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ninjacop

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The moon we are on in Prometheus is Lv-223 NOT Lv 426 So for everybody on this board complaining about not learning anything about 'the' space jockey, and it not leading into Alien Thats because we are on a differnt planetary body! Just watch the film as if it is a standalone film, from everybodies reaction i can see why they were carful to distance itself from Alien in the marketing. Just because its not the exact SJ as in Alien, the story still presents just as much of a mystery as the original. If you want answers then you need to wait for Prometheus 2 or speculate yourself and accept your own answer. Also people seem to be forgetting the great things that the film does... Open up the universe of Alien and bring in new ways the xeno is born, and make it part of a greater universe of biological weapons, speculate everybody maybe the xeno at the end of the film is the queen that will set up nest in the derelict and produce what we know to be the xeno. Perhaps the film is also discussing evolution as it is as much discussing the origin of human life, and in my opinion there is nothing wrong with opening up more questions as much as it is giving answers. Also with anything in life when you are given answers to something, you are always asking more questions. We might not have found out about the exact SJ on Lv 426 but we have found out so much about the weyland company, androids, SJ race etc....
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"It doesn't really do that though unfortunately ninjacop. It just makes up a load of shit as it goes along. Its bad storytelling. No way to get around it....." Agreed. The problem is Prmetheus doesn't really know what it wants to be. It started of as an Alien prequel of sorts and evolved into the unholy mess we've ended up with. It's like it can't make it's mind up if it wants to be the Alien prequel we started with or something completely different. In the end it only succeeds in being neither!!
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It doesn't really do that though unfortunately ninjacop. It just makes up a load of shit as it goes along. Its bad storytelling. No way to get around it.....
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no its not bad story telling, its trying to distance itself from a dead franchise and reinvigorate and create something new from familiar concepts. Sure it has its flaws, but the story is intact and there, the major problems are in its gaps such as how did the SJ know Shaw would be in the rescue pod, But the big questions are the important ones, the ones on creation and destruction and where shaw and david will end up next. These are the questions that will fuel future films and send the franchise in the right direction unlike the questions raised in the original Alien that were completly ignored in the following Alien franchise in favour of making Sigourny Weaver a big name.
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How can you say Prometheus is a stand alone movie??? The jockey,wayland industries the use of an android,planet names all from the alien universe if they wanted distance why use these factors in the marketing of the movie Ridley at the helm and the right script this movie should have kept us going for another 30 years but no they fucked it up and should never be forgiven
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[quote], the major problems are in its gaps such as how did the SJ know Shaw would be in the rescue pod,[/quote] THATS not a serious gap that, IMO. The SJ saw the ship take off, and saw the rescue pod. it might have assumed the pod contained the pilots who turned the ship into a missile. [personally i would have been in the rescue pod, piloting the ship by remote.. i'm sure the SJ would have guessed thats whats going on] the bad storytelling is making a film about a crashing bone ship that ISN'T the derelict. Someone blatantly wanted it to be but its like the story had to be butchered and reworked halfway through or something.
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this is what happens when you switch/bugger about with writers half way through or even after a thread has been started by one....I dont know what Spaight thought of Lidelof s contribution/ redirection or vice versa but would love to know!
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Prometheus is a poor movie. Its poor as a standalone movie and even poorer as a prequel. It does nothing to expand the alien universe other than become yet another alien related movie i wish was never made.

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