Covenant Repeated The Alien Franchise's Biggest Death Mistake 25 Years Later

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📆 05.11.2023 15:23:00
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Although Alien 3’s biggest mistake cost the movie dearly, 2017’s Alien: Covenant somehow managed to repeat this blunder with its own big twist.

Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT While Alien: Covenant clearly intended to shock viewers by opening with a major character death, this only resulted in the sequel revisiting one of the Alien franchise's biggest mistakes. Alien 3 was one of the most infamously troubled productions in Hollywood. Despite this, it's striking just how many errors made it into the finished film.

After Ripley killed the Alien Queen in Aliens, seeing her face off against a single Xenomorph would always have been a letdown. While Disney’s upcoming Alien reboot might be able to get away with this, as the movie’s made up of new characters, Ripley’s return made Alien 3’s antagonist inherently disappointing. Viewers had seen Ripley dispatch an entire hive of aliens, so one Xenomorph no longer seemed like as much of a threat.

Shaw Dying Repeats Alien 3's Newt And Hicks Deaths Despite how much the off0screen deaths of Newt and Hicks angered viewers, 2017’s Alien: Covenant managed to repeat this exact same plot beat almost three decades later. By the time Alien: Covenant’s story started, Prometheus' heroine, Elizabeth Shaw, was already dead.

Instead, they were killed off-screen and treated as afterthoughts by their respective movies. This was arguably even worse in Alien: Covenant's case, as Shaw was the heroine of Prometheus. Newt was adorable, and Hicks was a valuable supporting character, but there was no denying that Ellen Ripley was the main character of Alien and Aliens. However, Shaw was Prometheus’ Ripley equivalent and its audience insertion persona, so discovering that she died offscreen felt like a slap in the face.

Shaw's Off-Screen Death Was A Major Alien Covenant Mistake Killing Shaw off-screen inadvertently confirmed for viewers that there was no reason to get invested in the Alien franchise’s new heroes. Thus, when Alien: Covenant’s ending arrived, and David double-crossed the heroes, few viewers were shocked by this downbeat revelation.

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