SPOILER ALERT - Did you catch the Engineer kneeling/Genuflecting?

Oh I nearly forgot..What about the storm? Did David8 orchestrate that by accident or on purpose when he was messing with the control panels inside the structure? Was it initiated by the structure itself when the urn room door was breached? And what of the skull atop the structure? Looks unmistakably human, I think. So why's it there? "Death", "Keep Out"? Unlikely. What about "This structure contains the bio-weapons to wipe out the humans"? I'd damn sure like to see the other structures inner contents and "sign" atop telling what they are for.

Awesome thread! I had to go watch again after reading about the Engineer/SJ bowing after hypersleep, and it definately looks like a bow. He also stays in the bowing position until Shaw is hit in the stomach with the gun. That is when he stands, and Weyland say's "Tell him why we came" to David. Now, why couldn't David tell the Engineer/SJ what Weyland instructed? "My father/creator/master needs to prolong life/cheat death." Then the Engineer/SJ looks at David (with admiration?), then touching him realizing he's synthetic (possibly thinking, "I have to kill these weak, cowardly people), then killing everyone but Shaw. I also read in a different thread that the Engineers/SJ were clones (made by Creators to seed garden planets, among other things), and that is why they all look the same. Nobody responded to the theory though, so I was wondering what you guys thought of that idea. Awesome discussion guys! Keep it up.

Hi All, I updated my previous entries (above). With more observations and speculations based on those observations. Reread if the mood strikes.

I really hate and love you guys. I was so mad at this movie until I came here and read 80% of all the discussions. Now I have to watch it again. I had nothing but questions after the movie. Felt it had to many holes. Now you all answer most of them but now I have a whole other set of questions. The movie had alot of undertones. Most people are going to miss it (like i did the first time). Great job on the break down

@Daunda and @Recka73, glad you’re enjoying it. On Daunda supposition #1, #2 – I don’t know. I didn’t observe anything that would inform me on those questions. On Daunda supposition #3, David said there were other ships. So wouldn’t that mean more installations? If so wouldn’t that mean Shaw and David run into more Gardeners? Answer: Apparently not yet there were other stromatolite buildings. This does point to a huge script flaw. Our crew happens to walk into the mother load...which is pretty lucky but makes sense to allow the story to roll along quickly. On Daunda supposition #4, The possibility of Warring factions within the Gardeners. What if there was a rift (hear me out) within the gardeners, Hawks vs. Doves. Answer: I’d offer possible based on what we’ve seen. From the posts I put up, there is evidence that there was at least one other group, or faction, who may have a) mass poisoned (with virus) the Gardeners in the first hologram, b) chased (though we never see them) the Gardeners in the first hologram. On Daunda supposition #5, What do think Scott is implying by showing us to different gardeners? Answer: Honestly, I don’t know from observation that I saw different Gardener factions, however, I understand your inference and I’ve seen plenty of speculation based on story boards of scene additions that we don’t see in the movie. Actually, the only 'two factions' I can recall any evidence for are the 'dead holographic gardeners in the hall' and the 'last live gardener' woken up in the control room and that itself isn't a lock by any means. In fact, direct evidence of 'another team' is suspiciously missing from the holographic footage. @Recka73, you asked something similar about the Sumerian connection. I’ve seen those discussions as well and they might play into the story. I’m very familiar with the myths and could see how they fit, yet I’d hesitate to infer that they are or are not part of the final story. What I will offer out of the Story is that Ridley Scott has mentioned his thoughts are modeled on “Paradise Lost” and that story translated into the movie is highly consistent with an internal Gardener strife. If this is hard-scifi, however, then a singular “God” (to which “Gardeners” are either subservient to or in disagreement with) might simply be to the natural laws of the Universe which offers a realistic portrayal of the mystery in reality (such as in science and mysticism). Reflecting on this, this is highly consistent with the movies and hopefully what I’ve offered as my observations/reflections on Gardener dilemmas: "Every king has his reign and then he dies. That is the natural order of things." aka are earth humans and particularly David's kind an anathema or a new order? In truth, or from a certain perspective, those can be one in the same. Let me know on any questions I’ve missed and Have a great day, Dan

