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RE: You're gonna argue about the genre now? It's sci fi. More specifically, it's the prequel of Alien

Posted by Jazz Inmate on August 22, 2013 at 20:09:25:
>> The Engineers were advanced robots, not unlike the replicants of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. They were bio mechanical inventions of the super race that was hinted at in the opening scene by the Mothership. <<

Nothing in the film suggests or implies this.

>> The reason the last Engneer reacted so violently was he was, like David, infuriated by anyone giving him orders. <<

David didn't give him an order. He was politely introducing Weyland and expressing his wish that the engineer might impart their knowledge to extend his lifespan.

>> David waa also infuriated by being ordered around, but like Lawrence of Arabia and the burning match analogy early in Prometheus he was able to deal with it, "the trick is not minding that it hurts." <<

>> What hurt was being ordered around by the (inferior) crew and even by Weyland. <<

No, that is not what hurt. What hurt was his existence as a lesser being, and specifically a being not capable of having human feelings, biochemistry or to quote from the film "soul".

>> In Blade Runner it was the replicant Roy Blatty who killed his creator Tyrell (who, like Weyland, was the head of a big high tech corporation) after he explained to Roy the facts of life - that his life expectancy could not be altered - by gouging his eyes out. The eye thing again! Lol. In Prometheus it was similar, the last Engineer tore of the head of David, Weyland's creation, and used it to kill Weyland after David told the Engineer Weyland wanted more life. <<

There were far greater differences between the films and their characters than those you mention, and it would help you immensely to discuss Prometheus on its own terms instead of reading things into it based on unrelated movies.