The Engineers; Good or Evil?

I haven't read most of the comments, but I would say that the Engineers/ Space Jockeys are in a Neutral Zone... They are kind of similar to Predators in a way, they can be both good and bad. It just reminds me of "My Enemy - My Friend" quote. David should have just left the one in the stasis pod alone. When David starting speaking their language and started puting his hand on David's head, at that moment I said to myself: "Fuck... You should have shaved your head David" Haha. Again, the Engineer had the RIGHT to do the things he did to the remaining crew, after all the crew of Prometheus did aboard their ship and crossed the lines.

A spacefaring civilization that visited Earth a billion years ago (moss and water...right before animal life came to land on the planet) and still alive after all that and even came to visit Earth and start coaching some civilizations...I do think they would be basically good. They spread life, and with a billion years on their backs they are probably vastly spread in the Galaxy by the time of the movie events. Of course such a large civilization will have splinter factions/groups/cultures. The Galaxy is huge, and a large civilization will probably face both internal and external pressures in time. What we saw in Prometheus should be the exemple of a faction that was in disagreement with their peers, or at war over whatever they hold dear or necessary...but at war they are, bacause we know what those creatures are, and what the derelict ship was, and that they were using bioweapons against someone. So there is a conflict, and we were dragged into it by some reason yet undisclosed, but we might learn in the sequel that what we saw so far were the workings of terrorists for instance, destroying the work of their forefaters because of what they perceive as right. There is a lot of room to maneuver here. We might see them revealed as a creation from another race to serve them (even to be used as living triguers to seeding missions - a cruel way of acting) and that are in a war against their masters and are stealing their tech to use against them...but anyway we might see Shaw arrivving at their Home System (I would love to see them arriving at a Dyson Sphere, where trillions of species thrive alongside the Engineers, who, faithful to their name, had over the past billion years even engineered their whole system to better serve them... Anyway I really expect Shaw and David to arrive at a living, thriving and powerful galactic civilization (a billion years to develop and spread is a long time) and that they start to address some of the questions left until now. And yes, the idea is sad, that soldier endured 2000 years in hypersleep just to be raised back to die horribly...sad.

Nice reference. Maybe Paradise got the Vogen treatment...

You got me lost now...

Facts lead me to believe that this is an outcast faction. If they really wanted to destroy humans they would have done it long ago even if this faction got wiped out. They didn't which means no one else knew of their doing. Bob only acted strange due to seeing how long the humans have come in the last 2000 years

I agree with the others who say that what Shaw will witness is something of a disappointment when she arrives at the engineer home world. Given the fact that the engineers never returned to LV 223 to clean up the mess or at least protect the ampules, even after 2000 years, suggests that there was a problem at home. They wouldn't leave their black gold lying around for anyone to stumble upon it, and perhaps use it against them. And yes, we've got two factions of engineers for sure, at least. Just as an aside, it perhaps may be of interest to notice that all the ships on LV 223 were buried underground in bunkers. Why would there be a need to hide the ships? Hiding from unsuspecting humans roaming around? No. From splinter engineers? Couldn't be. For loading cargo? Surely not. It may be just what RS and DL wanted for effect.

Humans: good or evil?

Yeah, the last part of the post is what I pointed out before. That was a somewhat hidden base, maybe under the disfarce of some religious intent (the mountain resembles some kind of temple, with the giant skull thing on its top) Maybe they are not part of the main Engineer civilization, so Shaw might find her going (I hope) to a thribing civilization that is, or was, in conflict within itself and might even not be awae of what was happening on that barren moon. That or they were the ones that destroyed it, so she might even get in hot waters when approaching Engineer Flight Control near Paradise (homeworld) flying a terrorist military ship that should have been destroyed millenia ago...