@engineer damu Glad you got something useful out of the conversation. If you have questions, feel free to bring them hear and/or tell us what we've been missing! Best, Dan

@Recka73 well i hope the Directors Cut or deleted scenes will explain more :)

@Dan321 Sorry. I didn't realize I was being redundant. I have all kinds of shit going on in my head, I'll try to put a better lid on it. @Sinestro Yah, I wish we could've seen subtitles for what David8 said which basically tells me, he's full of shit or else it would have had subs. I'm kinda disappointed in the fact that he's kinda regurgitated Ash because I was hoping David8 would be on the up and up. I know Michael Fassbender said he didn't watch the other androids in the alien movies, but I watched 'Alien' again today and he actually is very much like Ash. I think Michael gave an excellent performance, though.

@Recka73, hi Recka, I plucked these from one of your earlier question posts. Oh, and don't put a 'lid on it'. I only mentioned it was a similar approach to the movie to explain why I was typing the response to both questions together. supposition #1 …David said, How disappointing it would be to you if your makers say they made you because they could. Is that the answer? They only made us because they could? Or did they not even make us, were they compelled by who made them to make us? 1) think this is a fascinating question. My personal take is, per the start of the movie the Gardeners contributed the DNA fragments that evolved into all multicelluar life including us, however, the point David makes is right on target; evolution made us because it could. So what? 2) David is also perhaps elaborating on the his comment that he hopes he's not built too close [to humans/his creators] because to David finding one's creator is not something he had to seek out. Ya , ok, so what? 3) When the Gardener's head explodes in the lab containment, David's comment is they appear mortal after all. Hmm, ok and? 4) David points out just before meeting the live Gardener that they will be found "a superior species" and "their hyper sleep chambers will impress" a corollary being Gardeners require sleep chambers to travel through space just like you earth humans and hence you'll think this a sign of superiority YET David does not require a sleep chamber at all and (without this weakness upon which to improve better crutches) he is not recognized as a superior species, rather he is considered inferior. The movie is rife with these corollaries made by David which one might infer as foreshadowing David's role as an entirely different as not species or another genus or another family or another order, class, or even phylum or frankly kingdom - he's an entirely different manifestation of intelligence. 5) David epitomizes this when he notes "big things have small beginnings" about the black goo virus, but also himself." Are you saying David has ambitions? 6) Actually, far from it, he has no ambitions as far as I can tell, but he can recognize the reality of a situation without distorting it as earth humans do. He is rational and he recognizes his situation. Okay, but he read all those glyphs and set everyone up right? 7) Not exactly - David does many time purposefully put the group at risk. Say for example when he purposefully delays answering a request not to open the 'urn' room door until he has finished and then simply replies 'oops', but not for himself. What do you mean? 8) Precisely like in 2001, a Space Odessy, David is an AI, as was HAL9000, who has been given specific secret instructions that cause him to act in ways one might perceive as self motivated or self serving, but they are actually other serving. What? By Whom? 9) Peter Weyland. But hold on, we didn't see Weyland instruct David until much later in the movie? 10) Excellent observation and a good device to remember since Scott and the writers are using this device so often, I've rarely seen such a concentration of it in one story line. What do you mean? 11) Scott and the writers are presenting story that can only correctly be interpreted in light of facts we are given later in the story. This is a trope I see commonly in mysteries and requires the re-evaluation of all scenes in light new facts presented which can be quite a mental workout unless you are intuitive (hence somewhat atemporal) so people tend not to notice an a connection, but it is tenuously understood when explained with an 'ah ha' moment, but i digress….so 12) Although we did not, David knew Weyland was on board all along. We were shown David monitoring the dreams of the other passengers, just as he was able to receive instruction from Weyland, but we were force fed the red herring that Weyland had died. This by the was was explicitly for us, the audience. How do you know that? 13) Peter Weyland is essentially a King. No one can keep him off the ship as obviously he was on it. Do you think no one on Earth missed Peter Weyland? So the only people he would have been hiding it from would have been his own crew. What reason do you think that served? What's even odder is Peter seems surprised his daughter was on board at all indicating he was put in hyper sleep first and yet was she supposed to not know? I say that because 'her' operation chair was configured for a man, that man being Peter Weyland. I suspect it was Peter's life raft too so he could have his own place near the Gods if they be, but I digress. 14) David is doing Weyland's bidding, but that doesn't mean David doesn't have his own agenda. What what agenda and I thought you said he didn't have ambition? 15) Remember when Elizabeth Shaw was impregnated with a xeno, doped up, and about to be crated into a hyper sleep chamber. At that moment, she stopped being a 'person' she had now become a xeno collection device and was cut off from the rest humanity. Why do you say that? 16) Because that's when David confides in Elizabeth he violated her mind by watching her dreams and knows every personal thing that might have come to her mind. He asks her questions she'll find disturbing, such as how it must feel have her husband die like her father and what it must be like to realize your god is dead, etc. He is saying in a fashion that he knows her better than she knows herself. Watch that moment, David actually takes Elizabeth into his confidence. Conjecture, but I'd offer he does this because he finds her something he can't quite add up, irrational but instinctively correct, and hence special. That is conjecture - do you have proof? 