LITTLE RANT

Could be sooner than you think ;-) Or at least we may be visited......perhaps this November

The Lion would run away. And based on your logic no medicine or poison would have ever been discovered. Humans explore. It's what we do. Plenty of people die along the way. It just makes the species stronger. Until we lift up the wrong rock and trigger an ELE. Then it's all over and it's some other species' turn to explore and grow.

No based on my logic im saying that we should not assume that its a lovey dovey out there. I really dont think the Lion would run away it has no need to be afraid at the very least the ET would be viewed as a trespasser in its territory.

A PhD doesn't really equal common sense! As much as your rant makes sense, I think that there wouldn't be Prometheus if they all acted as rational individuals and nobody patted the snake thing! :D

Or it would be something like: A team of scientists land on a distant planet in search for clueas as to the origin of man. They find ancient artifacts from an alien civilization and find evidence of alien life forms. Due to potential danger they GTFO and head back to Earth.

Jonesy, I almost fell out of my chair laughing when I read your 'rant.' That's great stuff, man. As an investor in the mission I'd me pissed too if that happened. - HAHAHA As a counterpoint, it may be Weyland's wish that everyone on board gets infected, perhaps accidentally at first, so he may have planted a few idiots on board that may indeed attempt to pet the alien cobra.

It's a movie-scientist thing man... it's what's supposed to happen. The scientist-guy always assumes the alien life form is friendly, even if it's an unfriendly looking snake-like creature that stands up and hisses aggressively at you - "well, you know - It's probably quite friendly". The moron deserves to get his lungs eaten from the inside out, just a shame the rest of his crewmates have to suffer the consequences of his foolishness.

Yes, it is the "Naive/Idealogical Scientist", caricature that's as old as Science Fiction and that a lot of Sci-Fi couldn't have existed without. That said, personally, I take your point: this lounging and lolling, flip-flop and hoodie-wearing bunch, really do seem casual to the point of, "Kiss my a**!". It's almost like the kids from, "The Beach", took a ride into Space...with, I suppose, similarly predictable results...

how may bear/lion/gorilla/shark lovers have finished being eaten by their "pets" ? And they were top notch people .

How did River Tam's character put it? "Because we meddle" We get involved with things we shouldn't. Also it's our nature to explore, to discover, curiosity (killed the cat) and we are driven to better ourselves. It's what we are - human.

Ive been lurking for a bit and wanted to say this: 1) The SJ's (or engineers) obviously know of our presence on Earth having previously visited - or contacted Humans - for them to know of the star map This suggests to me that they are not inherently destructive - they would have destroyed us already 2) The black goo - think what starts David 8? White goo? Maybe the SJs have 'anti' life for every species they know of? Hence the different earns? 3) Maybe David is what pisses them off? Because he is immune to the anti-agent? Men have become Gods? 4) Is the planet really the home of this civilization? Think if Aliens landed here, we would be all over them in an instant. Maybe the SJ's isolated all the anti-life on one planet? And are alerted to Humans presence on the planet? They dont want the 'anti- agent' to fall into the wrong hands? Think what Humans would do with it? Or worse - Androids? 5) The anti-agent can obviously be as dangerous to SJs as to humans (as shown i the chest buster in the other films, and why they wear such armored suit protection while in flight? I'm just not so sure the SJs are bad. Maybe they are Gods in the sense that they police life in the Universe?

But just think, if the characters in the story did the rational and cautious thing it would make a really boring horror movie.

@Jason8 Agreed - but I think the card is being played in quite an obvious way and I think the OP, myself and most replying are just having a little fun with the fact? However, I believe the card is being played in that obvious way quite deliberately, the point being, to re-inforce the message - which I interpret along the lines of: Would you just [i]look[/i] at them - [at [i]us[/i]]? We think we're ready for, and can handle, [i]anything[/i] - that we don't even need to sit up straight when that thing enters the room. With that attitude, one day, we're sure to get our backsides torn. Maybe today, is the day.

@"thereyouareJonesy" Yeah, being nice to new intelligent life is both French & gay. *slaps self* Of couse, you're right. Caution pays because we do not live in a Disneyland universe. Sigh... I miss Disneyland.

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I imagine there are going to be plenty of traditional horror movie "yell at the screen" tropes in this movie. In fact, I completely plan to yell out in the theater at some point "Why don't you just freeze him!?!" and see how many people get that reference. Wouldn't be surprised if someone actually starts making those kinds of common sense suggestions in the film. I'm betting Vickers will have plenty of facepalm moments.