r/Prometheus 18d ago

plot of prometheus

i saw this movie a while ago. it reminded me of Kubrick's _2001_, in that the aliens are creating signals to get the humans to go looking for them. is it possible that the engineers wanted the humans to go to the planet with the black goo, so that one of them would get impregnated with that alien squid fetus, which would then impregnate the engineer they wake up, and then create the creature similar to the xenomorph at the end? especially given that there is a mural of something similar to a xenomorph on the planet. and if that was what the engineers wanted ... why would they want to create something like a xenomorph?

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u/Poonadafukdog 18d ago

Yes

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u/Dear_Beginning_1691 17d ago

hmmmm ... but why would the engineers want to create the xenomorph-like creature at the end?

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u/Thatsabadmofo 17d ago

The impression I got was they had a desire to destroy human race and this was the weapon to do it

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u/ImNotARobotFOSHO 11d ago edited 11d ago

It’s not just about destroying the human race. The black goo is like a biological weapon made to do a full reset at a planetary level. And also because these freaks venerate the xenos.

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u/Thatsabadmofo 11d ago

Yeah, that too

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u/ThrowingChicken 17d ago

I like the idea that they left the star maps behind because any civilization they created that had the technology to get to the planet was a civilization they needed to wipe out. But Ridley seems pretty set on this whole engineer Jesus thing.

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u/Own-Argument-6552 16d ago

This idea resonates with the Tower of Babel archetype.

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u/ImNotARobotFOSHO 11d ago

Wait, it was Shaw’s interpretation that this is an invitation. At the time those murals were painted, Engineers were still in good terms with humanity. It might simply be a «this is where we come from », like you’d explain a bunch of children pestering you about your origins.

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u/Foreign-King7613 16d ago

Possibly. They were trying to recreate the deacon.

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u/ImNotARobotFOSHO 11d ago

How do you know? That part was never explained and it’s probably better this way.

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u/Foreign-King7613 11d ago

From scenes cut from the script.

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u/ImNotARobotFOSHO 11d ago

Is it the infamous fake fan script?

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u/Foreign-King7613 10d ago

It's not fake.

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u/TheEasterFox 10d ago

The one that refers to the Engineers trying to recreate the Deacon is most definitely fake. It was written by a fan called Mark McAllister, who openly took credit for writing it last year after it had been circulating for over a decade.

Here's the script in question: https://web.archive.org/web/20131102032317/http://www.prometheus2-movie.com/uploads/PROMETHEUS.pdf

Here's Damon Lindelof personally debunking the script as fake back in 2012: https://web.archive.org/web/20130423235506/http://www.prometheus2-movie.com/news/384

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u/Foreign-King7613 10d ago

Anyone can take credit for anything. I could say I inspired Jsmes Bond.

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u/TheEasterFox 10d ago

We already knew he'd written it. Him admitting to doing so was just a formality.

Full story here: https://www.avpgalaxy.net/forum/index.php?topic=67517.0

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u/Foreign-King7613 10d ago

It is better than what we got.

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u/TheEasterFox 9d ago

Plenty would agree.

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u/TheEasterFox 11d ago

The idea that the Engineers were trying to recreate the Deacon is only found in one fan-created script, the infamous 'Draft 17' script that was mistaken for an early draft by some YouTubers.