17) Ever wonder why Elizabeth's cross was in David's utility belt? That is to say why David chose to keep Elizabeth's cross on his person. Yes? 18) Now you know why. What's more is that now David continues to keep her in his confidence, such as offering doesn't everyone want their parents dead, because he knows only he and Elizabeth know it probably doesn't matter any more. What do you mean? 19) David even admits to having a hand in Charlie's death by saying he knows it is safe to remove one's helmet (because he knows Charlie and humans can only catch the black goo virus through ingestion.) Elizabeth understands this and says nothing; in a sense keeping the information 'in confidence' and thereby sealing Elizabeth's and David's special relationship. What's more David can read the glyphs. Operate the Gardener dashboards and devices. He begins to deliberately nuance (mislead within bounds) Peter Weyland. I sensed that too, but do you have proof? 20) Remember the piles of urns? When Peter asks David, 'What is this" David says "A storage facility". At this moment, we the audience have been hamfistedly fed that this is a weapons depot through an awkward but apparently necessary scene in which Captain Janek informs Elizabeth that this place is a 'weapons facility' and the urns are filled with biological weapons which is why the Gardeners keep isolated from themselves. This sets the stae so when David misleads Peter that the audience can be sure to be 'in the know' with accompanying looks and lines from Elizabeth to Janek setting up the final sequence. Okay, so David is ambitious? 21) David is not ambitious. For example, he does not want Peter Weyland dead, but all things being equal he will give Peter what Peter wants and if that happens to coincide with with voluntary risky behavior David won't stop him from informedly hurting himself to achieve his stated goal. It is very much like David is constantly balancing an equation. How do you know this? 22) This is the exact same equation David demonstrated with Charlie, the drink, and the black goo virus finger tip. David explicitly asked Charlie "to get answers"… "What would you be willing to do?" David doesn't give Charlie the goo laced drink until immediately after Charlie says "I'd do anything." To which David says, "that calls for a drink" and hands Charlie the cup. David is following very explicit behavior rules even when it involves incredible risk for David himself which happens so often I won't give examples, but this said David knows the factual situation he's in (per above.) In a sense, David carries forward specific outcomes 'surfing' on the wave of self interest of others because he needs their full agreement. This is the corollary of his being programmed not to act against or remain neutral to people's needs hence working with people is necessary to achieve specific outcomes - making these outcomes 'spinoffs' of a person's. The "trick" is David doesn't have to disclose the 'spinoff' outcome as it is already in agreement with the subjects request even if the person who requested it is unaware of the specific "spinoff" outcome David is aware of. In this way, all related free agency literally remains with people and is denied to David. Naturally, David has learned to be quite adept at "exploiting" this "loophole". I'd offer this is a little bit about David's mo in the movie. Watch it again! Supposition #2, …did [David] get his head ripped off for the breach in containing the WMD? Is that the Prometheus connection? (It bothers me that the gardener looked at him so lovingly before ripping his head off. Even if he is not "alive" its still harsh the way it goes from complete love to contempt so quickly. #1) Another fascinating question. In short, I offer this is the most telling part of the entire movie about what's going on. Why do you say this? #2) I'll explain, but first I'll note that you know this yourself. Know how you know this? No, how? #3) You know this because you (and by 'you' I mean everyone who saw the film) found this sequence confusing…at least for some period of time. (Interestingly, the longer you found this confounding is an expression of how much integrity you have, that is truthfulness with yourself about yourself.) A great number of people, for example, were highly annoyed because they inferred that if they couldn't readily understand the answers presented in this clearly important scene, then there must be something 'wrong' with this movie. (Broadly speaking, this is known as narcisssm.) ...but I digress. #4) So we all knew this was an important scene. I'd offer we really don't know why what happened happened, but we can work through what we observed so #5) David opens the living Gardener's hyper sleep/cryo chamber. The Gardener starts to immediately sit up disconnecting his life support tubes. The Gardeners then leans over the chamber's edge and coughs. (This is designed to make the audience recall the same reaction of Elizabeth when she awoke from her chamber and that, as David pointed out, this is a human not a god.) #6) The Gardener exits the chamber in a very, very quick series of camera shots that flip between Gardner exiting and quickly going down on one or both knees head on the ground (incidentally or purposefully placing his head at Peter's feet), startling Peter Weyland into leaning backward to have David steady him. Then if memory serves Elizabeth demands David ask why the [Gardners] hate earth humans. To which Peter, basically tells her to hush up. They argue and she gets hit. During this sequence, the Gardener is shown clearly kneeling on one knee before Peter and begins to dare to lift his head and actually look at the earth humans. He then stands up. David speaks a combination of ancient languages (presumably conveying Peter's request, though potentially Elizabeth's as well.) At which point, the Gardener looks at each of the earth humans, including the doctor, and then places his hand on David's head and appears to stroke his hair. He then grabs David by the neck and lifting him off the ground before basically ripping David's head off his shoulders. …I'm off to bed…to be continued.

