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Welcome to High Definition, a web series dedicated to the analysis, discussion and movies' shenanigans. Today I want to talk about a couple of movies that the whole world seems to hate

but that entertained me, scared me and even made me think. I mean the epics Prometheus and Alien: Covenant.

I want to make clear that the reason why I want to do this analysis is because it is rumored that 20th Century Fox has canceled the sequel (or sequels) to this saga,

which in my humble opinion... is a humanity crime.

And as I will talk about a whole saga, these videos will be a bit long. I hope that you have patience and enjoy both the movies and these videos, just as I did.

The movie Prometheus begins on an uninhabited planet that could be planet earth; at the edge of a waterfall, where a humanoid stares at a departing ship.

Then the humanoid drinks, a bubbling black goo and immediately disintegrates into ashes.

When their bodily remains fall through the waterfall, the DNA of the humanoid quickly mutates forming a new DNA sequence based on his, that is to say: "made in his image and likeness".

After that we are transported to the year 2089, where the archaeologists Elizabeth Shaw and Charlie Holloway discover the same star map in writings of various cultures without contact between them.

It is understood that these old messages are an invitation of the precursors, creators or designers of humanity, to visit that planetary system,

and therefore, the place of origin of our predecessors whom they call "the engineers". This place is not a planet but a moon called LV-223.

This expedition is financed by Peter Weyland, a genius of the modern era, founder and owner of the Weyland Corporation, a super-wealthy company that owes its success to the creation of human robots.

The ship destined to carry out this mission is the Prometheus, in reference to the Greek Titan creator of the human race.

As the trip to LV-223 is very long, members of the expedition sleep for years while the ship is monitored by David, the first android created by Peter Weyland himself and whom he sees as his son.

The mission fails, obviously for reasons that I will not reveal. I can only reveal that the crew of the Prometheus ship suffers the same fate as the Greek Titan.

Alien: Covenant tells the story of another ship and another crew. The ship is called Covenant, or Alliance, it has on board 2000 passengers and 1140 human embryos.

The mission of Covenant is to colonize a remote planet called Origae-6.

While Covenant's crew and colonizers sleep, the ship is monitored by Walter, an updated version of David, which is why Walter and David are alike.

Unfortunately Covenant suffers severe damage from a Starburst and Walter decides to wake up the crew in charge of the ship.

Due to the damage, the captain dies and the first officer takes command.

He decides to avoid further breakdown of the ship and to jeopardize human life by diverting the course of Covenant to an unknown planet, but with characteristics very similar to those of the earth, naming the place: Planet 4

This planet seems deserted, but quickly they realize that there are not alone, an alien ship landed years before and, even more, this ship was piloted by a member of the ship Prometheus: the archaeologist Elizabeth Shaw.

In case you do not know this, these two films were made to explore the origin of those legendary creatures known as Aliens, although their strict name is Xenomorphs, which means extraterrestrial form.

The first time the world met an Alien was in 1979 by the hands of Ridley Scott in the movie Alien: The Eighth Passenger.

Here we met the crew of the Nosotromo, a mining ship that intercepts a help signal from a moon known as LV-426.

On that moon there is a shattered ship and the remains of a giant humanoid, which died piloting the ship,

but inside that mummy sleeps a parasite that impregnates one of Nostromo's crew members, boarding the ship with lethal consequences for the crew.

Alien was a critical success that even won Oscars and a commercial success that has spanned for more than 8 films over 4 decades.

And although sequels focus on Ripley's struggle to survive the attack of the Xenomorphs, from a very young age (and like thousands of people) I always felt a macabre fascination for that dark creature that

can adapt it body to many gravities, that doesn't need oxygen to breathe, that uses his own blood as a weapon and that doesn't need sex to reproduce: It is the perfect predator.

Prometheus and Covenant are the films that brought back the Xenomorph and extended their universe and mythology, by the genius that gave birth to such a twisted adventure: the Oscar-winning filmmaker Ridley Scott.

Unfortunately a large part of the Alien fandom seems to be disappointed in the stories

that told the origin of the Xenomorph and that humanoid, which was known as a space-jockey and today is recognized as The Engineer.

What is the problem? The problem is that many of the diehard fanatics of the franchise did not expected that the origin of the Xenomorph was linked to the origin of humanity,

the evolution of humanity at the level of gods capable of creating intelligent life (with consciousness and feelings) and the consequences that we must face as a race to alter the divine order.

It seems that many of the fans only want to see horror-action-science fiction movies, and they are, but Prometheus and Covenant go further than that.

They are Greek theological dissertations or biblical studies, but at a universal galactic level, which I find even more fascinating than any of the films before Alien. Yes, you heard me!

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