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The answer to why the engineers created us!

Kostas Kalampokas

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well the answer is in the movie and it is this:PURE CHANCE...BY ACCIDENT... We get the answer in the opening of the movie were the "engineer" is commiting suicide.He doesn't try to spread his dna in the river.What we see is that after he drinks the black liquid (not to be confused with the liquid the scientists find on the planet) the camera zooms and goes in to his body.What we see is that his skin and dna start to dissolve-it kinda looks like his dna starts to get burned and destroyed.Now when the body falls into the river the camera follows too.the body dissolves and the camera zooms again.the whole screen goes black and then it happens...THE TITLES BEGIN TO APPEAR.The first time I watched it (I went to the cinema twice) my attention focused on the titles.I believe this was intentional and a great idea too.It takes a while for the titles to appear completely but if you watch what happens "behind" the titles you'll see that when the blackness slowly goes away a small strand of "healthy" dna - its color is still orange and red or whatever (the same color the dna had when the camera initialy zoomed into the body when the liquid started to have its effect)- appears at the right of the screen slowly going away with the river's flow.And then something else happens:Were not in the water anymore - the colors are so different it's like they took this portion from another movie - and we see cells multiplying.WELL THAT's US!pure accident. I think this "engineer" is prometheus that took something from the race that is leaving (we see the flying saucer in the clouds - this spaceship is so different from what the engineers' are using) and they punished him by leaving him on the planet with the black liquid with one choice.Live here alone or drink the liquid and die. That is why they included so many scenes involving the black liquid they find on the planet.To confuse us and make us think that it is the same liquid. 1 the liquid in the beginning of the film is not totaly black and the texture is a bit different. 2 the effect they have is different. The engineer in the beginning dissolves but the humans mutate (although "we" have the same dna).It is not the same liquid. I base the existance of the "other" race on the fact that the pictures in the cave show a slim alien with long slim finger pointing to the stars.Well, the engineers are very muscular with normal - although bigger - fingers.They're not the same race.Perhaps after the accident of our creation this "good" race came to us and taught us everything giving us knowledge. NOW THIS MAY BE FAR FETCHED BUT: there is an explanation for the scene between vickers and her father calling him "father" just out of the blue (a weird scene).She kind hates him (she clearly tells him it is time for him to die) because he has substitued her with david the robot.In the begining her father says david is like a son to him and we see the dissaponted look on vickers face).Vickers is the "engineers".they feel betrayed because the "good" race came to us - essentialy humans are david the robot - and befriended us or whatever and they feel betrayed.that is why they hate us and want to destroy us with the virus they created and the aliens.THE ALIENS WERE THE ONES THAT WERE ENGINEERED FOR THE PURPOSE OF EXTERMINATING THE HUMAN RACE.Ripley in the other film encounters an alien race that didn't evolved naturaly, but it was created to kill the humans.They ARE the engineers but didn't "engineer" us but "engineered" the aliens for the purpose of killing us. When I saw the movie for the first time I was truly dissapointed.but now...I believe the terrible scenes with the actors acting "funny" and weird are the result of the editing.I think too much of the dialogue was left out.We'll see the final result on the dvd.and I hope I'm right. Please comment
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spacyfreak
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Hmm.. i dont know what you mean. Yes, that white guy 1. drinks his last drink 2. disintegrates 3. falls into the water 4. dna splitted by black goo 5. dna ..dna.. 6. cell So what? Did he drink it as rite to spend his life to create other life? Was he punished and had to kill himself like samurai? Was he fed up with LOST and so he wanted to die? We dont know.
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I agree. The 'Space Jockey' race (in my opinion) were not our engineers or our makers. The whole mythology of Prometheus was that he stole fire from the gods. Fire is important here because fire is used to create weapons. e.g. molding iron and steal which was the symbolism for genetic weapons. The whole idea of Prometheus is not what humans stole but what the Space Jockey race stole from the higher beings that probably made them. What they stole was the molecular biology that they were experimenting with before all hell broke loose defined by the 3-D image of them running. At the beginning of the film my take of what happened was the higher race of beings discovered what the Space Jockey race had done. That is they stole the secret of biological manipulation. The higher race decided to create another race of beings, 'us', by placing a Space Jockey on the young earth and genetically manipulating him. The Space Jockeys did not like this and decide to experiment with a bio weapon to destroy humanity but as I mentioned previously, their experiment went terribly wrong. As you stated OP, the creature in the mural was not a Space Jockey but the higher beings that created the Space Jockey and later human beings. As we evolved, they came down for a visit and taught us about civilization etc. Also the ship in the beginning of the movie was an entire different design from the Space Jockey ship which tells me it was the higher beings using a Space Jockey to create humanity. As time went by, the race of Space Jockeys began to abhor humans because the higher beings favored us over them by sharing knowledge with us and inviting us to come visit them when our technology advanced.