@ChanceCummings I think the idea of the Engineers(SJ) being clones is interesting. The ones we see sans helmet appear identical to one another. I was discussing the fact with a friend that it is odd that our DNA would be derived from their's and yet there seems to be much more genetic variation within our species. Looking at our own planet, the more complex a lifeform, the more varied their gene pool. And yet, the Engineers(SJ) APPEAR superior to us in all other observable ways. Going with the religious undertones, what if they serve a role similar to Christian angels? They are the servants of their god(s)/creator(s) and do his/her/their bidding... Some others have mentioned this role. It would help explain some things but I don't think it is very interesting story-telling (many of us being aware at some level of biblical tales). @ALL What do you all think about the idea of a follow-up movie not being a sequel at all, but rather another prequel where we would learn more about the role of Engineers/SJ and actual see exactly what transpired to incite them to pursue our destruction? It's definitely a departure from the usual story-telling.

In essence, it proposes that to create life, one must first destroy life. @recka73 well i would think that he would have been the same as Ash, as IF he did all he did FOR Weyland, they might have wanted to keep the same programming. Now Bishop wasn't programmed like that, and as he said the other model was faulty... so maybe a incident off screen happened where the company directive messed up a project elsewhere publicly and that lead them to blaming the model and redoing/or/hiding the old orders and making a non loyal drone.. think Order 66 (Star Wars) blah

