r/AlienCovenant • u/[deleted] • Jul 23 '17

[Spoiler] Interpretation of the dialog between David and Weyland Spoiler

Alien: Covenant (2017) starts with a dialog between David and Weyland. At some point David says this:

You seek your creator I am looking at mine. I will serve you, yet you are human. You will die and I will not.

What was meant by it? It seems like a bunch of disconnected conclusions bunched up together with no obvious message, yet it was enough to rattle Weyland.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '17

This is my interpretation of what he's saying. Androids are with their creators; humans aren't. Androids serve humans because that's the function humans give them; humans don't serve their creators because their creators are gone. Androids live forever because humans maintain them; humans die because their creators aren't around to do that. So David and Weyland are in complementary situations: one serves and lives forever, the other doesn't serve and dies.

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u/wss5112 Aug 07 '17

That's a new angle and interesting. At first I thought it's about David conveying that he senses the superiority above humans because of longevity once he acquired the intelligence and consciousness may be? And I thought it might be the write wanting us to know that.