Some Alien: Covenant thoughts/headcanons – SPOILERS aplenty!

– I’ve been trying to piece together how things happened to Elizabeth, and my current headcanon is that she was in hypersleep when she and David got to the planet. And instead of waking her up, David released the containers and all that. And maybe he gave her much the same story as he did Walter – that there was an accident/malfunction. But maybe she still suspected he was lying, or she just wanted to go back to Earth since all the Engineers were gone, and was taking the ship home (and that’s when the “Take Me Home, Country Roads” recording took place). But either David had sabotaged the ship beforehand or as it was taking off, leading to it crashing up on the mountainside. Then he brought Elizabeth back to the citadel and of course things ended very poorly for her. 😦

– I fully believe that David did love Elizabeth – the small monument to her in the garden, her photo on his desk, even the careful and artistic display of her remains. But it wasn’t a sort of love that would have kept her safe from his grand plans, and rather gave him reason to make her a central part of that plan. 😦

– While past Alien movies have had obviously close friendships and camaraderie, relationships that were certainly comparable to family, it really made a difference that the entire Covenant crew was couples. Like, each time a character was killed, knowing that there was at least one other character that was truly impacted by the loss, that those characters really mattered to someone. Their deaths felt a lot less like throw-away action/gore fillers.

– And was that a tiny bit of non-het representation, too?

– When the rescue craft was coming in and “Walter” came running out, I immediately suspected it was David – that big slash lingering across his cheek, when Walter had taken a flute through the throat just a short while before that healed up almost immediately. Now, it could have been that whatever mechanism/chemical process that allowed Walter to heal had limits, and maybe he’d used up all his healing juice, lol. But still, very suspicious. And then when he was changing the guy’s bandage I was thinking that that would be a great opportunity to slip in some black goo! Then there were a bunch of little moments: “Walter” touching his arm stump while talking to Daniels (David, you manipulative shit); not responding immediately when Daniels asked him where the alien was; and I didn’t realize it consciously at the time, but something about the cadence of his speech was off, even if his accent was there. Still, I kept hoping that I was wrong, lol. T_T And then, just before Daniels put on her headcap and got in her pod, there was a wider shot of the two of them and I was like shit, that’s David’s posture! Like, I don’t know what Walter’s posture would have been, but that was absolutely David (nooooooo). ;m; And then the reveal, darn it.

– I’m pretty sure I had something else, but I’m totally spacing it now… Oops.