The God Delusion: The frustrating revelations in Ridley Scott's "Alien: Covenant" (2017)
In Ridley Scott's universe there are no safe spaces, only harsh habitats and mysterious planets that rotate on an evil axis where time slips into a haunted abyss. In his new film Alien: Covenant , Scott's delayed follow-up to the original Alien prequel Prometheus from 2012, he serves a stiff cocktail of those two aforementioned films. Prometheus was a decisive film not free from flaws, but it was driven by man's curiosity to meet his maker and the intriguing premise of exploring who the "Space Jockey" was in 1979's Alien . With Scott back at the helm of the franchise, Prometheus was epic cinema and a visual glory to behold in theaters viewed in dazzling 3D. The original idea for the Prometheus sequel was titled Paradise Lost and it followed Dr. Shaw and conniving android David to the planet of the "Engineers," the creators of mankind. A few years, a name change and a James Franco casting later, Covenant is not that film at all and ha