I wonder if the complaints about it being dark are solely from people who saw it in 3D. I avoid 3D as much as possible because it's always dark & blurry for me. The whole first act on the island looked like paradise! Sunny, bright blues…like an advert for a Greek island holiday.

I imagine somebody pointed out there's really not much character development & the response was, "I know! Let's give Danny McBride a cowboy hat! Done."

The Martian was pretty much that & I really liked it. No need for alien monsters around every corner to feel the sense of utter dread of wondering how to survive alone, in space.

And why didn't any of the crew ask WHO these people were that populated this planet? The audience knew they were the Engineers, but it should have been a huge deal for the crew to discover life resembling humans on another planet.

The opening scene would have been really helpful in Prometheus, explaining the hubris of Weyland to think he was the same as the Engineers who created him. What was the point of it in Covenant? David thinks all humans should die because his creator made him pour tea?

That's what I was hoping for too. Prometheus was a hot mess, but at least it was ambitious. With all the positive reviews, I was thinking they might do a better job fleshing out the motivation of the Engineers etc. Instead they dropped all the interesting bits, turned David into a mustache-twirling villain & ordered…

I hang out with rats all the time! Nothing ever happened to me.

I think it was natural for people to hope that, since he's such an iconic figure. He's just not the type of guy you'd think you need to keep your guard up around. How many of the women willingly took the pills he offered? So sad.

Hopefully the jury is smarter than that. False accusations are terrible, of course, but surely not worse than: sexual assault, torture, child rape, murder etc.

If her hair was a different shade you'd assume she'd be canon fodder. There's zero reason she should be the Ripley of this movie. Totally forgettable.

Didn't she need him to pilot the ship?

This sums up Covenant perfectly: "This movie is almost stunningly inessential". Well said.

Agreed. I was hoping they might continue the Prometheus story in a way that could partly redeem that shitshow, but instead of exploring any of those ideas, they wiped out that storyline completely & just went for straight up gore. I love the character of David, so I guess it was still worth watching. Maybe? Meh.…

Thank you! I just saw it last night & I already don't remember any of the characters. It felt like they were just telling us to root for the lady with the brown hair because she's the Ripley in this movie. She had all the personality of a wet rag.

I'm really surprised it's getting such good reviews. They took a boilerplate plot of a cheesy horror movie & put it in space. Prometheus, for all its problems, at least gave us David (fantastic character & performance), Engineers seeding the galaxy, weird black goo, a stunning state room/escape pod, crazy murals in…

Which character was gay in Covenant? I saw it last night & never noticed this. There was so little character development you couldn't tell who was married to each other anyway.

It would have been so simple just to have her get hit by falling debris from the crash. Simple bad luck. No audience eye-roll necessary.

They really needed some kind of throwaway line regarding testing the air quality. With all kinds of airborne pathogens on Earth, why would it be safe to go for a hike on a mysterious planet? Even Prometheus had them start off with helmets.

I would not have guessed that watching a small child slit the throats of giant men would be something I'd enjoy watching. Who knew?

I found it totally believable. Take a hot button issue, like terrorism or pedophiles, & people don't react rationally. They might very well sit back as the government gives airport security all kinds of unwarranted power or feel justified in punishing a pedophile who hasn't acted on his crime yet in order to protect…