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What Will Paradise Look Like?

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MemberFacehuggerAugust 04, 20166291 Views25 Replies
What Will Paradise Look Like?

OK, we know that the Covenant are going to set down on 'Paradise'.  We also know that it is a desolate and barren world containing the synthetic David as the only life!  However, having seen some pictures that we can assume are on 'Paradise' from AC production, it has left me a little confused when comparing this to the synopsis.

Where the 'ship' lands looks like a lush, fertile, Earth like environment (probably what the colonists expected).  Also we have seen a landscape of giant trees (forest?).

We have also seen images of Temples, statues and remnants of civilisation.

When I first read the synopsis I was a little disheartened as I imagined a world something like this . . .

 . . . but images we have seen seem to contradict this view.

I know that the Engineer(?) based images could be flashback scenes (imo I think the colonists will find the scenes we have seen as they are presented, but we may get flashbacks as well!  What a mind trip that would be for them . . .) but there does seem to be some kind of biological life present on Paradise.  And who knows in what forms . . .

  I think we may find a world that is polarised - some lush fertile places but also some barren and charred landscapes with ruins, corpses etc - a bit like the images from Pompeii that were posted on here a while back.  Either way, I think we are going to be treated to some visual treats and I can't wait! :)

What do people think awaits the crew on Paradise?  How are you imagining this world to look?

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Its like an angler fish...luring the colonists. 

 

What if the Dav on the Cov. changes where the ship lands while the others are sleeping and deletes/changes all the reports of the more damaged areas. The crew is only allowed at first to see the good parts of the planet.  I have a feeling that the area they colonize is the only area that will be "paradise" and the rest is blasted barren. 

Maybe Prom Dav will pull them into the barren areas with some form of beacon or lure.  One of the members gets a little bored and goes exploring....

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This was taken in the bush whilst tramping "the circuit" next to Lake Manapouri and is typical of the dense New Zealand bush. I could easily see them coming across Engineer ruins which appear as if seemingly from nowhere.  

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^^^^^

Thats the sort of primordial image I expect to see. 

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Michelle Johnston
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@HN The Engineers were bequeathed terrifying powers and BD's source has referred to terraforming. You have to believe the scene of destruction in the Quarry represents a terrible and awe filled consequence of such power. That one scene gives me hope that this movie is more than just a Zeno fest and shows the existential nature of the hierarchy's threat as well as the consequence of the Engineers (and David's meddling).   

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