{"id":4421,"date":"2026-02-08T22:10:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T21:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/?p=4421"},"modified":"2026-02-08T22:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T21:10:19","slug":"alien-covenant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/4421","title":{"rendered":"Alien: Covenant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s not a lot to like about the movie <a href=\"https:\/\/boxd.it\/49UY\">Alien: Covenant<\/a>. But there are a few memorable moments. Some I remember for the cringe, like the flute fingering. But others I found generally good and enjoyable treatments of the Alien staples, such as the buildup to and ensuing chaos of the crew&#8217;s first encounter with the Alien in the ship&#8217;s medbay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A very intense scene, with good sound design and very good and graphic body horror. I find myself thinking of this scene from time to time and remembering it in a positive way. Here, I said it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Won&#8217;t redeem the movie, but credit where it&#8217;s due, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The writer ponders the quality of a specific scene in the movie Alien: Covenant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,859],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4422,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions\/4422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}