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Post by charzhino on May 17, 2017 10:43:47 GMT
**Heavy spoilers about the film**
I liked Alien Covenant but I got a dejavu feeling during the 2nd act that I also felt heavily in Prometheus which was confusion with the whole mystery of what the black goo is and what it exactly did.
So in Covenant they land on the planet and 2 crew members get infected by spores. So first question, what are these spores? Are they the same as the black goo from Prometheus? Where did they come from?
The spores then eventually incubate inside the human host and release neomorphs (is that the name for them) which are similar to chestbursters but already in mini-alien made form. Now if these spores are similar to the black goo, why do they produce such different outcomes. In Prometheus, it causes 2 crew to visibly rot and die, whilst in Shaw it produces some octupus fetus.
And then there's the huge confusion about the xenomorphs. At the end of Prometheus, that octupus fetus creature grows to become what looks like a large face hugger which implants the engineer to produce an alien. So how does David produce the eggs that have facehuggers inside?
It just seems all over the place and I'm struggling to get a clear holistic picture of alien genetics. Anyone have any solutions?
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Post by kuatorises on May 19, 2017 2:54:06 GMT
the only thing that is clear is that David created the eggs and the classic Xenomorph. He fooled around with the black goo, which seems to be the DNA for the creatures, and made a better version.
As for all your other questions? No idea why we get so many different results.
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Post by chatterer on May 19, 2017 7:30:55 GMT
David said in his lab the goo was very unstable.
It would kill, mutate or use a suitable organism as a host.
The two first victims were infected by spores at the unstable level. Residue left from the goo missile drop he did on arrival. The same goo that created so many different results in Prometheus.
Hence one bursting from back the other from the chest.
Face hugger eggs were David's perfect design. Made without a queen. Probably based on insects as seen by the insect sample he had on the table in his lab.
Now what he did genetically so that when the Xenomorph is born he could communicate with them i.e Xenomorph mimicking David. Is any ones guess.
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Post by kuatorises on May 19, 2017 11:32:45 GMT
David said in his lab the goo was very unstable. It would kill, mutate or use a suitable organism as a host. The two first victims were infected by spores at the unstable level. Residue left from the goo missile drop he did on arrival. The same goo that created so many different results in Prometheus. Hence one bursting from back the other from the chest. Face hugger eggs were David's perfect design. Made without a queen. Probably based on insects as seen by the insect sample he had on the table in his lab. Now what he did genetically so that when the Xenomorph is born he could communicate with them i.e Xenomorph mimicking David. Is any ones guess. The black goo doing whatever the plot needs it to do is not good writing.
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Post by SciFive on Sept 5, 2017 2:57:25 GMT
Interesting!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2017 11:11:26 GMT
I think the spores are the result of the goo mutating some of the flora or fauna on the planet.
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Post by Tristan's Journal on Sept 6, 2017 19:41:26 GMT
the black goo is simply alien sperm entailing the creature DNA, as sperm it can impregnate or mutate you (if you are a man) or dissolve you like acid (aliens have acid blood). In writing theory it is a deus ex machina plot device, doing everything that the story requires to remain interesting.
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