😅 Just listened to a friend's podcast on Alien: Romulus, which was very funny in one way, because he and his cohosts are big Prometheus fans (and one hasn't even seen Alien 3 or Resurrection), so their complaints about Romulus not reaching for "the sublime" or being as "ambitious" in adding to franchise mythology just solidify for me why the film works so well as a return to form. Looking forward to recording my own thoughts on it soon.
@MLClark I'm a bit of an "Alien" franchise fan, but Prometheus and Alien Covenant put me off the franchise a bit. I'm not a fan of the "Origin" Ridley Scott came up with (the black goo and psychopathic android David). And I'm a bit disappointed that Romulus incorporated all that.
Agreed on Prometheus and Covenant. As I said the other day, I was so annoyed with P that I rewrote the screenplay after watching it, to prove to myself that there was a way to bring spirituality in without crapping all over the series canon.
Romulus is now tethered to the fuller canon, but it paid homage to all the films (and some videogames) with a *much* more controlled and coherent use of the elements from those two.
Aesthetically, it was a hard return to the Alien & Aliens.