NOT PYNCHON: the estimable Michael Wood on COVENANT

[rich]

If there's bad science there's bad choices--all this exposition and
background on the Giger's creation/creature just drains all the mystery so
well used in the first movie (I'm probably one of the few who wasnt a big
fan of Aliens)

*Ash:* You still don't understand what you're dealing with, do you? The
perfect organism. Its structural perfection is matched only by its
hostility.*Lambert:* You admire it.*Ash:* I admire its purity. A
survivor...unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.

they should've left it that.

rich

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 3:40 PM, jesse gooch <jlguuch at gmail.com> wrote:

> HaHaHa!
> Yeah, hard to get around the silly science, but I don’t really go see
> science fiction movies expecting them to adhere to logic. Also, since Alien
> has always been a bit of a “slasher in space” thing, you’re always going to
> get the people making really idiotic decisions that no rational person
> would make.
>
>
> On Jun 15, 2017, at 1:31 PM, L E Bryan <lebryan at sonic.net> wrote:
>
> This is about that really stupid film that R. Scott foisted upon us
> recently? It was that or the Mummy last night, and I suspect I made the
> poorer choice. I can’t imagine being desperate enough to actually see the
> Mummy, so I can only speculate about the choice. After watching the
> numerous stupidities of the humans on board, I came to the conclusion that
> the group being sent to colonize some far off planet must have been
> selected in some future eugenics project to raise the level of intelligence
> of the species left behind.
>
> Interstellar densities are around 10^6 molecules per cm^3. Try figuring
> out the pressure per square cm on that huge sail deployed at the speed the
> ship was going. Talk about drag!
>
> <sigh>
>
>
> On Jun 15, 2017, at 3:30 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> https://twitter.com/LRB/status/875295382401691649
>
>
>
>
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