There are many reasons to look back on Alien: Covenant as a disappointment. The abandonment of the Space Jockey mystery from the original film; the obligatory return to xenomorph formula by a filmmaker long since bored with it; and the callous disregard of Noomi Rapace’s Elizabeth Shaw cover most of the bases. Yet a smaller, if gnawing, flaw persists: After Prometheus ended on the amusing sight of our hero, the aforementioned Shaw, teaming up with the severed but-still-chatty head of a Weyland-Yutani synthetic (Michael Fassbender), the sequel did nothing with that anime-ready contrast.

What a surprise it is then that 13 years later, another franchise would take the concept and run with it. The way director Dan Trachtenberg even describes it , this silhouette of a lonely, out-of-hi

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