Take on the plot / Giant head / Weyland Corp - Please read and comment! **SPOILE

Hi everyone! So I ended up editing and completing posts I have sent around to summarize what I believe forms the backbone of the film's plot. I sometime reference info found in the translation of the magazine I posted previously so you might want to have a look at it if you haven't. (thread [url=http://www.prometheus-movie.com/community/forums/topic/5835]**here**[/url] / download link [url=http://www.mediafire.com/?lzl1udwoizbj2dh]**here**[/url]) I am sorry it is quite long. Still, I hope you will read this and provide feedback! It is exciting, last moments for a passionate debate, very soon we will have all the answers! Ancient humans civilisations would not have been able to determine by themselves which star system visiting spaceships were coming from. This means interaction between humans and engineer(s) visiting regularly to teach us stuff and (at least one of them) telling us where they are from. We know engineers “seed humanoid life forms everywhere in the galaxy” (pdf p13). I think 2 explanations can be given - not mutually exclusives: --- First - considering the 'philosophical/metaphysical' perspective Ridley Scott wants to input and the themes that drive him, I think the engineers may use humanoid life forms as an 'operative proxy' to themselves, just like us creating and using androids. It seems our physiology is quite similar (pdf p11) so they would seed life and humanoid life forms on planets to make/ensure it's habitable, before moving in themselves. Just like we could do sending androids to build stations and terraform Mars to our specifications, that are quite similar to and implemented into the specifications of the androids. I think it makes sense considering R. Scott's obsessive recurring themes (human nature/soul/emotions/purpose - see Blade Runner and Alien saga androids). This would be quite an intriguing, massive 'Scott-ian' self-questioning to realise we are to the engineers only just an equivalent to our own androids. While we think so high of ourselves, convinced we are a purposeful creation with superior intelligence/moral/adaptability/consciousness/emotions (mostly compared to androids), we too are actually just a mock-up of a superior species. Engineers would not care enough to hatefully destroy any other competing-humanoid life form or consider humans a powerful arch-enemy, we are just one 'worker-species' that got a bit over-ambitious among 1000s of others. --- Second I think is interesting as it may link to an explanation for the giant head - I remember reading it somewhere that "the engineers are using their biotech-experiments to try and replicate a perfect being they worship” (reliable?). As 'creators of life' we may consider they are the apex life-forms in the universe and most probably they do not worship a 'god' themselves. Just like we humans worship a 'human-like-God' that is an idealised version of ourselves then, being 'superior versions of us', the engineers may just worship something quite close to themselves also, represented by the giant head. IMO they worship and try to recreate a mythical "first engineer", some idealised 'initial Adam engineer' version of themselves that they try to reproduce with their experiments, and the result are the unachieved humanoid life forms found in the galaxy (including us). Again, these 2 options are not mutually exclusives IMO. Based on all that, plus the Greek myth of Prometheus and what twitter-girl said, I think it's reasonable to believe that for some reason, one engineer actually started to have affection for 'Earth humanoids' and to come regularly to teach us stuff, including where they come from. Maybe some 'support to humanoid progress' is always part of the engineers' plans but not such boosts enabling us to reach an engineer homeworld/waystation. So, some sort of invitation indeed, just not from all engineers. Each of these visits would make our technology and knowledge progress, reaching a point we are not supposed to reach when we end up travelling to LV-223. I think it fits with Weyland Corp and the way it develops and discovers major technologies at such an incredibly fast rate, starting when he is 12. See PDF p10 "Engineers visited earth in the past and enabled us to progress. Every major evolution in human civilisation are linked to those visits" – can Weyland's lightning fast and unstoppable achievements/discoveries be considered a 'major evolution in human civilisation'? IMO Probably at some point he got in touch/found some source of alien technology, from which he derived his empire, his certainty of their existence and his obsession to go there. Getting there, we're playing with 'fire' (Prometheus) cause we are like androids willing to visit their factory and asking questions about why and how it works. We are not really even a dangerous 'competing creation' to engineers yet, no more than androids are to us. But we are ambiguous, annoying and out of our place, we are to the engineers just like androids are to us, and so the last engineer on LV-223 wants to put earthlings back in their place. So overall, I think our place relative to engineers and androids is a “pinocchio within the pinocchio” storyline. It might even get more interesting if the engineer 'likes' David8 for his 'perfect skills' (strength/logic) like the twitter-girl said. Hence, the engineer would fail at recognizing the value of what we base our superiority to androids on (emotions, moral etc) and that is really unfair, daddy!! and would create a weird unequal 'rock/paper/scissors' triangle: we think engineer>human>android ; the engineer thinks engineer>android>human ...now what does David8 think? haha