Stealing Fire from The Gods

Like many I have been left with many questions after watching Prometheus and want to share some thoughts. First of all, this is a story and 99.9999% speculative - it is not fact and I'm being careful to not mix up (quasi) fact with fiction. The film is entertainment, its a financial venture but more interestingly, its exploring some very challenging themes (albeit the entertainment and financial imperatives mean it is almost inevitably a flashy, incoherent, sledge-hammer to crack some very subtle 'nuts'). A consequence of this is I am resisting temptations for Mr Scott to actually come anywhere near any kind of realistic factual interpretation of cosmic events, the beginnings of life on Earth or of mankind. Instead I'm keen to join in with him and others in exploring some fascinating themes. Stealing Fire from the Gods - who are the 'gods' and who steals the 'fire'? An interpretation is that the 'fire' is in the 'goo'. Fire is dangerous stuff if mishandled, it appears that there has been some serious mishandling of the black organic gooey stuff both when the Prometheus crew arrive and before that giving rise to disaster. We all know how xenomorphs rage to destroy, survive & reproduce once released. Lets suppose that some ancient alien civilisation discovered by accident or invention how to distill the procreative energy of life itself (galloping DNA as Mr Scott calls it) - the raw urge of nature to reproduce and this distilled urge was found to be so rampant that if not handled properly led to death. Out of this death arose voracious forms of life such as xenomorphs whose only morality is survival and reproduction. Nature on earth is 'red in tooth and claw', how would it be if this raw energy we experience on Earth were somehow concentrated, refined and distilled? It would offer great power just as the discovery of how to create fire would have done. Might life-essence and its power be deemed worthy of honour & even worship just as seems to be the case in the alien craft in Prometheus. Let us also remember that the timescales that the Prometheus story encompasses are huge at around 500 million years. Recorded human history is a blink of an eye compared to this yet is incredibly complex, diverse, contradictory and tenuous. How much more diverse, complex and quite probably extinct must be the history of an intelligent life-form that was alive up to 500 million years ago. How can we expect to impute simplistic motives and plot-lines on such ancient incomprehensible beings. Who knows what the hell they're up to. For example, ancient but still existing South American peoples simply cannot understand why the rest of us continue to rape the planet - how can we expect to understand something so much more alien, for example, why they would want to send the goo to Earth? Having said that its quite fun to have a go at speculation and perhaps in the process ends up revealing more about ourselves than anything else. If what we see as black goo in Prometheus is the 'fire', perhaps those called the Engineers 'stole' it from the 'gods' 100's of millions of years ago. Who these 'gods' are is perhaps a deeper mystery - perhaps there are no actual gods just life as an expression of the processes of the universe. However these 'engineers' perhaps got severely burnt by this 'fire', perhaps it was just too dangerous to contain and they were 'punished' after the fire turned on them and near-devoured them. Perhaps as a race they suffered like the mythic Prometheus and so placed the 'fire' at a safe distance to be tended. Perhaps the 'goo-tenders' are not the Engineers at all but cloned 'drones' as others have suggested, maybe just programmed to protect and carry through a mission re Earth and other planets. Can we imagine what this mission is or whether those who established the mission are still alive? Its fun to try but imputing themes from our contemporary world is probably irrelevant to an intelligent race that outlives us by millions of years. I'm sure my ideas don't coincide with Mr Scott's as it would be rather boring sequel if Shaw and David arrived to find a dead home planet(s) where the xenomorphs had devoured the original Engineers and then devoured eachother thousands of years ago. Or if the Engineers were still around but everything was just so incomprehensible as to be a total trip. Personally I'm looking forward to Mr Scott spinning a far more entertaining yarn than that and answering a few questions. My only hope is that he doesn't in the process try to explain everything in simplistic overly contemporary, anthropomorphic terms - life, other people and other beings are and always will be a mystery - whether we like it or not! Lets have some uncertainty and some fun guessing - we might just learn something !