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LewisM
MemberOvomorphNovember 16, 2012I am new here, so be gentle please :) It may have already been discussed...
Anyway, some general ideas about Prometheus.
Engineers: I believe that there are 2 distinct Engineer types - the "pure" Engineer that gives rise to life on Earth, and a hybrid Engineer, that wishes to destroy (essentially, destroy what the first Engineer created). The creating Engineer - perhaps "God" Engineers if you will - are almost pure human in looks - smooth skin, human body type etc. The "Destroyer" Engineers are TO ME, hybrids - successful ones - of the Xeno-type creature and a God Engineer (perhaps a mistake). Why do I say this? Look at what a lot of us consider a suit/armour on the later Engineers. Yet, they also wear a "protective" suit (aka the Jockey suit) also, on TOP of this boney suit. Now, the boney suit is distinctly Xeno in characteristic, even down to the fine neck detailing, leg ribs, chest ribs etc. Looking at the modelling cuts and close ups of the "Xeno-Engineer", there is a flawless transition from the suit to skin - either their technology is so advanced on this exo0suit, or they are in fact part OF the Engineer - an anatomical feature, hybridised. If you compare a Xeno and a Xeno-Engineer, you see DISTINCT similarities - yes, the Xeno traces it's origins to Shaw, but the first Xeno we actually see comes from this Xeno-Engineer, and in the chest burst scene, there is no "declothing" etc - it bursts straight out of the body - a full corporeal body.
So, my suggestion is that LV223 was either DELIBERATELY setup to create Xeno-Engineers (my choice), or that it was a complete mistake (less likely). I believe that the Engineers - IN EXO-SUITS (Space Jockey suits) are running from hybrid-Engineers - Xeno-Engineers. The Xeno-Engineers discard the bodies of the regular Engineers, as we see in the piled up scene. The hybrid of course retains the intellect of a regular Engineer. And to survive, the sole remaining hybrid goes into stasis - he knows how to do it all.
Cut to one of the external scenes, and Scott seems to elude to this a couple times. The top of the "pyramid" has a fce of it, with a deacon-like shape behind the head - deliberate or coincidence? Deliberate IMHO - creating Xeno-Engineer hybrids.
Additionally the space craft design seems to play in too. The original engineers have the typical "UFO" saucer, whereas the hybridised or perhaps military Engineers have that odd looking Horseshoe :) (there's another possibility - hybrid Engineer bred for military purposes! Yes?) The time scale of the saucer and the Horseshoe is probably meant to be millenia apart, but...
So, LV223 IS a military base, set up to create a hybrid race - Xeno-Engineer. Soldiers for the Engineer nation if you will. Something goes wrong, or there is a typical power-play (the Engineers are not perfect afterall). Humanity is a threat to the military Engineers, since it seems being the SAME DNA as the original Engineers (since they test the Engineer DNA from one wearing a exo-suit) represents a powerplay or potential threat. So, how do the Xeno-Engineers overcome this? They plan mutating humans into Xeno-humans - or so they THOUGHT. What happens mixing human, Engineer and Xen-Engineer DNA? You get an all-powerful "PERFECT" Xeno / Deacon - the one they WORSHIP or at least hold in high regard (OR FEAR), as seen in the "tomb".Perhaps the giant head plus the goo vials plus the xeno mural is meant to portray human + goo = Xeno... but what of that green gem too?
Anyway, I have rambled, and it is afterall only a movie, BUT.... :)
Like I said, probably old news.thoughts, but hey, I am trying :)