Prometheus - Part 9

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AVEITWITHJAMON said:
Weyland told David to "try harder" in their conversation earlier on in the movie, Weyland was looking for a way to extend his life, David wanted to see what effect the black goo had on humans and if it could be the answer for Weyland.
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Ok, that actually makes sense and gets rid of one of my nitpicks.


They tried to take Shaw into isolation and freeze her for the trip home, but she fooled them and took the team out who were supposed to do that, everyone else on the ship was either tending to Weyland, the ship itself and then the zombie crew member who attacked.

As for why they acted later like it never happened, Shaw thought she had killed the parasite when she neutralised it in the chamber, it wasnt moving when she left the room.

Hope this answers your questions.
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I just don't like how they handled that moment. I think I would have just liked for someone, other than David, to acknowledge that she cut an alien life form out of her. But with everyone attending other things or fighting off a crazy Zombie, her scene felt completely isolated.
 
Why do the xenomorphs have bodies that resemble the armor and suits of the engineers? Like the engineers don't have bodies like the xenomorphs.
 
i think the armors are part of their body. organic.
 
The Engineers tech seems Bio-organic based.
Nathan said:
I just don't like how they handled that moment. I think I would have just liked for someone, other than David, to acknowledge that she cut an alien life form out of her. But with everyone attending other things or fighting off a crazy Zombie, her scene felt completely isolated.
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I think there might of been more acknowledgement about what happened to Shaw but it was edited out for some reason.

The editing for the Prometheus did feel a bit jumpy sometimes it didn't flow as well as it could of.
 
heres more photos from the series 1 release, I think they look crappy honestly which is odd given its neca making them.


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Btw, what was up with the Xenomorph in the wall? Are we supposed to believe that they worship their own Bioweapons?
 
Perhaps the engineers didn't create the black goo but rather had it handed down to them from some higher, higher power.

Judging by the way the Xenomorph was positioned on that shifting, changing ceiling. I would assume that it's perhaps demonic in their culture?
 
Oberon sexton said:
Perhaps the engineers didn't create the black goo but rather had it handed down to them from some higher, higher power.

Judging by the way the Xenomorph was positioned on that shifting, changing ceiling. I would assume that it's perhaps demonic in their culture?
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I hope not, that would just create the biggest dangling carrot ever. I think the engineers should be the only higher power in these films.
 
Well Ridley said the Engineers are evil angels and if he makes a sequel in which Shaw and David go to the Engineer homeworld we will meet 'God'.

Its all religious inspired (Jesus is an engineer, Paradise Lost, ect) for Ridley
 
Got to thinking about something. The engineer's are extremely pale skinned probably due to a lack of pigment. I wonder if they lived/evolved on the darkside of a tidally locked planet? It would explain why they are so pale. Being in darkness all the time would have caused them to evolve with very little pigment.

Or...their species no longer has a home planet. Instead they travel through space using other planets for various experiments and purposses. Due to spending the majority of their time in space they now lack any significant pigment in their skin.
 
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Marvolo said:
Got to thinking about something. The engineer's are extremely pale skinned probably due to a lack of pigment. I wonder if they lived/evolved on the darkside of a tidally locked planet? It would explain why they are so pale. Being in darkness all the time would have caused them to evolve with very little pigment.

Or...their species no longer has a home planet. Instead they travel through space using other planets for various experiments and purposses. Due to spending the majority of their time in space they now lack any significant pigment in their skin.
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Interesting thoughts. I think there is clearly a genetically/mechanically modified aspect of the Engineers, however, so their paper-white skin might be something to do with that.
 
Marvolo said:
Got to thinking about something. The engineer's are extremely pale skinned probably due to a lack of pigment. I wonder if they lived/evolved on the darkside of a tidally locked planet? It would explain why they are so pale. Being in darkness all the time would have caused them to evolve with very little pigment.
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But then why would they even have eyes?
 
moviedoors said:
But then why would they even have eyes?
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I edited the post and added some ideas. Im thinking their lack of pigment is due to them spending so much time in space. They would still have their eyes due to having lights in the ship but they would need very little pigment. If you look at their eyes they appear to be mainly one big pupil for pulling in as much light as possible. This also makes me think they have evoleved to work in the low lights of spaceships and caverns. Id bet a lot of their current physiology is a result of genetic manipulation to allow them to live in space for prolonged periods of time. I cant wait to see what Scotts got in mind for Paradise.
 
Nathan said:
Ok, that actually makes sense and gets rid of one of my nitpicks.
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Cool

Nathan said:
I just don't like how they handled that moment. I think I would have just liked for someone, other than David, to acknowledge that she cut an alien life form out of her. But with everyone attending other things or fighting off a crazy Zombie, her scene felt completely isolated.
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I think after that point Weyland was just the focus of the crews attentions, the rest were either knocked out by Shaw or fighting the Fifeld Zombie. David had discovered a living engineer in the facility, so Weyland wanted to meet him and seeing as he funded the expedition everyone was focused on getting him what he wanted.
 
regwec said:
Interesting thoughts. I think there is clearly a genetically/mechanically modified aspect of the Engineers, however, so their paper-white skin might be something to do with that.
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That would make sense, but it brings me back to one of my biggest nitpicks with the movie: how the **** do human beings and the engineers have the same genetic sequence? If they played with their genetics, then it wouldn't be the same. I think it's one of the sloppiest, most nonsensical aspects of the film.
 
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moviedoors said:
That would make sense, but it brings me back to one of my biggest nitpicks with the movie: how the **** do human beings and the engineers have the same genetic sequence? If they played with their genetics, then it wouldn't be the same. I think it's one of the sloppiest, most nonsensical aspects of the film.
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Yes, that detail was unsatisfactory. Even less so when you consider that the Engineer's seeding of the planet must have begun human evolution at its primordial phase. Evolution takes millions of years and relies on millions of variables, so the likelihood of our evolutionary path leading us to a perfect genetic match for our creator is, frankly, a logical impossibility.

The line should have just been changed to something about the Engineer's DNA having terrestrial traits. Its effect would have been the same, without making a nonsense of the movie's premise.

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Just found this. Originally in the scene of Fifield attacking the crew Fifield was rendered wih CGI and looked entirely different. Scott contemplated going this route if the practical makeup didnt work. The cgi Fifield looks far less zombie and more mutated alien. Anyways you can read about it at the link: http://www.slashfilm.com/three-cgi-images-from-an-alternate-version-of-prometheus-action-scene/
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They look silly, and the approach they took was better. That whole scene was an unnecessary weak spot, however.
 
regwec said:
Yes, that detail was unsatisfactory. Even less so when you consider that the Engineer's seeding of the planet must have begun human evolution at its primordial phase. Evolution takes millions of years and relies on millions of variables, so the likelihood of our evolutionary path leading us to a perfect genetic match for our creator is, frankly, a logical impossibility.

The line should have just been changed to something about the Engineer's DNA having terrestrial traits. Its effect would have been the same, without making a nonsense of the movie's premise.


They look silly, and the approach they took was better. That whole scene was an unnecessary weak spot, however.
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What i prefer about the CGI version is it looks like the goo has genetically altered him. The back of the head is even elongated a bit like a prototype of the xenomorph head. It looks like the goo ****ed up with Fifield because all the proper ingredients werent there but when the right ingredients are there at the end we got the Deacon.

The zombie Fifield doesnt get that point across quite as well imo.
 
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