PROTOMORPHS (ALIEN COVENANT Explored)
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- Alien: Covenant is a 2017 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott, and written by John Logan and Dante Harper.
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I really liked the idea that the Xenomorphs are an unknown hostile alien life rather than created by an android with God complex, as much as it is interesting that way, I just love the cliche 'unknown organism' tho.
I hear you man, and I agree, I also think there was something mysterious and intriguing about not knowing where the xenomoprhs had originated :)
Yes. So do I. Also the dude had a very suspicious face when David was talking about the goo. Why does every horror movie character have to be dumb. I would've killed that Android right there & than.
exactly
David isn't the xenomorph creator
He is until the next movie comes out and refutes it. Oh, wait. There will be no next movie.
I think the major theme of this new Alien Prequel Trilogy is that creation destroys creator. So I believe the first Alien Queen will not see David as the true master of the Alien race and will kill him, leaving the Xenomorphs to run amok on their own.
rexattack18 ridley scott doesnt consider the queen canon to the story in almost all alien movies the driods wents nuts being the hidden bad guy
Cheatme 1 Yes, droids in the Alien Saga are like defence against the dark arts professors in Harry Potter
New trilogy?!That means there's going to be another one,God save us.
@@cheatme1 David is clearly keen on making a queen of sorts. That's what he was doing with shaw, and probably will do to daniels. David cant spend eternity making the eggs by himself, hes gonna have to speed up the process by making the ultimate specimen
@@babyray5643 Ridley Scott is kind of a dumbass, though, unfortunately. For example he insists Deckard in Blade Runner is a replicant, even though the script wasn't written that way, the original book isn't written that way, and nobody else who worked on the film thinks that way. To say nothing of how Deckard being a replicant would undermine the story.
In other words, all bets are off. Ridley could very easily make a final movie in this series and totally and completely fuck over any kind of continuity between the films. He only cares about his little ideas, and not how this might impact the film or, certainly, films made by David Cameron or others.
I actually like the movie when I saw the protomorph mimicking David I thought it was cute
Its his first baby :)
FilmComicsExplained I still remember my dad gaging because of the blood /gore effects
@@spartana1116 your dad is weak
I thought that was the Neomorph? i am confused now
i hated it
I've never wanted to know anything about the aliens but for some reason your channel has changed that
Black Rose same here.
The only thing that saddens me about the retcon is how it completely throws all the Predator lore out of the window.
Not really
The first predator showed a skull, most of the xenomorphs have the Same kind of skull
So it could be from another hybrid
Yeaaaaa wat a let down
why? Alien vs predator is shit. just as shitty as the Resident Evil movies. they are made for only the weakest of minds.
@@Gfors85 Heard of comics though? The Predators had pretty nice lore of which only a fragment appeared in AvP. Movies are made for only the weakest of minds.
@@Lohnstar_ no, Ive only read alien comics and I had a very cool sequel predator comic about Dutch after the djungle incident.
The one who ran onto the ship will always be passed down as the “Badass Alien”
The book explains how they knew the planet had a breathable atmosphere: Walter walked outside and took a breath, analysed it and confirmed it was breathable before anyone got out of the ship.
Even if there is oxygen, there could still be contaminates in the air. Even the Prometheus crew wore helmets.
@FilmComicsExplained That's saying something considering how stupid the Prometheus crew was.
FilmComicsExplained it seems that if they have all this technology, they would be able to analyze the containments in the air. I mean, we can do that today. Isn't even future tech.
The ship is audible in the background before they leave going over an analysis of the atmosphere, also in Prometheus the atmosphere wasn’t breathable except inside the structure which is why they wore helmets when leaving the ship. also they are two very different crews the Prometheus crew were on an exploration expedition to find the creators of human life the covenant crew were settlers who were trained to wake from cryogenic sleep and colonise a new world that had been picked out as inhabitable, considering they scanned the planet from orbit and determined that its reading showed a vastly superior planet one would assume they had technology to support that claim
@FilmComicsExplained there are no contaminates in the air, the spores arent released until disturbed like you stated in the video
Every bad thing in this film could be brought down to dumb character decisions. I mean Scott literally put xenomorphs in the film because of studio demand. Also thank you for mentioned the helmet thing
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I'm exactly the same
I love the idea of the Protomorph. As an ancestor to the modern Xenomorph, this creature is far more vicious, animalistic, and feral than their far more methodical XX121 cousins.
Staring into a Face Hugger..."Perfectly Safe I assure you"....not even 5 minutes after he saw one of David's creations rip his shipmate's head off....
It wasnt davids creation that ripped their head off. Those were native of the planet.
Yeah. One of the reasons this movie doesn’t work. Most of the crew (including Walter) are really dumb. Especially the Captain. The second you see David ripped apart Elizabeth Shaw is the second you shoot david without hesitation.
