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Alien: Covenant

1. The Past and Present of Elizabeth Shaw

Since so many holes dug in "Prometheus" seem to have not been filled, even more holes were dug in "Covenant". So if you want to analyze whether the director actually filled the hole, you should start from the hole dug in "Pu". As a key figure in the two films, in the eyes of many viewers, Elizabeth's follow-up story seems to be half-covered with a pipa, and it is not clearly expressed, resulting in many huge pits. However, there is a huge gap between the director's perspective and the audience's perspective. The attitude reflected in Lei Gong's narration is:

"I seem to have enough footage for Dr. Xiao? It's already so obvious that I'm helpless if you want to mess around with it (spread hands)."

To sort out what happened to Elizabeth after Prometheus, we must first solve a series of questions: How did Elizabeth die? When did you die? Why die? What did she do before she died?

1. How did Xiao's singing voice come from?

At the beginning of the repair of the solar sail, Tee's helmet received a signal from the Dominator. In Mother's analysis, Lei Gong explained:

If you're stuck somewhere, like Robinson was stuck on an island, you'll end up talking to yourself

So when she (Elizabeth Shaw) was on that ship, learning how to operate it, she might be humming, unaware that her singing was being radiated (via the ship) into outer space.

This narration shows at least two points: First, "Dr. Xiao made the action of singing because of the setting of 'being trapped on the island'". Therefore, it is certain that Dr. Xiao was safe and healthy before the spacecraft reached the Planet of Engineers (Planet 4), and even after arriving on Planet 4, he was mentally relaxed, otherwise he would not "hum and sing" while researching.

The second is that this singing signal was launched into outer space by Xiao himself unknowingly, not the previous mainstream view that "David deliberately released a signal to lure passing human spaceships". Regardless of whether David knew about Xiao's actions, at most David held indirect intentions (laissez-faire) rather than direct intentions for the act of transmitting signals.

2. The cause of death of Dr. Xiao

A video is included in the Blu-ray Disc, which records David's self-report of his own experimental process. One of them says:

I found the routing paradise.

I washed the world clean as a gift to her

We could've build a new, a second Eden

But she refused.

What choice did I have?

What this passage means: "I found the 'heaven' that the route pointed to, and then I cleaned the place for her (Shaw). We could have built a whole new Garden of Eden, but she turned me down." . What choice do I have?"

After saying this, the video shows the following screen:

That is, the bloody picture of David dissecting Xiao's body with his own hands. . . . This is already very cramming telling us:

"She rejected me, what choice do I have?" - of course, only: kill her.

Why can only kill Xiao? David added:

She was a perfect specimen

3. What is the relationship between David and Shaw?

As a robot, knowing that his feelings will not be affirmed by humans, David still keeps saying that he loves Xiao. So, is his love for Xiao real? Lei Gong's narration gave a positive answer:

It's a very confusing feeling, but it's understandable when you think about it in terms of "beauty in love with the beast." So David's love for Shaw is real, he said from the bottom of his heart: "Send an elegy to my favorite Elizabeth"

So since David really loves Dr. Xiao, can he kill him because he "refused to build an Eden"? Previously everyone's mainstream views have been confirmed by Lei Gong:

I made the image of Noomi's sister like this, in fact, I wanted to say: David extracted Dr. Xiao's DNA for research for his own great cause of creation.

From the above content and the short film "The Crossing", we can make a complete review of what happened to Dr. Xiao:

After driving another Dominator from LV-223, Shaw sewed David's head and body together. In the process, David felt warm and fell in love with Shaw. Then Xiao entered the engineer's sleeping pod to hibernate and waited to reach the Paradise described in the cut-out scene in "Pu". After arriving at his destination, David dropped biochemical weapons on the planet and turned it into a Death Star, in an attempt to rebuild a "paradise" that belonged to him and Shaw. His idea was rejected by Xiao, and Xiao was trying to learn how to drive the Dominator, hoping to go back home. So David chose to kill him with his own hands to complete his creation when this idea could not be supported by Xiao.

So, focus on it! ! !

1. Xiao did not sacrifice voluntarily, nor did he die of illness due to the remaining black water in his body, but was killed by David.

2. Shaw didn't die on the road, but after living on Planet 4 for a while.

3. David said that he loves Shaw is not a conspiracy theory, but is indeed a sad song of "beauty falls in love with the beast".

2. Spy on Engineer Civilization

When a considerable part of the audience walked into the theater in the mood of watching "Pu 2", and waited with anticipation to see the human beings and the Creator once again fight against each other, but it was Lei Gong's several slaps that slapped the head. The Dabai scene in less than a minute caught the majority of "popular fans" who had taken off their pants and were ready to watch Dabai. . .

And what is this stuff? What about those dark, deep eyes? What about the translucent milky white skin that makes people want to bite when they see it?

However, the facts tell us: this product is Dabai.

Because in Rai Gong's narration, the word "Engineer" was used unceremoniously to refer to them on different occasions.

Let's go back to June, when "Contract" was first released in China, Mtime made an exclusive interview with the main creators including Fa Sha and Lei Gong:

When talking about the sequel (the content of the sequel will be discussed later), Lei Gong introduced the engineer's setting like this:

There will be three or four different players coming in to investigate.

One of which will be the Engineers arriving back to find their planet decimated.

I think those ships come and go on regular intervals.

I see them as the gardeners of space.

"There's going to be 3 or 4 guys coming to investigate (the event) and one of the scenes will be the engineers coming back and finding their planet has been massacred. I think (the engineers') ships are always at regular intervals. Inside and out, I see them as gardeners in space."

