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In Reply to: Since this thread is still alive... posted by Steve O on June 22, 2012 at 18:37:47:
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.
Edits: 06/25/12
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- I agree that it all comes back to the myth of Prometheus, but the critique misses the main point - Jazz Inmate 19:31:06 06/25/12 (2)
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