This movie was the first movie I watched in 4k hdr. The first fiery explosion was a joy to watch and the whole movie was a testament to great use of darkness and color.
I love the alien franchise
I always thought they made a big mistake when they decided to explore how the xenomorphs came to be. A small part of the whole scariness of them is you don’t know where they come from or really how to stop them. (without extremely high cost) They should have just left their origins ambiguous like how in Star Wars with yoda we don’t know the name of his species or where he comes from.
For me it is the complete opposite, i like how they came to be and it scares me even more now because i know who created the whole mess in the first place. Now the Aliens have context a history what makes them interesting.
Sry for the spelling :/
@@MichaSennin how does knowing who made them make them scarier to you?
Technically they come from the black goo, and... we don't know the origin of the goo, other than the engineers have known about it
I agree with you completely; this movie quite literally destroyed tons of previously established lore and for a planet where all life was supposedly extinguished there is a surprising amount of plant life and "spare parts" lying around for davids experiments.
What about Yoda?
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I guess you can say this video was really.....
Engineered in a great way. 👍🏻
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My biggest issue with this movie was the massive retconning. Holy shit did they leave any pre-existing lore intact
Ridley Scott apparently just does what he wants, he hates the Alien Queen idea for example
I’m just hoping that it turns out that the engineers did indeed create the xenomorphs thousands of years ago but David found out about it and just tried to perfect it (this way the predators still could have hunted the xenos for thousands of years)
I wish they could bring Shaw back. Maybe we saw a weird clone thing in David's lab. The real Shaw is resting in hyper sleep.
That would be pretty cool 😂😂
The way previous ____morphs are described as savage and direct with their attacks while Xenomorphs are stealthy and tactful with their kills leads me to believe that Xenomorphs are Alien Ninjas.
My theory of why the Protomorph is more aggressive when compared to Xenomorph is that because there no queen it really doesn’t have a goal, so it’s goal just becomes hunting prey.
The soundtrack to this movie is also fantastic.
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I enjoyed the chemistry between Walter and David. Thought that was the best part of the movie
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The Alan Dean Foster novel for ALIEN: Covenant explains David was copying "The Recipe" and the Engineers did make the xenomorphs. He put his own touch on it by adding Shaw's tissue samples and other adjustments. When David first entered the lab, it was down long flights of stairs from the surface and biomechanical. He euthanized an egg (ovamorph) with a Face Hugger inside. "Very aggressive.." David told Captain Oram.
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I always love watching davids lab. Seeing all those darwinian drawings of montrouse aliens just seems so mesmerizing.
thanks for doing Alien Covenant it is a interesting movie with David's experiments keep up the great work FilmComicsExplained
you're welcome buddy! And thank you :)
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The story was a relative rehash of earlier ideas, certainly not the satisfying conclusion of an Engineer arc, but I do love the heightened credibility the Neomorph and Protomorph offer the Alien concept. They're sleek and minimalistic in a way that couldn't be captured with 1979 practical effects. Yet, I think part of it was in executing the biomechanoid angle. I read a great excerpt from the art department of Star Trek, First Contact. What was great about that was she now had the budget and time to give the Borg's tissue a texture and vein density that made them look altered from the inside out, as opposed from the outside in. That lack of "infected with technology" organics with the original Alien, along with it's already awkward movements, made it more "contrived Frankenstein" in my mind, than the abomination I think they intended. Perhaps a bit more humanity to have given it a "But for the grace of God, go I." feel would have ratcheted up the fear...Heck, just the humanoid teeth and jaw of the Protomorph bring a horrifying recognition.
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My mind was blown
Adam Agito both the creators and humans were outsmarted by humans creation, a single freaking Android.
My *chest* was blown.
By xenomorph
@@incanticle699 bv ,x
He’s mind was blown
Thank you for this commentary! You provided excellent outline of the xenomorph vs. protomorph arc and made it easily understandable for simple folk like me. I love Covenant and feel that it warrants a whole series of sequels featuring the Engineers, and Elizabeth of course. I would love to see Noomi Rapace reprise her role as Elizabeth though she has likely moved on to other things. Anyhow, love your video - consider me subscribed.
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💕 i im up at 3:39 am watching this i finished a while ago bit I thought id leave a comment thanks for the good content.
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Thats why the movie started out the way it did. It was to mirror the way the Engineers devloped us to how Wayland developed David but was ultimately proud *and* disappointed in his creation...just like the Engineers.
Love ur channel. I love these little bite sized episodes but I have to admit, I wld absolutely watch if u made any longer ones.
I really liked Alien Covenant despite its flaws. My friend who's a huge fan of the Alien franchise hated it though
Some movies I'd love to see you talk about
The Mummy (1999) mostly ideas about the book of the dead and the book of the living.
Stigmata (1999) thoughts on if she was possessed or not.
