Chris Packham watched Alien: Covenant and started to pick holes in the plot
Everyone’s favourite birder and all-round wildlife good egg Chris Packham settled down to watch pisspoor horror prequel Alien: Covenant and started to pick holes in the plot.
There are probably lots of bits – the entire thing – which don’t make sense, but Packham had a particular bone to pick with Ridley Scott.
1.
Alien Covenant . Second watch . Telling that I recall so little ? Good to see GoPro’s still in action in 2104 – I’m buying shares in the morning . And the lack of diversity in an apparently functional ecosystem is rubbish . Why don’t SciFi directors talk to scientists ?
— Chris Packham (@ChrisGPackham) April 18, 2018
2.
Plants but no pollinators and in turn no seed dispersers and nothing that eats them ? Why do they spend so much money getting it so basically wrong ? Big trees – no decomposers . . . and nothing that eats them . Okay , I’ll shut up . Suspend disbelief completely . Bah !
— Chris Packham (@ChrisGPackham) April 18, 2018
3.
Sorry . Sorry . One more thing . Deep in the cavernous interior of the alien ship there are . . . green plants . In the dark . No photosynthesis possible . Did Ridley Scott do any science O Levels ? I mean . . . I love xenomorphs with acid for blood like the rest of us but . . .
— Chris Packham (@ChrisGPackham) April 18, 2018
More fool him for watching it twice, we say.
I was more concerned with the fact that David creates the Alien species in 2104 so how was there an Alien queen under the ice on Earth several thousand years before for Alien vs Predator
— Andy Morris (@Drewlilmo) April 18, 2018
It’s not real Chris 😂
— Angie Baby 🐰🌹 (@Comeonmurray12) April 19, 2018
Alien without the C.G.I pic.twitter.com/ynAtzGWuJ0
— Max Rosie 🇬🇧 (@Alrightmonkey) April 18, 2018
