What Will Paradise Look Like?

Deep Space
MemberFacehuggerAugust 04, 20166291 Views25 Replies
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?