Alien: Covenant - 18 WTF Moments

15. John Denver Gets Lots Of People Killed

Alien Covenant Elizabeth Shaw
Fox

The scrambled message that causes the Covenant to head to the Engineer homeworld involves Dr. Shaw singing the John Denver tune "Take Me Home, Country Roads", clearly in the hope of bringing humans to her aid who might recognise the tune.

Hilariously, it's Tennessee's familiarity with the classic 1971 tune that kick-starts the movie's events and ultimately gets most of the crew brutally killed, while you can pretty much also blame the Denver song for whatever the Hell David ultimately ends up doing to the colonists and embryos at the end of the movie.

If only Mr. Denver knew how his music was being used posthumously...

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