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Like this train of thought apollo222
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josiyah
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It's not hidden at all, the newly constructed DNA....And that just signifies that from his death new life will emerge.
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The canister with the goo had the Tree of Life on the top. I'm trying to recall some of the resurection stories the Tree of Life is based on. Basically, the engineer dies and is reborn as new life. Not so hard actually. And yes, I am thinking the Engineers are not bad. The music paints a friendly picture of them. The harsh music was associated with the ship and the ampoules. I think the movie is relatively straight forward. The difficult are the why of their death 2,000 years before and the black goo that transforms. I think that goo is a part of a bio weapon and different from the tree of life goo.
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Kostas Kalampokas
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to spacyfreak I don't know what you didn't understand.The engineer's intention wasn't to create us.that happened by accident when a "piece" of not affected dna survived in the river. -"Did he drink it as rite to spend his life to create other life?" "I think this "engineer" is prometheus that took something from the race that is leaving (we see the flying saucer in the clouds - this spaceship is so different from what the engineers' are using) and they punished him by leaving him on the planet with the black liquid with one choice.Live here alone or drink the liquid and die." -"Was he punished and had to kill himself like samurai?" same as above -"Was he fed up with LOST and so he wanted to die?" Who knows... Read my first post and tell me where I'm wrong
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Kostas Kalampokas
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to josiyah "It's not hidden at all, the newly constructed DNA....And that just signifies that from his death new life will emerge." and then they tried to destroy us? I don't think so.It has the same color and texture as his dna prior to the liquid taking affect.And the length of it is so small that gives me the "feeling" that it is his dna that got away unaffected thus creating life which wasn't his intention.
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Revelation  12:7   A war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fought against the Dragon.The Dragon and his angels fought back but he was defeated. And there was no place left for them in heaven... Revelation 12:13 And when the Dragon found he was cast to the earth he pursued the woman who gave birth to the man child... Revelation 12:17  Then the Dragon became furious with the woman and went to make war with the remnant of her seed.... Look closely at the Xeno mural in the temple. Notice the wings.   In Alien 3 the Xeno is referred to as the Dragon. Could this be the answer to Shaws question "why do you hate us, why do you want to kill us?" Are the  original Xenos fallen Angels still jealous and furious at their Creators beloved creation man. Is this why they were sending a deadly cargo to earth 2000 years ago?Are the engineers worshipers of the beast,doing the will of their God?
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Do you guys have jobs?
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@kostas kalampokas i would like to add that i believe that the liquid david puts in holloways drink is the same black liquid the engineer drinks in the beginning. Remember that the black liquid is in the green ovals, in which the green ovals are inside the vases. I believe this for multiple reasons, when holloway and the engineer both took it, it seemed to have similar effects on both them, but holloway got a much smaller dose of it, taking it longer to kick in and result in what happened similar to the engineer. Also the black liquid that the engineer drank and the black liquid slipped in holloways drink looked very similar...
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Kostas Kalampokas
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To DrD "Do you guys have jobs?" Of course we have.Why?do you work 24/7 or it takes you so long to think? To ParkerN I don't believe it's the same liquid.The one in the beginning has different texture with bubbles that had kinda of yellow color. At least that's what it seemed to me.
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One night I went out back int he woods to jerk and shot it in a puddle. My question is how long will it take for my civilization to emerge?
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Kostas Kalampokas
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hahaha yeah I know,...but science fiction man... ...although the puddle is small by definition.it will dty soon....

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