I heard the reason Ridley killed Shaw and scrapped her story with the Engineers was because Prometheus was received so poorly the studio wanted to return the series back to your typical scifi-horror murder fest that the Alien movies are famous for. Originally Covenant was supposed to be Prometheus 2 and it would be about Elizabeth and David’s space travels and uncovering the mysteries of the Engineers, but the studio refused to fund that.
If that’s true I’m quite upset and disappointed. Shaw was an amazing character and the Engineers are fascinating and it seems like such a waste that Shaw went through literal hell in Prometheus only to die in a mysterious way offscreen and become a science project.
She deserved better. Why does America think slow = bad and gore > mystery?
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