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I agree Star Wars gives perfect examples of good and bad. Empire=GOOD. Phantom Menace=BAD. Dark Empire and Old Republic = GOOD. Clone Wars = Meh. I think the difference is who is in control and how dedicated they are to the original vision of that universe. When Cameron did Aliens it seemed like he took more insperation from Starship Troopers than he did from Alien.

@wolf RS and the writers have been adamant from day one that this is not a prequel. By prequel they have said, 'the end of prometheus is not alien'. I know a lot of readers are still in denial, trying to find ways for the crashed alien ship to make its way from LV223 to LV426 in the movie and explain the SJ mystery. Wishing for it isn't going to make it happen. If you are waiting for that, prepare for disappointment. The film is still set in the same alien universe, its a big universe with lots of interesting things happening. What this film will attempt to shed light on is who are the SJs as a species and not who was that particular SJ from the Alien movie

Love Ashmodeans comment, LOL........I'd like to add a few additional comments.... 1)maybe the alien is human, and humans are alien 2)maybe they are starting the off-world colonies which makes them illegal when they get back to earth 3) Ripley was Rick Deckards Wife, until she found out he was an android....hence her hate relationship with Ash 4)Ridley Scott just decided that Deckard was a replicant 20 years after the film was made...hehehe..... 5) Ridley Scott decides that prometheus has nothing to do with the original film well after production and the story has been written..hmnnn... 6) Just wait and see, when this movie flops.....Ridley Scott will change his mind and decide that it is indeed a prequel, not to Alien...but Aliens.....and therefore a prequel to Alien is still required........

I hate closure in movies. It feels fake and forced. Nothing wraps up nicely with a bow on top. Nothing really ends. Why write films like that? To make people feel good? Fuck that. Challenge people. Force them. This is why I like a lot of Japanese Movies. They just kinda stop. No resolution because that is how life goes. Solid endings are a bigger myth then Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.

@Shane Shane, that was a wonderful insightful comment you just made...I think you Nailed it !!! I really really appreciate what you said. [quote]I hate closure in movies. It feels fake and forced. Nothing wraps up nicely with a bow on top. Nothing really ends. Why write films like that? To make people feel good? Fuck that. Challenge people. Force them. This is why I like a lot of Japanese Movies. They just kinda stop. No resolution because that is how life goes. Solid endings are a bigger myth then Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.[/quote]

@Shane, Totally agree. How many things happen in real life that never get explained? How many things have you (the general, universal "you") gone through that have never been properly or fully resolved? The best fiction (sci-fi included) mirrors real life. Lindelof himself said during the WonderCon 2012 interview: "The Star Wars prequels are going to end with Darth Vader going, “Noooo!,” unfortunately. There’s an inevitability, in watching a prequel, where you’re like, “Okay, if the ending of this movie is just going to be the room that John Hurt walks into, that’s full of eggs, there’s nothing interesting in that because we know where it’s going to end. With really good stories, you don’t know where it’s going to end. So, this movie [Prometheus], hopefully, will contextualize the original Alien, so that when you watch it again, maybe you know a little bit more. But, you don’t fsck around with that movie. It has to stand on its own. It’s a classic. [b]If we’re fortunate enough to do a sequel to Prometheus, it will tangentialize even further away from the original Alien[/b]. " That said, I don't understand why a film--that features aliens and technology that function in ways that are [i]alien[/i] and unimaginable to us, no less--has to be put into a context that is readily understood.