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the "twist" was too predictable, I knew it right when he re-emerged after the fight, but the crew was silly not to check him. And before that, the captain was idiot to listen to him about the egg, after watching him communicate with the xeno. All that took away my appreciation. Plot treading.

the "twist" was too predictable, I knew it right when he re-emerged after the fight, but the crew was silly not to check him. And before that, the captain was idiot to listen to him about the egg, after watching him communicate with the xeno. All that took away my appreciation. Plot treading.

I don't consider that a twist so much as a reveal. Daniels does ask "Walter" what happened to David and can't really verify it because of the immediate Xenomorph attack. It doesn't come up until the very end because the survivors are too busy trying to survive the different Xenomorphs that attack them. It makes more sense for it to be something that the viewers can't help but know is coming even though it isn't confirmed until the very end. That sense of inevitability feels more pointed than it just being a "predictable twist" - maybe seeing it coming is actually the point.

As for Oram, I feel like that's just the logical conclusion of his arc. He got forced into a position of responsibility by circumstance and, in trying to win over a crew that he felt that he needed to impress, made the decision that led to at least half his crew dying - including his own wife. By that point, I figure he had a death wish anyway but he still wanted David to tell him the whole story just so he could die knowing why everything had happened.

I don't consider that a twist so much as a reveal. Daniels does ask "Walter" what happened to David and can't really verify it because of the immediate Xenomorph attack. It doesn't come up until the very end because the survivors are too busy trying to survive the different Xenomorphs that attack them. It makes more sense for it to be something that the viewers can't help but know is coming even though it isn't confirmed until the very end. That sense of inevitability feels more pointed than it just being a "predictable twist" - maybe seeing it coming is actually the point.

As for Oram, I feel like that's just the logical conclusion of his arc. He got forced into a position of responsibility by circumstance and, in trying to win over a crew that he felt that he needed to impress, made the decision that led to at least half his crew dying - including his own wife. By that point, I figure he had a death wish anyway but he still wanted David to tell him the whole story just so he could die knowing why everything had happened.