New Ridley Scott film trailer - Prometheus

[Reynard]

There was mention the planet was a specific outpost and installation for delivering a biological cleanser to Earth. We are never told why all life needs to be wipe out. The reaction of the living Prometean could have been distain for it's creations on Earth like a human towards animals from a seriously failed lab experiment or maybe they were angry about how humans, their 'decendents', turned out. We are left with questions I think will not be answered.

 

[Greg Smith]

The Engineers don't seem to be that clever. 1. They created human life (but one of them had to die to do it), now they want to destroy it. 2. Something went wrong on Prometheus planet (LV-223?) and one of them got his head cut off by a door. Then another got woken up and killed by the results of his bioweapon. 3. On LV-426, another one was killed by what they have in the hold of their ship.

Their safety protocols don't seem that great. Mind you the crew of the Prometheus weren't any better. :?

 

[Vile]

Worth seeing - but could have been better ... :?

 

[locarno24]

1. They created human life (but one of them had to die to do it), now they want to destroy it.

Assuming that wasn't the intent all along. If you consider the bio-weapon to be one half of a binary process to produce xenomorphs, seeding human life is the other half. Quite why the process in question was a fatal one is a good question. You need the engineer genestock from somewhere but you'd have thought cellular samples would do...

2. Something went wrong on Prometheus planet (LV-223?) and one of them got his head cut off by a door. Then another got woken up and killed by the results of his bioweapon. 3. On LV-426, another one was killed by what they have in the hold of their ship.

Xenomorphs are, as the films have shown, a bloody dangerous lifeform. If you want to try and raise a 'crop' of them, seeding nascent human life (genetically compatible but smaller and weaker) on a planet then dropping proto-stage xenomorph organisms on it that you've brought from a central 'farm' is a reasonably safe process for the people organising the process. Not, admittedly, for the pilots involved (clearly) but you may consider them expendable.

It also explains a combination of 'how dare you' and 'what the hell' when you get woken from a low berth by the population of the farm-world, who have somehow discovered spaceflight whilst you've been locked down post-accident. It's like the director of twycross zoo arriving in work one morning to discover someone from the monkey enclosure has, overnight, not only broken out but learned to drive, stolen a car and then, to top it off, parked in his reserved spot.


Why you'd want a planetful of xenomorphs is a different question entirely, and one only they and (seemingly) everyone above division head at WYC can answer. Maybe there's some sort of memo that doesn't get sent round the shop floor level.

 

[Captain Jonah]

A planet of highly lethal xenoforms.

A. You are at war with someone/plan to be at war with someone and need ship loads of rabid xenoform warriors to drop onto their worlds to destroy them. They have the technology to resist your Bio Tech weapons so you are going "Old School" and dropping millions of xenoform killers on them.

B. Its a Predator holiday world, there is a lot of profit to be made from providing theme parks for the Predators. This was the original plan, due to problems this failed and the Predators were forced to set up their own theme park using the pyramid people and we know how that ended.

C. The ones doing this were a secret cult dedicated to over throwing their own people/leadership and were going to deploy the xenoforms on their own world since they had a bio weapon that could wipe out the xenoforms after the government has fallen. Sadly for them the only one who knew how to make the xenoform bio toxin had a fatal accident.

Hey its a movie :lol:

While we, here, who are far more focused on details like plot/technology/inconsistancies/science/likelyhood/believability/etc look at it and ask all sorts of questions. You must remember that the writers (as is most often the case with sci fi) generally have no idea about the science and are just looking for a plot that the average knuckle dragger on the street would accept and a good excuse for some great FX.

Its an action adventure set (sort of) in the Alien verse, they have covered sequels fairly well so its prequel time.

Yes the so called experts were a bunch of clueless suicidal mooks who followed the plot and ignored all sorts of stuff that would have the average Traveller player shouting about and the average Traveller player reaching for firepower.

Consider it as it is, a good turn off the fore brain action film with great sci fi theme and graphics.

Grab plot ideas as you will.

But don’t be disappointed because there are inconsistencies, problems with plot/technology etc. It wasn’t written for the average Traveller player, it was written for Joe Public, its not going to stand up to solid scrutiny. Its not intended to, its a film for the masses not your average Traveller player (wind down your IQ 20 points and you should have no problems watching it) :wink:

 

[Darzoni]

Or humans were the creations of a faction of Engineers that were grossly unpopular with another faction. The Engineers seemed to be really good at genetic manipulation, as they created a viral mutagen that doesn't /care/ what species it infects.

Sounds almost like the Exsurgent Virus from Eclipse Phase, actually.

 

[Sturn]

Reviewers here hit the nail on the head.

Crew failed to work together, except security....but they were from redshirt training.

Some of the crew just woke up and had never met before. So not surprising that they didn't all work together well.

From the reviews here I thought I was going to hate it after my initial great anticipation. I ended up loving it. A family member who I watched it with who had not even seen Alien or Aliens before loved it also. Yes lots of questions still left out there, but I think that was the intention. Still a great ride with lots to think about afterwards.

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

******* SPOILERS ****************

A lot of questions after seeing the movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-x1YuvUQFJ0

 

[2330ADUSA1]

Well that was a bit much...funny in a geekie kinda of way, but very very true!

 

[tneva82]

Yes lots of questions still left out there, but I think that was the intention.

Leave something to cash with sequel or two? Now that's unexpected