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How do you reconcile the fact that Damon Lindelof, the writer of the film, has said in interviews that there is no real explanation for the black goo. He said that they just made it do different things to different characters and left it open ended. If the writer of the film does not know what is how do you hope to explain it?

@Nick Well if you're so smart, why don't you explain what exactly killed the engineers 2000 years ago. Hint: they had holes in their chests.

Aha. Nice to find the ONLY PERSON IN THIS GALAXY who could have some answers. My questions.... - what was the meaning of the beginning scene with sacrif. enginner? WHY is he doing that, and is that on earth? - what are the engineers running away from? - Why they did the holographs of their doings like how to handle the derelict ship? No security issue??? - why they wanted to kill mankind 2000 years ago and what did disturb their plan? - why they even build mankind , for what purpose? - why they came back to earth time after time and to different civilizations? - did the engineers put the cavepaintings with starmap as an "invitation for a trap" or whats your conclusion? - where did the worms come from - have they been in the cave before prometheus landed? why they did not "activate" the goo to come out? - did even other creatures were able to "activate" the goo to start his deadly work? - how shaw was able to use the medipot in mrs. fickers room without ANYONE regognizing what is going on there? no key at the door? privacy? - why weyland kept as secret that he is on the ship? what difference would it have made if the crew knew he is there with them? - why david infected holloway? curiosity `?

"I feel that I am the only one that actually understood what was going on". *roars with laughter*

Vickers conversation with the captain established that this place was a military base so each urn carried its own genetic code. Was the goo from a specific urn designed to create the snake creature or was it just a wild mutation of the worms found inside? I do not know. What I DO know is the goo is the base form of different experimental organisms and requires a host to develop. So I can understand why Lindelof left it open ended, the goo came from multiple urns so who knows what kind of mutations it caused. The urn David took was (by chance) an earlier form of the Alien we all know. Like David 1-8 the proto xeno we see is probably #4 and was in development.

in for answers!

[i]Like David 1-8 the proto xeno we see is probably #4 and was in development.[/i] The alien at the end CANNOT be a "proto xeno" (or progenitor). Although it is at least 2,000 years old, it is an advanced, sleeker, bigger, faster, better version of the ancient (1 million plus years old) version of the xeno bio-weapon seen in Alien. Did you notice the altar and green gem stone in front of the xeno mural? The xeno we knew WAS one of the "proto xenos". Don't you love the twist? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- OK, I'll play. Here is my question: Who is the dark-haired girl playing the violin implanted in David's memory? (I have the answer if you don't)

@allinamberclad Feel free to tell me what you didn't like about it. Like I said I do not want: LOL UR DUMB PROMETHEUS WAS GAY. What didn't you understand about the movie?

I have a question, why was the script so bad?

Quote -"Who is the dark-haired girl playing the violin implanted in David's memory?" That was not a memory... It was a greeting message to the engineers about the human race and its culture. The girl is probably just some random person playing violin.

where are my answers?nick?? NICK!!!

Quote - "I have a question, why was the script so bad?" That is simple... You just didn't get the movie's concept and story like we others who liked it.

@abordoli (Meet Prometheus-movie.com Members in Your Area) <--Click Me That is Shaw as a child probably, if not it could be a random child but I would suspect Shaw. --- Merc7 That planet was an experimental weapons lab essentially. When David observes the panel JUST before they jockey hologram appears he finds slime on the panel (A reference to Alien) so clearly one of the MANY experimental creatures if not the actual Alien itself broke out and killed them all. I can understand why they would not return to the planet, they are smarter than that. --- @spacyfreak what was the meaning of the beginning scene with sacrif. enginner? WHY is he doing that, and is that on earth? The entire movie revolves around Shaw proving that they made us, that engineer we saw drank that liquid (no relation to the urn goo I suspect) which broke his dna down and rewrote it to form us so it is probably earth. -- - what are the engineers running away from? As I stated with Merc7, that planet was an experimental weapons lab full of all sorts of bio creatures we have never seen before. It is pretty clear that something got out of control and wiped out the crew there, what it was I do not know. -- why they wanted to kill mankind 2000 years ago and what did disturb their plan? Perhaps they made us to test weapons on and things got out of control before they could, perhaps they made us because they wanted to but I doubt they ALL shared the same ideals. I expect this to be answered in the next movie. -- - why they even build mankind , for what purpose? Once again that will probably get answered in the next movie but some ideas I had were: They made us to test their bio weapons on. They made us because they wanted too, but others didn't like that idea and wanted us dead. We will find out soon. -- - why they came back to earth time after time and to different civilizations? Perhaps they came back to nurture us and make sure we were on the right path. -- - did the engineers put the cavepaintings with starmap as an "invitation for a trap" or whats your conclusion? Honestly I do not know, this I hope will be answered in the sequel.

Quote -"Who is the dark-haired girl playing the violin implanted in David's memory?" [i]That was not a memory... It was a greeting message to the engineers about the human race and its culture. The girl is probably just some random person playing violin.[/i] Interesting.....Please explain how you came across that it was "a greeting message to the engineers about the human race and its culture". In the movie, I didn't recall us sending them any transmissions.

My question to the Prometheus oracle: With all that budget and cg why was guy pierces old man makeup no more convincing than the old man mask in jackass?

a flute? really?

Shaws sweet baby. So I clearly missed out on this great concept. Please enlighten me?

Thank you Nick - but that conclusions i had also on my own. So my brain seems not bad at all. But your thought on the "alien-slime" david has between its fingers - yeah, could be a fat hint that there was an alien slaughtering the engineers... Clever. But as i also think - the story was arranged so that you get "addicted" with lots of questions and our brain wants some answers so we will buy tickets for the sequel... But wouldnt we also buy the sequel tickets if this would have been the fat masterpiece we waited for#? even more...

@Nick, I'm sure you didn't try to come across as arrogant and patronising. But maybe if you understood Prometheus so well you would be able to re-read your original post and understand how it comes across. I don't think Prometheus is by any means a difficult movie to understand. I like it, but it comes across as half a movie. I would imagine this is ultimately the idea, and after Prometheus 2 and 3 and 4, etc are finished then we will all truely be satisfied. And like Drakequation said Lidolof said that there are intentional ambiguities in the film to ensure their are more questions. Sequel feeding is what I call it... Just like the claim that Janek knows for sure that it is a military complex for producing weapons…. Absolute tosh – check out the T3 interview or the link I posted on a separate thread “it doesn’t have to be a bioweapon”. These statements / ambiguities / questions are intentionally put in the film to ensure that the audience do not have all the answers. Thus leaving them hungry for more and wanting another movie which they will pay to go and see. Fox, Lidelof and Ridley are happy as we are lining their pockets. We will have to wait to know what the answers are…….I’m sorry my friend but if you understood the movie so well, I wouldn’t need to point this out to you……….

why a flute? for god sakes, why???