Spaihts suggests "36 hours" was an error after all...

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Synthetic, indeed they maybe! Butit's driving me nuts! It's the diff bewteen this being a good and bad movie as far as I am concerned! SERIOUSLY!

@synthetic_69 - haha! Yeah, maybe this was an intentional "mistake" on the part of the writers. Keep the boards buzzing about "36 hours" to distract people from hating on the rest of the script!

[u]Vickers[/u]: I say this with a smile in my heart: I think that you need to take a long vacation where there's no access to the internet. [u]Space[/u]: Even if Scott, Fassbender, Theron, Spaihts and Lindelof all did a viral video in which they publicly addressed the "36 hours" controversy the haters would still not believe them and still find plenty of other things about the film to hate on.

haters gonna hate!!!!

Has anyone even asked themselves what a 24 hour interval is? I'm sure everyone knows this but I'll go ahead and point out that it's the time it takes for the earth to rotate on it's axis. How, may I ask, is this relative in any way in space? They're not on earth so why would the time it takes earth to do a fulkl rotation on it's axis even matter. @David1...When I stated that everyone lets the mistakes in BR pass and in some cases actually comes to enjoy them yet things of the same nature in Prometheus get such ridicule you said "The movie in question is Prometheus not Blade Runner." When I read this I took it as you saying that something along the lines of "Prometheus is not even close to as good as Blade Runner" or something of that nature. Misunderstanding is all. And, in case you didn't notice I did apologize for the generalization in my first post. Even called it "ludicrous" as I know that not all people that want to insist it's a mistake fall into the category of hating the film. So, I apologized for what first offended you and now I apologize for misunderstanding the pertinent part of your response to my post. The fact remains that people do let the mistakes in many films slide. Why is this mistake-which isn't a mistake at all imo as a 24 hour interval has no relevance in space-such a big deal?

We see Weyland give his holo-speech from Mars colony, and we know David was probably stationed with him previous to the mission. Could Davids time setting be set to Mars time? The mission might not have launched from Earth. Dunno, just a thought.

Mars apparently has a solar day of 24 hours, 37 min. My bad. Still, could have launched from an extra solar colony....

@genjitsu17...And a very good thought which I don't know the answer to. But yes, the axis rotation time of the departure planet coould be the answer. Is there anything in the film that confirms that the Prometheus departed from earth. Even if it did there could still be other reasons why he didn't use the 24 hour description.

@genjitsu17...I replied with my last post before I read your 2nd post. You said that Mars has a "solar day" of 24 hours and 37 min. Does this mean that Mars does a full rotation on it's axis in that time or is that just how long the "days" are?

Full rotation, i believe. :)

Engineering: lol I feel not offended at all mate. All is good.

[u]Engineering[/u]: You wrote: "Is there anything in the film that confirms that the Prometheus departed from earth." No, there isn't. Additionally, on the "Discover New Worlds" page on the Weyland Industries site one can see that in deep space far from Earth there are planets that have been terraformed by W.I. that are labelled as being hubs/production sites for FTL vessels. Even though this is a fictional universe one's real world common sense suggests that it makes no sense for the Prometheus to have deployed from Earth when there are numerous W.I. bases located in deep space that are a lot closer to LV-223 than they are to Earth.

@ Synthetic 69: Thumbs up, exactly what i was thinking.

In regards to my earlier question of why this is so important I really don't need an answer. I know it's all about everyone's faith or lack-there-of in Lindelof and Scott in regards to knowing where the hell this is all going. One thing everyone should realize is that while Scott is one of the best directors ever he is by no means perfect. He also deeply involves himself in more aspects of his films than I've ever seen a director do. And I've studied quite a few directors. The fact that he has his hands in absolutely every aspect of the film and dives into what some would call minute details which most directors leave to their respective departments gives even more room for something to slip by. The main reason I brought Blade Runner's mistakes into the conversation isn't really because the film has NUMEROUS mistakes in aspects from continuity, costume and a lot in between. The real reason I brought it up was a "writing" or "script" error. When Bryant is giving Deckard the low-down on the escaped replicants he tells him that SIX replicants escaped from an off-world colony and that one was fried trying to break into Tyrell Corp. This would leave FIVE replicants instead of the FOUR Deckard retires. This mistake was made because in earlier drafts of the script there was a 5th replicant named Mary. The character, however, had been dropped. I have a few points I'm trying to get across... 1)We have absolutely no proof that it was a mistake. 2)We have absolutely no proof that if it was a mistake that it was a Lindelof mistake. 3)If it in fact is a mistake there could be any number of reasons for it. LIndelof being an idiot could be one but there could be countless others. 4)There could actually be reasoning behind the 36 hour instead of 24 hour line. 5)Until we see an actual FINAL DRAFT set script that shows it, and Lindelof says that it was a straight up mistake instead of having reasons behind it we will have no idea either way. 6)This is why I bring up Blade Runner. Even if it was a mistake it really means nothing as far as the quality of the overall film. Blade Runner has tons of blunders and is still the #1(if not it's a close 2nd) sci-fi film of all time. If you let something like this ruin a movie for you I really think you've missed the point of Ridley's filmaking process if not all non-documentary film making in general.

@David1...Great! I really didn't mean to offend or piss anyone off and I do realize how stupid some of what I said was but this subject just seems to get me going for some reason. I'm glad we smoothed everything over. @Genjitsu17...Thanks for the confromation. @Synthetic_69...Very good point!

People make mistakes. None of us are any better. These things happen all the time in movies, no matter how much we may love a particular film. Even Alien has a flub or two. Prometheus is a movie and nothing more. It is simply there to entertain. The "36 hours" issue is a quibble and nothing really to be obsessed over. Love it or hate it, Prometheus is just a movie.

@the_dude...Great point. What's sad is that I don't obsess over the "mistake" at all. I obsess over some people's reaction to it lol! I'm pathetic indeed.

Hi all this is Benji from WhatCulture, the writer whom Jon tweeted. When/ if Damon gets back to me I'll let you guys know. Thx all, Benji @BenjiTaylorWins on Twitter

I just want to echo "engineering"'s sentiments. Also, The entire discussion is complete conjecture at this point. If spaihts didnt write the line, then he really has no reason to suggest that it was an error. Could be an error...on the other hand, there are quite a few scenarios where david's wording could be part of character development etc. As others have mentioned..."the A2's always were a bit twitchy" (bishop). Imagine the flaws present in the first run of androids. Lets see what lindelof says.