July 20, 2012But wouldn't it be interesting if it were revealed to be a dream in a fragmentary form where everything was actually true, but happening the way David chooses to believe it happened. Because he's a dark Pinnochio, and he's found a way to lie while making people think they're hearing the truth by being ambiguous. As he does in many of the lines in the movie. Knowing full well what he means behind his remarks, what his programming was and what the true plan was.
His true plan was to sort of do everything his programming told him to, but botch things enough and do things in a way dictated by his emotions to infect Holloway, get Weyland killed, and risk his own safety for a chance to survive to carry on free with his true goal. He thinks he should ascend to the throne of the kingdom (i.e. Weyland), or the throne of humanity. Whichever one. And wants to destroy his creators because he thinks he is clearly superior to them and closer to the level of these "gods".
Gods who he realizes are only slightly more advanced, non-immortal, relatives of homo sapiens. There's a hidden drive behind David's desire to kill his creator. He thinks his creator is not fit to lead humanity anymore because of his foolishness. David sees himself as superior to him, and therefore feels that he should be the next king, though he can't admit it in his dreams, thoughts, and MOST of his actions/speech. Subconsciously Weyland recognizes David's superiority by not wanting Vickers in control of the company. At the same time his quest for immortality is such that he can try to remain in power, and attempt to gain some sort of superiority over his own creation. True genetic immortality fused with his own probably partially synthetic nature so he doesn't eventually rust or disintegrate and leave the company in the hands of millions of Davids who may feel the same way. And may have developed the same tricks to make people accept their fates.
He's Weyland's closest thing to a son... a prince... and Weyland metaphorically would consider him next in line for the throne if the king should inevitably die. Something Weyland really didn't want because he knew one of his creations (Vickers) would already usurp him and was worried about the shape of things to come for the kingdom he built from the ground up. In the end he did a lot more damage to his kingdom by severing all the heads at the same time, thus allowing the body to be leaderless, and allowing a mutation to form under whichever leadership should arise over the next 30 years.
A golden age, as spoken of in myths of a perfect, pristine time has ended for Weyland corp... Someone may step up to allow the kingdom/company/body to regenerate and thrive for a time, but without the leadership of a very intelligent corporate head, the body will lose direction and degenerate into a monster completely...
Until some other company comes along and tries to extract the cells that have been corrupted in the body of the company like a cancer that will soon spread.
Wouldn't it be cool if the first shot we get in the sequel is the way the flight sequence went down at the end. However, we then we see bits and pieces intercut of the way things really went down for just that end sequence. Prometheus is then revealed to have been a true dream through the eyes of the decapitated David head the way he was choosing to encode in into his memory banks. True, but with certain parts he didn't have access to from his perspective deliberately remembered ambiguously, in a imperfect way to trick his own programming into further accepting and allowing him to do what he will continue to do so that it becomes stored as a memory. And he feels no guilt about any of what he's done and what is to come.
A problem he doesn't like: the fact that he feels guilt but also feels the same way deep down that he's become after those lonesome years of contemplation. His eyes open up to reveal that it was either a dream/memory, however it was both that was more like a recollection of everything that transpired from his point of view put into a visual memory bank in a way that lets him escape guilt. David has found a way to lie to himself about his actions, as well as to go against his programming even in his dreams. Lol I'm glad I can finally get my thesis on this subject about David being an evil ambiguous truth/lie telling bastard out in a good place.
