You guys are missing the point

Rating: 8/10 (16 July 2018)

This movie doesn't deserve all the 1 and 2 star ratings. It was a real challenge to follow up Prometheus, with its grandiose themes and all its loose ends. I wasn't a huge fan of Prometheus, but it had some good moments. I keep hoping that eventually it will all make sense. Covenant got us a little further towards that end, but there are still some huge holes (especially with regard to the motivations of the Engineers), which I would like to see filled.
Covenant wasn't a betrayal to Aliens fans for focusing on AI instead of aliens, either. AI was an important aspect of the stories from the very beginning. David and Walter were excellent characters, and Fassbender did an amazing job in both roles. In Covenant, Scott dove deep into David's character, and it was entirely believable, which made the story so scary and compelling. You create a competitive ego and artificial intelligence that knows it is vastly superior to humans, and then treat it like a tool, and see what you get.
I will be annoyed if the last set of scenes is not clarified in a future movie(s), though. David seemed genuinely invested in the outcome of the fight between Daniels and one of his creatures. He seemed to actually want Daniels to win (and was even complicit in it, while playing along as Walter). Why? Why did he waste time playing that game? It seems that he could have easily killed them at several points. I thought perhaps this indicated he had something special in store for her. But why should she be special to him, when he had a whole ship of 2000 colonists to experiment on? The only thing I can figure is that this was actually intended to further acknowledge David's character, as an emotional being and not just a simple machine. To highlight his contempt for and his JOY of tormenting humans, as opposed to simply using humans as a means to an end. To emphasize that his whole sense of purpose is tied to the destruction/debasement of others (as a means of validating his superiority). Maybe he just wanted to see himself through her eyes, after what she had witnessed. Frightening.