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RE: "But what was the Black Goo?" It symbolizes technology and empiricism

Posted by Jazz Inmate on August 19, 2013 at 09:19:42:
>> The ship that was hovering during the opening scene was not an Engineer's ship. It was a much larger ship, a Mothership, if you will, most likely belonging to the race of beings that created the Engineers. It was these beings that David and Elizabeth were headed for at the end of Prometheus, and presumably the subject of Prometheus 2. <<

No, the planet shown in Prometheus was not the engineers' home. It was some sort of settlement and installation where the engineers engaged in terraforming. At the end of the film, Shaw makes it very clear she wants to go to the engineers' planet. As for the ship hovering in the opening scene, of course it was a mothership but there is not a shred of dialog, imagery or inference in the film to suggest it was anything but an engineers' ship.

>> The Engineers succumbed to the black goo (only) because the black goo became mixed accidentally with another substance that mutated whatever it came in contact with. I seem to recall David held some green colored liquid he used to spike the drink of Dr. Shaw's husband, who of course mutated rather quickly. <<

Holloway mutated no more quickly than Fifield (overnight).

>> I don't think the Engineers were in charge. The ones in charge were most likely the supreme race represented by the Mothership in the opening scene. The Engineers were just carrying out instructions. The being that drank the black liquid in the opening scene was not an Engineer. He was one of the supreme beings, perhaps in a religious order of some kind. See attached photo of deleted scene. <<

The deleted scene showed a procession of engineers. There is NO reference in the film to "supreme beings". You are making that up. The deleted scene is more easily interpreted as I did: that the engineer in the opening scene was sentenced to drink the black liquid as some sort of punishment; if you want to call it a ceremony, that's fine. But the hovering ship did not leave until the punishment had been carried out.