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Will we see more murals in Alien Covenant?

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Centauri

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In anticipation for the new Alien Covenant. I wonder if the mysterious murals as seen in "Prometheus", will be shown more in depth in the new upcoming film.

there are also things like this:

The bio mechanical waterfalls

 

The unused "Jodorowski's dune" menacing road that leads to the tomb "silos"

 

I think we have seen this piece used in the Shaw's "baby" scene, as it inpregnates the engineer at the end of "Prometheus"...it's back flinching, as it died.

 

It's a wonderful mystery I'd love to see unfold in Ridley's newest addition.

 Always interested in everyone's thoughts and theories..:)

 

 

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@Mizikame & TD ... yes sorry, I have ammened my above comment ... the Trilobite ... others on here have refferred to it as Mr T ...

@Chris ... I get what you're saying ... and yes if they were not disturbed, what would they look like? ... we do know though that the mural that 'changed' was an image of an egg with alien hands around it (Prometheus - The Art of the Film) ...

The Mural That Changed:
https://i.imgur.com/QL5eXMm.jpg

@Dave ... good explanation regarding the goo and it's destructive use ... but ... that still doesn't explain where or what happened to the few that actually made it through the door, before it closed ... where are they? ... they should be in the room, along with the head surely? ... i.e. ALL preserved? ... I counted 7 (maybe more?) engineers running down the holographic tunnel footage ... so that (at least) means there should be 6 that made it into the ampule room ... the other 10+ at the other door obviously didn't make it (wherever they were headed for) ... I personally don't see any evidence of other doors leading to the ampule room ...

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Yes it would be safe to assume that 6-7 at least made it to the Big Head Room...

What happened after this? is any ones guess and its a complete mystery all we know is there are none there when Prometheus and its crew arrived... apart from the Last Engineer.

*Did they bunker down and how long for?

*Did they manage to escape the Facility and escape LV-223

*Is one of them the Space Jockey or is the Space Jockey a event prior to the Outbreak?

*Did any of them return to Earth to continue to show us warnings? or was the Star Maps after 2000 years ago just a re-telling of information passed from culture to culture?

*Did they eventually get killed by something Evolved or loose on LV-223 (but we dont see any bodys within that temple mound) apart from those pilled up... but the crew of Prometheus never explored every inch of the compound.

Looking at the map from what i remember the room where the dead bodys where seemed to only have two entrances though but where Milburn and Fifield were was close to the room where the rest entered via the door David opened.

I will have to study the map again.

 

 

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What if the Engineers who's bodies we find later on (when Fifield and Millburn diacover them) are the same Engineers we saw running into the Ampule room? What if a Xenomorph or Xenomorph like creature, managed to pick them off, drag them up some ventilation shaft (as Aliens like to do) and stacked the bodies where we find them, in prep to receive impregnation or straight up murder?

Although I will say, I'm way more fond of Big Dave's theory, about the room being a containment protocol and the matter having got loose was more of that black goo the sacrificial Engineer used at the start of Prometheus. It makes a lot of sense and would explain the preservation state of the head, along with its subsequent explosion later on. It also does explain why the dead bodies stacked looked hollow as if the biological material inside evaporated or was somehow exploded outwards.

This should be added to my "What happened to the Engineers on LV-223" topic! Hahaha

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I hope we see more Giger-inspired landscapes and creatures on the Engineer homeworld.

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Murals, statues, holograms, I think we will see the lot. Used by way of explanation and in flashbacks. 

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I really hope there are NO more murals. The franchise has fallen far from the genuinely alien feeling, into the mediocre clichés synonymous with B-movie creature-features.

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I didn’t like the explanation with the murals because it really required too much attention to detail and it is simply too much. This was too vague and I bet that Lindelof had something to do with that although I don’t have anything to back that up but it fits his vague style of telling stories. No more murals and a coherent story is what I am hoping for. Some ambiguity is fine but not too much and Prometheus had too much and answered many things in a bad way.

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well this is an older discussion i posted, and since we saw the new trailer and heard alot of other theories, we are on a good path to whats to come...take this discussion with a grain of salt.....save it for the popcorn ;)

 

 

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It looks like the Ancient Culture Aesthetic is in place for the most part.

So i am not sure if we have any Murals relating to the Xeno and Experiments... i would assume those Horrors were created on LV-223

But maybe David has created his own though, as he copies the Engineers by creating Murals to highlight Davids own creations.

If Ridley wants to connect the Xenomorph and WHY etc but we have no Engineers maybe in this movie, i think they would have to find ways to give us some visual clues... without having to show us events.

I think this was the purpose of the Prometheus Mural and Frescos..  but as far as seeing similar in AC... they way it looks now i think its maybe unlikely?

As far as Statues and Murals dedicated to the Engineers and so some Frescos etc that would be like Ancient Cultures on Earth, then i think for certain we would see these..

Just not any Alien/Xeno related ones

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@Big Dave, yes

i could see this as possible...

I love ALL of the folk lore in Prometheus...some may find it annoying that they have to figure things out, but why take the absolute fun out of "discovery"?  I love the mystery and i love being on an expedition for answers with everyone on scified!  

i can't believe only 122 more days and we will find out!!! holy cow!

 

 

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why in the ampoule room the ampoules remain intact, neatly placed if the Engineers in panic fled to this room. if they were so they would knock them over. unless they rearrange them or from scratch. but what for? and where they fled. I think the second door from this room was where the mural of the crucified deacon was. but in another scene, is the pile of engineers' corpses by the door the back door to the ampoule room? you can see that the bodies were torn apart as if it was a black goo, as in Covenant or during the intro of Prometheus. So why, after being infected, would put these ampoules back on the spot, as if they had set a trap, but who and from whom were they escaping? How did the Black goo flow out of the ampoules if it was still inside the glass ampoules as shown by David.

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