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spiral

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I just watched this awesome film and was confused about a few things, then suddendly it all made sense; in my explanations I call the engineers the pre-humans: - The pre-humans are under control of the aliens, and in fact the pre-humans may have been created by the aliens.  The aliens need the pre-humans to gestate which is why they don't just kill them outright; the aliens use the pre-humans to mother their young.  It's no coincidence that the alien at the end kills the pre-human by injecting part of itself into the pre-human through the pre-human's mouth - just like the alien did in the first part of the film with the human (biologist guy wearing glasses) and indeed to John Hurt's character in the first alien film.   All of this shows that the aliens breed or at least use humans/pre-humans as incubators for their young.  This is the key key point. Unfortunately the gestation results in death for the carrier, so the aliens need a fresh supply of humans. - The aliens (not the pre-humans) are in control, they are the ones who seed life throughout the galaxy using the pre-humans.  What kind of life?  Well, they need human life to sustain their own, so that's what they seed.  At the beginning of the film we see a pre-human who has been dropped off onto Earth with his task ahead of him - he has to disperse his DNA thoughout the Earth to seed life, specifically human life. He does this by drinking that wierd black stuff (the same stuff that David slipped in the doctor's drink?) -  The archaeologists uncover the same star-pattern all over the world from ancient races and comment 'it's as if they wanted us to find them'.  This part is not explained, i.e. how all these images ended up all over the world, i.e. how all these ancient races received these images, but perhaps Earth was visited by the pre-humans when human life evolved.  Anyway, the message is clear - the aliens (and their slave pre-humans), definitely DID want the Earth humans to find them. - When the humans (after millions of years of evolution) travel across space and enter the control room of the alien spaceship and wake up the pre-human, then guess what?  That's a signal that human life on earth has evolved to the point that it could then sustain alien life. In other words Earth is now ripe - brimming with billions of humans who can now be incubators for the aliens. The control panel lights up and the 3-d starmap shows Earth in red - Earth is now the next destination for the alien's progress. - David is asked by one of the crew what the place is they are entering and he says "It's a cargo hold".   We are also told and see that there are thousands of pods.  From previous frames in the film, it seems to suggest that the pods are full of little worm like creatures whose intermediate stage is the white thing in the black soup that got the biologist guy wearing glasses.  If the pods are full of worms then that's probably enough to take over the whole of Earth. - David says 'in order to create life you must destroy it first'. This simply means that most of human life on Earth is now going to perish when the aliens get there and colonise it, i.e. the aliens will flourish and multipy, the humans will die.  The alien's plan is to use most of the population as incubators and subjugate the remainder for the next stages. The confusion in the film, stems from the fact that the captain thinks that the pre-humans created the aliens as some kind of weapon or biological experiment.   If you turn this around, i.e. aliens creating pre-humans, it all makes sense.
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Timnicebut
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Sorry, don't buy the Alien 'superior being' slant although it's interesting angle none the less. IMO, the Engineers are dominant life form in the Universe (as far as they have let us know) and are are 'engineering' life in various forms in Goldilocks zone planets around the universe - earth being one. I assume these planets are fairly rare and so the need to 'wipe the slate clean' is a necessity (as in all science with new and rare materials/areas) and hence the need for, as David himself explains 'In order to create life we must first destroy' and this I guess is a nod to the Engineers. I agree with Janek assessment (and others who maybe said) that they (engineers) aren't stupid enough to create biological experiments right on their doorstep and that something had gone wrong (and escaped?). I'm unsure if the black goo was a life accelerant or decelerant as it disintegrates the first Engineer's DNA on earth (to create life) but alters Holloway's sperm (whilst killing him I suppose) and also seems to change the planet's indigenous worm like creatures? into the snakes (maybe)?! Indeed, my own take was I thought maybe the worms were indigenous to the planet but accidently managed to become infected with/into the black stuff and then changed into the snakes? which then infected the Engineers to create the first type of xeno alien (maybe the snakes evolved from works as far as they could without 'hosts' but once evolution had jumped to the host part it created a new species (very quickly if Shaw's pregnancy is to be anything to go by) which then became the dinosaur/Xeno-esque alien that was spawned at the very end .....and one of these 2000 years ago had chased the engineers in the holographic scenes at the start of the film? Just my own take, feel free to pull to sheds ;-) I guess you have five aliens from various sources, the 1st being the Engineers, the 2nd being the worms, the third being the snakes the fourth being the squid (human grown alien) and the 5th being the Engineer gestated alien from the human born squid......christ I'm confused again now!?
