History Headscratchers / AlienCovenant

** Then he is even MORE of an idiot for teaching his "son" Advanced Martial Arts. Peter Weyland ''clearly'' fell asleep in High School History Class during the Roman Period, when the "Gladiator Fallacy" was taught; that of giving your ''servants'' '''better''' weapons and training than your own warriors, and THEN treating these breathing thinking feeling beings like property, resulting in a bloody rebellion lead by an '''highly-skilled''' chap called Film/{{Spartacus}}.

** Then he is even MORE of an idiot for teaching his "son" Advanced Martial Arts. Peter Weyland ''clearly'' fell asleep in High School History Class during the Roman Period, when the "Gladiator Fallacy" was taught; that of giving your ''servants'' '''better''' weapons and training than your own warriors, and THEN treating these breathing thinking feeling beings like property, resulting in a bloody rebellion lead by an '''angry''' chap called Film/{{Spartacus}}.

** They're trying to basically bootstrap a whole new civilization. The colonists are people that are going to have to work to terraform/get things set up. And they're all adults. The embryos are so the colonists don't have to immediately "get busy" as soon as they get set up, they can have another generation on the way while things are still getting set up. Building a stable population from scratch on a new planet isn't easy.

It is revealed at the end that [[spoiler:David has been posing as Walter ever since they escaped the planet.]] But earlier on, when David and Daniels are fighting, she shoves the [[ChekhovsGun big nail she's been carrying around her neck]] into his head, right under his under chin.
-->'''David:''' That's the spirit!
When they next meet, this tell-tale wound has vanished. While David could theoretically repair it at some point, the wound seems to be completely gone from the moment he's on-board the Covenant.

* It is revealed at the end that [[spoiler:David has been posing as Walter ever since they escaped the planet.]] However, the wound that he received under the chin from the piton whilst fighting with Daniels is missing. While he could theoretically repair it at some point, it seems to be gone from the moment he gets on board the Covenant.

** At the time I assumed that [[spoiler:David (posing as Walter) had infected the replacement bandage he puts on Lope's facial burn with a virus, which he's shown to be working on. But that doesn't explain how it would result in a Xenomorph, which apparently needs the chestburster/egg infection method.]]

** At the time I assumed that [[spoiler:David (posing as Walter) had infected the replacement bandage he puts on Lope's facial burn with a Xenomorph virus, which he's shown to be working on. But that doesn't explain how it would result in a Xenomorph, which apparently needs the chestburster/egg infection method.]]

* It is revealed at the end that [[spoiler:David has been posing as Walter ever since they escaped the planet.]] However, the wound that he received under the chin from the Christ nail whilst fighting with Daniels is missing. While he could theoretically repair it at some point, it seems to be gone from the moment he gets on board the Covenant.

** So those A2's really were a bit twitchy...

** Well, by the time the Bishop series were manufactured, Synthetics seem to be unable to even HOLD a Gun, much less fire one in self defense. This would imply that in the 57 years that Ripley slept, there would probably have been a bloody rebellion or two caused by the lack of ThreeLawsCompliant as programming standard.

** Not knowing where it is is easy enough, he could just tell the ship to go home/ select it from givin options. He also doesn't know what the ship is capable of so since he doesn't know where he's going or how fast it can get there he can't know how long it would take.

** This is just one of many things that is upseting the more serious fans of the franchise as this contradicts the facts that (non Alien vs. Predator)facehuggers will take hours, sometimes up to a day before falling off and dying, however, when exactly in that 24 hr period does implantion happen is unknown though it is safe to assume that it is not straight away or immediately upon attachment like it happened to Lope. One of the reasonings given so far is that theses are not the Xenomorphs we know, they are David's creations and so in addition to their different appearance, they may function differently, though it still silly on just how fast it happened and it makes one wonder why they have those oxygen bladders if they don't need to stay on someone's face for more than a few seconds.

** On the contrary -- David was implied to be a surrogate son for Weyland, not an obedient slave (and therefore would not be programmed to be obedient to humans, which would defeat the whole purpose). And judging from what happens in the original movie with Ash, Weyland-Yutani appear to be more concerned about humans causing problems than androids, so it's likely some robots are programmed to attack humans if the Company deems it necessary. Lastly the synthetics are a valuable piece of equipment, so they'd need self-defence training. If humans feel the need to bring trained soldiers along on intersteller exploration and colonization missions, why wouldn't David and Walter be programmed to defend themselves?

** On the contrary -- David was implied to be a surrogate son for Weyland, not an obedient slave. And judging from what happens in the original movie with Ash, Weyland-Yutani appear to be more concerned about humans causing problems than androids, so it's likely some robots are programmed to attack humans if the Company deems it necessary. Lastly the synthetics are a valuable piece of equipment, so they'd need self-defence training. If humans feel the need to bring trained soldiers along on intersteller exploration and colonization missions, why wouldn't David and Walter be programmed to defend themselves?

** On the contrary -- David was implied to be a surrogate son for Weyland, not an obedient slave. And taking from what happens in the original movie with Ash, Weyland-Yutani appear to be more concerned about humans causing problems than androids, so it's likely some robots are programmed to attack humans if the Company deems it necessary. Lastly the synthetics are a valuable piece of equipment, so they'd need self-defence training. If humans feel the need to bring trained soldiers along on intersteller exploration and colonization missions, why wouldn't David and Walter be programmed to defend themselves?

* Weyland ''clearly'' wanted obedient '''slaves''' when he created the David Series of Synthetics, so why the blue-heck would they (and their successor Walter Series) be programmed with High Level Martial Arts subroutines, which coupled with their literally inhuman strength speed and endurance, can makes each and every one A OneManArmy? And NOT program them to be ThreeLawsCompliant on top of all that! Does Weyland Yutani actually WANT a RobotRebellion to overthrow humanity?

* Weyland ''clearly'' wanted obedient '''slaves''' when he created the David Series of Synthetics, so why the blue-heck would they (and their successor Walter Series) be programmed with High Level Martial Arts subroutines, which coupled with their literally inhuman strength speed and endurance, can makes each and every one A OneManArmy? And NOT program them to be ThreeLawsCompliant on top of all that! Does Weyland Yutani actually WANT a Robot Rebellion to overthrow humanity?

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* We see he's attached by a facehugger, though it's ripped off him presumably before he can be infected, but later on he dies by chestburster. But, how did he get infected? Normally the parasite needs to remain for a few hours, not just a few seconds.