ALIEN: COVENANT Prologue Reveals What Happened To Dr. Elizabeth Shaw & David After PROMETHEUS

@Forthas - Im confused to. It seemed that it was the planet from Promentius just with planet life (we see the crecent moon ship in the forest).
But then again it could be the Engineers world. And the crashed ship is the one we just saw.

@dmac3232 - I assume the new colonists are brought by a beacon from David.......

@Forthas -

Basically what it looks like is that Prometheus was basically a bunch of pointless philosophical tripe and questions that would be answered when they reach the homeworld of the engineers...

Except they instead decided against answering the questions and just threw everything away for a classic alien vs survivors storyline;

- David unleashes the Xenomorphs
- The Xenomorphs kill the Engineers
- A new group of survivors end up arriving and discovering the wreckage
- New group of survivors gets picked off until they are all dead

@Forthas -

They were in an Engineer spaceship in two movies - and they've discovered nothing about it on both occasions. As for their survival, we've seen no hints so far of them using any of the Engineer's technology... we also know it boils down to basically two character because they showed all the other deaths in the trailers - so it boils down to the Ripley-style character and the bearded pilot.

I'm not interested in more plot points, the sequel should be providing us with answers - if it does not then all of Prometheus's philosophical remarks were for naught - and the series will never be taken as anything more than Alien creatures kill survivors.

Prometheus felt like it was trying to be philosophical, this film feels like its trying to copy the core elements of Alien, just with the inclusion of a 'stranded on the planet' story. I'm even starting to expect that they'll have the alien drifting into space at the end.

@Forthas - " Thus they may choose sacrifice over extinguishing a new species"

Except they would be doing this with the Xenomorph as David has seemingly commited genocide on all the Engineers.

@Forthas -

I think it would recieve a lot of backlash if they decided not to kill the Xenomorphs. They would effectively be responsible for all of the original movies and generally for destroying a majority of planets where the main life form has been wiped out by Xenomorphs.

I get the comparisons to humans and things, but i can't see them going that route anymore given they've shoved two movies together out of a planned three movie prequel to Alien.

@knocturnalzen10 - This is very true. Even though Fassbender was awesome in that, he was still quite a villain

@TheBigkahuna - no, just homo.

@TheBigkahuna - and I want leonardo dicapro to tear of my clothes and ravage me, but I have said too much..

@BassMan -

Alien Covenant is the only thing that could redeem Prometheus, if we got any sort of answer to the billions of nonsensical events and philosophical questions that the first movie brought up.

At the moment it looks like it doesnt, as the only ones who could provide the answers would be the Engineer's and it looks like David kills them all in the prologue/opening.

@BassMan -

If David could figure out the answers by looking around the ship, why did they waste so much time heading to the homeworld - and why did'nt he notice when he was in the ship in Prometheus.

To me the answers needed to be from the planet, even if it was a case that when they landed that Shaw was taken and experimented on turning her into the first true alien - revealing that they planned to turn Earth's inhabitance into super-soldier style monsters (Xenomorphs) to conquer the galaxy.