This "gardener in space" metaphor is mentioned again in Rai Gong's narration in Blu-ray:

I call these engineers "gardeners in space," because in the society of engineers, they travel between universes, seeding their influence on different planets, just like you did at the beginning of Prometheus as seen.

This passage not only summarizes the setting of the engineer family, but also solves a problem left by Prometheus:

The engineers who drank the black water in the first place were not punished, but sacrificed themselves for their great cause of "seeding". So the birth of species on earth is their intention.

Then Lei Gong continued:

(The opening scene of "Pu") shows a DNA entering the planet's water, and water is the best diffusion system. In the water, this DNA will evolve, it will form bacteria, until one day it will climb out of the sea and continue its evolutionary journey (on land). That's the role they (engineers) play.

Are they (engineers) gods? Not really. Are they higher beings? Of course. Are they more capable than we were in the past? Yes, but they still lost to their own creations after all.

Therefore, we can make a generalization about the engineer family:

This is a life that has reached a very high level of evolution. In order to expand their species, they let some people travel between the universes and sow the seeds of life on suitable planets. Just come back every once in a while. (If Foss doesn't give a shit,) When some of them return next time to find their planet slaughtered, that's one of the upcoming episodes of the next Alien.

If this Planet 4 is indeed the "home planet" of the engineers, is LV-233 the engineer's military base, as everyone thought before? The answer is yes:

The planet (LV-233) in "Pu" is a military base, we can think of it this way: if you have something very dangerous (black water "CHEMICAL_A0-3959x.91-15"), you might place it in outside the door, but you would never store it at home.

It can also be seen from this that the Dominator, which is a military spacecraft, has a completely different shape from the dish-shaped spacecraft used for the mission of seeding life at the beginning of "Public", which is taken for granted by the main creative team of the film.

Of course, there are other angles to illustrate that Planet 4 is the home planet of engineers. Remember the weird conversation between David and Dr. Shaw in the last cut of "Pop"?

The "Paradise" here is very important because it echoes the "routing paradise" mentioned in the viral short film "Covenant" and the aforementioned Blu-ray video "David's Lab Teaser" . This shows that David and Shaw in the "Contract" did not deviate from the course, they did come to the home planet of the engineer - Planet 4.

(Although this dialogue in the main film of "Pu" was replaced, please don't mistake it for the abandonment of this "paradise" setting. Because in the 3-hour behind-the-scenes special of "Pu", Lei Gong clearly stated that this shot is a The protagonist made two versions of the character, and finally decided to abandon the rough and "fucking" version of Xiao due to the character setting.)

So since it is the parent star, why are the buildings so rudimentary and the characters so unscrupulous? This issue will be discussed later. Let's fill in another huge hole about engineers in "Public" first: why do engineers want to destroy human beings?

Here we would like to congratulate the "Jesus Party", another piece of evidence to support your inference.

There are two reasons for the "Jesus Party", one of which is an interview with Lei Gong by Movies.com when "Pro" was released in 2012: Reporter: You added religion and spirituality into the equation of "Prometheus", Undoubtedly, this became a grenade. We heard that there was a setting in the original script that why these engineers wanted to destroy the earth was because humans killed one of their representatives. Can we assume that what you're trying to say is that Jesus might be an alien. Is it right? Lei Gong: We must have thought so. However, we later felt that it was too tight. If you look at it from an engineer's point of view, they probably see us as kids who are messing around on Earth. As a result, at times, we seem to be out of control. We ran around in armor and skirts. Of course, we can think of it as the period of the Roman Empire. The riots continued for a long time. In fact, the Roman Empire began to disintegrate a thousand years ago. So engineers would say, "Let's send an emissary to Earth and see if we can stop the fall of humanity." What happened then? Humans crucified this messenger on a cross.

Original news site (ladder required): Dialogue: Sir Ridley Scott Explains 'Prometheus,' Explores Our Past, and Teases Future 'Alien' Stories

The second is the wonderful YY of Wanwan's "who doesn't matter" classmates to "Pu".

Although neither of these two reasons is enough to support the conclusion that "Lei Guild continues to use the Jesus setting", at least one can glimpse the conceptual setting of why engineers want to destroy human beings in "Pu" - human beings are no longer controllable.

And in this Blu-ray version of "Contract", Lei Gong once again reiterated a fact:

He talks about dying species and their revival. Humans have fundamentally failed, and so have engineers. Because engineers let their children, humans, out of their control. Both species are already worthless.

At this time, David's lines in the picture are as follows:

Because they are dying species grasping for resurrection

They don't deserve to start again

and I'm not going to let them.

This paragraph describes the setting of "engineer-human-android": human beings follow in the footsteps of engineers and embark on the road of struggling for the reproduction of the race. In the same way, engineers want to prevent their creations from "getting out of control", and humans also want to prevent their creations - androids from getting out of control, so they cut off the dangerous "creation" from David and replaced them with Walter then "made him to serve".

Then we now have a clearer understanding of the alien world created by Lei Gong: if an intelligent species, their evolution has reached a certain level, but their survival is facing extinction, then in order to avoid extinction, the best way It is to start frantically open up new living places, and do our best to spread life and expand the distribution of the population.

Based on this value, in the alien world, human beings are doing such things, and human beings start colonization is a move to avoid self-destruction, and the engineers who are the creators of human beings have done this even earlier.

Focus again! ! !

1. Is Planet 4 the home planet of engineers? Yes, these guys who don't look like your Engineers are your Engineers.

2. Why do engineers create humans? Because they are facing demise, they are "seeding".

3. Why do engineers want to destroy humanity? Because humans started "out of control", they were upset and the consequences were severe.

This article is continuously updated. . . .

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