I fall into the camp that likes Alien: Covenant. It has the guts to continue where the incredibly bland and disappointing Prometheus left off, bringing with it the best part of a lackluster movie (it's David, no argument), and running with two themes. One being the theme of the creator, the other being violation of the human body. The latter is something we're all familiar with from watching the original Alien. The two go together splendidly, like peas and butter. Or facehugger and face.
Spoilers ahead.
The android David is the "creator" of this movie. In the long time between Prometheus and Covenant, he's busied himself with experimenting on creating the perfect organism (perfect to him anyway). Through trial and error, he's getting closer to creating what we know to be the terrifying xenomorph. His makeshift lab, a candlelit room within an old stone temple, is a grisly museum full of preserved specimens and drawings detailing his efforts to breed his superior lifeform.
David is not simply a creator, he's also become a father to this new species.Only in a figurative sense though. He's an artificial being and can't reproduce.
Which leads onto something incredibly terrfiying. David may be a father but a mother is needed too. He has mutilated Elizabeth Shaw (the last survivor, bar David, from Prometheus), her preserved corpse lies in his lab showing clear signs of experimenting. While it's not outright stated, it's clear enough that she was used as part of his experiments to breed his "children". She is the mother of his children.
Alien: Covenant is creepy and unsettling,and that's why I like it.
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