Fire of the Gods.

XXXaltiel
MemberOvomorphOctober 15, 2012981 Views8 RepliesHello, I'm new to the forum but not the franchise.
This seems to be the only active place where thoughts on Prometheus seem to be flourishing besides the cess pool of hate that is IMDB.
As a long time fan of the Alien franchise I found Prometheus to be an intriguing if flawed story to enter into the mythos of the series.
Here are some theories on several scenes in the movie that I found interesting.
1) The black goo at the beginning drunk by the Engineer is not the same black goo in the amphoras in the SJ ship.
This black goo is the 'Seed of Life' wherein ALL life on any planet will arise from.
This makes the Engineers Incalculably old given that the earth is 3.4 Billion years old...
2) Given all of the intrepid fans here and their screenshots it is obvious that the Engineers not only worshipped the Xenomorph, but have encountered it in its full and purest form as introduced in the movie Alien. They have also encountered the Alien's stages of development from egg, to face hugger, chestburster, and finally adult phase.
3) The black goo in the SJ ship is in fact XENOMORPH distilled at its most molecular level by the Engineers. The Engineers did not in fact engineer the Xeno but rather ENCOUNTERED it, became fascinated with it and created a substance from them that has only one purpose: to tear down and make the life forms in an earthlike environment as similar to themselves, the Xenos, as possible. Hence, the infected sperm/proto face hugger inside Shaw.
The Xenomorph is a creature described as being supremely hostile with no concerns beyond killing or propagating its species. The Xeno's behavior resembles that of a virus. Using the host to create more of itself.
The black goo in the Amphoras are the essence of the Xenomorph.
Now how does this mesh with the dual role that the Engineers have being creators and destroyers? It doesn't, look at the title of the film.
PROMETHEUS: a titan who stole fire from his fellow gods and gave it to mankind.
What if the Engineers we seed Seeding the planet are a rogue operation like the titular Prometheus? And the other Engineers who made the Xenomorph Essence the (black goo) are the 'gods' who have come to punish mankind via the most destructive bioagent they have in their arsenal?
Of course this doesn't happen as the Engineers underestimated the virulence of what they had and as Yanek said in a deleted scene, "someone spilt something".
This would work twofold to explain the engineer on LV-426 who was carrying a payload of raw material: ex, Xenomorph eggs, and what the black goo (Xeno Essense) was exactly.
It would also make Ripley crusade against WY very credible because let's face if our Gods couldn't control this stuff what makes anyone think a bunch of profit driven corporate aholes would be able to?