Engineer's motives: why they hate us.

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Kast Iron

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It's pretty simple actually: They hate us because we got too close to being Gods. We were not supposed to be this advanced, and if we buy into the story of Jesus Christ being an Engineer sent to Earth (as I believe was hinted by Ridley himself) then it's safe to say we weren't obeying to our "Gods". Therefore our Apocalypse was merely delayed by 2000 years by an unfortunate incident on the Juggernaut. You can only imagine what the pilot Engineer was thinking when he looked at their own creation building superior beings to itself (David). It was pretty symbolic when he ripped David's head off (the superior being to us) and slapped Weyland across the face with it. Engineers were not only selfish in trying to maintain the sole role of life givers and death bringers but perhaps they were simply afraid of how far their creations can go, and how much they can achieve. Wouldn't be long before us - humans would rebell against our creators, or maybe we were just too stupid and too violent seeing how we crucified one of our own Gods. I think Engineers are a selfish bunch of megalomaniacs, aka 'Gods' who seed life for the sole purpose of having control over the circle of life and their creations. Excuse me if I'm rehashing some ideas already posted on this board.

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October 26, 2012

[i]"Someone mentioned a theory about the engineers wanting to foster the reproduction DNA strand from the xeno because the Engineer race can no longer reproduce, IE, they're dying. I don't think this is the case either. If it was then they would just focus more into humans because we can reproduce quite well, have identical DNA, and are less volatile in nature compared to the xeno."[/i] I was just staring a theory that the author of that book put out there. Also, as I said...they arent doing it for the soul purpose of reproduction...maybe thats how it started but they figured out they can inherit other things from the Xenos.... @ Maeto: http://www.prometheusforum.net/discussion/1575/ridley-scott-engineers-they-are-dark-angels/p1

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October 26, 2012

You hit it right on the head, Kast Iron. Watch the deleted scenes on the collectors' edition DVD and you'll see. They have missing dialogue there between the engineer, David, and Weyland at the end, before he attacks them! Weyland's words are just unbelievable, and they make it so that the engineer can guess them without needing a translation.

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January 09, 2013

"..The answer is pretty obvious to me, imo.." I read just about all the posts on this thread and the above quote must have appeared 4 or 5 times each with different explanation for the events. It is obvious that there is not an obvious explanation as to what is going on. Hoever i would enjoy reading explanations from your point of view. "Why They Hate Us" is a great question. The Engineers hate us because we are different. We travel together. WE talk to each other, even criticize each other. Humans are trying to be constructive/evolving and not destroying. In other words they hate us because we are human and the Engineers/Creators are not.

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January 09, 2013

"So, Space Jesus was an ALBINO GOLIATH of a character, standing anywhere from 3m to 5m tall? You'd think that would have been mentioned in The Good Book, "And lo, did Jesus move across the desert with enormous length of thigh and clouds upon his lofty, shimmering brow." well the idea would maybe be that the 'angel' that told mary she was going to have a child was the engineer and the child (jesus) whilst 'different' would appear human

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January 09, 2013

well anyway if i was asked to work the idea into a storyline thats how id explain it

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January 22, 2013

So the Engineers creasted us and sort oc checked in to see how we are doing. They wanted humans to evolve, develop, learn and become more like their creators. But they didn't want an human to learn enough to want to leave earth? And that is why they wanted to eliminate us? If they didn't want us to be a threat to them then why leave the maps.? I am seeing that maps may have been posted by ancient humans but the thinking that they are are an 'invation' seemed flawed to me. They could be a hundred different explanations for the pictographs. In Biblical terms would we have even gone to LV-223 if Shaw was not have been so motivated? I mean left on our own we can think of a billion different places we could have flown to and not even be a hint of threat to the Engineers and their world. If the engineers did leave the pictographs with perhaps a hint of their world then shame on them for even cracking the door open for humans to fly the Prometheus. If that door was never there then the Prometheus could be exploring real worlds with great potential for storylines. For example Predators!

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August 22, 2016

I believe the engineers created the Neanderthals, not us the Sapiens. The Neanderthals were probably peaceful, but we wiped them out. The engineers hate us for doing this and for taking over the planet. I'd go further and suggest those cave paintings were made by Neanderthals and not by us.

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August 22, 2016

That's an interesting angle Maxironchin!

I'm not disagreeing per se but I don't think anyone truly knows what killed of the Neanderthals. I believe most people of North European origin contain some Neanderthal DNA in them. As some Asians contain 'Peking man' DNA.

So perhaps we 'bred' them into extinction? Which isn't so bad! Another theory I have read is that we basically hunted and ate them so . . . who knows! ;)

I get the feeling, in Ridley's world, all life on Earth - not just humans - was created via the black goo. Were we intended? Helped to evolve? Now those are questions I'd love to know the answer to :)

Engineer's motives: why they hate us.

Kast Iron

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