How would you end it?

@czelaya I agree, especially Ridley...his trailers have been all about misdirection and out of context material. I've seen people refer to this planet as barren, lifeless. I see the potential for life on the scale that we know here on Earth right in the trailers. I think even in Alien Ridley provided a direct visual line for the Jockey's infection....from below inside the ship to up where the Jockey was. I don't see much exploring of those lines. I'm glad you recognized the Jockey as petrified, I had a issue with continutity until I saw a clever resolution for it.

I would end it with a bang. New worlds, new civilizations, new xenomorphs. The beauty is the producers/directors have so much leeway because terraforming can be anywhere and include anything because space is infinite and the types of situations remain infinite as long as good directors can mix it up. I want to be terrified in a movie. I want to leave a theatre mentally changed forever. Alien and Aliens did that for me when I was a young child and my parents didn't know I snuck up to watch it. Those movies terrified me. Only a handful of Directors are capable of this.

EXTERIOR - PLANET SURFACE - DAYLIGHT [...] Alien ship (Juggernaut) falling down. SHAW It's pointing right towards us, we must run! VICKERS (shocked) Oh my! They've made it... Run for it!... They start running. Pieces of debris and fragments of the destroyed Prometheus begin to fall like rain near them. The alien ship hits the ground with a powerful roar and starts tumbling. We can hear the sound of the impact resonate within the structure of the alien vessel. A sinister honk shakes the air. SHAW Quick! Let's run in a straight line, let's maximise the risk of it falling right upon us! VICKERS Sure, we don't want to be out of its trajectory! That's not how movies work! (gasps) Look! It's going to take a slight turn to the left! The ship starts bending to the left, Shaw and Vickers steer accordingly. More debris falling closer to the pair. Dust and explosions all around. A long shot shows the two space-suited figures, dwarfed by the huge alien craft behind them, run frantically. A close-up on Vickers' face shows strain and desperation through the steamy glass of her helmet. Both women turn back to see if the ship is catching up. It is. SHAW Don't detour! Or you might go right out of its path of destruction! VICKERS True that! BRETT Right! The two women stare at each other, baffled . (we can hear in the background a sharp sound of bafflement) VICKERS Shaw... SHAW Yes...? VICKERS Listen... SHAW Huh...? VICKERS ...I am your father. SHAW (turning back, at Vickers) You were always an asshole, Vickers! A small item falling from above, a black flip-flop, hits her on the shoulder. SHAW (whimpers) VICKERS Faster! The wreck is getting clo- SPLAT! SHAW What the f- SPLAT! THE END CUT TO ENDING CREDITS

Maybe an infected Vickers uses the escape pod to get off Prometheus because she can't stand all the drama and crash lands on LV-426. Queue intro to Alien? Then again maybe not...

Nox....I like it...can I change my theory from David returning to Earth as a transformed being to yours? I was so wrong heh heh

Be my guest FW, speculation is serious business

Ok ok..I get the rule....over in the updates I can jive all i want..but here...I'll see if I can behave. Even if it grinds my gears.

@ Nox...brilliant!

Final sequence: As a result of coming into contact with the black goo, Weyland recieves the immortality he seeks, by morphing into an Engineer, just as a gigantic saucer lands. A queen xeno and her entourage disembark; they're dressed as royalty; festooned with jewels and exotic alien animal skins. Weyland bows before the master he will now be forced to serve for eternity. In the voice of Ellen Ripley, she asks why the place is such a damned mess, and which of her slaves is responsible. Weyland replies that the rest are all dead. With a dismiissive "humpf" she hands him a mop, wheels around, and starts back up the ramp to her saucer, whereupon he begins dabbing at the buckets of slimy drool she and her court have left in their wake. Fade to black.....

Arty, does that have something to do with evelyn waugh?

Why Evelyn Waugh? Actually, now that I think about it, that last bit sounds like something straight out of "Dune."

I just hope the engineer shows some vulger display of power and no one lives. It is getting old seeing some dues ex machina saving the one survivor. I'm even down with the whole engineers helping us evolve but if they are so advanced how would we stand a chance.