Small Things Have Big Endings

First off let me say I, like many of you, am a HUGE fan of Alien. It is my favourite film of all time in fact. The sexual undertones, themes of rape, bio-mechanoids, cybernetic sexual urges with Ash using the magazine as a phallus to enact his sexually repressed emotions, all wrapped up with relentless claustraphobia. My point is Alien is a film with many, many underlying themes, emotions and hidden meanings which can be pondered and interpreted to this day. Prometheus is not this kind of film, even if not taken as Alien cannon, Prometheus is a Hollywood-ised sci-fi horror. My personal gripe with prometheus despite the awful under-developed script and shoddy dialogue, is that the film struggles to figure out what its meant to be. Durring production all Ridley and Lindleof did was say "This is NOT an Alien prequel" Ok then, so its not a prequel to Alien, fine I can handle that, its in the same Universe, its a spin-off, like Angel was to Buffy The vampire Slayer. ok Ridders I can deal with that. So If that is the case, why in the name of a Queen Xeno's slimy egg-sack do you put a proto Alien chestburster at the end of the film!? Its blatently a cheap attempt at crowd pleasing because to be honest the film is so badly written that there is hardly any focus or point to the story at all, so puttin a chest burster at the end was probably the studios saying "on crap, this film has no ending, all the build up gave no answers, so now we have annoyed alien fans looking for space jockey answers and we've annoyed casual viewers with a film that is quite literally pointless! erm........put a chest burster at the end we can still win back the Alien fans!" That proto chestburster was such a cheap shock value scene that I can't imagine Ridley actually wanting to put it in. It defies logic. Now many of you might be thinking this is just the hate ramblings of an Alien fan who is throwing his toys out the pram because it didnt live up to his expectations. Not at all, I'm annoyed because this film fails on a narrative level regardless of its links to the Alien of 1979. Do you know the one thing that could have saved this entire film and stopped all the negative vibes? One little CGI effect they could have changed! All they had to do was during the hologram presentation at the start of the film, was to change the hologram to say LV-426 instead of LV-233! At least then I could say maybe the proto Alien left the lifeboat and entered the crashed space jockey ship and would then evolve and become the Xeno from Alien. Another jockey came from the other bases on the planet and tried starting the ship and was facehugged. I could even summise that the nostromo crew didn't see the remains of the lifeboat due to it being dark, bad weather, or the wreckage ravaged by the violent weather. My point is if it had taken place on LV-426 it would have been easier for Alien fans to come up with their own theories about the derelict which would have been the ship crashing in the last few minutes of prometheus. It would have explained how the company knew about it to send the nostromo. Having that one number changed would at least help try and make Alien fans happy, even if the film still fails at a basic script and dialogue level. Rant over lol.