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MemberOvomorphOct-07-2013 2:11 PMFocusing more on the origin story, I feel that Prometheus: Paradise needs to expand on the Greek story of Prometheus. One of the “Engineers” gifts their creation, humanity, with wisdom and knowledge that might someday allow them to supersede their creators. That engineer is then sent Pandora, who could represent the first true human; basically she would be more similar to how humans are recognized today. Since the Gods molded her from clay in mythology, Shaw and David could find one of those holographic recordings that show some of the “Engineers” building her from some clay-type substance. They would then gift Pandora with beauty, good manners, a kind heart, and all that, then show one of them giving her curiosity. Lastly she would be given the box/ casket (Pandora’s box) and when she opens it, it would unleash something to do with the very first forms of the aliens and show how these things are designed to impregnate humans in order to make the aliens we know from the original movie. The “Engineer” who gifted the humans with wisdom is sentenced to a similar punishment of that from Greek mythology with the eagle that eats Prometheus’s liver and yet it grows back every night so that the eagle can eat it again the next day. Then several thousand humans travel to Earth in order to avoid the alien plague: the beginning of humanity on Earth. The “Engineers” wind up battling with the aliens and come to realize that they could be destroyed by them. They fear that the aliens will manage to get to Earth somehow and impregnate all of the humans, thus posing a huge threat to their existence. So, in an attempt to save themselves, the “Engineers” launch the campaign to destroy humanity.
This also allows for this planet that the “Engineers” created humans on to represent Atlantis. You could go so far as to inscribe the symbol of Atlantis as we know it, today, in everything on this planet.
Just my thoughts on a cool way to tie everything together and keep some mythology/ relate-able Earth history deeply involved in the plot. Let me know what you think.
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