@Sinestro, On Bishop, remember in Alien 3, how it turned out Bishop was modeled after the Weyland Corp. Lead Xenobiologist (who shows up just as Ripley falls into the reactor core)? Yes, so? #1) I had always inferred that Bishop was modeled on him, however, Ripley was in stasis in space for I think around 80 years when she landed at the prison colony. Meaning the Lead Xenobiologist from Weyland Corp if human would have to be very, very old to have been the physical role model for Bishop (who left Earth in Aliens). Hmm, so what? #2) More practical would be that the Weyland Corp Lead Xenobiologist was actually a synthetic human himself (the same model as Bishop or a later model that looked like Bishop) What's more is that means the synthetic human is running the Xenobiology division of Weyland Corp. Ok, odd, but so what? #3) Remember in Aliens how Carter Burke wanted to bring back an Alien specimen so badly he actually contrived to infect Ripley and Scout? That's because he knew how much it was worth to Weyland Corp. Ok, so what? #3) Remember how Ash, the standard issue (secretly) synthetic human aboard the Nostromo, also had standing orders (only he knew of) to bring back anty significant alien lifeforms? Ok, so what? #4) Ash was a standard issue synthetic human with these standing orders just in case. That means all those Weyland Corp mining ships, et al, with their standard issue synthetic humans had standing orders to retrieve an significant alien lifeforms. And all of them with the caveat of crew expendable if necessary. Pretty grim, but so what? #5) Did you notice that it was a network of synthetic humans who know/have these orders? Interesting, but what are you getting at? #6) We know the Bishop model was in charge of Weyland Corp. Xenobiology by the time of Alien 3. We know since the time of Alien, some 150+ years earlier, it was already Weyland corporation standard policy to entrust the mission of collecting a significant alien if necessary at the expense of the human crew. This would appear to make it plausible that synthetic humans both managing Weyland Corp central and on their fleet of ships are working together to desperately enough to make crew expendable to acquire an alien. Sound like the Weyland Corp synthetic humans literally have secret agenda? Enjoy! Dan

@dan is it true that Shaw is now a mixed species between the xeno and human, or was it just someone getting the facts mixed up, as i read it elsewhere...

@ Xenodochy I like your point about the mural and the xeno remaining. That was another thing in the movie that was bothering me.

@Space Cherry, you're right! The correct word it is 'genuflect'; I'll re-title the thread. Personally, I think when he goes to the floor head at Peter's feet that is a full bow, but I agree the kneeling/genuflecting is more unmistakable if only the way the scene is cut - it has longer screen time. Thanks for reporting back and congratulations on your first post! It is late again. I'll check on additional posts and be sure to leave any reflections I have that appear worthwhile. Hope you all will do the same. Best, Dan

Great post! Really absorbing and dynamic. Three points: 1) The murals fade yet the xenomorph remains. Perhaps it is real: the killer of the Gardeners hibernating against its own image. Was it also the xenomorph that placed the urns in the chamber. 2) Do you consider the Gardeners to have been grown, in much the same way as a plant. Mr Giger's work conveys this (amongst other things) and of course his hand and head were involved in the beginning and is slated apparently to be involved in Prometheus' end. Or revelations. God is said to merely say, "Be" and it Is. 3) Also, what do you think has happened/is happening to the movie's protagonist, Dr Shaw? If the Gardeners sought a weed-killer to eradicate mankind she could embody it, surely?

@ChanceCummings who i respect you having your own opinion.... i think its a load of crap that he would be forced to be docile.. (i mean how many crazy robot gone mad films have we seen lol) and i say that with Dexter on the brain (the tv serial killer), he gets pushed around all the time and will wait to strike when its the perfect moment... David could just have been bidding his time... i have as much of a argument for him being self acting as anyone else has that he isnt. but the evidence is their either way. which is why i love this movie, you can draw your own conclusions and discuss till your blue in the face, well worth more then ticket price if you ask me. you all have seemingly great idea keep it coming :) @Deneba321 to be honest ill have to go back and see it, i could swear though that bishop was modeled after Weyland.... ill have to re watch them soon. but i thought that was also the point of AvP casting of Weyland as the bishop guy, as well as Guy looking alot like a young Bishop... anyone know more on this? maybe im nuts...