Donnie Darko (2001) time travel aspect
Fallen with Denzel Washington, mostly about the angel(s).
And Déjà Vu the machine that they use to do the time travel.
If Ridley Scott is reading this comment section, listen up. For your 3rd prequel, David should end up being a version of Elden that raises and commands a swarm of xenomorphs and after they are dealt with, show us an Alien queen laying eggs in an engineer's Juggernaut on LV-223 .
Your welcome.
David didn't create the xenomorphs. It's stated plainly in the film that he can perfectly imitate others' creations, but he has no imagination and can't create anything new on his own. His experiments with the goo were being directed by the goo itself in a sense, he was merely trying to understand its evolution, pretending to be a new creator god. Lest we forget, there was a mural of a xenomorph on the Engineer ship in Prometheus.
It’s interesting, because the Xenomorph from Alien3 looks like a Protomorph.
I was thinking that maybe the prototype games and the mercer virus would be a nice topic for you to cover
This is the only alien movie I’ve watched. Cool to know that this is how the xenomorphs actually we’re birthed. Worth watching the whole series I think
Alien Isolation is one of my favorite games of all time, and I would love to play a new Alien game that further elaborates on the story!!
Great video as always. Love the channel!
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I love this film, people gave it too much of a hard time. I love the story around David, I prefer that to the Aliens now. There's always something unnerving about David and that is the beauty of it.
I swear your chanel has made me so much more curious.I love your delivery and positivity.Keep it up.
As of now and with Scott beint intent on abandoning the prequels, the Protomorph has zero connections to the Xenomorph from LV-426, and as per Covenant novelization it can be deduced that David merely created his own variant of Xenomorph.
Agreed but it could be possible that he can achieve a normal xenomorph. It seems clear the xenomorph (based on the mural) is what happens when an engineer is infected with the black goo/pathogen. Considering humans are very similar to engineers genetically it stands to reason that with enough human hosts David could eventually achieve the normal xenos we see the majority of the franchise
Fortunately, these Protomorphs have been explained away as being a variant on existing Xenomorphs rather than the origin of the species. And renamed "Praetomorphs" to remove the implication that they're the predecessors as well.
I honestly liked the movie; I think it Got way too much hate than necessary; especially when compared to extremelly & utterly overrated movies like WonderWomayn, ForceAwakens/FarceEngoarges...etc.
The DORUK Agreed
Hello Von
Thanks !
The DORUK Yeah I gotta day I agree, those movies were good but this movie got too much hate. The movie had its flaws, but so does every movie, initially I hated this movie but I’ve came to see it as a decent movie
Eh, its an inarguably decent at best movie, but definitely not bad
The DORUK I find someone else with this rare opinion. A true legend.
Amazing video man! Love this channel!
Thanks mate!
FilmComicsExplained No problem! I love the content you make!
Please, please, please let it all be Shaw's hypersleep nightmare as she and David travel on the Engineer ship over a span of more than 100 years...
The crew members with partners is right for a colony mission, but this does clearly justify their irrational mistakes that leads to their demise. What would you not do for love. David being made as close to humanity as perfect, inherits the dark side of human nature. To concur and kill. Take out the engineers and ultimately humanity itself, whilst bringing forth a terrifying hostile creation. Bravo David.
You know, I've always been itching to see you review the parasites that are pretty much the main antagonists through Resident Evil 4-6. Las Plagas, or whatever you wanna call it.
I have a question though. If the protomorph is the precursor to the classic xenomorph, then what was on the walls of the Engineer ship in Prometheus? Archeo-morphs? Paleo-morphs? Makes you wonder about the evolution of the Aliens and where they originally came from.
I'm not a big fan of Aliens, but I don't dislike the franchise either. The point is, Niyat could make a video titled, "Why is my poo sometimes blue?" and Id still gladly check it out for the simple fact that he is so well spoken and includes amazing visuals.
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FilmComicsExplained can you try and explore the aliens in the tv series Falling Skyes
David: "yes. I know I've killed a lot of people and yes you don't trust me, but just humor me and go over there and bend over and look inside that harmless looking oozing alien pod ok?"
Chris Oram: "okay."
David didnt create the xeno...this is canon confirmed if you pay attention to the movie.
He is reversing the modifications done by engineers on the black goo dna - He wants to "unbanish the wolf".
Thank you! I'm glad someone else noticed that too.
The Black Water In Prometeus is Call A "Black Goo"
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Xenomorphs, Neomorphs, and now Protomorphs? Dis... is gettin’ crazy
Also the twist I sort of knew when watching David near the end.
