Creator's Intent

I am all for the kind of creative speculation and proposal of ideas embodied in these forums. I would not for a minute discourage anyone from pusuing them freely. I merely ask that you consider the expressed intent of the authors when formulating your ideas based upon the rich post release interviews given by Spaights, the author of the original script, Lindelof, who finalized and Scott who oversaw all. A case in point is this excerpt from a Lindelof interview given to io9.com "Ridley definitely had very specific answers to those questions and we talked a lot about how we wanted to put those answers into Prometheus. And whether or not we wanted to hold any of them back. It's a little bit obnoxious to say, "well if you like this movie, we'll give that stuff to you in the sequel." So you have to have a fair shot at being able to extrapolate based on the information in this movie. But I do feel like, embedded in this movie are the fundamental ideas behind why it is the Engineers would want to wipe us out. If that's the question that you're asking. The movie asks the question, were we created by these beings? And it answers that question very definitively. But in the wake of that answer there's a new question, which is, they created us but now they want to destroy us, why did they change their minds? That's the question that Shaw is asking at the end of this movie, the one that she wants answered. I do think that there are a lot of hints in this movie that we give you quite and educated guess as to why. But obviously not to the detriment of what Shaw might find when she goes to talk to these things herself." I find this quote amazing as Lindelf is saying they knew precisely what they were trying to do and that they had definite answers in mind and that they are in the film without reference to a sequel. This is reinforced later in the interview when Lindelof says, "All I'll say in response to your question is, nothing is an accident in Prometheus. Every single decision that is made by Ridley Scott is made for a very specific reason and purpose." I encourage you to review these interviews and make reference to the intent of the creators along with the free speculation that it is always prompted by an imaginative piece of art.