#andy (romulus)

[hampop]

Spoilers: his facial acting was phenomenal. Made me genuinely question if they used CGI to simulate android behavior. Most android characters in film are played very human-like to the point where you often forget they’re meant to be a synthetic. But David Jonsson kept the performance cranked up to a hundred the whole time. The little twitches, the movement of the eyebrows, the mouth articulation!!

[genosuh]

I DEEPLY NEED ART OF ANDY and im so sad there isn’t any so I thought I would provide some myself.

[lambf4rm]

i prefer the term ‘artificial person’ myself

[the-irreverend]

I absolutely love the direction they decided to go with the black goo from Prometheus and how it ties into the themes of the film and the franchise.

Rook and Weyland wanted to use the black goo to make humanity better at colonization by ridding humanity of its weaknesses and limitations. But as a result, it creates a human without any humanity.

You even see that same theme in the chip that Andy used to "upgrade" himself with. He wanted to use it to better help the people he cared about, and yet in doing so he lost the care he had for them and tragically ended up becoming more like the cold machine that Weyland-Yutani wanted him to be.

Both the chip and the black goo are perfect metaphors for how people try to obtain, use, or embrace certain things to make themselves "more perfect" or gain more status and power in the system or society they're a part of. And yet by doing so, they lose the things that make us human and become more like mindless machines that think of nothing but serving a system that doesn't care about anything or anyone except those who benefit from it the most.

[space-blue]

Bright new sun - because Andy deserves to make it too...

[huntseric]

Romulus 🩸

Guess who watched the new Alien movie 🤓

[scre6m]

CAILEE SPAENY & DAVID JONSSON as RAIN & ANDY in ALIEN: ROMULUS  2024, dir. Fede Álvarez

[goodsirs]

This will keep your systems online until we get to Yvaga.

Alien: Romulus (2024) dir. Fede Álvarez

[dstriple]

After watching Alien: Romulus, I felt like updating the part of my island in Animal Crossing dedicated to the ALIEN franchise.

Dream Address: 7125-6003-7296

BONUS DLC: 👇

Maybe some of you will enjoy having these posters of Rain & Andy. Use the Nintendo Switch mobile phone app to scan the QR Codes seen below. And then download the files in the game's "Custom Designs" app by pressing the minus button ( - ).

Extra pics: Outside the building you can see two statues that were seen in Alien: Covenant (David by Michelangelo) and in Alien: Romulus (the Capitoline Wolf).

[madwolfxiii]

I am so down with the the loyal, good boy, robo club.

[iccedays]

Me crying at all the love David Jonsson is getting for Alien:Romulus

[belthegore]

synthetics

[pvtjoker22]

I think something that kind of gets lost in the discussion around that scene and whether that line is shallow fan service is that Andy is Andy.

What I mean is that, Rain's dad loved puns, jokes, and breaking the tension with dad jokes and corny humour so much that he named an Android, Andy. Andy the friggin' Android. Also, yes that line is also a callback to Ripley's line in the power loader. But in terms of the context of where it appears in Romulus it is :

right after Rain puts back in her dad's dorky, sweet Andy chip

Right after she apologizes for hurting Andy

Right after a traumatic experience for Rain (she falls nearly to her death, then a xenomorph grabs her with the intent for a face-hugger to impregnate her)

which is to say they'd both been through a lot

With that context in mind, I'm pretty sure given the clue in Andy's sort-of sheepish line delivery that it's supposed to be him trying to come up with a dad joke, failing, and then just falling back to "...bitch?" which still ends up releasing the tension/de-stressing Rain and himself which is where the impact of the line is supposed to be, unless I'm way off-base

You can still definitely argue it's placement in the script at all is kinda cheap/corny but it makes sense within the scene in and of itself I think.

[sequenceofmind]

Alien: Romulus (2024) Cailee & David | dir. Fede Álvarez

[the-irreverend]

I REGRET NOTHING

P.S. I bet y'all are wishing you thought of this first.

[space-blue]

More Happy Family meme stuff... Uncle Andy not getting involved in that one.

Version without the text

The OG: