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I watched this movie 3 times this weekend, including listening to the voice over by Ridley Scott

Ridley Scott is the master of misdirection, we see that in David switch up with Walter.

David is the hero.
I know that is hard to see from this movie alone. Remember this is part of a larger story arc. "Sometimes you have to destroy to create" Create what? A wolf.

Did he kill Elizabeth Shaw?
I don't think so. In fact she may still be alive under the marker. In the Alien
pod. Could we see her resurrection?

But we saw her body.
You saw a body. You saw many bodies. David attempted to clone Elizabeth, but her DNA was already compromised. The clones were all failures. See the DNA failures of Riply in Alien 4: Ressurection. Even what appears to be vivisected Shaw has strange growths from her head.

Remember that the Engineers intend to destroy their creation on earth. David now at the end of #aliencovenant a weapon to attack them. The film ends with him not going to the original colony destination, but rather he is taking his new army to the Engineering home world. This would account for the space jockey we see in the first Alien movie.

The planet in the movie is not the Engineer home world
Instead, this is the same world from the beginning of Prometheus. The people are not Engineers. Not only do they look like Engineers, they don't have the technology of them either.

David has downloaded himself into Walter. Walter has many upgrades since David. He has faster healing and no off button. If that was David's body he would have had the wound under his chin, instead of the more sever wounds.

There is plenty of room for a prequel between this one and Prometheus. But if he had done that movie before this one, you would now that Elizabeth Shaw was not dead, and spoiled this movies secrets, and David motives would be understood.

What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below.