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Give him a film, or two. I'm sure it's on his agenda at some point.
All your other details [ I did not address above] are stylistic choices, and yeah I get they're not all that great, in terms of the overall ALIEN mythos as we are familiar with it. But then again, it was only ALIENS that was a beloved sequel. Each and every iteration thereof has been saddled with some controversy or other such diminishment. At some point we need to understand that folks in the ALIEN world do dumb shit and you can forget about continuity.
For what it's worth, I don't think the pilgrims are dumber than the SS MINNOW's crack crew in the last movie. Comprising couples carries with it inherent motive for each character. Did anyone catch the gay dudes? Second one who got infected was the security chief's squeeze, I think. They weren't dumb to me per se -- but I bought that you-know-who out of all of them managed to survive.
Thing for me is that Ridley Scott's age factors into this story, and I don't mean he's losing a step (a lot of technical stuff he leaves to his lifelong crew). But dude's eighty fucking years old and I have to realize this part of the franchise is his ruminations on death, dying, leaving a legacy, and spirituality.
It's not easy to look beyond characters as being human with believable characteristics. Especially if they look like regular dudes like that guy who played Daniels. These are not humans, but rather they are HUMANITY. We're being brought to an operatic scale here.
Lot of assumption trying to make it make sense.
I guess he could have been switching it on and off, imo they should have alluded to it (later in the film) if that was the case imo. It was completely by luck and there was no way he would have been expecting it. But still the helmet picking that up (7 weeks away at whatever speed they were going) when they have trouble communicating a few hundred kilometers away.
I can understand some bad decisions but damn. No suit, no investigating the planet at all while just abandoning all the research and prep for another place, sticking face in an Alien egg after what just happened, etc. The entire film was bad decisions imo.
I liked Shaw a lot as a character and it could have been a great sequel. Hell they(Shaw and David) could have gotten answers(or tried) and then david, Shaw or both turn on the planet/creators or whatever. There was multiple directions that they could have went and it could have been great.
I can see David as a devil character like you said but he shouldn't have so greatly cherished the art, music, spirit, creativity of man. He also genuinely seemed to care for Shaw(kind of weird, killed her, hates humans, loves her, idk) They should have made him more callous, jealous, prideful, eager to prove self worth and "superiority", etc. There were glimpses of it but not enough to sell it imo. Best lines that fit that from what I remember was, not worthy of his creation and I have created as well. It should have been more god complex and whatnot.
Also that crashed alien ship looked like it had been there 1000's of years not 10.
Also they landed in water but right after coming back to the ship it looked like they were on land? Someone behind me in the theater mentioned the same thing to his friend.
The reason this film bothered me so much is that even though it's a "monster" horror movie, it truly could have been fantastic imo.