Giant Plot Holes (spoilers inside)

@rorshach man, Lindeloff was just making this shit up on the fly - Its so full of holes its scary... Its known as G S L (George Lucas Syndrome)

more holes in the plot than a sieve.....sad really

db, yes, there's a flute, but don't think of YEEEEEEES from Little Britain, the Scottish country home. LOL. and re: fossilised, remember that the head in the (elephant) helmet was decap'd for 2,000 years yet was still animatable. LOL. :)

One of my issues is... 2000 years is a long time for this big daddy species to lose contact with one of the weapon bases. So are we to assume that the 'engineers' have died out all over? And if this was occuring on all of their worlds, how come, if you go by the story events in alien 4, in almost 300 years people haven't encountered the xenos anywhere else? Also, does anyone else think that Fifield's character came back JUST to kill off loads of characters? The ship had a crew of 17, and they couldn't find enough time/space to kill them all off.

1) This is a good question, why even come back at all. Of course, we may not know why the ancient wrote this symbol, and they all may have been copying of the first, which was passed onto the others. So they only could have come once. And the planet may not have always been a military base. Or maybe it was setup as a trap for the humans, come here and die. 2) This is silly, it all depends on how the ship is falling. It clearly hit Elizabeth first, she had unluckily chosen the wrong place to run. 3) Is there another ship on the planet? There may have been another ship it the atmosphere, that the robot had to call down, just as in ALIENS.

Wow I was asking the exact same questions when I watch the movie like 10 mins ago and had to see if others were thinking the same thing. Sure enough they did! What I would like answered is The ship(Prometheus) was a exploration one yet the crew had access to weapons (flamethrowers, shotgun and pistols) so obviously they prepared for possible fire fight. So wouldn't it make sense to equip the ship with weapons as well??? Given all that sophistication of a space faring ship yet it fails to be able to autopilot itself onto the alien ship. (the ship somehow manage instead to be able to autopilot across the vastness of space to get to the "moon" in the first place) Lastly WHY the !@#$ did no one question "David" when he started to mess with all that alien hardware. I mean I would be like WTF David what are you trying to do. Instead everyone was all chill like good job David you manage to show us a nice hologram of aliens and open a giant door to a big ass room when we don't even know what could be on the other side.

This movie was written by the same person who wrote "Lost" A word to me, has never had so much meaning. When i heard he was writing the script i nearly killed myself. The movie looked great visually - but what the f**k.