Looking for some good summaries of what this all meant (or think we meant!)

Read the novelization when it is released.

Mmm, yeah ... could do that :) I'm guessing that won't be too far behind the film's release either.

Hi my review gives a decent overview but it does mention the flaws too ;-) Melkor [url=http://wp.me/p2tPJ3-1]My review here!!![/url]

is there definitive word on a novel yet? Last time I checkd there wasn't going to be one.

I think the guy at the start was drinking DNA or the essence of life in the gel, knowing that he would die. He may have been a rogue/hippy alien not in complete agreement with the policy of his leaders and he knew that drinking the stuff would cause an issue. Or perhaps he drank it on Earth, on the isle of skye and in turn created our human race in that part of the world. Perhaps engineers did this all over earth which would answer the question of why wall painitng etc were found all over earth that depicted the same story and why the human race is so diverse with race. Or perhapns the water he contaminated was the water running through the Dome and into the ship on the alien planet. That contaminated water mixed with the store room of vials when the normal humans let the atmosphere into the tomb which in turn created the Alien worm thing that attacked the geologist and in turn infected the humans and the ship. There are questions unsanswered when you come out of the movie but try not to think too much about it and where there are questions you should create your own answers. Its just a movie after all and a very good one I thought. I was entertanined in an Imax here in Australia.