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To be honest I have not watched the film yet, but I have a few ideas to throw around. I really think that we are dealing with two different types of aliens. One you have the engineers, and two you have beings we now know as the space jockeys. I think that the reason the engineers wear that elephantine type helmet is in honor of there creators. They want to physically look like a space jockey. I have always been of the view that the alien/space jockey sitting in the chair in Alien is an original space jockey, meaning that the space jockeys do have an elephantine facial structure, and are larger then then engineers.the space jockeys created the engineers, and then the engineers created us, and then we created David and his like. That means that we humans are doing the same thing the engineers did to us by giving us life.  It sounds crazy but, you never know what's going to happen in the sequal, but I really feel that there is something in front of our faces that we are not picking up here. Like the part were we see the engineers running away from something. Maybe they weren't running away from the Xenos, but there creators the space jockeys.
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Way I see it pre-humans and aliens are equal. The are both enemies of each other and are in some constant battle for life. The pre-human seeded the earth with human DNA. Earth was very very very far away. Maybe this was them trying to increase there population safely. I thought Predators created Aliens too?
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Crgwal
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@Rubirosa considering you have not seen the movie. sounds like a sense to me.
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Here's my take Theory one: Tying in with the title name the engineer at the start of the film gives the gift of life to earth against the wishes of the rest of his race. The rest of the engineers discover this and are so pissed they get ready to wipe out life on earth but everything goes shit shape. Theory two: The engineers have a hard-on for aliens (xenomorphs) so they spawn life on distant planets for them to populate and keep like a planet size zoo. Theory three: The human race is a project, possibly a bio weapon, or possibly "just because they could", as David says (much the same as the aliens are) and are for some reason have decided they aren't too keen on us anymore. Theory four: The story has this many loose ends intentionally so that people will need fork out and see Prometheus 2 to make any sense of it. note: disregard theories 1,2 and 3 -_-
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I think is the worms are in control of the engineers, and black stuff is their versatile and over powering seeding method.
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@Spiral Interesting theory, and you back it up with references that even makes it plausible. BUT, personally, I think you're giving the Alien Xenomorphs way too much credit here. Just think about it... in all of the films that even relate to Aliens, (the Alien movies, the Predator movies, the A v P movies, and now Prometheus) whenever an Alien Xenomorph is portrayed, it is shown as a mindless killing machine and nothing more. The only exception is the one where an Alien was made with part of Sigourney Weaver's character, Ripley's DNA, but even then it was a stupid creature that went on a killing spree 'til it was itself killed. Also, yes they use humans (and apparently pre-humans/engineers to multiply), the only purpose that they've served so far is to be hunted targets for Predators! So yeah, I very much doubt that they are "in control" or "in charge" of anything.
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@Pro-metheus, you do realize that your theories 1 to 4 are NOT mutually exclusive, right? LOL! It's like if you combine them together, you then get one cohesive complete theory. @Timnicebut I prefer to think of the black goo that was found in the cargo bay as more of a "mixing compund" that ultimately has the affects of an accelerant, as it not only reconstructs the DNA of the organism(s) that it comes in contact with it (whether it be human OR the worm-like creatures of planet LV 233 that David dragged into the dark goo), but also allows for the re-creation of a more biologically powerful entity (i.e. the Xenomorph Alien) which has combined characteristics of both/all organisms that came in contact with the goo.
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Lancebowski
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I see the Engineers as a rogue group; Shaw and David encountering Marshals as they search.
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urwithsteve
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Ausommmmmmm...........
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urwithsteve
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i watched this movie.... very fascinating storyyy
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jonnymeranaam
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there are some good point of this movie there 3 D animation graphics

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