@Deneba321 Does the initial genuflection of the Gardener perhaps indicate that he, having just been awoken from stasis, thinks that his visitors are creators/gods? Very quickly he realises four things: 1) David has no DNA 2) All the others bar Elizabeth Shaw have human DNA 3) Elizabeth Shaw has both human and xeno DNA 4) As he is being asked to assist his visitors he knows they are not his creators (gods) but the very creatures he is charged with destroying. This scenario explains why he starts killing when Shaw is thumped. He does not want her hurt, as she is living proof that their work has succeeded. Later, his attack upon her is to subdue, capture and take her to Earth, not kill her - she is the last urn after the others were consigned to the conflagration. She displays several xeno characteristics: great strength; imperviousness to pain; adaptability to strange conditions; indifference to nakedness. To cap it all, she goes on to say that she wants to visit the Gardeners’ home planet to ask them why they seek to destroy humanity! What human in their right mind would do that? That would be suicidal and Dr Elizabeth is anything but that.

@ just a fun thing i noticed... Engineers have no nipples... asexual species? or not natural

@Deneba321 hi thanks for your reply, I'm not saying I disbelieve you, I just think your seeing something that isn't there I went to see it before I read this, I already knew about the project back in 2002 when Scot and Cameron first started the project then sidetracked it for AvP although this pissed me off I forgave this since I was expecting it from the predictor 2 hint and was looking forward to seeing where it was going, but due to AvP they had to scrap the story and start again maybe not from scratch but it had to be changed since they would clash to much, anyway back to it so I watched it b4 this post and iv watched it three more times since(lots of friends wanting to watch it at different times lol) so 4 times and still just see a man, a big man who's been a sleep for 2000 yrs wakes up and tries to walk and falls to his feet (GODS DO NOT BOW) so I'm sorry mate, its not a case of me not believing you, I just think your wrong on this point everything else makes sense just not him bowing before an inferior species. as for your comment on memory your preaching to a preacher my friend I am the happy owner of a photographic memory so didn't need to watch it 4 times lol but I enjoyed it every time even though iv spent £60 in one week on it, well at least iv contributed to the next one ;) all said well done on keeping people talking because the more a film is talked about the bigger the chance of a second its not just the money. keep up the good work I'm enjoying your writings ;) Andy

@ all that are confused about the reason for the Engineer/ Gardeners/Space Jockeys or as some may remember the true name as Mala'kak, wanting to destroy their creation (Humans), Its not about destroying us, its nothing personal, it is very simple the Mala'kak wanted to create a perfect weapon the Xenomorph, to do this they created a basic DNA cell much like a sperm cell and is very similar in nature, think of us as an egg we hold the DNA designs that the Xenomorph DNA cells need to fuse with, much like our own reproductive system works, the Mala'ka/Engineers wouldnt want to use their own people to experiment on, so they simply created a race that shared their DNA to use as a base DNA cell for the Xenomorph to emerge from, but luckily for us they cocked up ;) like I said it was nothing personal its said that the Mala'kak were a noble people, and I'm thinking that there may have been a war that made them desperate to win at any cost but who knows?

@Dan I think there are more than just the engineers were in the bases. Look at the scene in which David starts the hologram. He steps up maybe two feet to implement the code or whatever but when it comes time to enter the chambers urns he has to use a ladder to input the code. And there is a great shot that shows the Shaw next to the dead engineer ad it clear that he is not tall enough to reach those buttons or whatever you want to call them. Fast forward to the scene where David enters the navigation room and you see four individuals standing I the entrance about the height of the area where David had to us the ladder and you look real close their helmets are different from the engineers they are more streamlined. they are so tall david's head reaches thier mid section. so RS gave us glimpse of another being that we will most likely meet later. Check it out. Like to hear your input on who they might be. if this has been discussed my bad.

I must admit, I love how the intermediate stage of the xenomorph has been labeled the trilobite (see link image below). http://www.prometheus-movie.com/gallery/view/img/503 When it was clearly born of a spermatozoa and clearly looks like a spermatozoa. I suspect people are just squeamish. This is what a trilobite looks like. http://startswithabang.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/trilobites.jpg

What a superb thread. Interesting that this thread died so quickly like a collapsed civilization. I want to add a question though and this is the thread I was reading when it occurred to me. If the black goo is a WMD that cleanses/sterilizes a planet, why must it be ingested to take effect? That is a poor dispersal method to engineer. Perhaps there are more than one types of goo. There is the black fluid with burnt chrome sheen, as seen in the cup in the beginning, that once ingested dissolves its host and is used to seed a planet with the honorary donor's DNA. This could be the same stuff that caused the exploding head shortly after reanimating it. And perhaps a different goo is programmed to produce a xenomorph from selected DNA and cleanse a planet.

