The moral/meaning of Prometheus

Don't touch the snake.

And: Sacrifice leads to life. Selfishness leads to death.

Hate leads to suffering. Suffering leads to the Dark Side. If anything, I believe that Ridley tells us in no uncertain terms that replicants/robots/artificial persons are inherently evil and are generally a bad idea.

Don't try to overextend what you have. And DO NOT try to usurp God. The Engineer killing Weyland and his mercenaries proves the first point and the tribolite infecting the Engineer with the Deacon proves the second

That Giorgio Tsoukalos was right all this time!

Giorgio needs a new hair stylist.

I am not sure that Prometheus actually has a moral to it – yet! If we get a sequel and maybe a third we may get an actual moral but I do not see one just yet. What I see is a woman who is very religious in spirit but scientific in mind and body. She wants to believe that the death of her mother was not in vein and that there is a heaven, or a Paradise, a place we all go to when we die. Let me explain: When she discovers the chamber at the dig site she is excited but yet relieved that it contained a mural similar to others found around the planet. Throwing away science she immediately wants to believe it’s an invitation from the “engineers” – why? Now lets go the dream scene with David peeking in on her dream and we know it is her as a little girl talking to her father about the funeral or burial ritual that is taking place. She asks “where do they go” and her father replies “Heaven. Paradise”. Fast forward to David in the crashed Juggernaut and he convinces her to take another ship and go find Paradise. I think that Shaw is conflicted from the beginning because of her mothers untimely death at such a young age she has been affected by that. She is a person of science but driven by religion thus the conflict. I think he whole reason for this trip has been to find GOD. Maybe to prove to herself that GOD is real, that we exists for a reason other than birth, school, work, death and there is a better place – ultimate reward at our life’s end. So for now a meaning of Prometheus – it is not there yet. I think we will have to wait for Mr. Scott to finish telling his story.