making sence of ridley scotts two press conferences.

BigDave

Look after Shaw and Rachel I've stayed away from Star wars, as I did not want to see how yet another character from films I liked gets killed because they don't know what to do with them. This applies even to Logan, as it has to show explicit the death and burial of the main character instead of them disappearing into the Horizon as in Shane which it rips-off. 

Star Wars?  LOL

I get what you mean ha ha...  but boy Disney loves this kind of thing...

I guess the great hope for Prometheus Haters is if Disney make a movie then David will be kissed bye bye and the Engineers will be Ret-conned into very Heavy CGI Alien looking Creatures likely in BLUE lol

Suppose if they give it the Cthulhu Mythos kind of Vibe, it may pass well we do have Chaugnar Faugn

“Prometheus was intended as a Prequel that would have had more Alien Franchise Connections, but then FOX decided it did not have to be much about the Xenomorph or Directly showing/telling about the Space Jockey and so it was changed a bit.  The connections are there but just vaguely,  then with a sequel they wanted to explore the Engineers more but again FOX felt nope... Fans did not like Engineers and needed to see the Xenomorph and how it was created and so again RS had to change direction.“

Big Dave: I think that most of the criticism was about bad characters (you can search for bad characters + Prometheus) and you will see that most of the criticism (as far as I know) was about that, not the Engineers as far as I know. Fox was totally wrong when they thought that the Engineers were the problem and that it didn't have Xenomorphs. As far as I know the lack of Xenos were not a big problem at all at least not as big as a lack of interesting characters were concerned.

When I watch Prometheus now what I have a problem with is the bad character writing or at least how they come off at screen and not the lack of Xenomorphs. I like that Prometheus did something new with the monsters and actually that is something that I think that they did good since I first first saw it. They should have looked closer at the criticism and thought about that a bit more before they decided what they should do with the movie after Prometheus.

Prometheus had a number of Problems,  Characters were not used as much as they was in other Alien Movies, and yes we have our Characters who are there for just limited purpose...  Take FORD (Katie Dickie) she also played (in SW EP8) a member of General Hux Team in a small role on the Bridge of one of the New Order Star Ships, this limited role is the same as her role in Prometheus...   Where Prometheus Failed was more important Characters were not Developed well and had some issues... yes we had some not pleased with Fifield and Milburn, but Ultimately it was that Holloway, Shaw, Weyland, Vickers, and to a degree Ravel and Chance (not as important Characters) were not really that well done... or Acted to well either.  Only David and Janek stood out as being well Written and Done.

But indeed their was back lash regarding the Engineers, not so much the appearance but the whole going down the route of them being Our Creators and playing the Ancient Aliens Card... this disappointed a percentage of Fans.

The Next Disappointment i feel for most fans, was there was no ALIENS so to speak, by that we dont mean NO Xenomorphs, but no actual Aliens killing and hunting down people...  We only had the Hammerpede Attack and then Not so Alien Zombie Fifield, replacing the Xenomorphs of Alien/Aliens. Yes we got the Deacon but because it never did anything it upset Fans...   It would be like if AC was a longer movie, where there was NO Neomorph infections until latter and the Gestation was longer and it came out on the ship but was stuck in the Med Pay until some of the Crew Returned and it escaped got shot at and Blew the Ship up, killing say 5-6 members of the Cast instead.   Then we see David infects Oram, and kills Rosenthal.

Then on the Covenant David kills Ricks and Upworth and we see Oram Chest Burst and see the same Chest Buster and then we get the Credits.... Fans would be like WTF!!!!

so i think Prometheus got a lot of Flack for no Actual Aliens, not No Xenomorphs..

The other Problem is fans expected the movie to be a Prequel so we would START to uncover HOW/WHEN the Xenomorph was Created and HOW it got to the Derelict on LV-426... and Prometheus did not provide many fans enough Answers, and when they heard a sequel was to not give them but explore the Engineers more, there was a bit more Back Lash!

And then Finally you had some Fans, who wanted more Direct Clues/Prequel to Alien and see Eggs, Face Huggers, Chest Busters Xenomorphs... how did the Eggs get on the Derelict? a Queen?

so there was a lot for Fans to Complain about... and Blomkamps Alien 5 gained a lot of interest..

So FOX Felt.. Hang On... we needed to bring in (1) A Alien Monster Threat (2) Explain how the Xenomorph Eggs was Created in the First Place (3) Show the Xenomorph in some stage of its Evolution (4) maybe distance from the Engineers would-be Gods and Shaw and her Questions.

Ridley Scott was so pleased with Fassbender and the David Character, that he felt he still needed to be the Center of this next movie and throw the Curve-ball of David Creating the Xenomorph with the Engineers Bio-Weapon and for the purpose of pursuing his own Creation/Playing God and using it against Mankind who he felt bitter against.