fossilized was conjecture from the characters. They had no idea it was an exosuit just like how the captain thought they were statues in covenant.
In the Covenant novelization it makes it into a point that David did not exactly create the Xeno but rather he was attempting to recreate this perfect variation of the goo based on his research of the Engineers. The Engineers essentially understood that the black goo had the potential to become the perfect organism, they saw it once and probably manifested it before, and David wanted to realize that potential once again. This variation of the black goo also had an egg/facehugger/adult according to the novelization.
The goo itself is chaotic and what David is doing is focusing its potential.
Apparently there is a deleted scene where the Engineers had created/spawned the Xenomorph before. Could explain the murals.
If anything I’m pissed at the movie poster cause it sorta implies Xenos/Engineers are like devils/angels which is related to the Paradise/Hell metaphor. However we didn’t get to see that…
it might be shown/explained in the next film.
just maybe lolol
ridley scott OBVIOUSLY hasn’t seen any of the honest movie trailers at all.
Ok so after the flaming pile of space garbage that was Prometheus and now Covenant, does anyone here REALLY want to see a 3rd entry and how this sci-fi shlock ends? Would you care?
Even if the 3rd one turned out to be good, It’s kinda too late. The first 2 movies shat the bed so badly that the trilogy is already fukked beyond repair.
There are also so many inconsistencies and differences that these movies CANNOT possibly function as true alien prequels anymore. The Prometheus-branch of movies are essentially an alternate universe fanfic now.