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[@FreeRanged]The characters were just total idiots, so many stupid decisions, for a crew of handpicked, talented people they had no protocols for anything. They all just seem like such dumbasses, it's infuriating to think about.[/quote]

I mean, most of this also holds true for pretty much all of the Nostromo's crew. Same for the Marine unit in Aliens. But that's the only reason ANY horror movie works. Having recently watched Covenant, and then rewatched the first two movies, I can safely say that there wasn't much difference in the responses from the crew. Not to mention that, barring one of the crew who was intended to be an ex-Colonial Marine, most of the crew were former civilians with basic Weyland Corp. security training, and were part of a Weyland colonization mission, never intended to see anything resembling a combat scenario, and only had guns in the event of hostile actions between colonists, they can't really be blamed for poor handling of the situation.