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In Reply to: RE: Promethius questions....MEGA SPOILERS. Don't look if you ain't seen it. posted by Enophile on June 16, 2012 at 15:15:32
...and Prometheus remains in theatres...I stumbled across the linked analysis of the film. A bit verbose but it puts things together in a plausible manner that holds up fairly well IMO.
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The Prometheus creatures that created humans themselves had to answer to a higher calling, just like the titans. They were destined to an eternity of suffering--not unlike humanity itself--for playing God and indulging in the fire of knowledge.The bottom line is that they couldn't control the building blocks of life a whole lot better than humans can. So the question "why" they wanted to kill us became only interesting in the context of faith. The fact that the black substance has so many different effects and is so difficult to contain may be because the Prometheus beings aren't such brilliant engineers that we assume--that the tools of God are not mastered a whole lot better by the Prometheus beings than by humans. And that, for playing with those tools and introducing them to an invention, God has doomed the engineers to an eternity of pain just like Prometheus was doomed to an eternity of pain by Zeus.
The way the critic interprets it, it's not too different from Jurassic Park, by Crichton. Except he doesn't go the extra mile regarding the faith element.
I don't know if Scott made that comment about Jesus or not, but it doesn't change my interpretation. Bottom line is that the Prometheus beings became disenchanted with their invention, and wanted to take back the gift of life.
One huge problem with the analysis at your link--he doesn't seem to understand why David was immune to the black substance. He was a machine. He didn't have DNA.
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
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We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
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... the digest has one error: Shaw does attempt to "decontaminate" or kill the "squid" she has determined to be a monstrosity, after her leaving the surgical pod.She can determine evil at a glance.
I did like the part about how the black substance not responding to David, implies that David/machinery has no affect in and of itself upon a trans-mutagenic "amplifier" as the mutagenic only relates to life.
The difference between this black goo and the "primordial goo" that scientists (Darwinists) believe is the progenitor of life, is that the black goo has been "engineered".
Was this the stuff G.W. Bush was trying to foist as science in schools?
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Of course, it raises some questions. Were Engineers so clever, how could they not foresee the imperfection of humans leading to Christ's execution? And, being sacrificially willing, how are they then corruptible by the black goo, themselves? And what of THEIR creator? Certainly, it would have foreseen all of this, too?
The problem w/a lot of science fiction is that it must contradict human history or else appear to be too logical and hence, predictable. THE flaw of this film and the analysis of this clever fellow is its dismissal of evolution.
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