PREDATOR LIGHTS

I myself prefer science-fiction films that make you think and entertain your brain. Entertainment is great when it is used well in a science-fiction. I myself want to be intellectualy challenged. If I want pure entertainment I head to the theatre and watch films like The Avengers. Which by the way was very entertaining for what it was worth. We have to remember that science-fiction is supposed to be about science. Which in turn is supposed to surprise us with the unknown. Which is always fascinating.

Science Fiction when done well and with details is always entertaining and mind provoking. Action and adventure can be just fantasy and you do not need to stick to cohesion and a minimum of respect to scientific extrapolation. But if you are going to move into science fiction, you should respect those who are going to watch or read your work. Again I mention The Giants Novels, which deal with the same theme Prometheus has, with such a grand scope (20 million years of history there, and the creation of man as well) and is science respecful and very, very entertainning! About the xeno frenzy over that thing in the end, pay heed to what Ridley Scott said. For sure and naturally he should make a note, a homage to the old franchise, but that is it. We do not know what happened on that installation 2000 years ago, and making it a xeno outbreak would also be natural, for they were working on that weapon, but that is it. He said (RS) that he will move away from the monster movie deade franchise (Aliens and so forth) and that is the move to do, or else all related to ALIEN will die...and we fans of ALIEN (I am not saying fans of the xeno...heck, ALIEN has much more than that BUG!!!) should rejoice with his words. There is room now for a whole civilization to explore, with awesome technologies and mysteries to unfold, a whole galactic civilization already over a billion years traversing the galaxy...THIS is WAY more interesting and mind provoking than magical mutating DNA or bugs running the floor...

The basis of us going anywhere near that civilization is that they were making weapons to annihilate us. One of the canons of Paradise's plot is discovering the true nature of that weapon. And I must say, after listening to recent interviews with Scott, Rapace and Fassbenger, I doubt they are going to the Deacon in the dust while exploring this new civilization. Scott and his creature effects team from Prometheus stated how it is an ultramorph with far more physical prowess than the Drone from Alien and look forward to seeing it develope in the future

@warrior7 As i have said a few times i think the purpose of the Deacon was to show that the Black Goo in the Urns can via a series of events create a Organism which has a lot in common with the Xeno. Thus the Deacon ultimately connects the Goo with the Xeno and both with the Engineer Race. I do think it a little odd ending, and they should have shown the Deacon die, or had it that Fifield mutated fully into a Xeno type creature to make the connection. Because as you said we are now left with this NEW Alien Monster and we have to wonder it would be visited in other movies? But then if Ridley wants to steer away from the Xeno and similar then doing a movie about the Deacon would not really be vastly different and also we have the plot hole.... That is the events that lead to Nostromo going to LV 426 and the Colonist on LV 426 prior to Aliens and the Sulaco... And how in this timeline and events, how come they never come across Shaws message or LV 223?

About that message, well, we know the Nostromo was sent there to specifically get one crew member infected and bring it back to Earth. Another thing we know is that the Earth ban on foreign alien life forms entering Earth space is rigid. So maybe Earth gov has received the message and that made laws more strict...or not, as rigid laws are logic agains bio-contaminants. And maybe The Company (Weyland Ind.) received the message and started listenning to that system more closely to try and find any other alien signal, and thus detected the transmission to the moon were the derelict was. They should have some base to translate an audio signal, for that matter. About the xenos, despite the " homage" to the old, dead franchise, they would not put again the monster movie thing into this, or else they will kill any further sequel beyond Prometheus 2. Even if some still like the genre, it is a minority and the vast majority would just ignore any more Space Ants movie...we have Avengers and such for monsters, and those not even purport being Science Fiction.

Maybe their is more to the Xenos than we think. What if what we saw in the Alien franchise were just their soldiers with the Queen being their general? I think the Xenos have their own civilization with Elders and social classes as well. Its possible that the Engineers were at war with the Xenomorphs and had to test their most potent weapon on another species they made to see if it worked. Well, it works alright. And based on the last minute or so of the movie, not to their benefit.