Timeline problems and others

You've made some wrong assumptions there. They didn't create us 35,000 years ago. That was simply the oldest drawing showing the star map. They may well have seeded the planet billions of years earlier and then come back to check on their experiment. I posted a [url=http://www.prometheus-movie.com/community/forums/topic/7640]theory[/url] that the ones trying to kill us are a different group to the ones who seeded the earth, and they only found out about us, (or got jealous, offended or threatened by our existence) much more recently... although why they picked a timeline around the supposed birth of christ might be just to mess with our heads or play into the "Jesus was an astronaut" myth. I've also posted a thread pointing out a lot of the [url=http://www.prometheus-movie.com/community/forums/topic/7057]plot bloopers[/url] which I think are not part of they mystery and are in fact just forcing the characters to behave stupidly in order to get the desired set up for later scenes. I like the amount of subtle teasers and puzzles written into the film, I dislike that the same care is not taken with making the actual ongoing action credible. Perhaps Lindelhof has a disdain for people who only want a shallow interpretation of the film, rather than going along with his 'big question' theme.

It took a bit for the rest of the crew to go along w/ Vickers in wanting to torch Holloway. She induced a small-scale mob mentality/hysteria and it seems she has a talent for this type of manipulation, considering her station and obvious lack of merit. Wouldn't you be a little rash in your decisions if faced with that whole situation? Alien planet, first contact with hard evidence of intelligent life beyond earth, murderous alien things, etc? Much of the crew's questionable choices and behavior can be easily attributed to stress and lack of training and the basic fear of the unknown. Have you ever been in a life-threatening situation? I have and people do and say some weird things.

Vickers did not induce a mob mentality, or hysteria. Nobody joined in or cheered her on. But seeing as she was holding a flamethrower, nobody was going to stop her either. She is a bit of a control freak, but that seems to be mostly a power struggle with her father. You notice that apart from telling Shaw and Holloway that they are to report to her, she doesn't micromanage the mission. If she did, it probably would have gone better than letting Janek to watch over the away teams progress. He's actually not very observant and doesn't follow proper logical procedures in monitoring it. It's when they do something she sees as threatening that she gives orders. Like being strict about closing the door on time before the storm hits, and not letting Holloway back on board with his mystery sickness. Quite simply she doesn't want to killed as a result of other people's stupidity. In that sense, she's a lot like Ripley in the first film (she didn't want to allow Kane back on the ship) . Yes, I've been in life threatening situations, and I find that the people who manage to think clearly under stress are the ones least likely to be dead.

The library at Alexandria was burned right around 2,000 years ago, the killing of Julius Caesar shortly thereafter began the four-century decline of the Roman Empire. There were thriving Mesoamerican civilizations at the time, but China also experienced some massive flooding and dynastic splintering in the early AD years, a time of upheaval for them. It was probably a relative low point for Earth civilizations, culminating in the European dark ages. I'm not sure any of that matters to a civilization with the ability to bioengineer super-monsters and travel between stars, since I'm sure we were little threat one way or another, but it certainly didn't look good if they were just moralizing. It's hard to believe they even noticed Christ, unless he really was an alien. His religion wasn't adopted outside of extremely small pockets of Judea and Greece for hundreds of years and didn't make it outside of Europe for another thousand after that. Then again, classical Rome was about the last civilization to worship gods based on the Sumerian myths, which the writers have said form the foundation of their story. Basically, the engineers were the Sumerian gods, so that is around the time humans kind of forgot about them, with Rome falling to barbarians and the Greek epics and records stored in Alexandria gone.