Prometheus Plot Figured Out

sorry, i don't buy it...

I see LV 223 as being purposefully isolated. A clandestine operation. It itself being part of a control group testing different iterations of the goo's mutagenic, life creating and apparently hyper-evolving properties. Much in the same way Ripley tried to isolate the prison planet in alien 3. They knew it was too dangerous for anybody to come. I may have misunderstood your question. What precisely did you mean by "finish the job"?

I like his theory, it makes sense the way you explain it. Thanks.

" I sort of buy your theory but once the engineers on LV 223 failed the mission, why didn't the other engineers finish the job within 2000 years?" Ok. So the engineers were using the planet to engineer the black goo because it was so dangerous. My best guess is that when the black goo exterminated all the engineers, they decided to quarantine the planet and everyone on it. They gave up on creating the bioweapons

I totally agree with the part about it being a retelling of the Prometheus myth. However, I'd like to offer this explanation: The story as involves the "engineers" is a case of parallel development. The engineer who sacrifices himself at the beginning is the creator of the goo. His aim was to be able to create new and fairly quickly evolving intelligent life on other planets. Some of his people disagree and see a way to create something that gives them an evolving weapon that spawns rapidly, destroys their enemies then dies after a short life span. This creator engineer upon finding out about this plan contrives a plan to create a new race out of his DNA that would develop, higher brain functions and skill from those and evolve to a state that could possibly challenge this bio-weapon. Although in this and other films based in this universe we get "the company" and some green scientists, we do ultimately get Lt. Ellen Ripley.

I sort of buy your theory but once the engineers on LV 223 failed the mission, why didn't the other engineers finish the job within 2000 years?

"finish the job".....he means why the engineers did not try to go to earth during the 2000 years to destroy the humans. I think they learnt their lesson from trying to harness the goo.

It's possible that we'll see in the sequels (if there are any) that an engineer escaped the quarantine and made to another colony or back home.

Why would it be so important to send the bio weapon 2000 years ago? And if they failed why are they still so furious? What event took place 2000 years ago? Is this coincidence? 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? Or is this just a monster movie?

"Ok. So the engineers were using the planet to engineer the black goo because it was so dangerous. My best guess is that when the black goo exterminated all the engineers, they decided to quarantine the planet and everyone on it. They gave up on creating the bioweapons" I'm pretty sure they would have other weapons of mass destruction in their arsenal to destroy earth..but who knows, maybe they wanted to send these bio weapons to Earth and analyze the destruction sort of like a controlled test.

Valiant attempt to explain the plot. However, it stretches credulity. I assume you are saying that the exiled engineer seeded the earth with its first life, i.e. this was 3 or so BILLION years ago when we think life first appeared on earth. This seems to be what the film was saying because there was no life evident in all the sweeping panoramic shots. Remember a billion is a thousand million. And the Universe in only 13 billion years ago, so this is a freaking long time ago (but somehow the engineers have not evolved in terms of their appearance at all in all this time). Anyway, so then life on Earth evolved from the exiled engineer's leftovers into bacteria, jelly fish, trilobites then (much more recently) dinosaurs who were then wiped out comparitively very recently (64 million years ago) and then early humans evolved about 1 million years and gradually developed into something (us) that looks exactly like the engineers but smaller and punier. What a totally improbable example of convergent evolution. This suggests that Ridley Scott thinks that the human/engineer form is some sort of inevitable pinnacle that all life eventually evolved into. Evolution does not work like that. It isn't striving toward humans as a goal. If the essentially random event of an asteroid hadn't wiped out the dinosaurs (not to mention all the other extinction events over the billenia) then humans would never had had the space to evolve. That's not science fiction, it's religious fiction.

The beginning of the movie, the black goo was there. Perhaps, this engineer sacrificed himself, because he already knew what would happen, it would bring life. The ship left him there, it doens't seem to be exile since he already has his cup of goo and almost no clothing, he did not need anything else. About the pile of big engineers laying there, that were found by fifield and the biologist guy...I assume they were moved there and not left on the way by the ones that were alive, I don't think they were infected with anything since they would get infected. The engineer that got decapitated, he was infected, the others were running away from him, that's why the door was shut, nothing was behing them. They wanted him away. Now since he was able to run after the other ones, he was infected by a small amount, they were experimenting, it looked like what happened to Hollaway (or perhaps an accident, but they already knew what would happen). However, since all of them had the same suits, I would say it was an accident. Now, since the body was lifeless when he got decapitated, that would explain why it did not turn into something like Fifield. However, when the head got the electric impulses, the black goo started to react with it. But what happened to the ones that entered the room?? Also, in that part, there are a bunch of engineers running, but only 3 make it to the room. You can see one or two falling behind. Perhaps they melted and that's why there is not trace of them. In the end one engineer was still alive, but the chamber had more beds to sleep in, so he was the only survivor. He was waiting for the threat to leave and for someone to wake him up to continue his mission of destroying the Earth. My conclusion would be that this was planet with a military base where an accident happened. The only survivor would continue with the mission of destroying the Earth as one of the planets that are supposed to be destroyed. The mural is a tribute to the Alien, and the black goo is the way to create those creatures. The engineers, they would create and destroy whenever they wanted, and the black goo was the method of doing either of those things.