The trouble with the Alien: Covenant prologue

A four-minute prologue for Ridley Scott’s next film, Alien: Covenant, hit the web last night, showing off how the film will borrow aesthetically from the original Alien, and ignore its more immediate predecessor, the critically maligned Prometheus. The prologue introduces us to the crew of its titular spaceship, and culminates with a nod to the chestburster scene in Alien.
For memory’s sake, here’s the original sequence:As my colleague Rich McCormick mentioned last night, there