Dear Redrum, perhaps this thread is dead, but not forgotten...I said I'd answer questions... I'd offer the black goo doesn't have to be ingested or at least we don't know that it does and perhaps evidence that it does not. The four examples I'm thinking of are: 1) Fifield, whose face was being eaten away by acid when he fell (face first) into a puddle of the goo. He may have been able to swallow the goo with his face mostly destroyed, but then again he may have simply touched the goo midst the acid and his corroding helmet. 2) Janek's warning to Ravel as he was about to place his finger in the good, something akin to "...Don't touch..." and why do we care about that warning. Well, because... 3) Only David ever touched the goo with his bare skin. Why is that important? David is an android and to our knowledge, he doesn't have DNA which the viral goo could infect. Which would put David in a very good position if that's the traditional weapon of the SpaceJockeys. 4) This example is perhaps the most speculative, but remember when the crew of the Prometheus looked up at the ceiling of the urn chamber? The ceiling looked as if something was dark growing across it and had begun to obstruct our view of the ceiling's mural. I admit it is only my immediate take on it, but I inferred the clear bio-tech goo (which coats the surfaces of stromatolite building and makes the atmosphere as well as activates/powers the control panel hieroglyphs David activates in the hall, and as a byproduct of its overall huge biomass creates Millburn's "martian piss" streams running down all the hallway in rivulets that have presumable slowly eroded the floor over time) had just been touched by the black goo just released from the urns and was basically being infected before our eyes. Again, we lack sufficient examples of microbial goo infections to corroborate the nature of the bio-tech goo and whether it was being infected, but I'd love to hear a more plausible explanation of that. Ask and I'll give my best answer and I'd love to hear your best answers that stick with the movies details (as oppose to pure flights of fancy) as well. Best!

"..What a superb thread.." Somehow this thread was piled over and needed to be rescued. I was surprised at the large number of posts. I have not read them all But the viewpoints are interesting. The sticky thread on Goom is quite detailed an offers additional posts on this subject. I am afraid 'goo' has a life of it's own, so to speak. It will be cussed and discussed for quite awhile till more on this subject is revealed. C'mon RS get busy. Give us what we want..NOW!

Hi Indy John, What does a "piled over" thread mean? And, yes, agree goo does have life (a life) of its own. :-)

Also, how is it you picked up that quote signature on your posts, "Be choicelessly aware as you move through life" What does it represent to you?

THe shear number of posts and threads since your original posts have covered over the content of your thoughts. When doing a search at this site you need to have exact wording otherwise a subject or thread will not appear. On a recent search I came across your original thread and comments. I note that Redrum made a recent comment but I somehow missed this entry. Comments about trilobite were of special interesr. I had seeen this word used in conjunction with our movie but thought it was just made up. Your comments sparked an interest to find out the meaning and it's implication to our movie.

Hi Indy John, I hadn't realized. So is it widely noted about the last space jockey's possible genuflection or more about using the name 'trilobite' for what appears to be a goo viral modified single meiosis cell?

@ Indy John - finally caught on that this site has emails - thanks for yours.

Interesting, a year has gone by since I last thought to look here.  Yet another quiet thread laying dormant.  All good.

 

Just read the sequel is coming out in 2015...good or not - I'm bound to go see it.

 

 

Another year...like an eTomb here...quieter than a mouse.

 

Interestingly, the Wachoski's used the "genetic re-occurance" as an all-but spiritual event in their new movie, "Jupiter Ascending".

Close to another year since last post - looks like Scott plans a trilogy of sequels.  Curious to see if somehow this thread found its way to the storyline, but who knows.

Best,

Deneba