Prometheus

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• i_monk0

  It "sets up" the original, sure, whatever, but it also recreated it (and threw in a few nods to Aliens and Alien 3).

  In both Alien and Prometheus:
  • a small crew awakens from hypersleep to a mission they didn't expect/weren't briefed on before leaving
  • an android passes as human (a surprise in Alien, but known in Prometheus and then lampshaded with "are you a robot?" asked to Vickers) and endangers the crew because it's taking orders/following protocols that render them expendable
  • in both cases the android's orders come from a quasi-parental figure (David's 'father' in Prometheus, and a computer named Mother in Alien)
  • the android physically assaults the female lead in an attempt to carry out his mission
  • the crew accidentally awakens an alien weapon, originating in a container on the floor, and one gets infected and they bring him back to the ship where he dies
  • much of the remaining crew is killed by an alien (in Prometheus the infected Fifield and then an Engineer)
  • their ship is sacrificed to stop the threat, but for naught because the alien/Engineer survives and confronts the female lead one final time in a smaller space ship ejected from the main one
  • there's ultimately a single female survivor who spends much of the movie being ignored by her superiors and seems to be the only one with a grasp of how serious this shit is

  And in Aliens and Prometheus we have:
  • a terraforming/atmosphere-producin... station on a barren rocky planet
  • an incredulous crew briefed about their alien mission
  • the female lead has a surrogate daughter to address her motherhood issues (Ripley missed her daughter's entire adult life, returning to Earth years after she died, and Shaw is infertile and deeply upset by her inability to 'create life')

  And for good measure, Alien 3 and Prometheus:
  • the sole female survivor is infected with an alien fetus
  • the sole female survivor is aided by the disembodied android head

  I've watched it three times now hoping to glean some hidden value from it which others must be privy to, but I don't believe there is any lost among the plot holes and bad writing.

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  • Everything would be much clearer for me if they showed more of story about engineer who jumped in the waterteh
  • this is supposedly covered in the alternate beginning and endings on the DVDflashbender
  • The entire beginning is what made the movie for me.teh
  • Scott could make a movie just on the engineers now also.teh

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