You knew but I bet you were hoping you were wrong like me lol XD
Yeah I was wait, no, wait, hold up, HOLD THE FUCK UP! Maybe that last part was a bit exaggerated lol
Ridley wanted to stp doing alien, nad wanted to go in the A.I. way, but i am happy he changed his opinion and rethinked it, hope we will see the last step, to the Xenomrph we all love and fear ! And thanks to this great videos know i understand it mutch easyer the ideas behind the Neomorph and all this other creatures in the movie, so i finally decided to complete my movie collection, and went to buy the blue ray of Alien Covenant :D
In the next sequel, we see David create the Yautja.
I still want an AVP Trilogy where all the Predators, Aliens, Engineers and humans come together.
Despite the hate this film gets, I love the Protomorph. (Probably my fav Xeno variant after the OG Xeno and the Runner in A3). Although it lacks the Xeno’s calculating intelligence, I liked how it’s so savage and downright wild and gives no shot about anything that stands in its way. Reminded me of the Runner in A3 (the Xeno with the highest kill count by far). Love how the Protomorph resembles the OG Xeno and the Runner in both aspects.
Good video as usual. You always do a really awesome job (:
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Great video man! Maybe you could do a comic book explained video on one of the alien stories.
The elephant behind the tree for me is the complete ignorance to the cyborg technology. That's actually more impressive to me than xenomorphs. Manufacturing an independent thinking mind is no easy feat.
Love the video. The quality is great! 2 quick questions: I'm hoping to do a video on the Alien series myself. I was wondering (1) what program do you use to make these videos (2) how did you get clips of the movie? I'm trying to find ways to appropriately pull clips of a few seconds or just find good stills.
Some questions are best left unanswered. Showing us the Engineers is one thing, explaining the step by step process of the Xenomorph's creation is completely different.
The Cranks from the Maze Runner series.
he already made one
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Nice video, I subbed too! Do that alien thing from Species, the Judas breed from Mimic or Slither
I'll add them to the list, thanks mate :)
They also have less of the "bio-engineered" look
David created the xenomorphs we see in all the main films technically, but the Engineers and Space Jockeys created the original black goo and xenomorphs along with "blueprints" that of which David used.
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The reason we felt shortchanged by Promotheus and Covenent was because both times Ridley gave us expectations he didn't deliver on. Specifically I remember that he said Prometheus would explain everything, but it absolutely didn't. If Convenent had been in Prometheuss place then it would have made sense, but he made new promises for that film.
After seeing that laboratory, and hearing David lament the lack of one vital ingredient, I would run as fast as my legs could carry me, jumped back on the Covenant, and high tailed it back to Earth without stopping to pick up me colleagues.
I was wondering why the engineers wanted to kill us. Thanks for clearing that up. I haven't been watching these films very much because it's a bit too intense for my taste.
David: Perfectly safe, I assure you.
Me: *Are you sure about that?*
Yep David isn’t the creator of the Xeno, he just experimented and created his own strand of them. If you watched Prometheus you’d recall a scene when they first enter the Engineer ship they come across a mural of some kind and it has an engraving of a Xeno.
IDK if you've seen Lost but I think it has some stuff that could be nostalgic and cool to some, like me lol. Some things to explain if you were interested could be the smoke monster, how the island worked, the numbers, etc. I hope you've already seen this show, but if you have not I highly recommend it! I hope you see this and I'll think of some more things you might find nice. Love the channel!
If you want to do more video games, the fallout series could be a cool start. Synths and vault experiments would be awesome!
Nice video about this I've been wondering how they're first created now your explanation seems to clear some conflicting ideas I have again nice video
No Problem Oj, thanks for watching :)
That Weyland speech was friggin awesome.
I hope Scott continues the aliens movies and continue the pre prequel trilogy too
Another great analysis.
Good job my man.
thanks buddy!
Also an important difference, the xenomorph is made from nightmares, the protomorph is made from CGI.
I guess the prequels are retconning the AVP universe out of existence, huh? If AVP is canon, David did not create the first xenomorph, merely unlocked that species' DNA from the black liquid bioweapon of the engineers. As we saw in AVP 1, the Yautja had been hunting xenomorphs on earth since ancient, pre-incan time. It's possible the Yautja came across the xenomorphs without making contact with the engineers, though it would be a trip of a movie to think the Yautja were mortal enemies of the Engineers, thus amusing themselves by using the Engineer's offspring as fodder for a ritual hunt.
I swear that the face huggers have to be one of the worst, most sickening and terrifying creatures ever created.
Have I missed something? wasnt there Xenomorph imagery on the inside of the engineers' ship in Prometheus? if that's the case then how can David be the xenomorph progenitor?
I just binged a whole bunch of your videos. After watching this it kinda made me think about the many beasts of fiction so i thought, why not do a video on shin Godzilla? He has different evolutions and i feel like hes definitly one of the cooler versions of Godzilla.
Btw side note: remember that one time when some peeps tried blowing up Gozilla but instead they blew up the world... yeah... good times.
“Perfectly safe” TF YOU TRUST HIM FOR?